The Line 6 James Tyler Variax JTV89 with Floyd Rose Trem! You've been asking for it, and now Line 6 have made it a reality - putting a licensed Floyd rose system onto their amazing JTV guitars. A limited quantity on the neck plate with serial number stamped on each. I raced across the stage to the right corner, danced back across the stage to the left corner, and continued to run around all over the place with my most sincere “rock god” look on my face.Buy from Japan News, Hot items in. Good thing the guitar plug had to be screwed in because my guitar chord was around 80 feet long!ĭavid was in the middle of the stage singing “Stay” when it came time for my extended guitar solo. the stage was 60 feet across with only two people on it: me and David Bowie. Our very first show of the year-long Sound and Vision tour was in Quebec City. it was a pain but it meant there was no way the guitar could come unplugged. you have to screw the guitar chord in with two screws on the connector (see the picture I posted). To accommodate the Roland synth pickup the guitars are equipped with special D-connectors which look like something you might see on a 90’s printer. LINE 6 VARIAX SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERSThe serial numbers are pink: V039863, yellow: V040129, and a gloss coat was sprayed over the yellow and pink, but somehow not the orange, poor guy. eventually along the way I applied my own artwork over top of the colors. I found matching yellow, orange, and pink Nob-ease day-glo knobs. I still remember my excitement when they arrived all spanking new and beautiful! for the 90’s Krimson double trio I had them re-painted yellow, orange, and pink as they are now. a few years later, to match the Inner Revolution artwork, they were repainted orange, purple, and light grey. for the David Bowie Sound and Vision tour we had them painted red, cream, and light seafoam green. therefore these triplets have been many colors. I could only ever get it to work with those particular pointed-tip arms.Ĭustom guitars are easier to re-paint than re-build from scratch. you can see me doing it in the Pretty Pink Rose video. I discovered you could make a unique trilling effect by quickly tapping a string with the point. The Kahler tremolos have trem arms with an unusual pointed tip. like all of my live guitars they wear Straploks to keep the guitars from falling off while I dance around. armed with the quietest pickups I could find, Gold Lace Sensors, each guitar has a 9-volt battery compartment on the back to fire up the Sustainiac. LINE 6 VARIAX SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP CODEthe necks are exact copies of my favorite strat neck, the one on the bar code strat. The Fender Custom Shop agreed to build me 3 ultimate stratocasters. My needs were clear by then: the Roland GK midi pickup, Sperzel locking tuners, Kahler tremolo, and Sustainiac were all components I couldn’t do without. the twang bar mustangs were showing wear and tear. it’s all good.Īnd this old post from 2017 reflecting on his Fender Custom Shop experience in late 1980'sīy the end of the eighties it was time for a new round of guitars with which to tour the world. if I was an engineer I would recording 24/7! instead I am doing some writing and continuing my search through pedals for those “magic” sounds. I hope you’ll excuse my being so public about it but I do need some help.Īnd while I’m on the subject of what to do with all this “found time” I truly regret I don’t have the aptitude to be a recording engineer or didn’t at least try. it’s a bit like an artist looking through his paints supplies and checking brushes and canvases to see what to work from next. part of what I’m using this downtime for is to assess my studio and all the variables in it, and to gather ideas for future recordings. This guitar and the one massive connector I still have from that period worked with the GR-300 so it should have worked with the 700, which is why I’m sure my GR-700 needs some serious “tech-love.”īy the way, to those of you who have no interest in all this “gear talk” I apologize. this is the guitar hand-painted by Laurie Anderson for her “Home Of The Brave” film. In all my excitement at the hope of getting my GR-700 working again I failed to mention this victory: I DID get my GR-300 working!! using this guitar equipped with the necessary 80’s Roland pickup and ancient connector. He had a 1968 heavily modified Mustang with Kahler, and early GK Internal kit PU he used with GR-700 when i saw him at a Kahler event during 1985 NAMMĪnd he used this Fender Mustang in 1986 on a Laurie Anderson Film
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