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GUITARS

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GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD
CHERRY
"Stock Les Paul Humbuckers. This is the 'one and
only' that I use for all the slide work I do with
the Illegal Eagles. I have tried all the others and
they just don't yield and help like the cherry. I
just run a glass bottleneck over the 13 gauge
strings tuned to e major and we're off!!
I keep things as simple as possible , just a fender
combo and that's pretty much it. My slide guitar
hero was DUANNE ALLMAN and he always used a Les Paul
too. I try to listen to him in my head when I play.
His guitar sounded like a singer singing the blues!
I love the parts in the show when Mickie hands me my
cherry les Paul!" Keith
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FENDER
LONE STAR STRAT. Candy apple red.
"1x Seymour Duncan bridge Humbucker. 1x Texas
special centre. 1x Dimazio hs3 bridge.
My most versatile guitar, pretty much stock except
the hs3. It covers every style from clean to full
shred! Spent a whole day playing every imaginable
new guitar on the market the day I settled for it! I
have worn the frets out a couple of times so it gets
played. Would always grab this one first. It looks
sexy too somehow.......Strats can look a bit awkward
sometimes in people's hands. This one looks
fantastic!" Keith
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Photo by Marty Moffat |
GODIN ARTISAN
"Currently, my main electric guitar is a Godin
Artisan. It is a Telecaster style body with a
finished curly maple fret board, which makes for
very smooth playing, and has their own single coil
pick ups that have a remarkably wide range of sound
from blues crunch to country twang. I bought this
baby in Atlanta sometime in the 1990's. I was
haunting my local music store, happened to pick it
up to see what it played like and knew I was going
to have to take a second job immediately because I
had to have it. I have other Godin guitars as well
and am a big fan of the workmanship they put into
their instruments without driving their prices into
the impossible ranges that so many of the bigger
companies do." Danny
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Photo by Jessica Patel |
YAMAHA CPX900BS
"I've always been something of a collector of
acoustic guitars. Particularly ones that are
equipped with pick ups so they can be played on big
stages. My main 6 string is a Yamaha CPX900BS, the
top of the range of their Compass series. It was
given to me by Mark Kirkland and the good people of
Yamaha Guitars while I was on tour doing an acoustic
set opening up for Journey in the UK in 2007. It was
like Christmas Day for me! It's got on board 3 band
eq as well as bass and treble dials along with it's
own tuner. It's a deep sunburst color and it sounds
and plays as beautifully as it looks. I don't go
anywhere without it!"
Danny
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Photo by Nichola Carson |
GIBSON CHET ATKINS SST 12
STRINGS
"My favourite instrument of all has to be the
acoustic 12 string guitar. Nothing sounds quite like
it. But building an acoustic/electric version of
that instrument that can take that kind of tension
on the neck, remain easily playable, and have a
sound that is true to an acoustic 12 string has been
a very difficult thing for any guitar manufacturers
to do. I have 2 Gibson Chet Atkins SST 12 strings in
black and in wine red. I've had them since Gibson
gave them to me in 1991. They are my road warriors.
They've been around the world with me since my
Tyketto days and they have all of the battle scars
from a million go rounds with brutish airline
baggage mis handlers to prove it. Sadly, Gibson
doesn't even make the 12 string version of these
anymore. I don't think a finer instrument has ever
been built of this type and I'd be lost without
them." Danny
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TAKAMINE EF341SC & EF381C,
6 & 12 STRINGS
"For years I've owned a Millennium Special Edition
Takamine, and after narrowly avoiding disaster when
a good friend mercilessly threw it on the floor, I
became increasingly paranoid about putting it in the
back of a truck! I came across this black Takamine
by chance when in Denver, Colorado. Surrounded by
Martins and the like, this shiny black devil
whispered to me from a dusty corner. I dragged it
out and gave it a try. It felt great, had a gorgeous
warm tone to it and sounded excellent plugged in.
The only problem was the 8 inch crack across its
back. I managed to get another back home, and it was
just as good! When I discovered that Takamine also
made a 12-string version of the same guitar, I
immediately replaced my dying G-series 12 string.
These guitars are from Takamine's keystone
pro-series. Gloss back with solid spruce tops and
snowflake mother of pearl inlays, and upgraded to
include Takamine's Cool-tube preamp, these plain and
unassuming but nonetheless beautiful guitars are the
backbone of all my acoustic playing; both on stage
and in the recording studio. After joining the
Illegal Eagles, I discovered that Glen Frey uses the
same models - scary? I'm not sure,
but Its nice to know that someone agrees with my
taste in guitars!"
Michael
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FENDER CUSTOM TELECASTER
"I've never been truly happy with any any Electric
guitar I've played. I searched for ages but could
never find the right combination of Neck width, pick
ups, pick up selection, body style and colour (the
most important thing!) So I decided to get one
specially made and ended up building a telecaster
from official Fender parts. The result was a
gorgeous
natural coloured swamp ash telecaster body, with a
wide, beautiful flame maple neck, extra hot
hum-bucker pickup at the bridge, hum-bucker at the
neck position and 4 way selection switch to blend
them together. The volume and tone control are
different to normal telecasters, and have a greater
degree of control of the overall tone, making the
telecaster a little less bright than usual. I've
ended up with a beautiful all purpose guitar that
plays fantastically, can match a Strat in
versatility, a Gibson for rocking out, but can still
sound just like a Telecaster when required."
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