Quite a few changes compared to BTTL tour - the main being that Cozy
Powell with his powerful drumkit was replaced by Eric Singer with this
small shitty kit
Percussion
Pearl kit consisted of two 22" x 18" bass drums, one 14" x 6,5"
Eric Singer signature snare drum, 12" x 8" and 13" x 9" rack toms, 16" x
16" & 18" x 16" floor toms. Cymbals were 19" Z Crash, 14" Hi-hats, 20"
Ride, 16" Trash and 13" Custom Hi-hats, all Zildjian. Drumsticks were
Zildjian - 16", .620 diameter, type B2.
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Bass guitars
Neil used SKC Bogart 4- & 5-string black basses. He also had a
white Aria ARB-CST (custom Neil Murray model from the 80's) for
the bass solo and possibly also a red Aria Integra (which is
now in the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta, USA). I also found a photo of
Neil with a yellow guitar, no idea which one is that, probably an Aria
too.
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Guitars
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Brian's main guitar was the Red Special. He also used his Greg Fryer
replicas for the first part of the concert. Those excellent replicas look
and sound exactly like the Red Special, it was impossible to recognize them
at that time (before Brian put a sixpence into the head of his Red Special).
Jamie used a Fender Stratocaster (second photo), then a probably a Levinson Blade R4
(third photo?) and a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar (fourth and fifth
photo - he used it in On My Way Up, Another World and his short guitar solo
during the band introduction). Brian's acoustic guitar was Collings
(last photo) - the good thing about that one is that one can distort it and
it sounds like a Stratocaster electric guitar (like Brian often demonstrated
during his "guitar story" in AW concerts).
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Keyboards
Spike had several keyboards. One of them was probably a Studio
9000. No idea about the rest, I guess he used the 1998 current
Roland and Yamaha releases.
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Brian (1998): "I started off with an acoustic guitar, but I couldn't stand
it not being plugged in. So I eventually plugged it into an amp in a box
and wore earpieces instead of having monitors so I could crank it up. It
sounded like a Stratocaster through a Marshall - it sounded big. Steve is
also a magnificent drummer in a completely different way from Cozy and I
found I was doing lots of different things on this last little tour. I had
this little Collings acoustic plugged into an AC-30 through a treble
booster - the whole deal - so it sounds massive bit it's in a box. It's
great. People are going: "What's happening? He's playing this little
twangy acoustic thing but this big, overblown sound is coming out."
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Pearl kit consisted of two 22" x 18" bass drums, one 14" x 6,5"
Eric Singer signature snare drum, 12" x 8" and 13" x 9" rack toms, 16" x
16" & 18" x 16" floor toms. Cymbals were 19" Z Crash, 14" Hi-hats, 20"
Ride, 16" Trash and 13" Custom Hi-hats, all Zildjian. Drumsticks were
Zildjian - 16", .620 diameter, type B2.
Neil used SKC Bogart 4- & 5-string black basses. He also had a
white Aria ARB-CST (custom Neil Murray model from the 80's) for
the bass solo and possibly also a red Aria Integra (which is
now in the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta, USA). I also found a photo of
Neil with a yellow guitar, no idea which one is that, probably an Aria
too.
Spike had several keyboards. One of them was probably a Studio
9000. No idea about the rest, I guess he used the 1998 current
Roland and Yamaha releases.