At least during the Q&PR tours, I remember Brian having a replica Red Special with the word "SUPER" on it in a sort of white stencil, you could see it pretty well at a few points in the Live in Ukraine video.
I was watching some Q&AL videos the other day, and it just popped in my head that I don't see that guitar anymore...did he just retire it for some reason, or have the word taken off?
I know these days he's using the original, I'm guessing a look-alike replica or two, the green RS (for drop-D I think), and that sweet-looking newer one with the f-hole for CLTCL (the Badger guitar!)......
Brian has used his Super's guitar prototype in the 2008 tour for the song "Bad Company", to promote his new line of guitars for sale on link
as a spare, since 1998, Brian has almost always used the replicas of Greg Fryer, except these concerts with AL where is using the green Guyton's replica
That stencil was originally much smaller, they sent the guitar to a new factory to be measured for the latest production run after changing suppliers, during the process it got scratched so when it came back someone had put a considerably bigger stencil (the one see in the video) to cover the scratch. I agree I think Brian only used it for promotional reasons.
Interesting! I sometimes wonder how many RS replicas Brian has.....I like to imagine that somewhere in his house, there'd be one room that had Red Specials lined up on one wall, and the other side would be just a wall of Vox AC30s :D
bootLuca wrote:
Brian has used his Super's guitar prototype in the 2008 tour for the song "Bad Company", to promote his new line of guitars for sale on link
There was another reason: Brian had that guitar tuned to E Flat to make the song easier to play.
Interestingly, that was also the guitar he used for the one-off performance of "Time To Shine"
The King Of Rhye wrote:
Interesting! I sometimes wonder how many RS replicas Brian has.....I like to imagine that somewhere in his house, there'd be one room that had Red Specials lined up on one wall, and the other side would be just a wall of Vox AC30s :D
The King Of Rhye wrote:
At least during the Q&PR tours, I remember Brian having a replica Red Special with the word "SUPER" on it in a sort of white stencil, you could see it pretty well at a few points in the Live in Ukraine video.
I was watching some Q&AL videos the other day, and it just popped in my head that I don't see that guitar anymore...did he just retire it for some reason, or have the word taken off?
I know these days he's using the original, I'm guessing a look-alike replica or two, the green RS (for drop-D I think), and that sweet-looking newer one with the f-hole for CLTCL (the Badger
guitar!)......
During the last year BM has used a Fryer guitar as his main backup incase his original goes down. The Green Guyton drop D guitar has a red Guyton as backup. His favored drop D guitar was another Fryer called George. It was a honey coloured RS. It differed from the other guitars as it was built from rosewood, had larger bridge rollers and longer headstock and slightly hotter pickups.
The Guyton badger guitar originally had two F holes and two pickups. Although BM liked it he felt it lacked the true range of sound so he asked Andrew Guyton to modify it by adding a third pickup and normal RS switching with a scratch plate.
Two interesting points regarding the guitar. The body only has binding on the front and the single F hole was featured in the original RS design though never cut.