Same as the Pros play???

**PeteDuBaldo** · 08-27-2007, 05:55 PM

They are the same!

Originally Posted by Sigmunds Couch

Very same. Check out the Steve Morse clinic thread. Steve bonded with one of the Y2D's that Dubaldo Music had in stock - liked it so much, he made of with it.

Pete, you ever get another one coming to replace it? Wouldn't happen to be a Purple Sunset, matching headstock, Floyd version.....would it?

Still jonesing for one like mine, hmmm? We can chat now or in the Desert - or in person before the desert if you make it to New London on that business deal.

**the24thfret** · 08-27-2007, 05:55 PM

Same, although my JP required some decent setup when I got it. String height was way too high, and I know for sure JP doesn't play his like that.

**kbaim** · 08-27-2007, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Spudmurphy

Albert Lee turns up to a clinic takes a guitar off the wall and uses that.

One forum member took his Albert lee guitar to a gig and Albert used it for a whole set !!

So yes they are the same - no tweeks necessary.

Though to be totally accurate, he did tweak his amp a bit when he switched to my AL for the 2nd set. Not sure which knobs he fiddled with.

**PeteDuBaldo** · 08-27-2007, 06:05 PM

Edited for tasteless reply to kbaim

-pete

**kbaim** · 08-27-2007, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by PugNinjas

When KBaim and I went to see Albert last year at a gig here in Vegas he brought along his AL and showed it to Mr. Lee then asked him to play it on stage, Albert was like "No Problem, I'll give it a go" ad he used it for his entire second set !!

A very cool evening

Seems so crass reading it that way, it actually went down as Albert posing for a picture with it (and with me) and then me saying "if the fretboard wasn't so gunky, I'd ask you if you wanted to have a go with it during the 2nd set".

Albert noodled a bit right there and said he'd play a tune with it. Then just got into his music and stayed with the guitar the whole set.

BTW Doesn't Luke use a sustainer in the neck position in a lot of his lukes?

**PugNinjas** · 08-27-2007, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by kbaim

Seems so crass reading it that way, it actually went down as Albert posing for a picture with it (and with me) and then me saying "if the fretboard wasn't so gunky, I'd ask you if you wanted to have a go with it during the 2nd set".

Albert noodled a bit right there and said he'd play a tune with it. Then just got into his music and stayed with the guitar the whole set.

BTW Doesn't Luke use a sustainer in the neck position in a lot of his lukes?

crass /kræs/
–adjective, 1. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid:

Ouch, good thing I'm talking some english courses this semester, it will surely help with with forum posting skills

**Mikey** · 08-28-2007, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by kbaim

BTW Doesn't Luke use a sustainer in the neck position in a lot of his lukes?

Yes, I think he does. But only in the black sparkle one and the radiance red one and only on a few tunes. But the radiance red one is said to be broken in some thread here.
Most of his guitars are without the sustainer, I guess.

**dannymusic** · 08-28-2007, 05:11 AM

that, me friends, is cool. That's the way it should be.

**mesadualrec** · 08-28-2007, 06:49 AM

this was at a petrucci signing he thought he was only doin signatures but the store booked him for a clinic slot so he pulled this medallion goldie of the shelf and used that

**Spudmurphy** · 08-28-2007, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by kbaim

Though to be totally accurate, he did tweak his amp a bit when he switched to my AL for the 2nd set. Not sure which knobs he fiddled with.

There will always be a slight difference between two bodies even if they are the same shape and wood type (Spud now stops telling kbaim how to suck eggs

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So I guess Big Al would have made a compensation to his amp to suit.

As BP has said AL uses just the one guitar as opposed to 6 or 7.
Even when AL plays piano and his pedal steel player takes over guitar duties, he uses AL's guitar!!

**DaveB** · 08-28-2007, 04:29 PM

Tony Levin played a clinic for us at Machinehead earlier this year and brought no guitars at all.

We had 5 String Stingrays and an OLP Levin model that he used as they came.

The Artist models are just that - what the guy on the headstock plays.

To (potentially mis)quote BP - Guitar Manufacturers who have "custom shops" are basically saying their production guitars suck!

Dave