John Petrucci playing on Black Fire prototype!

[fqjcior]

I have found it on YouTube. It was some clinic during Metropolis 2000 Tour I think. And the guitar seems to be the Black Fire prototype which ernie1966 owns now! Am I Right??

Sorry guys !! I forgot to give the link! Here it is:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXQ9_sbievE&feature=related"]YouTube - John Petrucci 7[/ame]

In the first 3 seconds you can see as the color changes (cause it was the flip-flop finish too but not as great as MD IMHO)

 

[greenwizard]

How about a link??

 

[Larry]

How about a link??

+1

 

[the24thfret]

+2

 

[GWDavis28]

I have found it on YouTube. It was some clinic during Metropolis 2000 Tour I think. And the guitar seems to be the Black Fire prototype which ernie1966 owns now! Am I Right??

You are correct, Ernie does own that guitar. Don't see very many pictures of it though.

Glenn |B)

 

[daangroen]

NOW i am suprised i want to see pics NOWW !!

 

[dstockden]

maybe if we are lucky Ernie will show us some pics (pretty please!)

 

[Headstock]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfZsyLAd3I"]YouTube - John Petrucci 1[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuFd74TrpS4&feature=related"]YouTube - John Petrucci 2[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-zCzNuAS-Q"]YouTube - John Petrucci 3[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAT_odOdDI8"]YouTube - John Petrucci 4[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0USPAj2_Y"]YouTube - John Petrucci 5[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kpaEu_RD_A"]YouTube - John Petrucci 6[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc68BeMH6tE"]YouTube - John Petrucci 8[/ame]



Apparently there are several pieces...

 

[koogie2k]

That is the one ernie has....I actually got to play it. Cool guitar, but, not the JP of today. Different animal.

 

[greenwizard]

Hmm...
The scoop on that looks more like the BFR scoop then the standard JPs.
cool video!

 

[Multiversal]

This is some great clinic footage.

 

[ernie1966]

Here's a close-up pic from the guy I bought it from with some labeling:

And here it is next to the first Pet I ever got my greedy hands on:

 

[Multiversal]

Does she play well, Ernie.. I mean compared to the regular production models?

 

[the24thfret]

on youtube that "6" clip and "5" clip have JP talking about the proto... very cool

 

[ernie1966]

Does she play well, Ernie.. I mean compared to the regular production models?

The neck is very different from the production model, kinda flat in the back and hardly any radius on the fretboard, feels a little wider too. The production Pet's neck is way better.

I just pulled it out of the vault, I'll take some pics of the neck tomorrow so you can see what I'm talking about.

 

[daangroen]

thanks for the pics man!

 

[Phazer]

at the end of vid 5 he says that he was going to try a jp with floyd rose....
did he really try one?
I mean, does a jp with floyd rose really exist out there?

 

[daangroen]

i guess, but i think JP concluded that this bridge is bette than, right? else we would have had JP's with floyds

 

[ernie1966]

I know it's hard to see, but the back of the neck is flat, not rounded, you can tell by the hard way the back goes into shadow, that is where the neck goes from rounded to flat. The neck is chunkier, the rosewood board is a little thicker and there is no radius on the fretboard, in fact after playing a stock Pet first, the proto's neck almost feels concave.

 

[Multiversal]

Oh, wow.. that's very interesting..

Thanks for the pic, man!