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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:49 am
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You're joking... Gianni died a couple of years ago :!:

The straps EC actually uses did not have the multicoloured patterns for which Versace is famous.

Two Versace straps were Eric's main choice for his Journeyman tour, one was made for Fender and the other for Ernie Ball. These straps were used on the "smoker's guitars" he played during that period. Shortly after the last RAH shows in 1991 which closed the Journeyman era, Eric went back to solid black Ernie Ball straps and stayed with them until 2009.


Just because someone is dead doesn't mean something they did in the past still isn't around. My father died eight years ago but hit voice over work is still in use, Maybe these were something he had designed a few years ago. Maybe they are just the plain Ernie Ball Leather straps with out the EB logo. Maybe Eric took up leather working in his free time.


There's no intimation here, that I can sense, which would lead one to the conclusion that the straps are 'not around'. Simply not in use, perhaps. Recall the gear that been auctioned at the last 3 events, up to and including items of clothing and other personal effects. They are not exactly gone to the buyers on the cheap either. Eric has one impressive 'attic'. Who knows what's coming around the bend in the future. A couple of Versace guitar straps :?:

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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:56 am
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Thanks Lefty...that's a great supplement to the historical archive on this guitar, not only the narrative from Stevens himself which can be found on that other Stratocaster website {in which he talks of how he guarded that guitar 'with his life' so to speak] but the Christies Catalog for 2004 as well. I never cease to appreciate what the collective knowledge base of this company can offer to the body as a whole. :wink:

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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:03 am
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Thanks ZZ, and yeah you're right :)

BTW I just had to go back and change the link because I realised I'd done it wrong (started the video after the point I'd originally intended). So now it's sorted :mrgreen:


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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:09 am
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Thanks ZZ, and yeah you're right :)

BTW I just had to go back and change the link because I realised I'd done it wrong (started the video after the point I'd originally intended). So now it's sorted :mrgreen:


That's the promo for that awesome Japan tour. I know a guy who owns the limited edition autographed boxed set of that tour. Paid a serious piece of change for it new.

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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:19 am
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Thanks ZZ, and yeah you're right :)

BTW I just had to go back and change the link because I realised I'd done it wrong (started the video after the point I'd originally intended). So now it's sorted :mrgreen:


That's the promo for that awesome Japan tour. I know a guy who owns the limited edition autographed boxed set of that tour. Paid a serious piece of change for it new.


I have the regular CD album that was released and yeah it is awesome!


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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:36 am
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I have the regular CD album that was released and yeah it is awesome!


I also. My story on that is that I'd been trying to locate it for years but it had been out of print. I found a copy on eBay and paid over $60 US for it. When George died they reissued the tour at half the price new. My favorite track on that CD is "If I Needed Someone." The particular performance they chose for that one is beyond belief. I have never heard Clapton's guitar sing and sustain like that before, or ever again, and he's recorded quite a few solos which have impressed me, like the one for "Rambl'in'' which is on the 'EC Was Here' CD. But the former is a mindblower.

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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:40 am
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Doc, how do you think about the photos I've just uploaded a few hours ago?

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Really, these guitars are plenty of pure Clapton heaven, isn't it? :P

Just a great homage to the man himself who will celebrate his 67th birthday next March!


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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:45 am
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Well, I've got 2.5 years on him and was playing, writing, and recording before he picked up his first guitar. That'll just go to show you how providence plays a role in one's life.

To reitterate, I always enjoy the pictorials you offer us. But what is that interesting book we're looking at :?: :shock:

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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:52 am
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ELECTRIC GUITARS - THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA.

This best-selling book contains useful documentation about everything else concerning the guitar that changed the music history for nearly 60 years and so on.


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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:32 am
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ELECTRIC GUITARS - THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA.

This best-selling book contains useful documentation about everything else concerning the guitar that changed the music history for nearly 60 years and so on.


I'll look for it. With respect to your affection for the black guitar, I owned a '93, my first, as used guitar but near mint which is why I rushed to purchase it. Paid $880US for it. Swapped it out for something else and regretted it later, which is why when, while searching on eBay 3 years ago, I came upon this equally pristine Pewter guitar with a low SE9 number {neck end and neck pocket dates are early '90]. I'm fonder of this one not only for the finish but for what it represents in the history and lineage of the Signature Stratocasters. I just had it setup again and a new wood block installed. The other one had shrunk a bit and was loose after 20 years.

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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:04 pm
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If you examine the FG420A (my favorite Yammy dreadnought pictured right), you'll notice how the guitar looks very similar to the tonally singular instrument EC played during the MTV Unplugged shows in January of 1992, fetching the exceptional price of $791500 for a Christies auction, that's why I chose to put the Unplugged DVD behind her - with all my fondly respect and devotion to the famed 66 years old blues/rock aficionado.

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Post subject: Re: EC Grey/Daphne Blue with Lace Sensors and early 1990s sp
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:11 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
My favorite track on that CD is "If I Needed Someone." The particular performance they chose for that one is beyond belief. I have never heard Clapton's guitar sing and sustain like that before, or ever again, and he's recorded quite a few solos which have impressed me, like the one for "Ramblin''' which is on the 'EC Was Here' CD.


When EC sang this chiming Beatles track in 2002, he played only the rhythm parts.

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"Ramblin' On My Mind" was recorded as an electric track on the album. Clapton performed this Robert Johnson classic live for the last time during the ARMS Concerts in 1983, using an 1958 Explorer.

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Therefore "Ramblin'" is resolutely an acoustic unplugged song since the White House gig in 1999.


I really appreciate Eric's slick sliding dobro work on that oldie! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocbYA50CJi4

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