Where did you get that info?

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Doesn't he still use the Blues Jr?

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Check out Anthony's site,
I think the BJ is still there somewhere, but also a Samamp VAC 23 Guitar Amp and I think he had or has a vibro in the mixup for a while.

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I don't remember the exact publication, It was a Guitar World or Guitar For the practicing musician that I read while he was still alive. His #1 went through a couple changes, including Rewrapped pickups and a Couple of New Neck, which was added after his #1 had some of the Stage Set land on it. Broke the neck clean off. Another time he was playing Third Stone from the Sun and the strap gave out during one of his Acrobatic Maneuvers, sending his #1 crashing against a wall, breaking the neck near the headstock. He said he Finished the song and Cried after the show.

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When I saw Stevie in concert just before he died he was using a mix of Dumbles,blackface Fenders and old Marshalls,what a sound,nobody could ever recreate it,but then again some(very few)have come close.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I know about the different necks. The way I remember it is that he intentionally threw the guitar against a wall doing a trick he had seen his brother do where he just bounces it off a wall and catches it but did it too hard and the headstock cracked. A picture of the headstock is in one of the album jackets, I think it's "In The Beginning". Years later they replaced the original neck with the neck from "Red" I believe and that's the one that was destroyed when the stage set fell. A new neck from Fender was put on after that until he died then the original neck was put back on.

Never heard about the pickup rewinding though, during the Custom Shop autopsy in 2003 they just said the pickups were original '59's.

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Also he had a Fender Vibratone in his mix, a now discontinued rotating speaker cab and hard to locate working .properly http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/vibratone/ .
Old rotating speakers like the Leslie's are sort of a fetish item with me

But yes agree, you do not need all the equipment voodoo, you do need to get the playing style chops down well enough.

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Vibratone...that's the model I was trying to think of I saw a guy use one around here years ago and besides the one Stevie used it's the only one I've seen up close.I have a Leslie Model 16 with a JBL K120(which was in it when I bought it)that's no doubt superior to the original.I power it with my 69 Fender Bassman head which gives it that unmistakable Fender warmth, quite an addictive sound as you probably know already.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I'll dig through all my old stuff and see if I can find the Magazine it came from. 'Till then I wouldn't just take my word for it, I could be confusing it with his Yellow one that was stolen. The one he uses in Montreux '82.

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"Persistence Is The Father Of Invention"
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