David Gilmour NOS alternative?

chromeface · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:42 pm

Did you know? Dave played "Comfortably Numb" on a sunburst Charvel Strat with a single EMG humbucker during a performance to benefit the Columbian Volcano Relief Fund on February 9, 1986.

ZZDoc · **Posted:** Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:20 am

chromeface wrote:

Did you know? Dave played "Comfortably Numb" on a sunburst Charvel Strat with a single EMG humbucker during a performance to benefit the Columbian Volcano Relief Fund on February 9, 1986.

For a one-off guest shot like that sometimes you play what's available.

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ZZDoc · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:32 pm

"Louie, this looks like the beginning of a great friendship" :wink:

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John C · **Posted:** Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:37 pm

DGS wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVn6qfYxRw8

In the link is the Charvel being used in Pete's band.

The guitar is a SOLID Flame maple body.

David has a matching fretless bass.

Charvels were very unique and high quality in the early days before the pointyheads surfaced.

David's 0001 Strat, according to Seymour Duncan, is a mutt and the parts went to Charvel for refinishing and got switched around with another strat.

The Black strat is cool, but how many 69 Fender strats were made compared to David's honeyburst solid Flame maple 80/81 Strathead Charvel?

Cool info; I remebered the Charvel necks that Grover made for DG back in the day (two different necks for The Black Strat plus a neck for the modded Esquire as shown on the cover of "About Face") but had forgotten about the flame maple strathead. I also hadn't heard that story about the 0001 Strat - but considering all the changes The Black Strat went through over the years it's not surprising.

Just out of curiosity - why do you think the early pointyheads mark the end of the "unique and high quality" era? I remember playing a couple of the original pointies circa 1983/84 that were really nice but both had really thin/wide necks that I couldn't stand. Granted they were both graphics but I know they were still doing a few flame maple bodies even in that era.

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Ceri · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:52 am

DGS wrote:

David's 0001 Strat, according to Seymour Duncan, is a mutt and the parts went to Charvel for refinishing and got switched around with another strat.

Hi DGS: though none of that seems to square with the markings on the body and neck heel of Gilmour's 0001, or with the fact that in real life it is quite obviously white, not the light green mentioned by Seymour Duncan. I've a feeling Seymour is misremembering a little.

Anyhow. What I want to know is, who is that singing backing vocals in the photo? I've looked online at line-ups for that gig: that sure don't look like Annie Lennox or Chrissie Hynde. It looks like a certain someone else to my eye, but I don't want to say because I'm probably wrong...

chromeface wrote:

...performance to benefit the Columbian Volcano Relief Fund on February 9, 1986.

Cheers - C

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Ceri · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:12 am

DGS wrote:

As for the backup vocalist, it looks like Ellen Foley, I'm not sure?

Ah-ha. Well, that sounds more likely than my theory, at any rate.

Cheers - C

DGS · **Joined:** Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:04 pm **Posts:** 13

Ceri wrote:

DGS wrote:

As for the backup vocalist, it looks like Ellen Foley, I'm not sure?

Ah-ha. Well, that sounds more likely than my theory, at any rate.

Cheers - C

chromeface · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:36 pm

I saw Sam Brown as a backing vocalist for Pink Floyd during the band's 1994/95 Division Bell tours.

DGS wrote:

The Pointy head necks are not bad but require a locking trem for tuning stability or trem use.

Not only a locking trem. Locking tuners are also mandatory to make the guitar staying in tune better.

Charvel and Jackson weren't alone.

Kramer followed the trend with the Pacer series in 1982 after abandoning the tuning forked aluminum guitars a year earlier.

Starting with strathead necks Kramer went to the slimmer "chicken beak" designs before switching to the radical banana and pointy drooped styles in 1986/87.

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Ceri · **Posted:** Thu Nov 22, 2012 5:56 am

DGS wrote:

The vocalist is Sam Brown.

chromeface wrote:

I saw Sam Brown as a backing vocalist for Pink Floyd during the band's 1994/95 Division Bell tours.

Me too.

She looked different by then, though. However, having Googled what she looked like in the mid-'80s I'm sure you're right and that's her behind Gilmour in the pic above.

My very small mystery is now solved.

Cheers - C

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