F.S>-Howard roberts fusion guitar
Jakxon
Benjamin Coutu
Jakxon wrote:
> Gibson Howard Roberts fusion guitar $1400-just like Alex Lifeson's
When did Alex ever play the Howard Roberts Fusion? He played an ES-135
for a while, which does look a bit like the Fusion, but I've never heard
tell of him playing the Fusion.
Ben
EnemyWithn
>When did Alex ever play the Howard Roberts Fusion? He played an ES-135
>for a while, which does look a bit like the Fusion, but I've never heard
>tell of him playing the Fusion.
Alex played a Howard Roberts Fusion model during the recording of Moving
Pictures.
It is the guitar he is playing on the picture of him in Exit Stage Left. He can
be seen playing it on the Exit video during Tom Sawyer and the encore songs.He
later fitted it with a Kahler tremolo and used it on the Signals album and
tour, also.
His other semi-hollw bodies were an ES-335
which was pretty much his only guitar from the early 70's until 1976, when it
was damaged while on tour and subsequently repaired and retired from the road.
He then used a couple of different ES-355
models. A black one and a cream one which had the original vibrato tailpiece
replaced with a regular stop-tail.
jim
Benjamin Coutu
looks like a 135. . .
Ben
Moose Records
enemy...@aol.com says...
> His other semi-hollw bodies were an ES-335 which was pretty much his only
> guitar from the early 70's until 1976, when it was damaged while on tour
> and subsequently repaired and retired from the road.
It was actually on the AFTK tour, I think. The same accident completely
destroyed the cherry doubleneck, which was subsequently replaced with the
white one.
I have a photograph from early the AFTK tour that shows him playing the 335
(it was an article promoting the release of the "Archives" set). There are
several photographs of him with the cherry doubleneck early in the AFTK tour
(you can also see it on the 11/12/77 8mm silent amateur footage), so my
guess is that somewhere in either November or December of 1977 was when it
happened.
> He then used a couple of different ES-355 models. A black one and a cream
> one which had the original vibrato tailpiece replaced with a regular
> stop-tail.
I thought that he just removed the lever, but left the rest of the original
vibrato tailpiece on the ES-355. The black one was an ES-345; he played this
one a lot on the "Semi Tour Of Some Of The Hemispheres" (he played it for
almost the full show when I saw them on 09/10/79, with the exception of the
doubleneck for "Xanadu" and the black Strat for "The Spirit Of Radio" and *I
think* also "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" (it's been a few years).
Alex mentions the accident in the June 1980 issue of "Guitar Player" (has
the photograph from 1979 with the ES-345 on the cover). Something about a
PA speaker breaking loose from the rigging and falling down on the guitars.
That must have been a horrible thing to have had to experience.
C.K.