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Chris S
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

As we all know Ibanez for a long time was frowned upon(and sometimes still are)as nothing more than a wanna be guitar so I think it's great when you see old photo's of musicians breaking the "cool" mold and have a Ibanez slung over their shoulder.What I hope to start here is a collection of pictures that prove that Ibanez has always been more than second rate.If you have any please post them up.I'll start with this one of Joni Mitchell and her George Benson from 1980 or '81.
jonimitchell
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Chris S
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

Richie Ranno(Hellcats)in '82.Yeah,it's a Gibson but look behind him.He was also dubbed over Joe Perry on the Gene Simmons Kiss solo album.
ranno
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JohnS
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

Chris:

Thanks for the pictures!

Jonie Mitchell playing a GB, cool. Where's this picture from?

In the one of Richie, what guitars are they? Looks like a 2618 (I can't see any tri-sound switches and it's a dot-neck), and a 2622 EQ. Is that another Artist in the back? And could that be a PF model that's partially cut off up front?
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JohnS
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

Here's a fantastic picture taken by Harold Wherry:
GBLR10,GBLR10

Here's the story behind the picture:

"I am also attaching a Photo taken by me of George Benson performing at a Jam Session in Montreal, Ontario, Canada in June of 1997. George is playing an Ibanez "Lee Ritenour" LR10 model. George had just finished performing with his band at another venue. He was staying in the same hotel that was hosting the Jam Session.

When he first arrived he was invited on stage and he sang and scatted a couple of jazz standards. The audience shouted play some guitar, play some guitar! Well someone there handed George the LR10 and George began to whale, Blow, Smoke, Cook, Burn!!! It was awesome seeing George play up close again. I met George afterwards and we talked for several minutes. George is a very very nice gentleman!"

(Photo credit and copyright belong to Harrold Wherry 1997-2000)
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Chris S
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

John,
The Jonie is from an old book called Rock Hardware and in the Richie the I think the black one in the back and the antique violin on the left are both the 24 fret 2618's and the cherry wine on the right might be a 2619 but I only see 1 switch and I thought they had 2.One of each available finish.They all have the cool Super 80 pickup covers.This next one is kind of common but I think is a classic.Gerry Beckley of America.
america
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JohnS
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

Here's another picture from Harold Wherry. This one is of Rick Zunigar being reunited with an "old friend".

RickZ,RickZ

Recently, Harold visited with Rick and here's what he learned about the guitar:

"Here's a picture of Rick Zunigar playing his old AS400 which belongs to me, now.

The guitar was made in 1981. Rick received the AS400 directly from Ibanez Japan while touring Japan with Stevie Wonder.

Not long after he received the guitar his pet hamster climbed inside the F-hole and chewed up all the electronics. Rick had to get the guitar rewired."

For those of you not familiar with it, the AS400 is a great guitar...ahead of it's time. A semi-hollow with neck-thru construction, who'd of thought it? Ibanez, of course!

Alas, guitar players thought it too radical, compared to the very popular AS200. Consequently, the AS400 had a very short production run, making it a very rare item.

To learn what Rick Zunigar is up to these days, follow this link: http://www.jazzutopia.com/
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Mark Munchenberg
Posted on Friday, October 08, 2004 - 11:08 am:   

Here's a picture from The Guitar Book by Tom Wheeler published in 1978.

It shows a nice semi in the hands of a very proud looking Ibanez production worker.

"Take that Gibson!!"

Cheers,

Mark
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 8:14 pm:   

Guys,

Last week I went out and took in some great Jazz at the Westin Hotel in Long Beach California. CHARLIE SHOEMAKE & GUEST BRUCE FORMAN QUARTETTE put on an outstanding performance.

bf_front

Jazz guitarist BRUCE FORMAN plays what looks to be a Blond "IBANEZ JOE PASS" model.
It appears that during 1979 Bruce approached Ibanez about building a guitar to his specifications. About 2.5 years later Bruce received the guitar pictured below!

HAROLD


(Photo credit and copyright belong to Harold Wherry 1997-2000)
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 8:17 pm:   

Guys,

Last week I went out and took in some great Jazz at the Westin Hotel in Long Beach California. CHARLIE SHOEMAKE & GUEST BRUCE FORMAN QUARTETTE put on an outstanding performance.

bf_front

Jazz guitarist BRUCE FORMAN plays what looks to be a Blond "IBANEZ JOE PASS" model.
It appears that during 1979 Bruce approached Ibanez about building a guitar to his specifications. About 2.5 years later Bruce received the guitar pictured below!

HAROLD


(Photo credit and copyright ©2001 belong to Harold Wherry
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 8:23 pm:   

my photo

(Photo credit and copyright ©2001 belong to Harold Wherry)
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 8:27 pm:   

THIS IBANEZ GUITAR BELONGS TO JAZZ GUITARIST "BRUCE FORMAN"

my guitar

(Photo credit and copyright ©2001 belong to Harold Wherry)
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 8:33 pm:   

Hey! ... How come my IBANEZ JOE PASS don't look like this?

my inabez

This guitar was Hand Crafted in 1982

(Photo credit and copyright ©2001 belong to Harold Wherry)
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JohnS
Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 7:34 am:   

Harold:

You're becoming quite a good on-location correspondent. :) That's one special looking axe!

Beautiful honey-colored top (spruce?) and that flamey tiger stripe neck is awesome. Am I correct in saying there's no volute on that neck?

Thanks for sharing!
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 12:54 pm:   

John,

You are correct: No Volute on the Neck!
The guitar also has a Solid Spruce Top!
Bruce is very proud of his Ibanez blond beauty. He let me play her during one of their breaks.
I was impressed with the total guitar.
The neck action is fast and similar to the feel of the Joe Pass model - which happens to be the best neck I've ever played.
The weight of the guitar is well balanced from top to bottom.
Bruce used the neck pickup exclusively!


Harold
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Mark Munchenberg (Munch)
Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 9:12 pm:   

Harold,

That is one way cool jazz box - a contender for a Guitar Tours Feature perhaps?? (Hint Hint John!!!).

My take on this guitar is that the body is closer to the FG100 than the Joe Pass. The body shape and dimensions are the same on both of these guitars however the FG100 has the same F-holes and pickup placement as Bruce Forman's guitar.

I agree that the neck is very much the same as the Joe Pass - the headstock has the extra width at the bottom, unlike the FG guitars. The absence of the volute is interesting. I guess Bruce didn't want it on there.

The serial number is one digit short. I wonder what the story is there??

The ultra high quality timbers look sensational. I've never seen an Ibanez neck with that much curly maple before - fabulous.

I wonder how much Bruce paid for it.

Regards,

Mark
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JohnS
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 10:27 am:   

Mark:

There's no doubt that this is the kind of guitar that deserves Guitar Tours treatment. If we could get some more photos and info from Mr. Forman, i'd love to do it.

Harold:
Is there anyway you know of to contact Mr. Forman?
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 3:23 pm:   

Guys,

1). Mark thanks for pointing out the FG100 features. Also...
2). Doing a Guitar Tours on Bruce's guitar is a great idea!
3). John, I will get in contact with Bruce.

Harold
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JohnS
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2001 - 1:36 pm:   

Harold:

Good. I hope he has internet access and will get to enjoy seeing his great guitar on display.
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2001 - 3:24 am:   

Guys,

I heard from Bruce Forman yesterday.
The wheels are in motion and it will take some time.

Harold
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JohnS
Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2001 - 1:32 pm:   

Harold:

That's good news!

Good things come to those who wait.
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Mark Munchenberg (Munch)
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2001 - 9:52 pm:   

Harold,

Seth unearthed this info on Bruce Forman's guitar. Thought you might be interested.

"From Dirk who personally knows be-bop guitar great Bruce Forman:

I have the Joe Pass epi myself (the blond)- which is how it came up in conversation with Bruce... I said "your guitar sure looks a lot like my Joe Pass" and he said, "I know. Yours is actually a copy of mine, etc.."

The guy who made Joe Pass' guitar for Ibanez also made Bruce Forman's guitar. When Epiphone asked him to make a Joe Pass signature guitar for them, he decided to use the design for Bruce Forman's guitar instead of the one for Joe Pass... so, in a way, it's really a Bruce Forman signature guitar - Bruce still plays the original two or three nights a week at Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco and on weekends at various sites in Monterey County, and once a month while traveling with the Monterey Jazz Festival Traveling Clinicians programs.

Here is Bruce Forman's reply to me when I asked for confirmation of the story above:

#1 It's true...a man named Fritz Katoh made both of our guitars for Ibanez and he has since moved to Epiphone.

#2 We never talked about the JP signature Epiphone, however, the dimensions are the same as mine (the only thing it has in common with the JP), the f-hole style is the same as MINE, the choice of wood types are the same as MINE, and the pickup placement is the same as my model. Epiphone changed the tailpeice design to metal, away from an ebony version which was a replica of the newer D'Aquistos'(something my model also had in common with the Ibanez JP). When I did a comparison with my axe, an Ibanez JP and the Epiphone it was obvious to all of us, and there were a whole bunch of guitar players there, that my model was far more similar.

#3 The Epiphones are very good inexpensive guitars, I recommend them, but beware, they vary quite a bit from axe to axe. Some are much better than others."

Cheers,

Mark
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Harold Wherry (Blues)
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 1:10 am:   

Mark,

Yes, Seth found a Treasure Chess of precious info about Bruce Forman. Bruce had mentioned a lot of the same information to me but I could not remember most of what he said.
Hopefully Bruce will contact me soon for a feature in "Guitar Tours."


Harold
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Garry
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 3:25 am:   

Hi guys,

l have a Bruce Forman C.D called "Pardon me" released in 89 which has the above guitar pictured on the cover. However the C.D cover doesn't do it justice. Also there's no mention of any endorsement in the liner notes.

Bruce must have friends in high places?? l'd sure like Ibanez to make me a one-off guitar like that!

Cheers

Garry.
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chris s (Ccs)
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2001 - 4:30 pm:   

The late great Phil Lynott up front and center with a Ibanez bass 1980.
phil
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JohnS
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 10:22 am:   

Here's an Ibanez promo shot of John Scofield playing something other than his AS200. The caption says it all.

JohnScoAM205
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JohnS
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 11:22 am:   

You might not be able to tell through all the hair, but this is Pat Metheny playing an AR112 Artist 12 string.

PatMethenyAR112

Check out the discussion board at his website: http://www.patmethenygroup.com

Plug "ibanez" into the search engine and you'll be able to read Pat's own feelings on the difference between his legendary ES175 and his Ibanez signature model. Pat is very complimentary of his Ibanez guitars.
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Gitfiddle1 (Gitfiddle1)
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 12:26 pm:   

Now that's interesting! The caption says "AR112", but if you look close, it's really a 2618-12. The clues are the 24 fret neck and "Flying Fingers" pickups. Unless, of course, it's another one of those "transition" things!?! Mike G has my old AR112 now. *Sniff*

Cheers
Steve
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JohnS
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2001 - 1:21 pm:   

Steve:

Your eyes are VERY good! :) I'd say you are right about it being a 2618-12.

In fairness to Ibanez, the promo was probably printed when the AR-112 was the current model. No use advertising a guitar you couldn't but anyway.

By now MikeG has probably accumulated one of everybody's guitars. :)
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Blues (Blues)
Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 9:11 pm:   

Guys,

Here is a picture of Jazz/Blues guitarist "DAVE STRYKER" posing with my 1980 IBANEZ GB10.

Dave usually plays a sunburst Gibson ES347. Dave has played with greats like: "Stanley Turrentine" and "Jack McDuff" to name just a few...

dave_s

Dave Stryker was the featured guitarist during a Jazz Guitar Workshop we had back in about 1995. Dave was a student of the late "BILLY ROGERS." For those of you Not familiar with Billy Rogers: Billy Rogers was the guitarist who replaced Larry Carlton after Carlton left the "CRUSADERS."

Harold
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Ccs (Ccs)
Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 11:07 pm:   

No pictures yet but I found this guitar info on the late Steve Marriott of Humble Pie(you know,30 Days in the Hole,Don't need no Doctor,etc...) very interesting.Earliest pro I know of using and recording with Ibanez although a '67 Howard Roberts?Does that sound right?Itchycoo Park actually came out in '68 but it is all around the time of the Ibanez "new beginning."
IBANEZ ARTIST: A kind of Ibanez anwer to the Gibson ES335, even if the neck top and the bridge have their own design. Steve use to rate Ibanez guitars because you hardly had to break them in. On the other hand he missed its top/treble presence, but raved about its out of phase position. In any case, he was sufficiently over the moon with the company that he posed for a commercial Ibanez poster in 1982-3.
IBANEZ HOWARD ROBERTS: Towards the end of the Seventies, Marriott preferred Ibanez guitars to Gibson makes, because he realised that its constructors had the necessary know-how and on top of that had bought huge supplies of Gibson wood. Steve had use the Howard Roberts as early as 1967 for 'Itchycoo Park', with very light strings.
IBANEZ
'LES PAUL' BLONDE: What Steve loved most about this copy was that a solid body guitar had a maple neck. But the pickups he found too dirty for Small Faces Mk II purposed so he meant to replace them with double-pole Fender pickups. Who knows if he ever did?
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 2:17 am:   

Guys,

I saw the video clip to Paul McCartney's Mull Of Kintyre the other day. And what did I see in Denny's hands as he strolled across the meadows side by side with Paul?? None other than a Custom Agent!!

That made my day!

Cheers,

Mark
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Fleetfootmike (Fleetfootmike)
Posted on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 6:46 am:   

I draw the jury's attention to this picture of Blackfoot's Ricky Medlocke with what looks to ME like a lawsuit Explorer from Reading Festival, '82 in the UK.
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Ccs (Ccs)
Posted on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 8:11 am:   

Isn't that a Roadstar bass too?I've read where Rick spoke very highly of that Destroyer.
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Johns (Johns)
Posted on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 9:38 am:   

Yup, that's a Roadstar bass.

I just saw Lynyrd Skynyrd on Austin City Limits and Medlocke was playing the Destroyer most of the time. He's got a ton on energy on stage.
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Funkle (Funkle)
Posted on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 11:30 am:   

I had the pleasure of attending a jazz guitar workshop hosted by Bruce Forman the other night. He is really a great guy - an outstanding teacher and player. If any of you live in the San Francisco bay area, I highly recommend attending this series of ongoing non-profit hands-on workshops (bring your guitar). http://www.jazzmastersworkshop.org/ They are held weekly in SF, Carmel, Mountain View and Oakland. Each one is hosted by a different mentor, and they are all top guys. You definitely get your $20 worth (free to students). They are trying to increase attendance so they can keep the program going - I was kind of amazed that there were only like 5 or 6 people there.

Hope to see you there on Wednesday!

-Funkle
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Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker)
Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 7:17 am:   

Here's one of Def Leppard's Phil Collen from 1982.
Notice his own custom Destroyer on the left, the Rocket Roll on the right, but what about that stunning tiger-striped Artist!!! It makes your average Fender look like it came from Toys r Us...
collen
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Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker)
Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 7:26 am:   

Try again...
collen
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Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker)
Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 2:27 pm:   

I've spotted a few more stars on Classic Rock on cable TV playing Ibanez.
Denny Laine of Wings doing 'Jet' live with a good old Artwood Twin! (I've never seen one in motion before!)
Iron Maiden's Steve Harris with an Ibanez bass and Adrian Smith with a Destroyer.
Spandau Ballet with a Roadstar.
Simple Minds 'All the things she said' video with at least 3 Roadstars (Red, pink, & white). And also a white semi-acoustic Artist with a strange Fender Strat type pick-up configuration (1985) Maybe John knows about that one...
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Johns (Johns)
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 2:05 pm:   

Is it me or does this look like a late model Ibanez ES335? This is the guitar player, Roye Albrighton, for a early 70s progressive Rock band called Nektar. They reunited last year after 23 years. Anybody old enough to remember them?

Nektar1
Nektar2
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 8:15 pm:   

John,

Yes it looks a 1978 model, just before the AS series came out.

Here is a pic of Cheap Trick's Rick Neilsen looking very happy with his guitar collection. Notice the Iceman front and centre. I believe this was a Greco rather than an Ibanez.

Rick Neilsen

Cheers,

Mark
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 8:22 pm:   

Try That again!

RIck Neilsen

Cheers,

Mark
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 8:33 pm:   

Guys,

I know this one's dodgy, but its from my wife's collection - honest!!

Here is the fabulous Spandau Ballet brandishing a couple of Ibanez guitars on their 1984 limited edition purple vinyl 12" remix of Only When You Leave - oh boy!!!!

Spandau Ballet

Mr. Roadstar, what do you make of the Roadstar II guitar?

Cheers,

Mark
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Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar)
Posted on Monday, May 05, 2003 - 12:53 pm:   

Holy SH*T !! That's an RS1400. Visual clues:

21 frets
Beveled body shape
No truss rod adjustment on the headstock (look between the end of the fretboard and the neck pickup, the little black square is the truss rod access)

Pretty cool...

Cheers
Steve
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Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker)
Posted on Monday, May 05, 2003 - 3:25 pm:   

The guy from Nektar looks like he has an Antoria (Ibanez built). The headstock is slimmer than Performers etc...
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 6:43 am:   

So Steve,

An RS1400 - is that a rare one?? I take it that it must be given your reaction!! How many made?? Have you ever owned or played one?

Cheers,

Mark
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Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar)
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 12:52 pm:   

Mark,

The RS1400 was one of only two neck-through Roadstar models. 167 units were produced.

I've owned 2. The first was stolen from me around 1990. I finally found another about a year ago.

Cheers
Steve
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Munch (Munch)
Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 7:47 am:   

So Steve,

What else do you have in common with Spandau Ballet???? :-)

PS: I think its high time you posted photos of all your Roadstars - I need a fix of good guitar porn!

Cheers,

Mark
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Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar)
Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 1:57 pm:   

Not much !! :)

My home 'puter is down, so I can't take new photos right now. However, I'll get the girls together soon for portraits.

Cheers
Steve
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Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker)
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 6:41 pm:   

That sax player has the funniest hairstyle in the world (yeh, I know mine was worse...)
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Dcurrie (Dcurrie)
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 10:17 pm:   

That's the same doo as Alec Baldwin!!!
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Johns (Johns)
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 4:22 pm:   

Tim:

Above you wrote: " The guy from Nektar looks like he has an Antoria (Ibanez built). The headstock is slimmer than Performers etc..."

Bingo, you win the prize! I just heard from Roye and he confirmed that it's an Antoria. He says that he'd be lost without it, btw. He also owns some Ibanezes and is very enthusiastic about promoting "these beautiful guitars".

I setup an account for him, so hopefully, he'll be by to fill us in on the particulars.
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 10:39 pm:   

Hey, is it wishful thinking on my part or is this guy posing with an early ('73) 2613 in natural?

Gary Goin

Here's a catalog reference:
http://www.break-even.org/ibzscans/1973FB/s-4.jpg
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Ibanezfreak1960
Username: Ibanezfreak1960

Registered: 03-2004
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 8:26 am:   

Sure looks like it to me John. How old is this pic?
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Boogieknight
Username: Boogieknight

Registered: 01-2004
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 9:52 am:   

ladies and gents,....Mr. Jelly Garcia....

jelly garcia
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Boogieknight
Username: Boogieknight

Registered: 01-2004
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 10:04 am:   

d-oh!!! I can't seem to edit this down so i'll just post the link to the picture.


http://dozin.com/jers/guitar/JersMusician.jpg
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Dave_g
Username: Dave_g

Registered: 01-2002
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 10:24 am:   

Anyone catch GB on the Idol show ? He was playing his Ibanez
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 7:02 pm:   

Here's another cover, this one is from Norman Brown. Looks like a full bodied GB model. Can aybody shed more light on this artist and his guitar?

NormanBrown
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 02-2001
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 7:22 pm:   

Here's another of Norman Brown, looks like a nice GB5.

NormanBrownGB5
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Billy_porter
Username: Billy_porter

Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 3:26 am:   

Hi

There should be pics out there of Sting who endorsed Ibanez in the early 80’s . Gary Moore was another endorsee, a mate of mine saw him live during the mid 80’s and although he had his signature Ibanez on stage he never used it. I sold a few of these when I worked in a music store during this period but they never seem to appear on e-bay, ditto the Steve Lukather model.
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Cmangeot
Username: Cmangeot

Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 7:39 pm:   

Here we go. One of the reasons that I started to collect Ibanez was because Sting used them. I started with musician basses. Here are some pics of sting and a musician. This one is a 1978 fretless musician, and it is the same one that you can see in some later photos with a rhino sticker on it. He used an MC-980 as well. Also he had a 1980 all blonde musician 940 fretless. which is truly one of the most amazing basses that I have ever seen.
sting
bass
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Lespaul
Username: Lespaul

Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 - 10:50 am:   

I just saw a U2 concert last night a the supportact was the Killers. Their guitarplayer showed up a few times with a korina explorer. Toggleswitch was gone and bridge pup looked like an EMG.
Cool to see an old Ibanez on a big stage...

Paul
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Cmangeot
Username: Cmangeot

Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 - 4:13 pm:   

Here's another sting shot with the 79 musician
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Billy_porter
Username: Billy_porter

Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 2:32 am:   

Hi Guys

I saw Ultravox in the early 80's and Midge Ure played eiether a Roadstar od a Blazer. The whole guitar was painted grey - including the fretboard - to blend in with the set. One of the best gigs I've went to
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Tubescorcher
Username: Tubescorcher

Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 - 12:13 pm:   

rik emmit
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Johns
Username: Johns

Registered: 2-2001
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 - 12:52 pm:   

This looks like one that Trisounds has...only his has some writing on it.
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Fontadoni
Username: Fontadoni

Registered: 9-2007
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 - 4:14 pm:   

Thank you JohnS for providing the link to this thread. For the future, I apologize if I post stuff that has already been posted (it's tough to keep up if you are a new member).

Here are some pictures of the great John Abercrombie and his AR300 (correct me if I'm wrong).

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Also check out Abercrombie's tech doing a refret to his Artist.
http://www.guitarspecialist.com/abercrombieguitars.htm
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Trisound
Username: Trisound

Registered: 1-2006
Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 11:14 pm:   

Johns:

Here it is (sorry it took me so long to post it...). Rik Emmett and his 2640.

REDoubleneck

I've had the absolute pleasure of meeting Rik Emmett on a couple of occasions and in addition to being an outstanding talent, he is probably one of the NICEST people I've ever met. He got a kick out of this photo and told me that he enjoyed the guitar while he owned it, hence the inscription...

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