Dave Murray and the WHA?!?!

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While perusing the AudioZone DB for a possible purchase I stumbled acorss this pic of one of my favorites. I knew the Adrian had played Jacksons, and currently has a signature model Jackson, but I'd never seen Dave with anything other than his trusty Stratocasters.

http://audiozone.dk/guitargallery/?content%2FGuitar_catalog_scans%2FJackson_Charvel%2F1990-1_Charvette_Charvel_Jackson%2FPage30.jpg

 
That looks like it might have been an add from some yrs ago. dave is a bit chunkier now...  And Charvel doesn't use that headstock anymore.

But that would be a nice one to have, the maple FB's are rare amongst Charvel's and Jackson's, especially rev headstocks..
 
The Spectrum was made 89-91. They were a lot like Jeff Beck's mid-80s Jacksons, and I've always liked the pickguards.



 

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whitebison66 said:
The Spectrum was made 89-91. They were a lot like Jeff Beck's mid-80s Jacksons, and I've always liked the pickguards.
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I think it was Jackson's version of EE's Kramer
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I have not seen Murray with a Spectrum (type) guitar. In the late 80's & 90's he played with Jackson & ESP stratocasters with traditional strat pickguards. Most of them had HSH pickups and FR locking tremolos.
 
hehe he looks like a very hairy Elvis now!! I enjoy him though! I don't care what everyone says, I went to see him last year and he was awesome!
 
whitebison66 said:
The Spectrum was made 89-91. They were a lot like Jeff Beck's mid-80s Jacksons, and I've always liked the pickguards.
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I've always liked the way the pickguard set the Spectrum apart from other Charvels. Very fusion-y look to it which is what I guess JB liked about them. I'd never seen the Kramer version of that, but I have to say I like the reverse headstock and Rosewood version that Charvel has a bit more.

I've found a 275 Deluxe locally and have been thinking about picking it up. So while I was researching it I was browsing through the '91 catalog and saw that picture of Dave with the Jackson.

DangerousR6 said:
That looks like it might have been an add from some yrs ago. dave is a bit chunkier now...  And Charvel doesn't use that headstock anymore.
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Charvel is still using the Fender headstock on the So Cal and San Dimas Strats they're building. I've played a couple of them lately and they're really nice instruments. And yeah, Dave's quite a bit chunkier now.
 
MikeW said:
While perusing the AudioZone DB for a possible purchase I stumbled acorss this pic of one of my favorites. I knew the Adrian had played Jacksons, and currently has a signature model Jackson, but I'd never seen Dave with anything other than his trusty Stratocasters.
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I was with you until last week; saw Maiden in concert in Chicago last week and during several songs Dave was playing a Less Paul. Most of the show he was playing one of three strats but he played the LP on at least a couple of songs. Adrian played his Jacksons, an SG, and maybe something else....... don't remember.

Steve
 
Here's another famous Strat-playing Dave with an unexpected guitar choice:
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That Steinberger GL3T was the main guitar for A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
 
I actually saw Yngwie in Alcatrazz, in 1983 (4?), opening for Ted Nugent. Would have much rather seen them in the Vai era; I really like Disturbing the Peace.

To crawl back towards the OT, I saw Maiden in 83 too.

Crap, I'm old.

 
Did Dave (Murray) actually ever play the thing?  The Charvel/Jackson affiliation needs no explanation, but all I see a Charvel ad which makes no mention of Murray and Murray holding a Jackson Strat.
 
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
Did Dave (Murray) actually ever play the thing?  The Charvel/Jackson affiliation needs no explanation, but all I see a Charvel ad which makes no mention of Murray and Murray holding a Jackson Strat.
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Back in the late 70's Grover Jackson bought Charvel. So I'd imagine that there was a lot of cross-promotion from players of each brand, and at one point the headstocks even had "Charvel/Jackson" on them.
 
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
That's my point.  Unless I missed something, Dave has nothing to do with this guitar, buy they're using him to sell it.
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Well, using, and probably also paying.
 
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
Did Dave (Murray) actually ever play the thing?  The Charvel/Jackson affiliation needs no explanation, but all I see a Charvel ad which makes no mention of Murray and Murray holding a Jackson Strat.
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This is exactly what tweaked my brain when I saw the picture. I was never aware of Dave endorsing any brand let alone Charvel/Jackson/whoever.
 
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