This used to be a Gibson Les Paul

[Arch D. Bunker]

Click the link at your own peril - this guy should be locked up.

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[9thcloudstring]

This is messed up. Truly, he needs to be locked up.

 

[DutchRay]

What was he smoking and where do I get some...

 

[El Gringo]

The horror and abomination

 

[thin sissy]

Interesting how much of the work is done really well (you know what I mean), and some of it looks like it was done with a cheese grater

Still, not as if it was a rare guitar, live and let live I say.

 

[garywright]

Let it Bee

 

[jb_abides]

Oh, my! The horror, the horror.

Small consolation, at least it wasn't put through the wood chipper or under the bulldozer... or is it?!

 

[Gibbons59]

I think I'm going to throw up.

 

[Tollywood]

Yikes.

 

[CptFnMarvelous]

That would be less offensive if it was at least a 1/2-way decent job! The neck set in particular is disgraceful. Have to agree this crosses the threshold from "atrocity" deep into "abomination" territory.

*On the other hand, if ever there was a reason to mess with the signal chain for some industrial noise, this has got to be it.

 

[El Gringo]

This reminds me of a friends older brother back in the 70's who played guitar and was really great . So this guy had an original Mesa Boogie Mark I and a vintage 58 Sunburst Maple neck Stratocaster . The horror and abomination was he "customized" the Stratocaster body into a V shape , which was the dumbest thing I had ever seen back then . I knew on some level that he had seriously devalued this Vintage Stratocaster ,but who was I to say anything . This guy could play lights out and then some . The tones he was getting along with the sustain were unreal and out of this world great and awesome . A single coil Stratocaster getting such thick creamy sustain for days and that was mind blowing to me . I was at a serious loss to try to understand the "how" he was getting such tone (of course it had a lot to do with the Mesa Boogie amp , which back then in the 70's was like something from Mars to me) . All I knew about were Fender and Marshall amps , and I was afraid of Marshall's as I had played thru them in the local mom and pop music (Marshall 1959SLP) store and they had to be cranked to get even close to tones like that and the shop owner Vinnie would tell me that he could not hear himself talk and I had to turn it down . I knew there was no way I could even mess with Marshall amps as I played Fender Twin Reverb amps and had the cops ringing my parents door bell plenty of times . Darn Fender amps -the king of cleans and I was always trying to coax more tone out of them with Big Muffs , MXR Distortion + , Ibanez Tube Screamers . Vinnie at the mom and pop shop sold me a single coil Dimarzio Distortion pickup along with a MXR Dyna Comp compressor and it was not even in the same neighborhood tone wise . My Les Paul Custom was closer , but it wasn't a Stratocaster as I was trying to get the same tone that the older brother had . No way , no how and a total exercise in futility . At the same time it was a challenge and that was and is one of the beauties of making music .

 

[Midnight Blues]

So did this:

 

[Arch D. Bunker]

Ah yes, Roger Fisher - was there a ever guitar that he did not customize?

Roger Fisher's Custom "LED" Stratocaster | Reverb

A legendary instrument owned and played by Roger Fisher of Heart! This guitar started its life as an early-’70s Stratocaster and sometime around 1976, Roger had it customized by a local Seattle model builder, Chris Miller. The guitar took on a unique form and included a highly sophisticated LED...

reverb.com

Yours for a measly $65K BTW..

 

[jb_abides]

Ah yes, Roger Fisher - was there a ever guitar that he did not customize?

Roger Fisher's Custom "LED" Stratocaster | Reverb

A legendary instrument owned and played by Roger Fisher of Heart! This guitar started its life as an early-’70s Stratocaster and sometime around 1976, Roger had it customized by a local Seattle model builder, Chris Miller. The guitar took on a unique form and included a highly sophisticated LED...

reverb.com

Yours for a measly $65K BTW..

but it's iconic, don'tcha know!

 

[Jim W]

We saw an old dude playing this hacked Strat at a show, the horror!

 

[seafood]

humbucker in the bridge and a strat neck pickup!!!!! the perfect combination!!!!!!!!

 

[Midnight Blues]

Ah yes, Roger Fisher - was there a ever guitar that he did not customize?

Roger Fisher's Custom "LED" Stratocaster | Reverb

A legendary instrument owned and played by Roger Fisher of Heart! This guitar started its life as an early-’70s Stratocaster and sometime around 1976, Roger had it customized by a local Seattle model builder, Chris Miller. The guitar took on a unique form and included a highly sophisticated LED...

reverb.com

Yours for a measly $65K BTW..

but it's iconic, don'tcha know!

One of my favorite players.

Saw Heart on the "Dog & Butterfly" tour in '78, with a few of my friends (also musicians) in Syracuse, N.Y. The doors hadn't opened yet, so everyone is waiting out in front of the War Memorial and as I'm looking around, I notice Roger, Michael Derosier and Steven Fossen standing there talking near the street. Apparently, no one else knew who they were, so we went up and started talking to them, specifically for me and one of my friends, also a guitar player, Roger Fisher. He told the two of us to make sure we got in the front row because he had something that would "blow (our) your minds". Since it was general admission, which most of the shows were back then, of course, we got right in front (stage left) and waited to see what it was going to be. A few songs in and with the lights down, they start to play "Mistral Wind" and here comes Roger with his Strat and the LED lights in the frets making all these different patterns.

It was pretty cool and so was/is he. I've had the chance to communicate with him several times over the years and he's always been pretty cool.

Hands-down the best looking double neck, which BTW was also for sale at one point, I've ever seen:

We now return to our original programming.

 

[keef]

We saw an old dude playing this hacked Strat at a show, the horror!
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LOL - you could do a whole thread with Mayall's 'creations'..

 

[El Gringo]

We saw an old dude playing this hacked Strat at a show, the horror!
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They say every picture tells a story and this "customized" Stratocaster along with the Roland Jazz Chorus amp sure does paint a picture . An unusual pairing for me to look at , but hey what do I know ?

 

[El Gringo]

One of my favorite players.

Saw Heart on the "Dog & Butterfly" tour in '78, with a few of my friends (also musicians) in Syracuse, N.Y. The doors hadn't opened yet, so everyone is waiting out in front of the War Memorial and as I'm looking around, I notice Roger, Michael Derosier and Steven Fossen standing there talking near the street. Apparently, no one else knew who they were, so we went up and started talking to them, specifically for me and one of my friends, also a guitar player, Roger Fisher. He told the two of us to make sure we got in the front row because he had something that would "blow (our) your minds". Since it was general admission, which most of the shows were back then, of course, we got right in front (stage left) and waited to see what it was going to be. A few songs in and with the lights down, they start to play "Mistral Wind" and here comes Roger with his Strat and the LED lights in the frets making all these different patterns.

It was pretty cool and so was/is he. I've had the chance to communicate with him several times over the years and he's always been pretty cool.

Hands-down the best looking double neck, which BTW was also for sale at one point, I've ever seen:

We now return to our original programming.

Roger Fisher is one very talented master of the fretboard !