PSA - Reverb: Tommy Shaw Sunburst!

[kizanski]

On Reverb now.

I can't find any photos of Shaw with it (and if I were the seller, I would definitely want to include at least one).
Pretty cool, even if it isn't Tommy Shaw's.

@cmatthes - anything on Serial's Serial Number Database on this one?

[burningyen]

Maybe @HamStd has a pic. This must be from his collection.

[kizanski]

1 minute ago, burningyen said:

Maybe @HamStd has a pic. This must be from his collection.

Good point!

[cynic]

2 hours ago, kizanski said:

I can't find any photos of Shaw with it (and if I were the seller, I would definitely want to include at least one).
Pretty cool, even if it isn't Tommy Shaw's

The seller says "made for/built for" enough it feels like code that Tommy has never laid eyes on it, but that doesn't take a thing away from the guitar.  Very cool!

[kizanski]

3 minutes ago, cynic said:

The seller says "made for/built for" enough it feels like code that Tommy has never laid eyes on it, but that doesn't take a thing away from the guitar.  Very cool!

Agreed.  It makes me think of the purple Prince Studio: Made for His Royal Badness, but not played by him, other than when he rejected it.

[BTMN]

That shop has a good reputation. Run by guitar player who was or is in Queensryche. 

[Jeff R]

Parker is no longer in Queensryche, he's full time guitar buy/sell/trade/retail now. He attends all the vintage shows around the country, so I see him a couple times a year. Straight shooter in business and a super cool guy to boot. It goes without saying he's a killer guitar player.

Funny story on that note ... ever since we began exhibiting Carondelet at guitar shows, Vonnie's been dying to experience him playing a Queensryche riff or two in our booth. At the Nashville show a few months ago, she realized she had forgotten something at the hotel and had to bail briefly. During that window, Parker's aisle browsing intersected with my booth. While we caught up, I handed him one of my custom superstrats loaded with a Carondelet Hades (firebreather humbucker). Without me asking, he immediately fired off a searing QR riffs medley of a handful of hits off Rage and Mindcrime. Just smoking playing. He paid great compliments to the axe and the pickup, gave me a smile and an "I'll see you later," and went back to aisle browsing. Five minutes later, Vonnie strolled in. "So what'd I miss? Anything?"

[kizanski]

16 minutes ago, Jeff R said:

"So what'd I miss? Anything?"

"No, nothing, honey... Nothing."

[JGale]

Enjoyed sleeping on the couch that night, did he?

[cmatthes]

2 hours ago, kizanski said:

Agreed.  It makes me think of the purple Prince Studio: Made for His Royal Badness, but not played by him, other than when he rejected it.

Your facts are a bit off there, Kiz!

He DID own it, and kept it in the studio for a couple of years, but sent that one (as well as a few other non-Hamers) back to their respective builders. I’ll check with my buddy at PRS who was told the same thing when their guitar showed up back in Stevensville.

[HamStd]

I'll chime in here.  I got the guitar from Tommy Shaw. It was made for him, he used it onstage and in the studio recording the first Damn Yankee's CD.    Note that this is an '89 guitar, Sunbursts  weren't being made with a sustain block bridge - it was a special option, let alone a sustainiac.  Tommy  signed the backplate of the guitar to me, I asked to keep it  (it means more to me than it does to anyone else) and Parker was fine with that.  I will check if I can find my pictures of it.   This is a special piece so if you want a unique Sunburst, I would recommend it!  

[kizanski]

1 hour ago, cmatthes said:

Your facts are a bit off there, Kiz!

He DID own it, and kept it in the studio for a couple of years, but sent that one (as well as a few other non-Hamers) back to their respective builders.

My bad. I thought at the time it was told that he played the guitar and rejected it.  

[Eli]

Well, at least it has a Sustaini-ak-ak-ak-ak-ak!