Beat It solo, raw track

[rgorke]

Geez, look at the mitts on Holdsworth, the original banana hands.

[JimiJames]

YEAH ! Look how easy it is for him to reach in that second comical pic.
Like it was no prob for Allan and E'd reaching for that extra fret...
He's gonna need this book

[JimiJames]

... He even sold the PAF s from his SG and had Seymour Duncan rewind some replacements for him . That relationship led to a signiture pickup that unfortunately has been discontinued . It had dual rows of allen head black screws and a killer midrange prescence ...

Now that there is some good information!!!

Apparently Seymour made two designs for Allan. One was a high output (16k-ish) and one was low-output (8k-ish). Both designs had two screw bobbins and A5 magnets. Allan liked the low-output pick-up and still uses it to this day. However, this was the '80s, so for commercial reasons, the high-output model was commercialized. Allan never used the high-output pick-up (Jake E Lee and Doug Aldrich did).
These days, you can get both AH pick-ups through SD's custom shop for $160 each ... or you can take the screw-coils from two SD '59n, put them on a new plate (with double screw holes) and be 95% there!

I had a used Ibanez AH10 Spyder back in the early 90's for a short period of time... Excellent guitar that came with a very slippery Ebony fretboard and a decent pup.
What were the story on those off the AH10 & 20's, then ?

[MrBeasty]

I had a used Ibanez AH10 Spyder back in the early 90's for a short period of time... Excellent guitar that came with a very slippery Ebony fretboard and a decent pup. What were the story on those off the AH10 & 20's, then ?

Allan is very picky with his guitars. While he was in the limelight he spent a lot of time researching guitar building, woods, materials, etc (and he still does today). The end result (then) was his Charvel super-strat with brass parts and the single Duncan humbucker.
Ibanez offered to make a signature model (the AH series) but Allan was extremely displeased with the outcome and has never been shy about it. This resulted in Ibanez hiring Valley Art to make him some copies, made from higher quality parts and with Alder bodies. The pick-up in the AH guitars are Ibanez' version of the Duncan pick-up Allan still uses today (dual row of screws, 8k-ish). Soon after Allan switched to Steinberger guitars.

All this said, while Allan hated the instrument, it is still a pretty nice guitar.

[MrBeasty]

http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-C ... 985/08.jpg

http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-C ... 986/35.jpg

I suspect that the big disappointment for Allan was the pool cavity under the pickguard, something Ibanez sold as the "tone chamber" but was probably more of a tone robber than anything else. If AH had requested a tone chamber between the neck and the bridge pick-up he probably meant a hollow body cavity (like on most of his guitar designs) ... perhaps the request was lost in translation with the Ibanez peeps. A pool carve with a pickguard over it does not quality has a "tone chamber" in my book, or any luthier that I have ever come across. My $0.02! speculation.

[spcv]

Guess this guitar....



...became this guitar...



... right?