Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Definitely L90.


AWESOME pickups.


I'm selling a pair (8H/6H) if anyone is interested.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Rails are too wide for a lawrence, My guess: it is a schaller hot stuff double rail pickup. Same as Mathias Jabs used in his strats in the very early 80s. They were quite common at the time.

nah, the Schallers and X2Ns both have very 'pronouced' coils,
whereas the L90 looks more like a cream humbucker cover with
2 rails attached ;)
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Now that I think about it I think there WAS a double bladed Mighty Mite pickup back then. Makes sense as his parts were mostly Mighty Mite.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Now that I think about it I think there WAS a double bladed Mighty Mite pickup back then. Makes sense as his parts were mostly Mighty Mite.

God knows what parta that tiger guitar has had over the years ;)
You don't happen to know about any pictures of those MighyMite pickups? :)
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

No but I do recall seeing a catalog back in the day with double bladed pickups, just like the Schaller Hot Stuff pickups. If I were a betting man it would be either of those 2, and definitely not an X2n and most likely not a Bill Lawrence as the blades are too thick to be a BL for certain.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Here is an old advertisement from the 70s showing a Mighty Mite pickup that looks like the one in the Dokken video.

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Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

Here is an old advertisement from the 70s showing a Mighty Mite pickup that looks like the one in the Dokken video.

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The one in the middle on top has clear bobbins and black hex screws.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

ooops it looked like rails upon first look there. I still think I do remember there being a full fledge dual rail bucker from mighty mite in the 70s - 80s.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

I think it's the Bill Lawrence & it's just the angle that makes the rails look wider.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

No way.. it might be a Bill Lawrence but its not that L90. Look at it you can see the seam in the video between the bobbins. the L90 is just a big rectangle.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

if it was a shadow it would extend from the rail to the middle of the pickup not appear as a line also there would be a shadow from both rails not just one. Its not an L90.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

You know, this is one of those examples of "Too much gear focus, not enough chops"

Dokkens early tone was generally crap. Just slap the Distortion isn there and roll with it. Most of what you here on disc is Distortion.

All the gear and none of the chops = crap. If you have the chops, the tone will be fine with a turn of the knobs. Not saying you don't.

Just saying Lynch sounds pretty much the same regardless of whatever tweeky little electronics change he has made over the years.
 
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Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

You know, this is one of those examples of "Too much gear focus, not enough chops"

Dokkens early tone was generally crap. Just slap the Distortion isn there and roll with it. Most of what you here on disc is Distortion.

All the gear and none of the chops = crap. If you have the chops, the tone will be fine with a turn of the knobs. Not saying you don't.

Just saying Lynch sounds pretty much the same regardless of whatever tweeky little electronics change he has made over the years.

yeah, all recorded output, atleast Dokken wise, was the Distortion :)
Just thought this would be some cool info :) George has used pretty much
every humbucker in that guitar ;)
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

I think all the "tone" guys - Lynch, Ed, Malmsteen, etc...all went through a very early - TRY EVERYTHING phase...
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

I think all the "tone" guys - Lynch, Ed, Malmsteen, etc...all went through a very early - TRY EVERYTHING phase...

dunno 'bout Yng though. He has "only" been through what, 3-4 models
and all were pretty long relationships.
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

No way.. it might be a Bill Lawrence but its not that L90. Look at it you can see the seam in the video between the bobbins. the L90 is just a big rectangle.

It's an old Lawrence L-90 as stated months ago. The old L-90 had raised rails (the newer one shown above does not), which is casting a shadow making the rails look bigger/thicker. The seam that you're seeing is not bobbins, but actually the Lawrence logo that stretches across the entire casing (see pic below).

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/wbguitarpickups/104_4754.jpg
 
Re: Early George Lynch - Bill Lawrence?

I was more concerned with Wild Mick Brown.

Did anyone notice him switching from jazz grip to standard and going back and forth?

That was back when Don was running ****... did you guys notice the band taking their volume down during the verses so Don's weak vocals could punch through the mix better? Lolz.

That's what you are supposed to do regardless of the singers suckage.
 
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