Randy Rhoads?

[DeanSweden]

Re: Randy Rhoads?

www.randyrhoads.tk

that site is very unpleasant

 

[reclempt smoker]

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regarding Randy's guitars, what is Karl Sandoval's connection? and was Karl connected to Grover Jackson?

 

[ErikH]

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regarding Randy's guitars, what is Karl Sandoval's connection? and was Karl connected to Grover Jackson?

Karl made Randy's black with white polka dot V. Grover made Randy's white V with pinstripes around the edge that Randy named "Original Sin". It was the first Jackson ever made. Grover was working with Wayne Charvel at the time and didn't want to harm Wayne's name if it turned out to be a dud so he put his name on it. And there you have the birth of Jackson Guitars.

EDIT: The only connection between Karl and Grover is they both worked with Wayne Charvel, but not at the same time. Karl left in 1979. I don't think Grover was even in the picture yet with Wayne.

 

[DeanSweden]

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regarding Randy's guitars, what is Karl Sandoval's connection? and was Karl connected to Grover Jackson?

I think Karl Sandoval worked with Grover Jackson at Charvel,
then they split.

Now if you check www.karlsandoval.com you'll see that he takes
credit for the Charvel Hydra thingy ... don't know if that's true or not.

Story goes that Randy played a tiger-striped V built by Sandoval,
which was owned by none other than George Lynch.

I have yet to see a picture of that V.

 

[reclempt smoker]

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Karl made Randy's black with white polka dot V. No connection to Grover Jackson at all. Grover made Randy's white V with pinstripes around the edge that Randy named "Original Sin". It was the first Jackson ever made. Grover was working with Wayne Charvel at the time and didn't want to harm Wayne's name if it turned out to be a dud so he put his name on it. And there you have the birth of Jackson Guitars.

thanks bro. I love this type of guitar history. I just spent about 4 hours at Neal Moser's forum reading about the history of B.C. Rich guitars.

 

[ErikH]

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thanks bro. I love this type of guitar history. I just spent about 4 hours at Neal Moser's forum reading about the history of B.C. Rich guitars.

I made a small edit to my post, just FYI.

It is cool stuff. Get the Fender Book. That's some great reading.

 

[heymcz]

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Dudes,

Fire Inventor and a few others whose names I am too lazy to hit the "back" button to find nailed it....it's the MXR Distortion + pedal that will nail Rhodes' tone. Seriously, you could be playing an ES-335 into a Fender Twin with Ibanez V8's :eek13: and turn on the pedal, there it is...nasty, blistering midrange fuzz. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating--just a bit. A Marshall and a Flying V with high-output ceramics would help. And I bow in deference to those who saw him live; I only refer to his studio tone.

I utterly dislike the sound of the D+, I wrote a really scathing review of it on Harmony Central (as Anonymous), something about hordes of screaming bees, stopping the nightmares, yada yada. And I discovered this by accident, of course; I wasn't trying to sound like RR's studio tone; I was just trying to sound good...but to me, it's Rhodes in A Box.

 

[dnewhous]

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Altec and JBL were connected in some way. I believe the sought after Altecs are actually "Altec/Lansing" with the Lansing being the L in "JBL". Some older vintage Fender speakers will have the "James B. Lansing" stamped on them.

The BEYMA LIBERTY-8 is a replica of the JBL 12" speaker.