Steve Morse's Frankenstein Tele

[BluesJunkie]

Does anybody know of any sites with good info on Steve Morse's old Frankenstein Tele Strat? I'd like to see a good close-up, find out the pickup configuration, the switching configuration, etc...

Stevemorse.com has minimal info, and Tele Modders has a dead link to the guitar. I also did a google search but didn't find much.

 

[kmcguitars]

Try this link




http://members.tripod.com/~godsize1/gear.htm

 

[butnut]

Steve's Tele is quite the modded monster. I'll go check that dead link. Sorry bro. Thanks for the links kmc.

 

[Mincer]

I dont think he has used it in years though, like since the early 80s. His Music Man is an amazing instrument.

 

[BluesJunkie]

Try this link

http://members.tripod.com/~godsize1/gear.htm

Cool, thanks! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

 

[JOLLY]

Try this link




http://members.tripod.com/~godsize1/gear.htm

Thanks kmc......that was some good reading.

 

[Gearjoneser]

It's funny you mentioned it, but I was just staring at an old LP
of Steve Morse's Dixie Dregs, where he's holding that guitar and wearing a sleeveless purple T shirt. Does Steve Morse have the worst fashion sense, or what!? LOL

I wish I remembered all the pickups, but he has about 4 on that guitar. Gibson, DiMarzio hums, and some Fender and a hotrails or something. Crazy. He retired that guitar because it had been refretted about 10 times. His favorite amps are a
Marshall Jubilee 2550, 5150, and Ampeg V-4. I've never seen him live, but would like to.

 

[Mincer]

Lately live, with Deep Purple, he is using a 5150...his tone is great...take a listen to any of the Deep Purple albums of the last 7 years or so.

 

[captain cavman]

Try this link




http://members.tripod.com/~godsize1/gear.htm

Kool link !

Thanks kmc ! :bigthumb:

 

[Gearjoneser]

OK, I'm at home now, so I actually have that vinyl album of
Steve Morse holding that guitar back in 1984.
It's Steve Morse...The Introduction.

The pickups are....What looks like a double cream Duncan in the bridge, a lipstick tele single of some sort right next to the cream bridge, a slanted aged white Strat pickup, then a nickel covered
Gibson humbucker turned backwards for his neck pickup.
4 Total. He has a three way steel pickup selector and all the
rest of his controls are out of the picture. The pickguard is a black homemade one that doesn't look like any stock Tele guard.

That's the old, natural finished Tele body with a early 70's strat neck. Steve Morse with the purple cutoff T Shirt on the front of his album...The Introduction from 1984