Steve Vai's Green Meanie Charvel ...

[Artie]

I think he meant it the other way round: Vai toppled EVH.

That's how I read it also.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

EVH never "toppled" Vai IDK WTF you're talking about.
Vai was on the cover of every Guitar magazine for 40 years. Im no flag waving Vai fan but give credit where due.
Each completely different styles of music & gear.
And DLR eat em & smile topped the charts while Ed was pretending to be a cover band with Van Hagar.
Both your 2 posts are total fiction & conjecture.
As for guitars ive always loved made in Japan guitars i have many and been attracted to Steve's guitars by contrast other than the Wolfgang Ed's Frank guitars have never appealed to be and look like junk.
I love Ed as a player but he never took care of his gear, cigarette burns ect, he seemed to be a slob.
The Green Meanie died an early death and with no internet how would you have ever seen it back in the 80's & 90's ?

Did you not just corroborate my point of view? Lol... Do you drink a lot cause I don't, not even beer.

Yes, Vai has graced magazine cover for the last 40 years despite the onslaught of younger and in some cases more skillful players like Guthrie Govan (this dude again wtf?) or Kiko Loureiro and who knows who millenials worship these days. And f**k...even Tony Macalpine served as his bitch for like a decade or so.

 

[JMP/HBE]

Did you not just corroborate my point of view? Lol... Do you drink a lot cause I don't, not even beer.

Yes, Vai has graced magazine cover for the last 40 years despite the onslaught of younger and in some cases more skillful players like Guthrie Govan (this dude again wtf?) or Kiko Loureiro and who knows who millenials worship these days. And f**k...even Tony Macalpine served as his ***** for like a decade or so.

okay as long as were on the same page but don't let it happen again LOL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Securb]

The truth is the meanie was a1980 Strat in natural his mom bought. I am not making this up. This guitar was the one he extensively used in Zappa band.

The Strat is not the Green Meanie. In the picture, you can see that the input jacks are not in the same place. The Green Meanie had the jack on the bottom, The Strat had a custom plate on top. Vai played the Strat his mother got him with the Zappa band. Seeing he only had one guitar Zappa lent him the Burnt Hendrix strat for a backup on the first few tours. The Green Meanie came later.

 

[Securb]

Here is Steve with the Green Meanie before the Charvel logo was removed and it was covered with stickers.

Here is Steve with the Strat

 

[Ashurbanipal]

^^ cool pic, before the Floyd was added.

Mm, the 'Sticker' Strat was never repainted from its original natural gloss. Apart from the pu and hardware mods, another obvious difference is the 21 fret neck vs the GM's 22.

 

[Securb]

For the record, Frank Zappa hated the tone of the Vai sticker Fender Strat. He told Vai his tone sounded like "An electric ham sandwich".

 

[JMP/HBE]

The truth is the meanie was a1980 Strat in natural his mom bought. I am not making this up. This guitar was the one he extensively used in Zappa band.

If it had been a Charvel from Grover Jackson Steve woulda gone with Jackson not Ibanez. That would've make more sense. At that time MIJ guitars were second-class citizens just like MII or MIC today.

GM had a Basswood body, Fender never made a Straocaster w/a Basswood body. The guitar was a Grover Jackson Charvel.

 

[Securb]

GM had a Basswood body, Fender never made a Straocaster w/a Basswood body. The guitar was a Grover Jackson Charvel.

No reason to even debate this anymore just looking at the headstocks it is obvious the Green Meanie is not his Strat. It is a Charvel.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

The truth is the meanie was a1980 Strat in natural his mom bought. I am not making this up. This guitar was the one he extensively used in Zappa band..

Care to substantiate?

 

[Securb]

Another obvious difference is the 21 fret neck vs the GM's 22.

Steve could have sent the Strat out to have the neck stretched.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Care to substantiate?

You seemingly so emotionally invested in this matter makes me chuckle.

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[Mincer]

Get back to the topic, please.

 

[Lovegun]

Since Jackson has been mentioned in this thread. Here's a link to the Crossroads Jackson https://www.guitarworld.com/features/steve-vai-crossroads-jackson .

 

[JB_From_Hell]

You seemingly so emotionally invested in this matter makes me chuckle.

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Let me rephrase what I said: I’d never heard that those were the same guitar. Did you read that in an interview or something?

 

[idsnowdog]

Via did have a Fender Strat that he got from his mother that was seriously hacked up but that wasn't Green Meanie. https://www.vai.com/guitars/fenderstratocaster/

 

[jeremy]

Steve Vai is a master modder (skip to 14:50)

who is that dude?

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Steve could have sent the Strat out to have the neck stretched.

You're right, silly me , an often overlooked mod people did who wanted their 21 fret Strat to have 22.

 

[GuitarDoc]

OK, I'm glad we got THAT all straightened out. Pretty important stuff to make any mistakes with.

 

[JOLLY]

who is that dude?

Thomas McRocklin, or something like that. He was in that band with that red headed kid from Diff'rent Strokes.