In 1997, it completed the transition to his main axe, leaving the two blonde ones as backups. He used this for the first time in October of 1996, and sporadically for the remainder of the year. The saddles are bronze on this guitar as opposed to the bone of the first two. The finish on this one is a darker, redder stain, with a slightly different headstock shape, different (even smaller) inlays, and two chrome-covered humbuckers. This guitar is all koa with a maple neck, and the same tapered body shape as the second one. Trey's third and current Languedoc is a koa hollowbody built during 1996. Paul put the single coil pickup from the spruce guitar into this one, replacing the vacant hole in his old one with a plastic cover.ģ. The upper and lower bouts of this guitar are also not as curved as the original. There is a slightly different inlay on the headstock, and the inlay on frets12 and 24 are larger while the rest have been thinned down. This one has the same natural finish as the first one but the body is made from padauk (as opposed to spruce). Trey's second Languedoc, built in 1992, became his main guitar in the beginning of 1993 primarily, until late 1996. When #2 was complete, Old Reliable became his backup guitar.Ģ. Photos from 1992 show Trey using the spruce guitar with the plastic pickup cover, indicating that construction had begun on #2. When Paul began to build Trey's second guitar, he removed the single coil from the middle, and covered up the hole with plastic. This became Trey's primary guitar until his next one was built in 1992. The back and sides are spruce and the top is maple. Paul built it from a combination of spruce and maple, with 2 humbuckers and a single coil in the middle. This blonde beauty was built in late1987 for Trey when he told Paul that he wanted a fatter sound. "Old Reliable," Trey's first custom electric guitar. (A second bass was stolen during the summer of 1992.)ġ. Three Electrics: Trey Anastasio has three Languedoc guitars, all built by Paul Languedoc, soundman for the band who also built Mike's bass. Prior to that, he used a pearl-white solid body Ibanez (which he used to write "I Am Hydrogen" in his father's basement), last seen at his bachelor party jam session. If you have any additional pics or updates, please email them to me! The first guitar Trey got made by Paul Landuedoc was a short-scale travel guitar he took to Europe with Pete and Dudley (both also of Space Antelope). The Purple seems to have a lot of what people like in an alnico JBL, but without the things some people dislike.I would like to thank Brian Brian Brown (Trey's tech) and Glenn Goldstein from Hard Truckers for the updates.
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They were a nice shift away from his traditional Celestion Vintage 30 and Celestion Alnico Blue and more towards a Garcia-esque, JBL-esque tone without going full on JBL which seemed to have been too big a shift for him when trying out a K120 he recently got. I think he's bought 6 of them so far and is loading his main cabinets up with them and will be using them for these Dead shows. I turned him on to the Purple Haze speaker, and he fell in love with them. Recently, Trey Anastasio consulted with me on some gear advice as he prepares to take the role of Jerry Garcia for these farewell Dead shows. So while we may have slapped our initials on the box, it really is a tribute to the old classic with just a few of my personal twists. I happen to have a secret stash of some rare components only found in the very early versions of that old distortion pedal just like Jerry's. We arranged a few things for him got him a pair of speakers to test drive, sourced for him an original/early MXR Phase 100 pedal (Candyman, Crazy Fingers, etc.), sending him a certain reverb unit to try out (can't comment on that), he ordered one of our SMS Black Boxes, and he contracted me to custom build a special version of the classic Distortion+ pedal Jerry used for so long, '76 thru '89. As he is preparing for these 3 Fare Thee Well Dead shows, he is also adding and altering some things to his guitar rig to help him get some proper sounds for that context and for certain songs. Last week I had a surprising email show up from a guitarist named Trey Anastasio regarding his gear.
Brad Sarno from ( ) helped Trey with some new gear prior to the GD50 shows.
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