Edward Van Halen club days zebra pickup

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Lightning said:
The photos I posted are from the club days the Sunset Sound studio photos is from the band recording Van Halen II
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Yep, Dave’s broken foot was right at that time, when the VHII Album Cover Photo session took place.
 
VH1R2 said:
Could you imagine those shows, day on the green must have great concerts.
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I was a little too young to catch the 78 and 79 shows here in Oakland but fortunately went to the 1980 Invasion WACF tour at the Oakland Coliseum. Great times
 
311splawndude said:
That's fair. But that hole has a legacy all on its own (at least around here).
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311splawndude said:
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This is a decent new overview of Ed's journey I found. Simon is good people and has some done some good stuff on YT too.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/ed...cPS3EtDEuhPErvk_Sw_aem_8vs8U5FvEWQRqvNZ_2aYcg
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That thrown together Strat in the background supposedly he used that for the intro to women in love , I think at that time it had his famous Danelectro neck on it. He always said he didn’t care for the shark after he cut that chunk of wood out but there it is in the studio and it was used on Van Halen II and women and children first.
 
Ben Waylin said:
Naw, Ed borrowed Chris Holmes' (WASP) unmolested Ibanez Destroyer for those sessions.

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Yes indeed but he supposedly used the Shark also on women and children first if I can believe what’s written in the now defunct Van Halen fanzine Inside magazine. I don’t have the magazine nearby but it said he used the Shark on Fools and maybe a few others . VH II he supposedly used it on dance night away , outta love again and women in love , but not the intro
 
All the non-trem songs on Van Halen II were done with the shark which had a cream color mighty mite pickup in the bridge
 
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Lightning said:
Here’s a one of many club day photos of Edward Van Halen with his black strat and if you look at the zebra pickup it’s a neck pickup in the bridge the black bobbin is on the bottom and the cream bobbin is on the top which makes that humbucker a neck pickup.
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There is no such thing as a "neck" PAF form the 50s. There was just a PAF pickup. both pickups in Gibson from that ear were just wound within a range and then placed in a box. When guitars were assembled, they just pulled two pickups out of the box and installed them.
 
What I was saying neck pickups would have the black bobbin on the bottom and the cream bobbin on the top of the pickup. Edwards PAF pickup was from a 1961 Gibson es335 that he took out if you look at neck pickups from the majority of brands including Gibson on there neck pickups the black bobbin is on the bottom and the cream bobbins is on the top of a zebra color pickup unless you get a solid color like black or cream
 
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