question about guitars
 

When the band recorded Tusk, what guitars was Lindsey using? The one he uses in Over and Over does not sound like the Turner One to me..

Folks who watched the Tusk documentary probably can answer this better. It's been 20 years since I saw it, so I can't remember what Lindsey was playing. If I had to guess, Lindsey was probably playing mostly Strats and Teles during those sessions. I don't believe the Turner came into play until the end of the recording sessions. He used it for the first time on the road during the Tusk tour.

He was using strats, teles, and Les Pauls mostly. ChiliD could probably tell you EXACTLY what guitars/models/years, lol. ChiliD, you are a guitar guru!

Adam R.

The only guitar I remember Lindsey playing on the Tusk docu is a Les Paul. He does a cool little thing whilst the others are just sitting about looking tired.

From what I recall, Lindsey was using a faded tobacco Les Paul Standard for most of the heavy work and a Strat for the lighter stuff although the Strat with relavent distortion can produce some aggressive tones (note Gold Dust Woman on the Rumours album as an example).

Again, as I recall, The Model 1 came in for the tour as quite frankly the Les Paul couldn't cut through the bands sound enough to be as vocal with Lindsey's Travis picking style as was needed yet the extra aggressiveness of the Turner seemed to work......

Owning, or having owned all of the main guitar models Mr.Buckingham used on that tour myself I can state that the Turner for sure is the one to use for stage presence due to it's incredible power and tonal distinction yet for the more delicate studio work a Strat would be the guitar of choice for me and a Les Paul Standard, although giving a distinct sound is too messy for either situation in my humble opinion.....


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And you paid all that money for a Suhr, why? :laugh:

Ah Steve,

I can't answer that one on here buddy, then we would have to get into a whole new topic with "The touring guitars of Mark Knopfler"

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It's cool...now all you need is a 59 sunburst Les Paul Standard...

and a National Steel Standard..

and a...

and a...

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here we go....
 

Hey Chili, if you REALLY want to get anal about it :-

MK's tour guitars 1983-2001

2 x original 1959 Gibson sunburst Les Paul Standards
1 x original 1958 Gibson sunburst Les Paul Standard
1x 1984 Gibson sunburst Les Paul Standard
1 x 1986 Gibson sunburst Les Paul Standard (so we gather MK likes them...)
1 X original 1960 red Fender Stratocaster
1 x original 1954 sunburst Fender Strat
1 x red Schecter Telecaster
1 x white custom Suhr Strat
1 x trans honey Pensa-Suhr Carve Top.
1 x black Pensa-Suhr flat top.
1 x candy apple red Schecter Strat
1 x tigers eye Pensa MK2
1 x Gibson Chet Atkins CE
1 X Ramirez classical
1 x National Duolian style O steel guitar
1 x original 1953 Gibson Super 400
1 x Gretsch Super Chet 7690
1 x original 1960 Gibson ES175
1 x Phillips custom acoustic "Nobby"

Now thats a shopping list.........


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