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Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 6:15 am
by guysmiley
Back in his possession 26 years later. Probably his most identifiable guitar from the Ritual era. You can see it in the Milan video. Probably a prototype for the first Starfield Cabriolet later made for Ibanez. It seems to have been refinished in yellow at some point after he smashed the guitar at Lolla.

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Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:43 am
by Matz
wonder what the story is and why he didn't get it back sooner. Please change the neck, Dave, headless necks are the absolute worst lookwise

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:28 am
by guysmiley
I think it's probably snapped off.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:38 am
by JOEinPHX
He didn't get it back.

Dan Cleary tracked it down recently, and convinced the owner to give it to Dave for his Bday last night on Dark Matter in exchange for one of Dave's PRS's.

Story: Dave got into a fight/argument with Perry at the very first Lolla 91 show. It got smashed and thrown during the show. The dude in possession of the guitar was the one who ended up with it's broken pieces. Dave ended up borrowing a guitar (a PRS) from Rollins Band's guitar player and has used them ever since.

After talking with the guy a bit about the story behind him losing the guitar, he decided he just wanted to take some pictures with it and wanted the guy to just keep it, as he claimed he doesn't have any Jane's stuff around his house so it wasn't like he was going to hang it on his wall or anything.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 2:54 pm
by Mescal
So, in the end, who cares?

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 4:13 pm
by JOEinPHX
Mescal wrote:So, in the end, who cares?
The people here on this board who document everything 1987-1991 Jane's Addiction.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:54 am
by SR
So, he's not nostalgic about the Jane's guitars :noclue: I wonder where the Nothing's Shocking guitar ended up. Wasn't that one stolen at some point? That one was fucking gorgeous. Ibanez or Tele I believe....

:edit: Funny....some people are, some aren't.....I recently started following John 5 on some social media....just an amazing player and a really interesting person. He appears to be a nut about his guitars....an acolyte in the church of telecaster. I read somewhere where he took one of his in for an upgrade and was like a family member in the waiting room during open heart surgery. Froosh had a strat for years with the Chilis and gave it to Kling when he left.....JE had a collection of basses he amassed while with The Who....

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 8:12 am
by Matz
yeah John 5 is a major collector of vintage teles and an amazing guitar player. I'd say top three instrumentalists in the world when it comes to chops, originality, style, coolness, diversity. They guy is a super dedicated monster. His left hand is actually bigger than his right because he played so much as a child!

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 8:29 am
by SR
:lol: didn't know that fun/weird factoid. I've mentioned it before but I took my kid years ago to a Drop in the Bucket benny hosted by Rollins at a club here in LA with a ton of musicians doing covers.....DN and John 5 ended up onstage together and I though 5 outshined him. Anyways I texted my son recently about some flamenco I stumbled across J5 doing on youtube and he referred me to Roland Dyens whom I had never heard of.....another true gem.....died recently, I believe....I think he had a relationship with Berklee....wonder if Casey Contrarian knew him?


Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:25 pm
by Juana
SR wrote:So, he's not nostalgic about the Jane's guitars :noclue: I wonder where the Nothing's Shocking guitar ended up. Wasn't that one stolen at some point? That one was fucking gorgeous. Ibanez or Tele I believe....

:edit: Funny....some people are, some aren't.....I recently started following John 5 on some social media....just an amazing player and a really interesting person. He appears to be a nut about his guitars....an acolyte in the church of telecaster. I read somewhere where he took one of his in for an upgrade and was like a family member in the waiting room during open heart surgery. Froosh had a strat for years with the Chilis and gave it to Kling when he left.....JE had a collection of basses he amassed while with The Who....
In my experience there are a lot of guitar players that bond with a certain guitar but many of them are just tools for their jobs. I get to talk to Gary (Clark) and Jimmie (Vaughan) quite a bit as I spend a lot of time killing my liver at Antone's and they're complete opposites when it comes to collecting instruments. It's interesting to see/hear.

My late friend Kent Finlay would tell me stories about the Nashville peeps he knew and their collections however, it seemed all those session players were complete gear heads and almost addicting to getting new gear.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:59 pm
by SR
It would only make sense; I get attached as a fan :lol: :nod: :rockon: .....Princes' 'blond' tele gives me a fuckin boner, Frooshs' sunburst 50's strat....even the Brahms bass to an extent....so many....as a player it must be amazing to be part of iconic cultural landscapes. People are complex, and I don't respect the decisions DN has made, but measuring his losses in life a guitar must rank fairly low if at all on his list.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 5:07 pm
by Juana
SR wrote:It would only make sense; I get attached as a fan :lol: :nod: :rockon: .....Princes' 'blond' tele gives me a fuckin boner, Frooshs' sunburst 50's strat....even the Brahms bass to an extent....so many....as a player it must be amazing to be part of iconic cultural landscapes. People are complex, and I don't respect the decisions DN has made, but measuring his losses in life a guitar must rank fairly low if at all on his list.
I have a Mad Cat copy namely because Prince played one so I get it. We all have vices, I think with Dave music is just a job to him its not really a passion at this point. Jimmie has his brother's actual #1 which obviously he cherishes but his brother almost refused to play a huge gig without it due to the neck needing to be repaired, so each of these dudes are different. I personally have guitars that I inherited that despite their value would never sell due to the emotional attachment to them and my grandfather but then there are others in my collection I bought that I feel the same about and some that if there was a fire and I lost them it would be "meh just a guitar".

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 5:18 pm
by SR
I understand. Not with guitars, but there are items that I've inherited that I know have monetary value, but I sincerely don't ever look at them like that. In a warped way, they have taken almost a place of imperfect substitution....hard to explain, but they would never be sold and will be fiercely protected and passed on.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 5:20 pm
by Juana
Same, I think people are similar in that there are things that mean more than money to us and we want those items to stay in our family's possession or at least into the possession of someone we consider family. If I were a betting man I would think that Dave likely has some of his mom's belongings somewhere that he cherishes in a similar fashion.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:38 am
by creep
Dave also said that he is going to Canada next week for LSD and DMT therapy. I have heard good things about it for people with depression and PTSD. It will be interesting to hear how it goes. :noclue:

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 12:35 pm
by JOEinPHX
creep wrote:Dave also said that he is going to Canada next week for LSD and DMT therapy. I have heard good things about it for people with depression and PTSD. It will be interesting to hear how it goes. :noclue:
I just hope that it's not something that causes him to relapse.

I know it's a whole different thing from opiates, but still.... fingers crossed.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 2:34 pm
by SR
:hs: Many in recovery (even fringe or loosely attached groups) believe any voluntary effort to get altered or fucked up is a relapse. To those who aren't junkies or drunks, it's impossible to describe.....but getting fucked up again is a very dangerous thing to do. Again, people are complicated and DN lives his life very differently than most. Wish him well.....

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 3:16 pm
by Matz
creep wrote:Dave also said that he is going to Canada next week for LSD and DMT therapy. I have heard good things about it for people with depression and PTSD. It will be interesting to hear how it goes. :noclue:
wow, must be pretty serious stuff. Please post updates if/when you hear something so I don't have to listen to that mess of a show Dark Matter

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:21 pm
by nausearockpig
Relapses aside, is DN now living completely clean? No beer, nothing?

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:36 pm
by someguy
nausearockpig wrote:Relapses aside, is DN now living completely clean? No beer, nothing?
Sounds like it- he even quit smoking cigs.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:44 pm
by nausearockpig
someguy wrote:
nausearockpig wrote:Relapses aside, is DN now living completely clean? No beer, nothing?
Sounds like it- he even quit smoking cigs.
God that would be awful, what a horrible way to live. Not being able to have a beer or two due to the danger of relapsing onto drugs.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:57 pm
by Sight Laber
nausearockpig wrote:
someguy wrote:
nausearockpig wrote:Relapses aside, is DN now living completely clean? No beer, nothing?
Sounds like it- he even quit smoking cigs.
God that would be awful, what a horrible way to live. Not being able to have a beer or two due to the danger of relapsing onto drugs.
It does suck. A beer buzz is the gateway to warm phone calls and reminiscing with old pals. This leads to wanting to feel something more and that usually is your drug of choice. A beer buzz is not enough. You're constantly searching for that next level. Then a night turns into a week of calling in sick, etc. I live it.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:02 pm
by creep
I don't think Dave ever drank even when he wasn't clean??

For me these days a beer buzz leads to cheeseburgers, pizza and ice cream. :oldtimer:

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 1:19 am
by nausearockpig
Sight Laber wrote:
nausearockpig wrote:
someguy wrote:
nausearockpig wrote:Relapses aside, is DN now living completely clean? No beer, nothing?
Sounds like it- he even quit smoking cigs.
God that would be awful, what a horrible way to live. Not being able to have a beer or two due to the danger of relapsing onto drugs.
It does suck. A beer buzz is the gateway to warm phone calls and reminiscing with old pals. This leads to wanting to feel something more and that usually is your drug of choice. A beer buzz is not enough. You're constantly searching for that next level. Then a night turns into a week of calling in sick, etc. I live it.
Jesus.

Re: Dave got his gold "Tele" Starfield Cabriolet Back

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:22 am
by danhans
Used to be that way but thats all in the passed. These days I vape some weed and a couple of glasses of whiskey and I'm good. :thumb: