Don Dokken's, 1979 Charvel EVH BumbleBee Pre San Dimas!
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2022
- Checking out Don Dokken's 1979 Charvel Pre San Dimas "EVH Bumblebee"!
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You get the absolute best, rare guitars in your shop. I'm 55 now and right there with you on the 80's metal guitars. We lived the best era and saw all the great bands in their prime!
Lynn Ellsworth and Jim Warmoth were Boogie bodies until April of 1980 when they split. Lynn made both the neck and body of Eddies Guitar! The only claim to fame Wayne Charvel has was to operate the cash register to sell Eddie the body and neck that Lynn and Jim Made! This must be one of the last Charvel's to carry a Boogie neck as Grover was making necks by 1979.
On today's episode of 'Pete owns everything'...
The 'Get your E strings back' was the Duncan Parallel Axis
Very cool! My friend Ryan worked at charvel did work on Randy's guitar but never mentioned. Met Carl Sandoval way back at guitars of fire in long beach. Visited his house while building the polka dot v. Trying to get my guitar back that was being built at the same time. We were kids trying to get a job at fender. Steve Zach guitar tech worked there. Me and another buddy got stoned and missed the interview. The friend who went to the interview was Mike eldrin former head of artist relations
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VH interview 1978 guitar player mag The black white strat says its a boogie body with a "Music man" neck.
Oh man ...this was such a real treat to see this story document on this bumblebee
Dime has the original
Amazing guitar with an amazing story! Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome stuff Dane! 🎸👍
Quality stuff!
I went into the Hollywood Guitar Center in 2010 and Eddie's VH 2 bumblebee guitar was featured behind glass in the front entrance. I asked a drummer friend I had went there with if that was the exact same instrument featured on the record sleeve of the VH2 record. He said yeah that's it. It had the prototype Floyd Rose without fine tuners but it couldn't have been that same ax because it was put in the coffin and buried with Dimebag Darrell in 2004.
You can see Tom McDermott of Rick James and the Stone City Band play the Bumblebee Charvel in 1979 too
I got to play one of George Lynch's early Charvels in a guitar shop in San Diego. It was a fender type sunburst finish, 6 screw trem, black pickguard, single humbucker and volume, 21 fret rosewood fretboard and fender style headstock. Years later I saw a pick of George playing this same guitar. It was set up perfectly and had just been refretted. I wasnt all that interested at the time. This was in 1985 or 86. I was a BC Rich freak so nothing else was better. Especially after the Gunslinger came out. I wish I could have had the foresight and the money to have bought that Charvel. Bummer.
Great video Dane and Pete…cool guitar, and SWISS PICKS RULE!!!
Thanks!!
That's my dream metal axe. One humbucker Charvel Strat, Vivian Campbell style. Killer!
EVH style
Great little history lesson! Thanks Dane!
That was a treat! Wasn't sure if I read it correctly, but WOW! Thanks guys!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I once bought a used mint condition candyapple red Charvel at a shop in L.A. for $100 with a case. It didn't have the logo on the headstock but the tech at the shop confirmed it was a Charvel. It was similar to the Holdsworth model, had 22 frets and a rosewood fretboard with medium jumbo frets, graphite nut, and a double fulcrum non-locking trem that stayed in tune perfectly. The pickup was an old, handwound JB and it sounded amazing. It had a volume and a black pickguard. Amazing guitar. I wish I still had it. I rocked clubs all over L.A. in the 80s and early 90s with that thing. Even if it had the Charvel logo it wouldn't have gone for much more because the L.A. guitar market was super trendy and by '89 players wanted superstrats like the Jem or RG with 24 frets and locking trems.
Grover Jackson is the one that built/striped the Bumblebee AND worked through the night so EVH could have it for the VH II Photo shoot. EVH rewarded Jackson with a cease and desist. Nice guy huh???
It could be argued that respect goes both ways. When working with a big name client, it may be a good idea to nurture the relationship rather than peddle their ideas out the back door.
In "The Charvel Gang" documentary Karl Sandoval falsely claimed he built bumblebee. He's full of shit too.
They mention the 6 black and yellow and talk about Eds reaction in the video charvel guitars the early years on you tube
Great vid, Zimm! Loved the history! 🤘🤘
Hey, thanks!
Awesome man that’s a keeper no doubt. Dig man piece of the most imperative period in Guitar History.
Very interesting episode and learned a lot!
I never knew Jackson grover stole his idea.
Oh yeah.. Grover saw opportunity to sell some guitars. The Bumblebee was the first attempt by Charvel at a graphic.
Sweet 79 charvel so awesome
Wow, a pre-production, pre-San Dimas Charvel? It must be worth a mint today! Does it have the original hard shell case with it? Was further surprised with the fact that it came with a locking nut. I didn't think locking nuts or bridges were a thing until about the early 80's or so.
Yep, came with the original red lined case. Former owner thought the lock nut would work without the Floyd in 1982, which didn't have fine tuners at that time. HE WAS WRONG. LOL Thankfully he just left the original trem on it.
That magazine article was interesting! Thanks Zimm.
Awesome! Great story.
Cool as it gets
I had a Charvel Kit guitar, so many people felt that were inferior to a Fender back then lol
Awesome find!
Oh dam what a sweet axe 🎸
Dude, that was so cool. I’ve got that magazine. Gonna dig it out and reread it. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Hey Dane I like the content you have been putting out.ive got my brother hooked on your channel to
I''m enjoying the replay!
it always scares me when people take these iconic guitars apart
The price for these guitars is gouging!
Love this!!!
Thanks Dane - what a superb video - great insight too into a wonderful guitar . I can understand why Ed was hacked about them cloning his original. Interesting about the preamp too ?? Have you about some guy who wrote a book about How to Make one of these ?
Insane guitar . Hellzzz Yehhhh
Holy crap this is awesome!
Damn I wish I had one😭I’d love it forever and ever
I have a 87 model 2 charvel and a kramer Stryker with a u2 Dan electro neck
My land what a beauty!!
Im gonna call bullshit on this. EVH used the same body, a Boogie body, for more than 10 years. NOT just the Boogie neck. Painted many different colors. Pawn Stars Revisited!
You are correct. This is a Charvel body with a Boogie Bodies neck as Charvel built it in 1979. This guitar WAS NOT owned by Eddie.
Great video 👍👍👍
Thank you 👍
🤟😁👍Greg history on this guitar.
Hey Dane, my birthday’s in 2 days if you’re feeling generous lol. Great video as always!
Man those frets have virtually no bevel , almost standing vertical. I wonder what the fret ends feel like when playing or running your fingers along it. Cool guitar guys 👌
Super cool brother 🎸🇺🇸💪🏻🤘🖤
Does anyone know how many of the Bumblebee copies Grover actually sold back then? And what years were they sold?
Very few. Guitar Center had ordered a bunch but Eddie found out and put the kaibash on it. They sold for $595 through the Music Emporium catalog circa 1982. Don't know how many they sold... or if they even received them from Jackson.
Badass!
This guy sounds like Steve Vai
Badass
Lynn Elseworth
Quick. Somebody at fender make a clone of this for 50k…..
Where can i buy one???
44 years later an still no one has cleaned that flux residue off that groud wire. Lol!
That wasn't EVH 🆕️ design, that was Eddie's last guitar fix, when 2Pac passed away and I haven't seen Kiko and Koala having any discussion about it. Plus that tape on the Maximizer, remember that?! That was a good save of time when it was closed. Trash my memories away. A nicer spaghetti wrapping?! Do we have to dig Rockabilly and Elvis shoes again? The used locker comes always good to do the tremolo bridge. ¿But what side of the very 🆕️ locker we all remember related to Permanent Vacation? Don't call it Floyd Rose, we're not hiding the Queen's Crown on a rockaway carrier. The who were four or five, Jack still there?! I spit like union workers do. Parking to taxi and men at work?! I don't know. Namastè.
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Never took Don for the superstrat guy anyway, he always showed up with les pauls of some kind
Not buying this story. Too many holes. The biggest one being that Charvel never put a pickguard on any of these. There were probably less than 20 sold at Guitar Center in LA before Ed found out and went ballistic. These Bumblebee Charvels were also offered in the 1982 Music Emporium catalog ($595),but I don't know how many if any were actually delivered. If anything, this is a parts guitar from that Boogie/Charvel era. They're not that uncommon. But this certainly isn't the Bumblebee Charvel was offering the public for sale for a brief time.
Dane would hack any guitar up 😅
Why can't this guy talk without making them smacking noises.
I would have sold it back to Don. I would have asked for a solid amount, but I think in the end I would have sold it back to him.
Don just wants to resell it.. It's nothing sentimental to him.
Your history is way off the mark on this guitar... This is definitely not legit...
Then.. enlighten me...