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Originally Posted by Danny Himself
It's just the way he does it. There's no set part for a third guitar in Schizophrenia, so he just played to accentuate Thurston and Lee's parts in EADGBE. Thurston and Lee know their tunings well as they invented them. Jim, like most people, learned to play guitar in standard.
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correct! later on (murray street and beyond) jim started adopting SY's tunings and i don't think he used standard anymore... ie: 2002 tour he was using that firebird in GDD# (retuning it to F# for tom v/white x) and sometimes using a capo to change the key for certain songs (A for silver rocket/candle). and yes, i took all that info directly from my site.
just going by the yearly gear tables on my site for 03/04/05 it looks like he went from using the firebird for schizo (2003) to using lee's old white jazzblaster, possibly in DDA (lee's tuning for schizo) in 2004, then to an SG in GDD# for 2005, so it seems like jim bounced around a lot between how he played his parts on certain tunes. unless, of course, that cream jazzblaster was in GDD#. then he just bounced around guitars.
but uuuuh point being, jim made standard tuning cool. hence why half of rather ripped is in standard!