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Used by Thurston/Jim:
1990-2003
1990 -- EADGBE (Mildred Pierce -- THURSTON)
2002 -- GGDDD#D# (Bull in the Heather, Karen Revisited, Mote, Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style, She is Not Alone, Making the Nature Scene, 100% -- JIM) also w/ capo 2 for "Candle" & Silver Rocket ..... F#F#C#C#DD for White Kross/Tom Violence
2003 -- GGDDD#D# (Schizophenia, Radical Adults, Skip Tracer, Nature Scene, Kill Yr Idols, Brother James, Bull in the Heather, White Kross, 100%, Mote -- JIM) maybe alt F# tuning for Skip, White X, 100%./..
NOTES:
Used more often in videos than live, it was used briefly in August 1990 during 2 performances of "Mildred Pierce". Jim dug it out of the studio 12 years later for use at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival!
Auctioned in October 2018 on Reverb.
This was Jim's primary guitar for non-Murray Street songs (except GODHEAD which is in GDD#) on the Murray tour. For "White Kross" and "Tom Violence" he tuned it down a half-step to be in F# like Lee and Thurston.
Sunburst body
2 pickups, bridge pickup replaced with Firebird mini-humbucker between 1990 and 2002
Rosewood fretboard
1 toggle switch
4 knobs
White pickguard
Listed as "firebird" on 2002 set lists.
Played by Thurston in videos for "Macbeth" "Mildred Pierce" "Cinderella's Big Score" "100%" & "Bull in the Heather"
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