Children of Bodom – Something Wild

In the 1997 live performance of Children of Bodom at Tavastia, as seen on YouTube, Alexi Laiho played an Ibanez RG550 with a maple fingerboard. He initially used this guitar, alongside a Jackson Custom Shop model purchased from Jiri of the Finnish band Stone, to record Children of Bodom's debut album, "Something Wild." Although he later transitioned to using Jackson guitars exclusively, two of his Jacksons were eventually stolen.

During the recording of Something Wild Alexi used a Peavey 5150

In a live performance video from March 21, 2017, Jaska Raatikainen is shown using the Pearl Eliminator Demon Direct Drive pedal during a Children of Bodom concert at Theaterfabrik München.

A very beat down CS Rhoads introduced in a Finnish music magazine 'Rumba'. Very similar to his main axe from '87 custom shop, just with a single coil neck pickup, tone control and a pickup switch, 24 frets instead of 22, scalloped last four frets and a sanded down neck.

Includes Jackson JE-1000 active electronics that provides 12 dB boost that drives any amp to distortion. He says that the tone control is basically redundant (since he played a lot of RR's with only bridge pickup and single volume control).

He also mentions in the notes of the picture that his first guitar with Floyd Rose floating bridge was a Kramer Baretta and he's been a Floyd guy ever since.

He points out that at the time of the article, he was playing in Eb standard tuning, which was what his band Stone played in (must have been around '90 or '91 since Stone switched to that tuning for 'Colours' album and kept it on Emotional Playgrounds album). The strings he used were a set of .12-.54.

The serial number is very hard to see in the photo to identify the guitar exactly from Jackson Custom Shop logs (Jackson Guitar Palace website has some logs inlcuding Roope's sold RR2073 and the one made in the same order for Jiri Jalkanen, RR2074 the white beveled Rhoads with the same specs, that he later sold to Alexi Laiho), but there's no certainty of this one. Latvala said on a video he's been playing this one for 15 years already.

This guitar can be seen on the video from a Finnish guitar clinic in Lahti in 2001, where Latvala and Laiho play some Sinergy and Stone, Children of Bodom and Ozzy Osbourne songs and promote the RR/LL "signature" custom order run to Jackson by Musamaailma. 51 guitars were made only for Finnish market and had vaguely similar specs than the infamours custom shop black and yellow RR's of Latvala and Laiho.

In the official music video for "Deadnight Warrior" by Children of Bodom, Janne Wirman is observed using the Korg X3 synthesizer at the 1:17 mark. This particular synth was utilized during the recording of their debut album, "Something Wild," before Wirman transitioned to using the Korg X5D.