Loverboy – Get Lucky

Prior to Odyssey and Hondo, Paul built his OWN guitars. One of the first builds he started to use with Loverboy was a custom P-90 equipped guitar like that seen here, which looks almost identical to the Odyssey Paul Dean and Hondo Paul Dean II models, but features a pair of P-90 pickups and a regular pickguard instead of the haircell anti-scratch stuff.

Paul used this guitar through the 1981 "Get Lucky" tour and on the Get Lucky album. This is one of the first 3-4 prototypes for Paul's Odyssey/Hondo guitars. There were at least 2-3 others which inlucded a Sunburst Odyssey prototype with no pickguard, a 2 Humbucker "Dean Machines" with a MusicMan Stingray Bass pickguard style design, and a 3 single coil version that appears in the "Hot Girls in Love" video.

It makes it's primer in the "When It's Over" Music video, but also appeared in concerts from 1981-1983. This guitar MAY have been modified to a twin humbucker setup for the Get Lucky tour.

(NOTE TO MANAGEMENT: This is not a "partscaster", it's a guitar Paul Dean built himself from scratch)

Prior to Odyssey and Hondo, Paul Dean Built 3-4 "Prototypes" of his original guitar design called the "Dean Machine". This one is the 3 single coil pickup version which appears in the music video for "Hot Girls in Love" and was said to have been used on "Take Me to the Top" on "Get Lucky" - here's some excripts about this guitar from the March 1983 Guitar Player issue "Women Who Rock/Paul Dean Lead Loverboy"

http://web.295.ca/~gtmadore/article%2016.htm Frustrated by guitars that played out of tune and didn't have the right sound, Paul constructed what he affectionately refers to as his "Dean Machine."

What about the raspy sound on "Take Me To The Top"?

On that I used a guitar that was one of the first prototypes to my Dean Machine; it's got Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered Strat Pick-ups. I used a Marshall amp with the preamp taken out and replaced with a Roland Chorus Echo.

This came up on the Odyssey Guitars facebook page on February 28th.....

https://www.facebook.com/pg/odysseyguitars/posts/

However, despite the Facebook page, this is an actual photo of the REAL original round pickguard "The Dean Machine" guitar built by Paul Dean of the band Loverboy and used on the "Get Lucky" tour. As it turns out, it was sold or given to a Fan sometime in the early 80's with a late 70's Fender Hardshell case.

The guitar features an early version of the "Dean Machine"/Odyssey Paul Dean/Hondo Paul Dean II/III body shape, but rear routed for different electronics. The neck appears to be VERY thin, with a smaller, almost Fender Telecaster-like headstock with "The Dean Machine" written on it in the apropriate Loverboy courier font.

Contrary to my previous post about the twin humbucker Dean Machine with a similar appearance (if there ever was one), this was likely the guitar also used in the "Gangs in the Street" video, and can be confirmed to be a different guitar than that which was in the Hot Girls in Love video based on Paul Dean saying in a Facebook post that he still has one of the Dean Machine prototypes with 3 single coils, and this one was sold/given to a fan a long time ago....here's an excript froom the Unofficial Odyssey/Hondo Paul Dean Facebook group....

Some mentions on Facebook and Instagram and whatnot have mentioned Dean still has one of hte original prototypes, it has 3 single coils, and a black switch tip. Also, earlier this year, a picture was posted of his "body parts strat" (mexican strat parts guitar) mentioning the switching scheme which most likely applies to this - the neck and bridge pickups are attached to the 3-way toggle, while the smaller toggle turns the middle pickup on and off to allow all three or two of the three pickups together plus the neck+bridge combo.