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"I purchased that in San Francisco because I broke a guitar and then woke up the next day needing a guitar, so I went down to the guitar shop and bought this guitar that had this obviously homemade dragon, but done in a manner that was permanent. Whoever had done it had obviously taken the care so that it wouldn't fade."
A cream-coloured Les Paul previously owned by the guitarist in San Francisco hair metal group Vain, the Les Paul was unmistakably marked with a gold dragon and Kanji Script applied by that band's guitarist.
"I played that guitar for a while, and it wasn't until James Hetfield came to a Rocket From The Crypt show, and he was like, 'Dude, you're playing the Vain guitar.' And I had never heard of them. I was like, 'What's Vain?' And he said, 'That's Dave Vain's guitar—it's a band—he used to play that guitar all the time… everyone, metal people know that guitar.' He found it very ironic."
Speedo modified the guitar with various pickups in the bridge position throughout the '90s ("Man, I tried just about everything,"), most notably with a passive EMG humbucker. In its final form, the guitar sported a humbucker in the bridge and a DeArmond gold foil pickup in the neck position. Each pickup is wired to a separate output, so each can be plugged straight into its own separate amplifier. This Les Paul was also subjected to Reis' DIY approach to weight relief, which no doubt has had some effect on the tone.
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