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"The Dean Machine" Prototype (1st 3 Single Coil Version)

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Paul Dean built this guitar in 1981 or 1982 and used it on the tour for "Get Lucky" as well as in the music video for "Gangs in the Street". It's basically one of the earliest prototypes for the "Dean Machine" that would later become the Odyssey Paul Dean and Hondo Paul Dean electric guitars.

Currently it belongs to a private collector supposedly who got it from Paul Dean himself. It lives in a 1970's style Fender Stratocaster hard case.

Here's a photo of the guitar live in a Facebook Post with Paul Playing it - https://www.facebook.com/399780523389769/posts/happy-birthday-paul-dean-guitarist-for-loverboy-i-took-this-photo-in-1981-paulde/4033872776647174/

And another shot of Paul live in 1981 playing this Prototype Live...goofing around on camera - https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/paul-dean-loverboy-oakland-ca-7-4-81-daniel-larsen.jpg

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Paul Dean

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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.