Frank Aresti

fateswarning.com: Has your gear (guitar rig, etc) changed over the years? and how so?

Frank Aresti: Oh yes!!! I don’t have any more amps. I went from the “fridge” rack with a souped-up Jackson, to a combo amp with a semi-hollow acoustic/electric guitar. Nowadays I play a Hamer Silver Sparkle Vanguard with P-90’s and I use amp modeling that’s built into my BR-8 recorder. I am currently putting together a guitar that I bought from Carvin as a kit. I painted it with nitro-cellulose lacquer in the Van Halen 1 style stripe job, except that it’ s white stripes over a black background. I did that to honor one of the most important electric guitarists of our time, and a time when I could listen to a musician and be completely moved by their abilities. After all, when Van Halen 1 came out it was guitar in a foreign language!!

Frank Aresti using Mesa Boogie Road King on stage

"For "Parallels" we used Mesa Boogie amps. I had a rack the size of a refrigerator! Jackson made me custom guitars. I ran those through a Boogie Triaxis through a 395 power amp. A couple of ART multi-effects units, noise gate, MP1 harmonizers, parametric eq’s, and an Abacus midi controller. That set-up, but with a smaller rack, was used for Inside Out as well." Frank Aresti

"Nowadays I play a Hamer Silver Sparkle Vanguard with P-90’s and I use amp modeling that’s built into my BR-8 recorder." Frank Aresti

Here we can see Frank Aresti playing his Charvel Charvette Model 250 guitar at the live show of progressive metal band Fates Warning in Houston, TX, 4/26/90. During the Perfect Symmetry tour.

In the image provided, guitarist Frank Aresti is clearly seen playing a Gibson Flying V.