Jon Levin

Are you using primarily Charvels now when you’re out on tour with Dokken or are you mixing them up with your old Les Pauls? What are you using these days?

I still pretty much use all the Charvels I have a bunch of Les Pauls, it’s really difficult, it’s become harder and harder with the airline situations. I don’t like to check guitars so I carry it on with me. Now these newer planes I just flew just recently and the brand new plane doesn’t have a bin that is big enough to even hold the guitar and now that’s concerning, so you know just the old Gibson thing is I love my Les Pauls but they’re not really conducive to doing this job. At my point, I don’t really want to deal with having to tune mine. There are enough other things to do without having to deal with it. I try to keep it simple. I love my Charvels and they stay in tune with the sound great so I just stick with that. I love my Les Pauls too but those stick more home or in the studio. Although I have brought a Les Paul with me in 2004 I took one with me.

Used in Levin's prototype signature model.

Used in the prototype signature model.

Jon Levin used Red Baretta I in Hard Times with Doro Pesch