Malcolm Young's Guitars
Handed down to Malcolm by elder brother George and Harry Vanda. The neck and middle pickups were removed and the paint was stripped to the maple top around the Let There Be Rock tour. Malcolm is seen here playing the guitar after the paint was stripped off.
Used during the tours that supported Back in Black and For Those About to Rock We Salute You, but he said that after someone 'fixed' it, it lost its distinctive sound, and so he got rid of it. It was sold a few years ago on a rock star items website.
Angus and Malcolm joined the ‘Ferrets’ on stage during a gig in 1979 at the Cremorne Motor Inn. This equipment, the Stratocaster and the ES-335 is the ‘Ferrets’ equipment.
During 1977, Malcolm used a Fender Telecaster as a backup guitar
At 0:35 in the video you can see Malcom Young playing an Gibson L6
Malcolm used at least, two of his signature models, a red one in this photo and the another one in natural color in the Hail Caesar video. Maybe Malcolm used this model as a backup guitar during Ballbreaker tour, in the Thunderstruck perfomance in Madrid (1996) at 3:05, you can see this guitar near of three Marshalls
In the official music video for "Hail Caesar" by AC/DC, Malcolm Young is seen playing the Malcolm Young Signature Jet guitar.
This is the replica of "The Beast" Malcolm used this guitar in Thunderstruck,Safe In New York City,If You Want Blood (You Got It).
Maybe this guitar was used by Malcolm only a few times around 2000 and 2001, during the Stiff upper lip tour. You can see Malcolm playing this guitar in this video
Actually Malcolm used his Custom Shop guitars, in the Rock 'n' Roll ain't noise pollution song from No Bull (1996) at 2:02 you can see that Malcolm used a Custom Shop model, his "real" guitar has 3 switch holes and aged top while this Custom shop model has 2 switch holes and seems like a new guitar Another detail it's that Malcolm removed the pickup ring in 1995 and this CS guitar stills having this ring
In this photo and the "Are You Ready" video, Malcolm Young is seen playing an orange Gretsch G6128T Duo Jet, which may be a limited edition due to its unique color.
During the Ballbreaker recording, Malcolm used many Gretsch models, including a black falcon
This is by far the most rare guitar that Malcolm played and it seems that he only played this one with The Rolling Stones in 2003
The model that Malcolm Young played is exactly a Duesenberg Starplayer TV Ronnie Wood Signature Model, in Gold Mother Pearl color
Another picture of that show, Malcolm's in the front playing this guitar
This guitar was used in the "Are You Ready" music video from the 1990 album, "The Razors Edge".
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