Charvel bullseye sighting? Sports Illustrated

[EVHwannabe]

Those that get sports illustrated, look in the most recent "summer double issue" with Jennie Finch [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] on the cover. On or around page 90 in a fold out picture of some "street ballers", way to the right is a guy on roller blades with what appears to be a red bullseye charvel. Can't see the headstock, and to my eye, the dots on the 12th fret look a bit wide, but I wanted to see if anyone else caught it.

[Chuckracer]

Re: Charvel bullseye sighting? Sports Illustrated

Seems like about every three months somebody here "discovers" this guy...

[Superfly]

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+1 Chuck...

[Tekky]

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However, the guitar in question is not a Charvel. Even from the Headstock, I can tell it's not. Is that a Schecter logo??

[shreddermon]

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It's a Charvie. Was a strathead, replaced neck.

[Tekky]

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Really? I thought Ron de-bunked this one?

[txcharvel]

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It's a Charvie. Was a strathead, replaced neck.

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Must have broken the original strat head neck when he blindsided some unsuspecting tourist [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Chuckracer]

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It's a Charvie. Was a strathead, replaced neck.

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Yup. This is the truth.

[RR05xx]

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In addition, its supposed to be a prepro.

[RacerX]

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Well, I've talked to this dude a coupla times (Venice Beach, CA) but there are others here who know more about this axe's history than myself. The neck is obviously not original, I can't remember what logo is on there now. BTW, he's a real "dollar hound" - if ya get my drift - and isn't exactly the friendliest character around [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

His amp rig is one of those battery-powered Marshalls, MS-2 or something.

[Superfly]

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Slip him a fiver and see if he'll pull the neck... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Orchid]

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I've seen a guy like this at Venice, except the guy I saw was a black guy....I can't really make out from the pic.

[rjohnstone]

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He's the singing arab... he's been around Venice Beach for almost 20 years now.
He's even been in a few movies.
First time I saw him, he was using a Pig Nose back around 87 or 88.

[SeventhSon]

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I've seen a guy like this at Venice, except the guy I saw was a black guy....I can't really make out from the pic.

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The black guitar player that I remember from Venice had a bass that he placed on the ground, and he would slap notes with his two big toes while playing his guitar.

[Chuckracer]

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I think you may want to stay out of that part of Venice George. Sounds a little dicey!