Any Triumph or Rik Emmett fans?

[RockinJim]

Rik decided to take out a back-up player on the SOK tour in 87. He took out Rik Santers from the Canadian band Santers. For me the results were mixed. I thought a 2nd player did provide a fuller sound on several songs like Lay it. But I thought the band was better/tighter on the Thunder 7 tour when they toured as the traditional 3 piece. IMO I think Mike Levine (bass) wasn't aggressive enough of a player to really add something to the mix when Rik was blazing his solos, you really missed the backing on some songs they performed live.

[RockinJim]

I always wanted Rik's white and gold Dean V from the US Festival. That was a killer guitar. Of course, he's a killer player, too. It's just not fair that he can both play and sing like that.

Rik didn't play the white Dean V at the US festival, that was the Never Surrender Tour and he wasn't using it at that point. He did play a red Dean on When the Lights Go Down which you can find on YT. You can buy the white Rik Emmett V that Dean reissued a couple years ago but there were only 100 made and they won't come cheap. I see them on ebay from time to time.

http://www.deanguitars.com/dean_winter_07/rik_emmett_sig_enlarged.htm

[MSGfan]

Rik didn't play the white Dean V at the US festival, that was the Never Surrender Tour and he wasn't using it at that point. He did play a red Dean on When the Lights Go Down which you can find on YT. You can buy the white Rik Emmett V that Dean reissued a couple years ago but there were only 100 made and they won't come cheap. I see them on ebay from time to time.

http://www.deanguitars.com/dean_wint...g_enlarged.htm

That's right!, Rik didn't play the white Dean V at the US festival.
He played his hollow body Framus Jazz guitar loaded with Dimarzio Super Distortion pickups.