Jake E Lee sig ...

[Boxcar Willie 84]

I've been watching a few of those videos from the Whiskey and I'm majorly bummed...Jake sounds ok, kinda rusty, but his band sucks. How do I try out for his band?

[Rupe]

They sounded much better in San Diego

[dg]

Here's Bark at the Moon from San Diego. Can't really tell how his tone was, but he seems to do really well on the first solo until the end, where I have no idea what he's up to. End solo is pretty good. All in all, this seems way the hell better than those clips from Vegas from a while back.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

I checked out an actual song from his new band today on youtube-he's still got it! Definitely not a super shredder anymore by todays standards but he has that cool character in his playing that he always had before, which is what I like. I'm going thru a Jake phase lately, maybe because I just got Jake E Lee'd from a band I was playing with myself.

[~K~]

http://youtu.be/iBjmzi9BU2M

saya he still owns whitey
blueburst went to Ann Lewis
Purpleburst was donated to the hard rock

[Sharkfin]

Nice report from the Smooth Jazz Family. I like McGergor's face when Jake says "If I play than it should be good enough for anyone to play it. I have nothing else to say."

[Bionic]

I hate seeing myself on video...and I hate my voice...so...there you go!

[GTarman68]

I got to check out the Jake sig guitars while visiting the booth, Loved them. Jake seemed to have tuning issues atthe Grove gig though. But hey, It's Jake playing right? I loved the show BTW.

[sully]

Available.

http://www.drumcityguitarland.com/drumcitygl/stores/1/Charvel-USA-Jake-E-Lee-Signature-Pearl-White-Rosewood-Fingerboard-2014-6-String-Electric-Guitar--P6807C0.aspx

[ulijdavid]

I like the guitar, but........Why the thin bent base Fender hardtail and the overly spacious pickguard cut-out for the bridge?

[Rupe]

21 frets...

[sully]

Rupe, the original whitey has 21 frets. It's almost too bad that they didn't do a version of what Jake's playing now. I guess that if they did that, some would bitch about it not being accurate to the original.

[Rupe]

Rupe, the original whitey has 21 frets. It's almost too bad that they didn't do a version of what Jake's playing now. I guess that if they did that, some would bitch about it not being accurate to the original.

Understood, but he's using 22 now so that's what I was hoping for. If vintage accuracy was the point, what's up with that bridge? And if we get really nitpicky, it should have had a 3 bolt neck (glad it doesn't).

[XSSIVE]

Want to continue nit picking...

Along with the mentioned wrong bridge (no one ever gets this right on replicas since it's a crazy rare bridge) and not a 3 bolt, the headstock is also the wrong shape. Whitey had an oddball headstock shape since it was a cut down CBS big head. Also the middle pickup is in the wrong location, it should be much closer to the bridge hum. The bridge hum should be a Duncan AH model which is just a JB with two screw coils instead of one screw coil and one slug coil. The pickguard is crazy sloppy with a huge gap around the bridge where whitey's fit perfect touching the bridge. The jack should be chrome and the ferrules should also be chrome. It should be a 1 5/8" nut width. It should have a veneer board not slab board. It should have black side dots half in the board half in the maple. It should have a flat radius not compound. It should have 6100 frets. etc etc etc. It also changed over time but that's a whole other story so you'd have to pick an era to pinpoint the specifics of it.

Some people obsess over EVHs guitars, not me. Jake's my favorite guitarist so I got a little OCD about whitey haha and spent ages tracking down the correct bridge to eventually built an accurate replica with.

I was actually hoping for a copy of the guitar he plays now since I knew they'd either half ass the whitey replica (as they have) or they'd go the other extreme and do a dead on replica and charge like $10K or some silly price for it. I am however happy he's getting his due and has a sig model again with more on the way says the rumor mill.

[SausageofPower]

Yeah, this is one reason I can never buy an (expensive) signature model. They're never exactly right. Players are always tweaking their setups, and usually it's a big name company copying a guitar that they didn't actually make (ESP copying Lynch's tiger, Fender copying Eddie's Frankie, Charvel copying Jake's Fender...which is funny in this case because it's an extension of Fender copying Fender and they can't even get that right ;p). If it's a cheap guitar (price wise, not quality) I can deal and change it to my taste. But for thousands of dollars? No thanks, I'll build my own.