Dave the snake Sabo

[straycat]

I've been getting into Skid Row again and maybe do a Snake Sabo guitar as a next project.
Anyone have some pics of his guitars over the years in Skid Row?

[cdwillis]

I can't even think of any he's played. I can immediately think of Scotti Hill's beat to shit superstrat but nothing of Snakes.

[bsteff666]

Snake had a really cool Spector guitar that he used to play quite a bit. It was dark blue...the body was modeled after a single cutaway Les Paul Junior...it had a Duncan cool rails in the neck position & a fullsize humbucker in the bridge...& a Floyd Rose I believe.

[GuerillaPete]

Snake had a really cool Spector guitar that he used to play quite a bit. It was dark blue...the body was modeled after a single cutaway Les Paul Junior...it had a Duncan cool rails in the neck position & a fullsize humbucker in the bridge...& a Floyd Rose I believe.

If I can recall that guitar in question was built by their roadie/tech. I believe his name was Chris Hofenschieder (or something like that). I think it was made from spare parts.

Currently Dave Sabo manages the band DOWN.

[bsteff666]

Yep...that's the guy. He also put together a similar one for Scotti Hill....it was a red double cutaway Junior style with just one humbucker & a Floyd....but they used Spector necks, I believe.

[GuerillaPete]

Ye....but they used Spector necks, I believe.

Yeah, I believe the tech worked at Kramer and had access to spare parts.

I always dug that blue one Sabo had.

[straycat]

They were endorsed by Blackhawk guitars at one time.

[chrisolson]

I remember he had a killer reverse headstock Hamer Explorer...

[Norton]

I thought the blue Les Paul Jr. was a Gibson one. It's my all time fave Skid Row guitar.

[sonicsamurai]

skid row are cool...i think scotti was always my fave guitarist, his solo on piece of me is well fun!! i'm sure dave has a white superstrat as wlel....i know he played a few inc that on the live video from just after when subhuman race was released in japan

[sonicsamurai]

just having looked at a few skid row videos on outube, its a apparent they all seem to use different gear in each video....

[Jackson-Charvel]

I always thought the Gibsonesque bodied guitars they both used were the coolest at that time. Especially with a Floyd. I never knew the name of the guitar or what parts it was and I remember back when the internet was fairly new (prolly back in 1996) and Scotti Hill was on AOL and I sent him an email and he gave me the run down about it being a custom made thing called ( I thought it was like Casper Weinberger or at least it was sort of German sounding) perhaps Weinbinschneider or something lol. In any even the account of that story sounds close to what Guerilla Pete talks about.

Funny thing is I had a copy of Guitar World with them on the cover (wasn't it a cover of Scotti Hill, Dave Sabo and the guy from Winger (or was it Dimebag). But they both had those guitars on the cover but I never recall them talking about the guitars per se in the interview, just about the band itself.

[JACKSONFREAK]

Did they play Robins for a while too?

[toejam]

Here's a thread I posted some years back, asking about Scotti Hill's Spector. http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/show...ight=Blackhawk

[Jackson-Charvel]

Did they play Robins for a while too?

You're probably thinking of the other glum bands back then like Slaughter or Britney Fox.