Charvel influences from the '80s

[alanhindle]

Who are your favourite Charvel players from the heydays of the '80s?

Alan

[Axewielder]

Hey NOS-newb! I like Steve Vai. Like him a LOT.

[jet66]

Charvel and Jackson players both got me hooked. Vivian Campbell's Dio days, Gary Moore's Wild Frontier days, Amir Derakh's aircraft Jacksons, Warren DiMartini, George Lynch, Criss Oliva, Jeff Beck's pink Soloist, all of Vai's Jacksons and the green Charvel, Randy Rhoads... I'm sure there are others, that's just off the top of my head.

[wanthairspray]

Shawn Lane.

[ToneZone]

Funny thing.. I got hooked on Jackson and Charvel because of the quality. Not by any players. I like Steve Vai, but always knew him as a Ibanez player. It was after I saw Crossroads I first noticed he had played Jackson.

[alanhindle]

Funny thing.. I got hooked on Jackson and Charvel because of the quality. Not by any players. I like Steve Vai, but always knew him as a Ibanez player. It was after I saw Crossroads I first noticed he had played Jackson.

Yeah, at the end of the day, that's what really matters. As a kid, I think I arrived at that one by default:

What are these great technical players using?.......Charvels and Jacksons....Wow they look cool......they must be great guitars if these guys use them.

I'm still a kid now....as my wife keeps telling me!

Anyway, here's a memory jogger to stimulate some more ideas about fave Charvel users (OK some on the photo are Jackson users):

Edit: Try again

http://audiozone.dk/cm/albums/jc-memorabilia/ads-flyers/CharvelSuccessAd.jpg

[jet66]

Funny thing.. I got hooked on Jackson and Charvel because of the quality. Not by any players.

I was poor and living in the boonies. My best guitar at the time was an Electra Strat-style guitar, with a bucker I put in the bridge myself, taken from a Sears guitar. I also had a Rhoads V copy that I put a Floyd Rose on, that was my main guitar for a long time after I got rid of the Electra.

In 1986, I finally got to actually touch a Jackson when a friend of a friend loaned me his Soloist for a show.

[Dogbone]

Steve Vai was the first person that made me take a look at Charvel. Bought my first Model 4 soon after they were released (with the Kahler) But the name wasn't the selling point. It was a great guitar

[Flatpicker]

I'd agree with JEL.
Great player.
It was Jake and Viv back then that brought it to my attention.

[charvel750]

Pretty sure Jake's was a Fender with a badged Charvel logo, could be wrong though. Warren, Eddie (both of 'em), GL, Vai, etc.

[Flatpicker]

Pretty sure Jake's was a Fender with a badged Charvel logo, could be wrong though. Warren, Eddie (both of 'em), GL, Vai, etc.

Jake's was.
There is a quote around here somewhere where he had mentioned that it went in for some work and came out with the logo.

But, back then, I didn't know. Just knew that Bark at the Moon was a killer song and vide.

[alanhindle]

I'd agree with JEL.
Great player.
It was Jake and Viv back then that brought it to my attention.

I very much admire Viv Campbell's playing. Holy Diver is the album I keep playing in the car at the moment.

Alan

[Woman_Driver]

I had never heard of Charvel until i was in a 2nd hand store and saw a Model 4 sitting in the corner covered in dust. They hadn't been able to shift it for a while so i came home, found JCF Online, had a look about then went back into the store the next day to try it out, fell in love and took it home for a very reasonable £100. Don't think i touched my Gibson SG for about 2 months after i bought the Model 4.
Then about a year after that i bumped into an old school buddy who was working in a guitar store and he said they had a NOS Charvel Star, black, maple board, HSS cinfig and OFR. Went up to see him on my lunch break in University, put a depostit on it and got to take it home. I fell in love again. Plus was tagged at £800, he kindly gave it to me for £540 or thereabouts 'cos, again, it couldn't be shifted.
Charvel guitars aren't that common in Scotland, i don't think. Almost everyone who asks about mine have never heard of Charvel, Jackson yes however.

I only spent two years of my life in the 80's, was born in 88, so i missed most of the good days of quality music, pointy headed and crazily couloured guitars, long hair, denim and Airwolf. But i still do my best to keep it alive In my head anyway.



I'm sick of seeing every young band and their mother playing Les Pauls, Strats and Teles. Kids around here seem to use giutars, Les Pauls especially, like a fashion accessory.

[RR05xx]

Let's see:

EVH B&Y
Anything that Warren played
Jake obviously
Lynch bengal and orange sub

[fuel0707]

Reading "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" and seeing videos on MTV (back when Empty-V actually played rock videos) got me started on wanting a USA Charvel or Jackson. I can remember Warren, Jake, George, Steve Lynch and all of those guys having really cool guitars. Although I knew Eddie had a Charvel connection, I was associating him more with Kramer as I was in high school back when "1984" came out.