Love the inlays on the neck.
@jerry I do too. PRS guitars usually look good. And they sound good.
Warren was using a PRS when I saw him the first time which was in the Dickey Betts Band.
Dickey switched to a PRS in 1994. But didn't stay with it long and Warren got away from them too although he still has the two I saw him use years ago as his equipment bio still has them listed among a large number of guitars. . One was silver or gray.
Dickey's PRS was one of the first McCarty models, designed to be more similar to a Gibson. PRS's intention was to be half-way between a single coil Strat and a humbucking Les Paul. I have one, I feel like it's a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. It looks nice, but just doesn't sing like a Gibson does.
This will come in handy the next time I jam Liz Reed or Jessica. 😉
@porkchopbob Apparently Dickey continues to have his two PRS guitars in his collection which is not how Dickey feels. Apparently Dickey doesn't consider himself a collector. His guitars are tools so to speak.
I have an SG that has a pretty fat sound and an old 63 beat up Strat that has been modified (not by me) with two single coils in the bridge position.
Dickey according to what I was able to piece together in the 1990's became irritated with Gibson for ignoring him in 1994 (a Les Paul signature model?) and apparently Warren suggested Paul Reed Smith. But by the next year Dickey got a Gibson ES-335 which is the type Dickey had when the ABB formed. By the following year (1996) Dickey was using the ES-335 exclusively as his number one.
But again Dickey became irritated at Gibson so had a hot rail pickup installed in the bridge position of an old 1956 Strat hardtail he picked up years before and got a 60's Mary Kay Strat somewhere and put a hot rail in its neck pickup to make them sound more like a Gibson.
Hooray!! Dickey finally got a signature custom model Les Paul from Gibson's custom shop in 2001.
Duane Betts now has that particular Les Paul and the ES-335 plus the 1956 Strat hardtail. Duane Betts had specially made single coils installed in the 56 Strat as he has stated he has Gibsons on stage and wanted the Strat to sound like a Fender on the few songs he plays it on.
Don't know why I became curious as to what was going on with Dickey in the 1990s changing guitars several times after being on the same Goldtop Les Paul for 20 years or so. Guess it was disappointment. I thought his 57 Goldie Les Paul had the best tone of any guitar I had heard.
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I'm rather sure this is the guitar Dickey was playing the first four times or so I saw the ABB.
I thought he was a Stratocaster player. But as the years went by Dickey became closely identified with the Les Paul guitar.
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But by the summer of 1970 Dickey was on an SG. After Dickey switched to Les Pauls in late 1970, Dickey gave the SG to Duane Allman.
