Originally published at .uk Mon March 30, 2009ĭECEMBER 2014 UPDATE! The Manic Street Preachers have just announced a string of dates to mark The Holy Bible's.
This guitar is in an HSH (humbucker/single coil/ humbucker) configuration with J.M.
But let’s be honest the two main guitars Mick Mars is known for is his Gibson Les Paul Custom and heavily modded Fender Stratocaster which includes parts from a '63,'64, and 1965 Strat. Throughout the rest of his career, Mick Mars has been known to pick up an orange ’64 Gretsch here and there, most notably a Chet Atkins signature model as well as a Paul Reed Smith McCarty 24. I still use it onstage and in the studio.” Even though it’s really beat up, it’s a player’s guitar. The pickups didn’t work, so I put humbuckers in it and installed a Floyd Rose. I bought it for $1,200 while we were on the Girls, Girls, Girls tour in 1987. One of the first real Strats that I ever owned was pieced together using ’63, ’64 and ’65 parts. “I owned a few vintage Stratocasters by then, and I loved how light a real Strat felt. “That’s when I started playing Fender Strats,” Mars says. At this point, Mick was using his Fender Strat almost exclusively.