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It makes me laugh that I'm sort of back to where I started when it comes to gain and attack. I've started using more old-school amplification, like my 1969 Marshall Super Tremolo head (currently ailing) so guitars with this kind of cut are what I'm looking for. I'm fixing this guitar up now and I hope to use it again soon. It has a vicious attack as you can hear on songs like 'Tristessa', 'I Am One', 'Rhinocerous', and 'Siva'. So all the solos on Gish were done with this guitar. This guitar does have some recording history of note, as it was the guitar I would use for solos as it seemed to just have more cut than the main one. I preferred these pickups at that time because it allowed for maximum gain by running the pickups up really close to the strings. The history of this guitar is its a 1978 'bullet' Strat with the flat pickups (as opposed to the staggered pole pieces). As you can see it's taken a bit of a beating back from a time when I used to throw my guitars around like candy. It was painted ala Eric Clapton's cream era guitar by my friend crazy Nick. So THIS guitar is the last remnant of that period of my life, and I really cherish it. I would still pay good $ to get that guitar back, no questions asked. Andrews Hall in Detroit and has never resurfaced. It was stolen in 1992 out the back door of St. THAT guitar was the featured guitar on Gish and was probably my favourite guitar ever. I bought this guitar around 1989 or 1990 because I needed a spare for playing live, and wanted an almost identical sound to go with my main one at the time which was an early 70's Strat (yellow that I hand painted). Pictured below is Billy's backup guitar from the same time period.