Midge Ure signature guitar

HarrySeven

ICBM said:

artiebear said:

He liked those Yamaha AES2000's along with SG series guitars. The AES2000 is a fantastic guitar if you can find one these days, brilliant top end Yamaha quality as usual. That's the only one I've seen with a Kahler, very much a child of it's time and either a custom order or more likely an add on.

It was fitted by a British luthier - I forget who - he had to glue a solid block of wood on the inside of the top for it to mount into. There was an interview with Midge in Making Music magazine (remember that?) where he talked about it.

Indeed.

I tracked down a copy of that issue of MM a while ago (stupidly disposed of my collection in the dim and distant past).

Can't remember details re. luthier, etc, but I'll see if I can dig it out.

EricTheWeary

ICBM said:

artiebear said:

He liked those Yamaha AES2000's along with SG series guitars. The AES2000 is a fantastic guitar if you can find one these days, brilliant top end Yamaha quality as usual. That's the only one I've seen with a Kahler, very much a child of it's time and either a custom order or more likely an add on.

It was fitted by a British luthier - I forget who - he had to glue a solid block of wood on the inside of the top for it to mount into. There was an interview with Midge in Making Music magazine (remember that?) where he talked about it.

There is a website muzines.co.uk that is uploading the content of Making Music ( and other similar mags), very slowly by the look of it and not got to that one yet but there are a few things from over the years it would be interesting to revisit. 

ICBM

HarrySeven said:

I tracked down a copy of that issue of MM a while ago (stupidly disposed of my collection in the dim and distant past).

So did I . I had the whole lot from the first issue to somewhere over 100, I can't remember exactly. I tried selling them on Ebay but no-one was interested, so I charity-shopped them. They probably ended up just being recycled.

I suspected you might collect that sort of thing as well .

DulcetJones

Howard Devoto declared he is an insect in Magazine's "A Song From Under the Floorboards"....

tony99

Curtis Mayfly

JCA2550

MrBump said:

I'm a Midge fan.

I could take or leave the Vintage, but I loved this guitar years ago:



Loved his Visage/Ultravox tone too - really mechanical and processed.

I'm pretty sure that's the Ibanez RG that Brian, the repair guy at Ivor Mairants, refinished for Midge in the mid 80s. Pretty much everything apart from the frets was painted Battleship Grey.

sev112

Ah you mean Midge Ure, Thin Lizzy lead guitarist, who learned the whole set list on a flight to the US on a 1970s cassette player (I’m still not sure I believe that part of the story) 

breakstuff

Jake Bug. 

breakstuff

The Afghan Earwigs. 

InactiveX

stimpsonslostson said:

We don't count spiders or scorpions as insects because they are not insects. 

Isn't it ironic?

impmann

JCA2550 said:

MrBump said:

I'm a Midge fan.

I could take or leave the Vintage, but I loved this guitar years ago:



Loved his Visage/Ultravox tone too - really mechanical and processed.

I'm pretty sure that's the Ibanez RG that Brian, the repair guy at Ivor Mairants, refinished for Midge in the mid 80s. Pretty much everything apart from the frets was painted Battleship Grey.

I always thought that guitar looked ace - really space age. I'm sure he used to use it with a see through strap too which I thought was pretty cool too. And yes, his tone was absolutely "right" for the music they were making - not smooth and bluesy, more strident and spikey, often modulated "hard" too. Fantastic stuff.

StuartMac290

TeleMaster said:

Is it just me or is he a a bit of a surprising choice for a signature guitar? 

Perhaps...but he WAS in Thin Lizzy after all.

Philly_Q

StuartMac290 said:

TeleMaster said:

Is it just me or is he a a bit of a surprising choice for a signature guitar? 

Perhaps...but he WAS in Thin Lizzy after all.

Sort of...

stimpsonslostson

InactiveX said:

stimpsonslostson said:

We don't count spiders or scorpions as insects because they are not insects. 

Isn't it ironic?

Don't you think?

tony99

stimpsonslostson said:

InactiveX said:

stimpsonslostson said:

We don't count spiders or scorpions as insects because they are not insects. 

Isn't it ironic?

Don't you think?

like 10000 spoons when all you need is a knife

such is breakfast time at Uri Geller's house

mark123

JCA2550 said:

MrBump said:

I'm a Midge fan.

I could take or leave the Vintage, but I loved this guitar years ago:



Loved his Visage/Ultravox tone too - really mechanical and processed.

I'm pretty sure that's the Ibanez RG that Brian, the repair guy at Ivor Mairants, refinished for Midge in the mid 80s. Pretty much everything apart from the frets was painted Battleship Grey.

I'm sure i read a story that in one of the 80s princes trusts or similar pop/ comedy shows either geldof or one of the young ones crew smashed this up for a  laugh...but im not 100%

ICBM

mark123 said:

I'm sure i read a story that in one of the 80s princes trusts or similar pop/ comedy shows either geldof or one of the young ones crew smashed this up for a  laugh...but im not 100%

It was in one piece when I saw it about last year, but certainly quite battered.

HarrySeven

impmann said:

JCA2550 said:

MrBump said:

I'm a Midge fan.

I could take or leave the Vintage, but I loved this guitar years ago:



Loved his Visage/Ultravox tone too - really mechanical and processed.

I'm pretty sure that's the Ibanez RG that Brian, the repair guy at Ivor Mairants, refinished for Midge in the mid 80s. Pretty much everything apart from the frets was painted Battleship Grey.

I always thought that guitar looked ace - really space age. I'm sure he used to use it with a see through strap too which I thought was pretty cool too. And yes, his tone was absolutely "right" for the music they were making - not smooth and bluesy, more strident and spikey, often modulated "hard" too. Fantastic stuff.

Have a Wiz for that.

grappagreen

stimpsonslostson said:

InactiveX said:

stimpsonslostson said:

We don't count spiders or scorpions as insects because they are not insects. 

Isn't it ironic?

Don't you think?

Like raieain.... cheque please...

HarrySeven

Anyway, enough of this insect nonsense...

I need to find a semi to hack a Kahler into.