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Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:25 pm**

Holy ****! I wonder what the case looks like.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:38 pm**

That's Michael Angelo Batio, formerly of Nitro. Total shredder speed style player.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:51 pm**

So, I take it that thing spins so he can go from neck to neck? Does he do alternate tunings or does it just give him 4 necks to put out of tune before the roadie has to hand him a fresh guitar?

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:08 pm**

He plays (taps) with both hands simultaneously on different necks, hence the dampers on the fretboard.
Kinda a curiousity, after watching him do it for 10 minutes, I was like, yeah, now play something tasteful.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:21 pm**

After I posted my question I started to wonder about the dampers. Who else does that two handed thing with opposed necks? I know I have seen that before.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:27 pm**

Steve Vai did something similar on the David Lee Roth live show. He had a pink guitar that had several necks.

He was rather rough on the back of it, though...

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:48 pm**

Hahahahaha! That's Vai for you, though. "Bad Horsey" all the way . . . and thank god he stopped playing with DLR . . .

Also, doesn't Michael Manring sometimes play three basses simultaneously?

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:30 pm**

but can he spin his g'tar ala ZZ Top?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:31 am**

Vai's work on the first 2 DLR LPs was great. It's really the only stuff by him I can stomach.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:24 am**

I saw this metal band once years ago and the bass player had the zz top thing going on . he was wearing this harness thing with a steel rotating shaft sticking out of it for the bass to hook to . But the really sad part of this story is he was playing a 59 precision with a big hole drilled right through the body for the shaft to go into ! I wept for days .

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:19 pm**

I'm taking a shot at this Autumn/Walnutglo. If I win I'll replace the neck p/u with a new toaster. I think it's a great sounding mod on 70's Rics.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:31 pm**

Go for it! That is a real beauty.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:21 pm**

Good luck Brian,
It's sweet looking.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:44 am**

That's a bass you might have to overpay for, but worth it to do so.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:53 pm**

Does anyone think that maybe this topic is the reason for such a high price for a caseless 4001, or is $1,275.00 a fair price for a Walnut?
I'm not saying it's not a sweet looking bass, and must obviously be worth that price to someone, but couldn't we have saved someone(possibly a fellow forumite) some cash if we just kept a bit more quiet?

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Another sweet Walnut beauty