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"The Beast" Bernie Marsden's 59

MHGOLDTOP

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Yesterday Bernie Marsden was kind enough to bring his legendary 59 Burst aka "The Beast" to visit at the Birmingham UK JB gig. Bernie is a great player, a great guy and this is a great Burst! Here's a few pictures of it for you all.

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goldtop0

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A well loved burst..................love it:salude

Thanks MH
 

Ryan Givhan

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for someone to play it that much!!!! it must have tone for days. i would rather see/play a burst like this, over a closet classic any day!
 

Cogswell

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That's just terrible. He needs to get it repainted. A number of coats of marine pant would be a lot more durable.
 

guitarbob123

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I was at the show and it truly did sound amazing. Great tone!

Bernie played well too, was playing a PRS singlecut of some kind through a Marshall Vintage Modern combo from what I could see.

Joe really hit it out the park though, superb performance as usual, it was great to see him.
 

pit_s_xroad

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:3zone Thanks for sharing... :peace2 ...great looking LP... :2cool

PIT... :salude
 

CDaughtry

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Killer thread...thanks as always Mike!:dude:
 

tdarian

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Thanks Mike. That looks like it has done some duty. Beautiful.
 

wernerg

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Does Bernie still own The Beast? I saw the guitar a few years ago at a Dallas show.

And btw - I saw Bernie jam with Paul Reed Smith and some others at the recent Frankfurt Musikmesse. He sounded great - even without the Beast!
 

MS 57

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Beautiful pictures !!! Thanks for posting !!
For those of you who want to know more The Beast and Bernie are the coverstory on Guitarist Magazine april 2012 issue.
they have an interesting soundclip comparison between the Beast, Bernies signature PRS SE and Gibson LP Classic Custom.

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