Burst Pic of the Week: Before Slash there was Gaston!

[Tom Wittrock]

Forum member Gaston Gagnon was kind enough to send me several pics of 9-0910. I like this pic of Gaston in 1978, the best! :dude:

Here are some more pics from Gaston:

In 1991 I bought this Burst, and shortly after I sold it [through a good friend] to Slash.
Thanks Gaston! :salude
And how about some details or stories? :hmm

 

[MapleFlame]

Double whites and hardly any fade. I'm in Love.

 

[GastonG]

The best burst I've ever owned! and was bought from the original owner, right here in my hometown.
Made a few albums with it...
Hear it's tone through a '61 brown Fender Deluxe (xtract from a recording of 1980)
http://dicitte.com/images/gg_leadbreak.mp3
and this recording of D'icitte in 1981: 9 0910 through a '68 plexi 50Watt.
http://dicitte.com/images/gg_90910lead_b.mp3

When I knew (years ago...) that Slash bought it from Tom, I was more than happy to know that 9 0910 was in the hands of someone as great as the guitar is!

I sold it to Dave DeForrest (Guitar Trader in 1982...)

Thanks Tom for putting this up!

Gaston

 

[MapleFlame]

Thanks Gaston, it's great to have sound linked to that beauty.

 

[orbifold]

Thanks Tom and Gaston for the pics and the sound clip :dude:

 

[Tom Wittrock]

Thanks Tom for putting this up!

Gaston

Wow, story and sound clip! :dude:


Couldn't have done it without you, buddy! :salude

 

[GastonG]

Wow, story and sound clip! :dude:
Couldn't have done it without you, buddy! :salude

I'm supposed to get a copy pretty soon, of a live TV show we did in 1981; 9 0910 all over and also playing my 59 "V" on one song!
(never taped it then...).

I have some recording of 9 0910 plugged in my 50Watt plexi Marshall (I'll try to post it, you'll hear the difference through this amp compared to the Fender amp.

Gaston

 

[MapleFlame]

I'm supposed to get a copy pretty soon, of a live TV show we did in 1981; 9 0910 all over and also playing my 59 "V" on one song!
(never taped it then...).

I have some recording of 9 0910 plugged in my 50Watt plexi Marshall (I'll try to post it, you'll hear the difference through this amp compared to the Fender amp.

Gaston

Can't wait to hear that exi crank!!:headbange

 

[frazettafan]

Even through these tiny computer speakers that sounds pretty damn cool. I cant wait to hear it through the Marshall.
Thank's Gaston.

 

[Marshallhead]

9 0910 is my all time fav in BOTB. God, what a gorgeous guitar.:salude

 

[GastonG]

Here is 9 0910 through the plexi 50 watt (small head) into an open back 4X12" cab (original Celestions G12H; bass cab)
http://www.gastongagnon.ca/images/gg_90910lead.mov

Gaston

 

[orbifold]

Thanks again Gaston. Sounds great. Who were you playing with at that
time these clips were recorded?

 

[fast ricky love]

I don't know what sounds better? The playing, the guitar or that '61 Fender!!! :salude

 

[GastonG]

Thanks again Gaston. Sounds great. Who were you playing with at that
time these clips were recorded?

First clip is from "Scènes de la vie conjugale" on Plume Latraverse's Chirurgie plastique album.(1980 release)

Second clip (with the Marshall) is D'icitte blues benne in 1981(with co-guitarist Jacques Savard).

Gaston

 

[soldano16]

Gaston - are you in Montreal?

 

[Rafael]

Did Slash ever record with it ? If yes, which tunes ?

rock on

Rafael

 

[GastonG]

Would be cool if Slash (or one of his friend here...) could post a clip of it! and why not a recent pix of it?

fast ricky love, frazettafan: thanks for the compliment!

Naw Soldano16, I'm from Sherbrooke since my birth... but played with a lot of musicians from Montreal in "my days"...

Gaston

 

[Ron]

Here is 9 0910 through the plexi 50 watt (small head) into an open back 4X12" cab (original Celestions G12H; bass cab)
http://www.gastongagnon.ca/images/gg_90910lead.mov

Gaston

Hell Yeah!!! This sounds great! That is one gorgeous guitar! Gaston is that 50 watt Plexi a lead model? What year? What year was the cab?

 

[aparnell]

Very Cool,
Thanks Tom and Gaston

:wail

 

[GastonG]

Hell Yeah!!! This sounds great! That is one gorgeous guitar! Gaston is that 50 watt Plexi a lead model? What year? What year was the cab?

The amp was a model 1987 50Watt Lead serial #29612, and the cab was a #1960B serial: #139494, from 1968 or 1969 I think.
I had two 50Watt heads, but was using only one and keeping the other one just in case... anyway, the one with the missing logo was sounding so much better than the other one!

Ain't that precision or not? :laugh2: Would you believe that I still have all the info of every piece of rig that I bought since day one...