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Originally Posted by FLICKOFLASH
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Ok, then they quoted me a bunch. One of my best friends is Jim Foote of MusicWorks, where Kris did most of his luthiery work. I also know Alan Niven,and I've seen the picture book of guitars Foote still has that shows several of Kris's guitar creations and pics of the guitar that Slash used.
Contrary to many stories on the net and those who don't know the real players first hand, Max did not, nor did he ever have a burst ready for Slash to play in time for AFD. Since replicas are a "cease & desist" order type thing for Gibson's legal team, they were always clouded in mystery, and no names of the makers of these replicas were given out. The same still applies in most cases, by the way.
Max/Peter Barret might have made Slash a guitar like this later on but it wasn't ready in time for AFD, that's for certain. Slash has purposely referred to "the guy in Redondo Beach" who made the guitar he used on that album. Max lived in Hollywood. Music Works used to be in Redondo Beach, on Artesia Blvd. Now it's in Lawndale, on Artesia Blvd. So to end that confusion, I asked Foote & Niven about this five years ago, to straighten out this whole mess.
As Foote and Niven remember it, Slash had a guitar that wasn't working out. Slash asked Niven to find him a guitar that would. He knew Foote, who had Derrig living outside his shop in an RV, working on his muscle car to restore. He built these guitars to fund that project, period. Niven approached Foote, who got Derrig involved who had just finished the LP replica. It didn't have any pickups. Derrig came in and asked Foote what he had, Foote said these are popular and I recommend them. That's how it got the Alnico Pro II Seymour Duncan pickups in the guitar.
Slash tried it, liked it, Niven bought it for Slash. It was used on the album, Max showed up later.