Check out the picture below. It is a picture that exists. No one can dispute that Ed is playing a non maple board there. Would we be able to extrapolate from that snapshot in time that Ed always used a non maple board in that era? No. In fact he switched back and forth and tried different things.
By extension, just b/c the DOTG pics look a certain way, that doesn't mean that is the way he did it on VH I, or the Club Days shows, or the rest of the '78 tour etc. If you could combine the pics with audio and video evidence from the actual gig, your arguments would be alot stronger. The problem is there isn't any, and audio and visual evidence from other gigs do not support your findings, so it's not my way, or GG's way. It's what we've seen, heard, read and experienced that Ed did.
I'll speak for myself and say that it has been frustrating trying to get you to step back from your extreme focus on what amount to snapshots in time to see the big picture. And that big picture is that from the Club Days through the '79 tour, Ed lugged around as many eqs as he did echo devices. Whether you want to believe it or not, it has been shown that Ed's tone was shaped using more than a plexi and a high output pickup.
So... who is it that's really missing the forest for the trees???
