Washburn Steve Stevens SS100 Frankenstein #1

[yngwie308]

Check out my website for details of this incredible once in a lifetime available guitar
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[spaceace76]

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it's the beginning of a wonderful website...
great to see this project come together, and can't wait for more!

[yngwie308]

Thanks ace!! I was privately offered this guitar by Steve Gill at Washburn a few days ago, before it went public and for only $10K, apparently it is now on Ebay for $12K. To me these are like 1959 LP Bursts!! Also the Barbarella..Damn I wish I could buy them all!!!
The website is coming together, slowly but surely, I will add a blog soon and hopefully my haters will stay away, but I am the admin, so off with their heads..
Dave

[fillmore nyc]

Congratulations on starting such a nice site, Dave. As always, tons of info that us mere mortals are never manage to be able to dig up!! Looking forward to more in the future!!
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[yngwie308]

Thanks Ralph, I've only just begun, I plan on jumping ahead in my software soon..I am using Go Daddy based here in Phoenix for my domain and sing Word Press Version 2.8.2 or whatever, the latest. Let me add that Mozilla Firefox is the way to go and I was able to add a watermarking program for free and associated setup programs, there is so much free stuff on the net if you know where to look for it..Google..
If I start writing my own HTML format, that would be the ultimate, but between my work, all my ailments (again) at the moment, I haven't been able to work on it as much as I would care too. Many of my Internet stories I have lost or deleted them myself in the past, in one of my piques of rage( ).
I have much of my Gary Moore and Thin Lizzy stuff all over the place and my Steve Stevens/Washburn research, everytime Steve finds time to write back to me, I dredge up the past to him that he is trying to forget. Like in my research I emailed Neil Zlozower the famed rock photographer, he want's $400 for a 10"x'14 print, I had asked him about sessions with Steve for Guitar For The Practicing Musician back in 1993, that had great shots of Steve's unfinished body SS80. He emailed me back his personal cell # and we talked, he is pretty cool and he told me how he gets ripped all the time by people selling his prints for up to $800 on Hollywood Blvd., ect. He invited me to his studio next time I'm in LA, he has tons of pics of SS, ect.
I was fortunate enough to have Jon at Funky Munky Music give me 30 days to pay off that purple quilt SS80, which was the 3rd guitar in Rudy's Washburn Museum/Collection. Let me say this about Steve Stevens, he is the most friendly, helpful, down to earth guy you could meet, well he is a New Yorker!!
He has sent me a rare demo tape from the Vince Neil Exposed album, which is killer and should have made it on the album. He has a computer like memory as to what gear he used on what tracks, right down to microphones and studio engineers. That's why i admire him so much, and always have. Gary Moore has chosen to speak to only certain people he 'trusts', which is unfortunate and he cuts his own throat professionally many times, he is brilliantly talented though.
Steve hasn't even been paid properly for Vince's best selling solo album "Exposed" which the success of is all down to Steve, Steve is so polite about all these rip offs he has suffered. Also Neil Z. told me a Vnce Neil story, even though he is on "Cribs" with his Vegas mansion and cars and choppers, ect. Neil says a few years back a photographer he knows shot a session with Vince, Vince stuck a pin through all the negatives he didn't like and didn't pay the guy at all. He sues and got a judgment for $24K against Neil, which to this day hasn't been paid.
Steve is so kind to keep in touch with me, though I drag up the huge thorn in his side of the Washburn era, whom he has never spoken badly of publicly as well as Hamer, who treated him even worse....
He is proud of these guitars and guys, if you love a vintage Charvel Dinky Floyd, ect., including Pre-Pro, these Washburns are the best rock/metal guitars I have ever played, bar none. I love my Hamer Chapparal 1987 of course and mentioning that, I have my upcoming interview with the amazing Jon O'Connor who painted my guitar and countless famous other axes, on my site.
Check out Huge Racks Inc forum as Steve posts there as StevensAGoGo and he is up on the latest gear, even the Axe-Fx, which he just purchased and is working with!
When I do write my 'stories', it is only after exhaustive research and reading everything I can on the subject and then I add my own appreciation of the artist, amp or guitar, ect.
I am learning new things all the time and I am not afraid to go to the source and ask questions directly either, so since 1993 my biggest research area is these Washburn guitars, I approached Steve about his approval of the history of them, but unfortunately, though he has told me how proud he is of his accomplishments and in retrospect, the guitars are much better than he thought at the time, but he has his reasons which I respect and this makes it difficult for me..
This SS100 #1 is nicer than even the one Steve has, as he has a very early prototype pre-production version with the Washburn script logo and no SS logo on the headstock, ect. The Steve Driscoll painted #1, is killer,but I can't buy it, I am happy with two SS80's, the purple quilt one was one of the 3 in the Museum, was built for Steve, as was the Barbarella, so I recently told Steve i had it and hope he understands, that my love for these guitars, is removed from what happened between SS and Rudy/Washburn..







This is the guitar that inspired the Hamer SS-3 and the Washburn's, Steve's Glow Jackson/Charvel, which glows in the dark like the Frankenstein guitar!


yngwie308

[flieger67]

That's cool stuff, Dave. Thanks for posting the link and the pictures.

Good luck with further development of your site.

[JimiJames]

Nice Dave !
Not into graph guitars but this one fits.
Congrats on the site as well.

[yngwie308]

Thanks fellows, actually my website is more in a blog format being Wordpress, until I can afford a Dreamweaver and an expensive Adobe Photoshop edition to take it to the next level, but thanks for the interest!!
As far as this being the Washburn Frankenstein SS100 #1, it is the first one in production specs and the forst one painted by Steve Driscoll, whom I have communicated with over on the Washburn forum. Steve Stevens himself, the only Washburn I believe him to own is his original SS100 which the graphic is remarkably simillar to the Steve Driscoll painted versions, but appears to be a lighter shade and not the glow in the dark paint, as on the later models.
Plus Steve's has black hardware and the Washburn logo is the earlier script style, with no Steve Stevens lettering or signature.
Also I see no numbering or signature by the artist on his version:

Here is an SS100 that lives in Thailand and is heavily used:







Here from Steve's now taken down slideshow of David Honl photographs of his guitars is the last picture of his SS100 I have ever seen, he hasn't played a Washburn since 1993, he told me:

Here is a magazine shot of Steve's SS100 with clever magazine graphics covering most of the guitar details, you can still see the Frankenstein graphics though:
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Not to denigrate this guitar that Washburn is selling, it certainly is the coolest looking and in unplayed from 1993 condition.
All these guitars really should belong to SS himself, but when he left Washburn, they kept everything being bult or that was already completed. So this SS100 is #1 painted by Steve Driscoll in full 'limited' production status. Look for the complete Washburn SS story to come out on my blog/website soon.
yngwie308

[yngwie308]

Well the Barbarella guitar is now on the market too...both the SS100 #1 and Barbarella are at Funky Munky Music in Kansas, where I bought my quilt top SS80 from.
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I am interviewing Jon O'Connor who painted this amazing guitar soon for my web/blog and it is sad to see it go...not to me..
If the economy was different, ect, if I wasn't 160% upside down in my new house since 2005 already, ect...
The ray gun effects and sequenced LED's are cool with this guitar as well...
yngwie308

[yngwie308]

These guitars will not get the money being asked unfortunately for the seller, but we shall see..
yngwie308

[yngwie308]

Rudy has sold Washburn to the other major partner and left the company, that's kind of why he dumped all the SS guitars. Even SS posted himself on HRI you must be insane to pay those prices, I thought my $4.5K was insane too, but it is the most exquisite guitar for sure...
yngwie308

[Bainzy]

That Barbarella guitar is sick. So sick.


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by the way, link added Dave! ^ second row, first column.

[yngwie308]

Thanks Bainzy, very cool glad Shredaholic is back..look for an exclusive interview with the artist on the Barbarella guitar, Jim O'Connor soon and one I am excited about Neil Carter, ex-Wild Horses, UFO and most famously Gary Moore's best rock period 1984-1989, Neil is even getting together with Gary again, to watch the DVD's and CD's I sent Neil, very cool. I am on a quest and have been to get to the bottom of Gary's Wild Frontier live tone, which is in my pantheon of top ten classic rock tones!!
Dave

[yngwie308]

Tommy Bolin stuff upcoming as well..
The Barbarella was sold apparently and despite my best efforts, I have received no replies for detailed pics..
yngwie308

[zz666]

nice work on your website dude, huge SS fan here, love the woodgrained version with black hardware! Probably the coolest of the 80's shred guitars along with De Martini's frenchie and Lynch's Tiger