Bought a Greco Unofficial Ace Freley Custom

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:16 pm

Same guitar,

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JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:02 am

Are those real super distortions?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:09 am

I was looking at one of those only this week, funnily enough. What's the neck like?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:32 am

Thanks for the posts. I bought it on ebay so I don't have it yet.It is a 1979 Greco EGS-600. I am not sure what the pickups are. The price was $595 so I thought it was worth taking a chance.

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:58 am

You can never have enough pickups . Good find .

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:59 am

Excellent! Wonder if the middle pickup blows up and if the headstock spits out sparks

You just need one of those blue burst Epiphones now to go with it.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:41 am

Oh you JERK

I wanted one of these for the longest time, I love his guitar but not much else about him and this was the best shot at owning one without his fucking face on it. The import prices were keeping me away as most were being sold from Japan.

Nice score, I love it.

Lipton, they're not Super Distortions, they're Greco EGC series pickups. These guitars came out during Kiss/DiMarzio's heyday (rather than the '90s like the Gibbo/Epi versions); provisions for Super Distortions probably weren't affordable to Greco at that time. Interestingly enough, as Gibson don't generally use DiMarzio they had a bit of a clusterfuck with the CS Frehley guitars, with many having random appearance of DiMarzio PAFs (traditional screw/slug arrangment instead of hex poles). Frehley only had bridge pickups on the real ones anyway, the rest of the pickups were dummies to hide the smoke bombs or light up when it was on.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:45 pm

paul_ wrote:Oh you JERK

I wanted one of these for the longest time, I love his guitar but not much else about him and this was the best shot at owning one without his fucking face on it. The import prices were keeping me away as most were being sold from Japan.

Nice score, I love it.

Haha,Thanks Paul. It's weird because I was thinking that I wanted a Custom with 3 pickups yesterday but I didn't want to get another $2000 guitar. this one was only $595 so this seemed like the perfect solution

Here are some Greco Catalog pages wish I could read japanese,lol.

By the way,one of the reasons I wanted a Les Paul was a memory I have of seeing of this photo(below). I think this photo was in a copy of Kerrang! I got in 1987 but I am not sure.I couldn't remember who was in the photo I just remember those 2 Les Pauls with crazy flametops.I just found this photo today.

This is Al Romano(guy on the left in the photo) playing the Les Paul Ace is holding.

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Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:16 pm

Can it do an fireworks?

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westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:41 pm

Fran wrote:Can it do an fireworks?

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Just need a Smoker PU and some sparklers

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Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:43 pm

DO IT!!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:51 pm

Fran wrote:DO IT!!

Haha,I think it will set off the smoke detectors in my house.

I found the specs for this guitar on the Tokai forum:

EG600PR (Ace Frehley 3 pickups): Mahogany one layer body, Maple two piece top, Red Sunburst finish, Mahogany neck, Ebony Fingerboard, U-1000 pickups.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:05 pm

westtexasred wrote:
Fran wrote:DO IT!!
Haha,I think it will set off the smoke detectors in my house.

thats why u do it in the back yard with a half stack

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:15 pm

SGJarrod wrote:
westtexasred wrote:
Fran wrote:DO IT!!
Haha,I think it will set off the smoke detectors in my house.
thats why u do it in the back yard with a half stack

I will personally donate money to this forum to see such a video. Who's in?!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:31 pm

Fran wrote:
SGJarrod wrote:
westtexasred wrote: Haha,I think it will set off the smoke detectors in my house.
thats why u do it in the back yard with a half stack
I will personally donate money to this forum to see such a video. Who's in?!

Fugetaboutit!

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:41 pm

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:09 pm

Fran wrote:

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:35 am

Gene Simmonds wrote:ACE FREHLEY, LEAD GUITAR....DO IT!!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:52 pm

JJLipton wrote:Are those real super distortions?

Found out the pickups are the original Greco/Maxon "U-1000" pickups with alnico VIII magnets.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:52 pm

I gotta get this DVD.

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