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Title: Green Meanie pickups?
Post by: hvmguitar on December 04, 2009, 01:38:57 AM: This has been on my mind lately. Does anyone know what pickups Steve Vai had in his Charvel "Green Meanie"?
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Post by: mi2tom on December 04, 2009, 01:57:16 AM: X2n.
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Post by: alfaromeo90 on December 04, 2009, 02:19:20 AM: PAF Pros. Main guitar for "Eat em and Smile Album".
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Post by: Whitmore on December 04, 2009, 02:33:28 AM: Quote from: mi2tom on December 04, 2009, 01:57:16 AM
X2n.

Was that the Green Meanie or some other guitar?

I coulda sworn that the guitar with the X2Ns was a three humbucker guitar.

But then again, you're the resident Vai expert here.
Title: Re: Green Meanie pickups?
Post by: mi2tom on December 04, 2009, 02:54:27 AM: Quote from: Whitmore on December 04, 2009, 02:33:28 AM

Was that the Green Meanie or some other guitar?

I coulda sworn that the guitar with the X2Ns was a three humbucker guitar.

But then again, you're the resident Vai expert here.
Oh yeah hahaha the x2n was on his sticker stratocasters, the green meanie is with paf pro. I've always confused between his strat and his green meanie :madness:
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Post by: CityofBlindingLights on December 05, 2009, 07:46:26 PM: Quote from: Whitmore on December 04, 2009, 02:33:28 AM
Quote from: mi2tom on December 04, 2009, 01:57:16 AM
X2n.

Was that the Green Meanie or some other guitar?

I coulda sworn that the guitar with the X2Ns was a three humbucker guitar.

But then again, you're the resident Vai expert here.

Yeah, the X2N was in the sticker strat.

The Green Meanie had dual PAF Pros.
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Post by: sveto on July 02, 2016, 02:02:48 PM: Sorry for the necro. I'm researching this topic ATM.

I must ask: How can Vai have used the Paf Pro in the Green Meanie in Eat 'em and Smile (1986) when according to the DiMarzio website the Paf Pro was released in 1986?

Any insights?
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Post by: darkbluemurder on July 04, 2016, 04:00:38 AM: Not really insights but Eat "Em and Smile" was released in July 1986. No idea when the PAF Pro was released or how long the recording sessions took but it could have been earlier. It also could be that Vai played a prototype of that pickup.

Cheers Stephan
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Post by: sveto on July 04, 2016, 03:55:35 PM: Is it known if Vai had already a relationship with DiMarzio in '85? Then it could as well be a prototype.

Somewhere i read about custom DiMarzios, but i don't remember in what context.
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Post by: appar111 on July 10, 2016, 06:43:55 PM: For the green meanie, it was actually a Super Distortion and PAF (not the PAF Pro) in the neck. Vai wasn't using PAF Pro's on an album until Skyscraper.

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Title: Re: Green Meanie pickups?
Post by: greenlion on July 11, 2016, 01:12:51 PM: So, three people have claimed he was playing three different things...
Does anyone have a reference to, or evidence of, what he was playing that isn't speculation?
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Post by: sveto on July 11, 2016, 04:10:36 PM: Quote from: appar111 on July 10, 2016, 06:43:55 PM
Vai wasn't using PAF Pro's on an album until Skyscraper.

That's what i always thought about the Paf Pro too. And i thought that i could hear it, because Skyscraper sounded different regarding the guitar tones (thinner, tighter, dryer, more refined). Hmm...
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Post by: damonstewart70 on July 13, 2016, 01:50:52 PM: Man vai used a super distortion.....definitely cool!!!
Title: Re: Green Meanie pickups?
Post by: sveto on July 14, 2016, 03:48:38 PM: Quote from: appar111 on July 10, 2016, 06:43:55 PM
For the green meanie, it was actually a Super Distortion and PAF (not the PAF Pro) in the neck.

Do you actually have a source for that? I never heard that he used DMZ Super Distortion, until your posting.
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Post by: greenlion on July 15, 2016, 09:29:51 PM: I've been listening to Vai since Flexable came out, and I've never heard ANYONE suggest he used a super distortion.
Title: Re: Green Meanie pickups?
Post by: appar111 on October 04, 2016, 07:02:06 PM: Well he sure wasn't using a PAF Pro as those weren't released until 87. There were a variety of different colors of pickups in the green meanie (not to mention a couple different pickguards), but look closely at the neck pickups. Are they dual hex poles or slugs/screws?

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