How many guitars do Adam and Edge have?

[Infinity]

Just curious, if anybody knows, how many guitars does Edge own, and how many bass guitars does Adam have?

Also, anyone have pics of a whole bunch of Adam and Edge's guitars/bass guitars?

 

[thrillme]

Hehe Edge could open his own guitar store I think, put it that way.

Adam has at the least, a dozen.

Think that Vh1 show, Edge had 47? 37? a lot either way.

 

[liamcool]

A lot.


...correct answer.

 

[thrillme]

http://u2bass.4t.com/Basses.htm
(Has a few pics of some of Adam's basses)

This site doesn't show that green one he's been playing during "City" and he also has a tan/bronze colored Fender bass (I saw it on a Vh1 special).

 

[U2FanPeter]

I heard a rumour that Edge had some of his guitars water damaged. It was all of his secondary guitars he had in storage.

u2fp

 

[God Part III]

At the shows I believe Edge changed between 3 or 4 guitars.

Not as many as I expected.

 

[chickadee]

Edge has pretty guitars! (I'm such a girl sometimes.)

 

[Only Alive]

At the shows I believe Edge changed between 3 or 4 guitars.

Not as many as I expected.

During Elevation, he went through 8 or 10 different guitars each night (depending on the setlist).

-Nick

 

[discothequeLP]

At the shows I believe Edge changed between 3 or 4 guitars.

Not as many as I expected.

only? can't be.


Vertigo -- Blonde Tele
I Will Follow -- Explorer
Electric Co. -- Cream Les Paul
Eelvation -- Gibson SG
New Year's Day -- Cream Les Paul
Beautiful Day -- Explorer
Still Haven't Found -- Black & White Strat
City of Blinding Lights -- Gretsch Country Gentleman
Miracle Drug -- Explorer
Sometimes -- Fireglo Rick
Love and Peace or Else -- Glitter Variax
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Blonde Tele
Bullet the Blue Sky -- Black & White Strat
Miss Sarajevo -- none
Pride -- Black & White Strat
Streets -- Black & Black Strat
One -- Cream Les Paul

Zoo Station -- Cream Les Paul
The Fly -- Custom Variax
With or Without You -- Black Fernandes Retrorocket
All Because of You -- Epiphone Casino
Yaweh -- Gibson Jumbo
Vertigo -- Blonde Telecaster


that's 14 different gutiars for the standard Vertigo setlist




and some of Edge's gutiars did get damaged because of a flood at HQ. i know his old Gibson ES-300 was one of them.

 

[Only Alive]

Edge sure does love that Cream LP.

-Nick

 

[Infinity]

Hehe Edge could open his own guitar store I think, put it that way.

Adam has at the least, a dozen.

Think that Vh1 show, Edge had 47? 37? a lot either way.

on the vh1 show he had 36

 

[Infinity]

i brought this topic up cos i was just wondering how many he would have because noel gallagher has 99.

 

[U2FanPeter]

In the Metallica Documentary, they had 600 between the 3 members.

I think Clapton once had upwards of 200 - before he sold off most of them.

I also know Kravitz and Ben Harper have very large collections - some musicians have crazy collections, but most of them sit on a shelf or on the wall.

u2fp

 

[Only Alive]

In the Metallica Documentary, they had 600 between the 3 members.

I think Clapton once had upwards of 200 - before he sold off most of them.

I also know Kravitz and Ben Harper have very large collections - some musicians have crazy collections, but most of them sit on a shelf or on the wall.

u2fp

I find that kinda weird. I have one guitar. I may eventually get a few more, but probably not more than 5. I'd rather love and enjoy a few guitars than have a bunch but never use more than a few of them.

-Nick

 

[gragravar]

For most people somewhere between one and three is all they need... I have three basses and two guitars at the moment, the guy who plays guitar in my band has about 12 I think... unfortunately it is fun to buy guitars...

 

[U2FanPeter]

How many guitars does the guy from Cheap Trick posess?

One weird thing I've heard about Edge is that he gets a new set of strings on each guitar before EVERY show. Some guitars get new string before AND after soundcheck.

u2fp

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Vertigo -- Blonde Tele
I Will Follow -- Explorer
Electric Co. -- Cream Les Paul
Eelvation -- Gibson SG
New Year's Day -- Cream Les Paul
Beautiful Day -- Explorer
Still Haven't Found -- Black & White Strat
City of Blinding Lights -- Gretsch Country Gentleman
Miracle Drug -- Explorer
Sometimes -- Fireglo Rick
Love and Peace or Else -- Glitter Variax
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Blonde Tele
Bullet the Blue Sky -- Black & White Strat
Miss Sarajevo -- none
Pride -- Black & White Strat
Streets -- Black & Black Strat
One -- Cream Les Paul

Zoo Station -- Cream Les Paul
The Fly -- Custom Variax
With or Without You -- Black Fernandes Retrorocket
All Because of You -- Epiphone Casino
Yaweh -- Gibson Jumbo
Vertigo -- Blonde Telecaster


that's 14 different gutiars for the standard Vertigo setlist.

 

[Only Alive]

How many guitars does the guy from Cheap Trick posess?

One weird thing I've heard about Edge is that he gets a new set of strings on each guitar before EVERY show. Some guitars get new string before AND after soundcheck.

u2fp

I suppose that makes sense. I don't think he's really even broken a string in the middle of a song, has he?
The only problem with changing them that often is that new strings are often very slippery and difficult to bend.

-Nick

 

[discothequeLP]

Edge has broken strings on stage before. I went to the Anaehim 1 show, and Edge broke the high E string right at the beginning of Sunday Bloody Sunday; it only took a minute for Dallas to bust out a new guitar. i really didn't notice that Edge broke a string until i listened to the bootlegs, though.


and there was a show way back in the late 70's, i think, where Edge broke a string and he got really mad and they stopped the show right there.

 

[U2FanPeter]

The only time, including video, I've ever seen Edge break a string was UTEOTW Tacoma 2001.

Opening guitar strum of the concerts 3rd song. He was playing a new guitar by the time Bono singing the first line of the song. It was a "blink and you miss it" type moment.

But that doesn't answer the question about Edge breaking a string halfway thru a song...

u2fp

 

[liamcool]

Edge broke the E string during A Celebration once, can't remember when.

He also broke a string in Howth (?) in 1978, which promptly stopped the show.

 

[wang_chung]

I read an article in a guitar mag today, interviewing Edge and Dallas. Apparently he has upwards of 30 guitars on the road, all which are tuned for different variations etc. I remember this show a while back had him on and he was in NY at his favourite guitar store buying a few more. As for stringing, on the new DVD Dallas says he strings for around 9 hours or something.

 

[U2FanPeter]

I'm just shocked that Dallas still considers Edge the best guitar player in the world even after been his tuning/stringing slave for 9 hours a day.

u2fp

 

[tommycharles]

Vertigo -- Blonde Tele
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Blonde Tele

And even that's a little misleading, they're not the same guitar.

 

[Muad'zin]

only? can't be.


Vertigo -- Blonde Tele
I Will Follow -- Explorer
Electric Co. -- Cream Les Paul
Eelvation -- Gibson SG
New Year's Day -- Cream Les Paul
Beautiful Day -- Explorer
Still Haven't Found -- Black & White Strat
City of Blinding Lights -- Gretsch Country Gentleman
Miracle Drug -- Explorer
Sometimes -- Fireglo Rick
Love and Peace or Else -- Glitter Variax
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- Blonde Tele
Bullet the Blue Sky -- Black & White Strat
Miss Sarajevo -- none
Pride -- Black & White Strat
Streets -- Black & Black Strat
One -- Cream Les Paul

Zoo Station -- Cream Les Paul
The Fly -- Custom Variax
With or Without You -- Black Fernandes Retrorocket
All Because of You -- Epiphone Casino
Yaweh -- Gibson Jumbo
Vertigo -- Blonde Telecaster


that's 14 different gutiars for the standard Vertigo setlist

There must be more. The Tele Edge uses for Sunday bloody sunday us tuned down one full step, thus a different one from the normal tuned Vertigo Tele. The Strat being used for I still haven't found is also tuned down a full step, thus not the same colored Strat used for BTBS. And I've seen his roadie use a blue gray Tele, the one he used for Discotheque. Which makes for a total of 17. Exactly the number I once heard being used.

 

[i_love_adam]

I'm just shocked that Dallas still considers Edge the best guitar player in the world even after been his tuning/stringing slave for 9 hours a day.

u2fp

Yeah. I think it's slavery too! Should Dallas deserve an assistant? D seems like a really nice, humble guy from the things he say and from what fans have to say about him.

So that settle it that Edge changes guitar strings everyday.

 

[tommycharles]

There must be more. The Tele Edge uses for Sunday bloody sunday us tuned down one full step, thus a different one from the normal tuned Vertigo Tele. The Strat being used for I still haven't found is also tuned down a full step, thus not the same colored Strat used for BTBS. And I've seen his roadie use a blue gray Tele, the one he used for Discotheque. Which makes for a total of 17. Exactly the number I once heard being used.

Also, the "Black and White Strat" for Pride is not the same as the Streets one, the Pride guitar is a full step down where as the Streets one is tuned normally.

 

[TheEdge U2JT]

Also, the "Black and White Strat" for Pride is not the same as the Streets one, the Pride guitar is a full step down where as the Streets one is tuned normally.

He's actually playing a sunburst Strat on Pride.

 

[U2FanPeter]

Does Edge have a spare for every guitar?

I have seen him snap a string and he needs to switch a guitar immediately.

I also wonder if Dallas ever keeps the same guitar strings on for 2 shows in a row. Maybe spend his downtime selling guitar picks on ebay.

u2fp

 

[tommycharles]

Does Edge have a spare for every guitar?

I have seen him snap a string and he needs to switch a guitar immediately.

I also wonder if Dallas ever keeps the same guitar strings on for 2 shows in a row. Maybe spend his downtime selling guitar picks on ebay.

u2fp

I don't think Edge has "duplicate" guitars, so to speak, but I'm sure he has alternates should something go wrong. The exceptions, I would imagine, are the two Variax (did I get the name right? The Love and Peace/The Fly guitars) acoustics, and the cream Les Paul. I'm almost positive I've heard of him breaking a string on the LP and Dallas having to give him the gold-top as a replacement.