Official Pete Haycock Website – petehaycock.com

(sorry I didn’t see your response, I must have missed it by just a few seconds)

And if you’re into great Tele (I’m sure you’ve heard all the Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton (R.I.P. to them both), and even Mike Stern), check out Ernie Lancaster. He was the guitar player on all of Root Boy Slim’s stuff (listen at the iTunes store), and damnation if Ernie didn’t know how to spank the plank!

g’nite pups and thanks for letting me spend some time with ya tonight.

thanks ev. the interview i linked to said he liked his reverse firebird but didn’t have a pic of it.

and emerson @ 115

Thanks EV! I figured that had to be custom built.

Well, he’s got a bunch, some reverse, some not, some from the 60’s, some more recent from the custom shop.

He’s said he (like anyone sensible) prefers to take the more recent custom shop reissues out on the road, leaving the vintage stuff at home. Since that video’s from Rockpalast over in Deutschland, I think he’d be bonkers to haul the stuff that can’t be replaced over to Europe. After the finish (I don’t think purple metalflake was a standard Gibson finish in 1964, but they and Fender did do some funky custom stuff :-) ), the trapezoidal inlays would have been pretty unusual for that pickup and tailpiece combo, I think, so again that argues for a custom shop piece.

These don’t provide any confirmation of the heritage of the guitar in question, but you can read other interviews with Warren (with a picture of him playing what looks like a mid-60’s non-reverse Firebird, note the different pickguard, pickups, headstock and neck inlays) here and here.

I had an Amotti viola and a Bronski too before I ran outta the insane house and left it all behind…played classical music but taught myself the piano so’s a couple a my marchin band friends and I could play some old fashioned rock and roll when they came down once a week ta play with the strings.

Son’s wife got ‘im the Firebird for his birthday 5 years ago… he’s been singin’ blues and writin’ with a couple a fellow teachers for the last several years and has taught himself enough that they let ‘im play rhythmn now (in the basement studio)…still don’t let ‘im go off on it with a live audience.