Bobs Red Guitar

[BlueScreen]

I am sorry if this question has been asked already, if so, please forgive the question.

Is the red guitar Bob plays for the praise medley on the Captured in Time and Space Video a Zion? If so, does anyone know the model?

Cheers
Glenn.

[fcollazo]

I know the white one is an early Zion Superstrat model, and the Gray one with the Scandinavian Furniture Body is a Roland Synth Guitar, but for the Red that looks like a Modern Explorer I would have to look again and pause but I think it is BC Rich model, I think it has that big R in the headstock. I play guitar and I am always interested in what Bob is playing. Great to have another Guitar Buff in the Zone, welcome BlueScreen!!

[BlueScreen]

Thanks fcollazo, nice to be here. I read somewhere that the Roland Guitar Synth is hanging in a Hard Rock Cafe somewhere. I kind of wonder whats with a Roland Guitar Synth, because Beat The System (song) sounds like a regular guitar sound, and the only time Bob used it on Captured in Time and Space was Beat The System and his guitar solo.

But then it was the 80's.

[brent]

I don't know first hand about the BTS sessions, other than most just about everything except guitar was electronic synthesis. Martin Gore from Depeche Mode was involved, hence the sound of the album. Rhett Lawrence (Kelly Clarkson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Black Eyed Peas) programmed the Fairlight and there you have it.

The Roland Synth Guitar had an instrument output and could be played like a real guitar through an amp.

[fcollazo]

bob used the synth part on the Roland guitar to play the lead lines on beat the system song, where they sing "wise up, rise up"

[brent]

btw, those guitars were pretty funky, but still have a cult following. They actually aren't that bad as guitars go. Roland had lots of guitar guys in LA helping shape it.

Here is a video of someone playing weird stuff with it.

http://youtu.be/RiykQ3fAJyA