The single pickup artist is beautiful, you should see it. Who knows what he walked out of Gibson with. I said "I've got the only one you made for me", he said "no you don't, I've got two!". The only other one out there Tim Shaw's got. (It's) a single pickup but it's got activate electronics in it. He didn't talk much, he was a Michigan Guy and an artisan, and he built some really cool stuff. The one that got stolen was even more so, and where your hand fits up like on the 21st, 22nd fret on the first string it's indented a little bit more and leaned in, carved in. he painted the neck white on that, you know, so that was the reason for that.įlyGuitars How did your Victorys differ from stock instruments?ĭave Kiswiney Well Chuck carved the heel out on the white one where the neck joins the body and it's square, he rounded that off so your hand fit on it really nice. It wasn't a Byrdland, it was a Howard Roberts Fusion maybe, and they painted on the back, it had this big skull and crossbones and he stood in the middle with that holding it by the neck, up in the air, and Derek and I would cross in front of it with our white. Ted had a skull crossbones painted on the back of his. It was the Bound and Gagged tour I believe, anyway, at the end of the show we all stood in the middle and held up our guitars in a three-way. There was a tour that we did where we all had white Gibsons. He (Chuck Burge) started making another for me right away. The Fender came off the plane but the Gibson did not. Two 1981 advertisements for the Gibson Victory bass, featuring Dave Kiswiney, both photos taken at Kalamazoo's State theatre.įlyGuitars How did you lose your first white Victory bass?ĭave Kiswiney I took a flight to Fort Lauderdale to do an album with Pat Travers, ( Hot Shot) 1983 - and I had two basses a Fender and Gibson that white (single pickup) Gibson Artist that he made for me - and it never came off the plane. It's not a candy apple red either, it's an awful tomato soup red.ĭave Kiswiney No not on that one, the back of the neck is Maple and it's got a stamp on it that says 'Gibson prototype' 08. I was at the edge of the stage wearing that same jacket it was the same photo shoot.
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It was an old movie theatre and they had a proscenium stage, and that's where we did it. We did it in a theatre in Kalamazoo, I think it's the State. Chuck said it's yours, get it out of here. And he made that Victory bass, and he gave it to me and I did the ad with it, and they let me leave the property with it. just a way lot of stuff going on in his brain, you know, he was really something. Other than that, balance some of the Gibsons i've had fall down.Ĭhuck Burge was the king, and if you went to his shop.
I like active basses, just wanted it to be active. Lots of boost on the low end, and on the high end I liked a lot more variations. the thing they ended up with, that's a Schaller. That's what they told me because it looks like you're holding a letter V.įlyGuitars Can you remember what input you gave Chuck back then?ĭave Kiswiney A bigger, more massive, more adjustable bridge. and then they looked at it and it looks like a V, so they just decided that's why they call it the Victory.
because they had a slanted front and straight treble one, and they slanted it like that and got 24 frets out of the first string. The V came from the way the pickup configuration is that's how they named it Victory. And i'd get with Chuck (Burge - read his interview on the development of the Victory bass here) and and we'd talk about it, and he'd say what do I like, you know.
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