Tone20002 wrote:H Bernie
Thanks for the info' in your post #33. I have the 2000 tour brochure and I've just dug it out. You're quite right - some of the photographs were used for the tray and booklet of the "Marvin at the Movies" album.
There are some excellent photographs of the Signature and 40th Anniversary Strats and, to my mind, the most accurate colourwise is the inside full page one of Hank holding the 40th (opposite another full page one of Hank and Cliff together).
There are several photographs in the brochure which show the strap clearly but there are, in fact, three different ones: one with the Fender logo I referred to previously (which I assume, is the one with 00 on eBay), one with the HBM signature (like mine) and a third which has an oval brown or gold logo (the picture is not clear enough to make it out). I daeresay we could all go one forever about which straps Hank used on which guitars - I don't remember the topic cropping up on these forums before!
Incidentally, while I was looking for the photos I found the "Guitar Player" brochure and there are some superb photographs of Hank's Signature Strat in there (or is it an Autograph?)
I'm off to get my anorak!
Cheers.
Tony
Tony - I think a few of us could be considered 'anoraks'. In fact, I'm so far gone, I might even start shopping in Maplin!
Re the straps - yes, I remembered the special '40th' one with Hank's signature from the Marvin at the Movies album - but I don't remember him actually ever using that one. I do remember him using a nice thick black one with a red, round fender logo - in fact I think he still uses these. I also seem to remember Warren and Ben being kitted out with these as well on tour but I could be mistaken. I remember seeing them one year at Shadowmania on one of the stalls - they were going for £35 - so I bought one. It's a really comfortable strap - it's well padded - so I can understand why Hank uses them. Have never really seen them for sale elsewhere, though maybe I haven't looked hard enough!
Expensive for a strap - but well worth it.
Bernie