@@CarpetBanana Yes. He got chubby and grew his hair long. Just like me, the old hippie. I think he was what the chicks would call 'cute'. More often than not cute doesn't age well. It's beauty, decent facial proportions, that age well. That tiny nose or whatever that made a person cute will look weird in old age, Grinch like.
This might be way more than you want to know. During their earliest days, Gordon used a sunburst '69 thinline Telecaster that was stolen sometime in '83. By '84, Gordon mostly used a Bullet S-3, Fender's successor to the Mustang. He would continue using that instrument up until '87 or so. By '91, Gordon acquired a custom shop thinline Telecaster that he continues to use today. To answer your question, I don't know what this specific guitar is. However, I know that Gordon occasionally played guitars atypical to his usual "primary" guitar (Gibson Melody Maker, Ricky 425).
3 years later, but here goes... The headstock is shaped similar to the one on a Washburn bass I got in 1989. It was my first bass, and I still own it. I never play it, but it's my "first child," and I'll never part with it. My memory isn't fuzzy on that detail. Any images I find of Washburns from 1985/86 have a very different shaped headstock. The body looks kind of like a PRS, which coincides with an image of an ad for another Washburn featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush) from 1986. This is leading me to believe he may have at one point had a custom shop Alex Lifeson Washburn (if that was even a thing) with either a 4+2 or 5+1 headstock instead of the "off the shelf" inline 6 headstock being advertised. This could have also been either a prototype or just a less popular model. Rock stars have access to gear and otherwise non-existent custom shops that we mere mortals don't have. Custom shops we have access to will do things for them that they won't do for us. That all said, I don't know that this is a Washburn. I just saw the headstock and went down that particular rabbit hole. I was doubting Washburn, being that they're mid-level at best, and nothing was matching until I saw the Alex Lifeson. It could easily be something completely different, and I didn't find it because I wasn't looking for it. Google image search was useless. It came back with some really off the wall results (KISS, Carlos Santana, Matthew Sweet in hair metal getup).
