I've always conducted business like Wayne, fiarly, and I've always been screwed over like Wayne. But like he said, "I can lay my head down on the pillow at night." Thanks for this amazing interview Steve and Adam for putting it up. The photo of Fender and Charvel is epic!
Interesting how Wayne had seen someone else try to do this before on AMPLIFIERS components ....But I guess Wayne & Edward were the first to try it on pickups.
I remember in a 1979 ED interview with Jas Obrecht Ed said he was still on good terms with Wayne but that he was suing Grover Jackson for trying to mass produce without his permission reproductions of the Yellow & Black BumbleBee guitar on the back of the VH2 album...I remember that was why Edward re-painted the original B&W Wayne guitar RED ....Because he was afraid they would try to copy that guitar too....Ed saw his individuality was being threatened . He said - 'Here I was, a kid who wanted a guitar which could do more for me than the ones bought off the rack so I build one myself & now everybody else wants one...I painted my original guitar all freaked out because I like to turn the corner on people when they try to latch onto what I'm doing'.
Very, you can tell in interviews Grover most definitely had the hustle in him. But no Wayne, no Charvel. All adds up in the Obrecht interview where Eddie goes off about Jackson.
You mean with the chainsaw? Taking the wood out from behind the bridge after he’d recorded parts on VH 1 with it ? Did Wayne put the ‘climbing turnbuckles’ in the gap too ?