Steven Drozd Jazzmaster question

[MasterCapn]

Does anyone know what pickup he has in the bridge position?  I've always wondered but never could tell for sure.

[TheodorJ]

I believe it's a Hot Rails that Wayne Coyne installed in it.

[painted wood]

I like that.

Perhaps my next JM build will have a mustang pickup in the bridge.

[sullen]

Steven is the main reason I wanted a B+B JM.  Just awesome, and the Pearl Tuners really make it classy!

[MasterCapn]

I really really really want his jazzmaster, well I just want a jazzmaster period but still, he's awesome live.

But this is the best picture ever!  And from this picture I can tell it's one of those single coil humbuckers.

[ohm-men]

I like the way the hot rail is done by cutting out the slot in the existing JM pu cover. Nice.
Very nice JM imo. Though I have no clue who Steven Drozd is ....

[JazzBlaster]

Though I have no clue who Steven Drozd is ....

He used to be the drummer for the Flaming Lips, When Ronald Jones left the band he switched to guitar.

[Jaguar018]

He used to be the drummer for the Flaming Lips, When Ronald Jones left the band he switched to guitar.

Too bad... he was an amazing drummer.

[Loomer]

He used to be the drummer for the Flaming Lips, When Ronald Jones left the band he switched to guitar.

Too bad... he was an amazing drummer.

Oh, he's still the drummer. Drozd was always a multi-instrumentalist, but when Ron left he played guitar live much more. Now it's just Steve Drozd, Wayne Coyne (the lead singer/occasional strummer), and Michael Ivins (bass) on their albums. Everything you hear on the records (keys, guitars, backing vocals, samples, drum machines, quirky production)--that isn't Michael Ivans on bass or Coyne on vocals and/or quasi-simple guitar chords--that's usually Drozd. He's the Fu(%ing man. 

[JazzBlaster]

Wayne actualy doesn't play guitar at all on stage anymore. It's just a prop.  :-\

[StevenO]

I think Drozd even plays a majority of the bass lines as well, in the studio. I remember reading something like that in an interview.

[Wonka]

I like the way the hot rail is done by cutting out the slot in the existing JM pu cover. Nice.
Very nice JM imo. Though I have no clue who Steven Drozd is ....

Form follows function. Use what you have. That would be the universal way of all hotrodder/stoners of the world. If they had say, had a new guard made to fit the single coil to the guitar, well that would have been just plain ol lame. I digress... but I love that Jazzy and that band.

[Jaguar018]

I know he can play anything, and pretty much sound awesome.

I heard a story of Drozd, when he was back in his full-on drunk & drugged up state playing all of MBV's loveless on piano. THAT would be cool to hear.

[light years]

Steven is the main reason I wanted a B+B JM.

This 

[MasterCapn]

Love the flaming lips so much.  Saw them at bonnaroo a couple years ago.  Twas the best concert ever.  Steven is like one of the most tallented guys ever, I think i heard a rumor that not only does he play most the instraments, but that he also writes most the songs (except lyrics) but I can't remember where i heard it.  It could be around the time he started playing all the instrament's for the band that they switched from they're first Punk/Noise/Stonner rock to thier current spacy rock.

Wayne actualy doesn't play guitar at all on stage anymore. It's just a prop.  :-\

Yeah I noticed that, it is really a shame, but steven plays as much as he can live, they have to play pre-recorded stuff to sound as good as they do on the album but their live shows are deffinatly more of a "show" than a "concert" but i like it that way some times, be nice if it could be both, but Wayne just can't pull of his vocals as well live...kinda like Kanye West.