the red guitar steve vai played in the movie crossroads

[mrvertigo]

do you know which pickups were used and if the guitar is alder or basswood?

[RSVampire]

I believe they were Paf Pro's and I'm not sure of the wood type. I believe it was alder if I'm not mistaken.

[pinto79]

The guitar you see is not the guitar you hear... the part was most likely recorded with Steve's "Green Meanie" Basswood body and most likely PAF Pro pups. Others here are more of an authority on that tho...

[RSVampire]

yeah I meant the guitar he was using in the studio... cause the red guitar in the movie was a "prop"

[mrvertigo]

I'm glad it's a basswood guitar(i have a rg 1570 and i would reallly like to have that lead tone)do you know what amp and what pedals were used?

[darren wilson]

If i'm not mistaken, the PAF Pro did not exist until after the JEM's production began.

[toshiro]

PAF Pro's came out in 1986.

Didn't the "Green Meanie" guitar have an X2N in the bridge?

[power freak]

"Vai's main squeeze is the remainder of a green Charvel Strat. This ax was originally built for Grover Jackson, who let Steve play it one day and hasn't seen it since. "Steve always has that ax within arm's reach; that guitar is Steve," says Elwood. The body is made up of basswood and is loaded with custom made DiMarzio pickups; two humbuckers and one single-coil in the middle position. Steve had the inside of the lower cutaway shaved away to just up to the edge of the pickguard to increase his reach on the neck (GW 1/87) "

Straight off this here site:
http://www.jemsite.com/axes/model/charvel2.htm