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February 14, 2011 / 3:26 PM
/ CBS News

(CBS/AP) Officials are reviewing whether laws were broken when pornography producer "Reality Kings" shot a XXX video without permission in a public area near Miami Beach in broad daylight.
The video was shot at Monument Island - the man-made island near Miami Beach that features a 110-foot obelisk honoring Florida pioneer Henry Flagler.
Assistant city manager Hilda Fernandez notes that it is not "an uninhabited island miles off the coast. It's in the middle of a very busy bay."
But an attorney for Reality Kings, which produced the video, says his clients didn't break any rules. Lawrence Walters says no one was around the island at the time of the filming, except the actors and crew.
Legal or not, local historian Seth Bramson says any sequels need to be filmed elsewhere: "It's hallowed ground."

First published on February 14, 2011 / 3:26 PM

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Zakk Wylde is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society, and as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. He was also the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released one album called Book of Shadows in 1996.
As for the guitars, Zakk is mostly known for his Les Paul Customs with the bullseye finish. He mostly prefers playing on a shaved maple neck with ebony fretboard, using Dunlop 6000 wire. Almost all of this guitar are loaded with EMG 81/85 humbuckers, and feature some kind of a custom paintjob. Zakk even designed a couple of guitars himself, including the Gibson/Epiphone ZV and Graveyard Disciple model. More recently he started his own company called Wylde Audio, and plans on making and eventually using those instruments himself.
Zakk ended up selling the guitar couple of years later, because he wanted to buy a Les Paul Custom.
We couldn’t find anything specific about this guitar, so if you happen to know anything please send us a message using the form below this article.
When Zakk received the guitar, it was equipped with standard humbuckers, but Zakk very soon replaced them with EMG 81/85 set – after trying them out on one of his student’s guitar. Originally the guitar was finished in blonde/cream color (still visible on the sides and the back of the body). but Zakk felt this was Randy Rhoads’ signature thing, and he wanted something different – so he decided to send the guitar to a guitar luthier for a paintjob. The initial idea was to paint the Hitchcock Vertigo design on it, but the guitar came back with the bull’s-eye decals. Zakk ended up liking it, and he decided to just stuck with it.
Zakk lost his 81′ Les Paul at one point in the 90s, as it supposedly fell of a truck that was transporting band’s equipment. The guitar randomly appeared at a local pawnshop in Texas couple of years later, and guy named Jerry Weisinger ended up buying it for $250 – initially thinking it was a retail Gibson Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom. He read somewhere that Zakk lost his original 81′ Custom, so he took out the pickups out of the guitar he just purchased, and saw “Z.W.” underneath them. After comparing the serial number against the “The Grail”s which was available on Zakk website, it became clear that he owns Zakk’s original guitar. Luckily for Zakk, he was contacted by Jerry and he received his guitar back.
As for specs, as already mentioned the guitar was equipped with EMG pickups, and it has a shaved maple neck with ebony fretboard.
The guitar is mostly known for it’s appearance on the early photo sessions of the Ozzy Osbourne band in 1987, done by Mark Weiss.
This guitar went through countless modifications. At one point it had pictures of all of Zakk’s musical heroes and bands glued to the body, and some time later it was completely stripped down to bare wood. Nowadays the guitar is known as the “Pope Page Dragon” – featuring finish identical to one on Jimmy Page’s original Telecaster.
I saw Bret Michaels in a Poison video and he had a rebel flag on one of his guitars. I’m buddies with him now, but then I was thinking, “I can’t be walking around with a rebel guitar. Bret Michaels has a f***ing rebel guitar!” Everyone was going to be yelling, “Hey Zakk, I love your Bret Michaels guitar.” – Zakk Wylde’s 5 Favorite Les Pauls
Ozzy Osbourne himself was not a fan of southern rock, so one day as he was poking Zakk about his musical preferences Zakk realized that his guitar was nowhere to be seen. He went outside and saw one of the guys with the guitar wrapped in some paper, trying to set it on fire. Seconds later, the huge flame caught the guitar as Zakk was trying to put the fire out. Luckily for him, the fire mostly caught just the paper, and the Les Paul itself wasn’t damaged too much.
Zakk Les Paul was damaged once again in an accident caused by his little daughter, who bumped into one of Zakk guitars as they were standing next to each other, causing them to fall like dominos. The Rebel ended up with a broken headstock, but it was quickly repaired by Gibson luthiers.
Zakk’s Les Paul Junior was made in 1957, and it features a single-cutout body shape with sunburst finish, and a single P-90 pickups in the bridge position.
Since then, the guitar was modified to look more like a Custom – mainly by changing the white pickup rings with black ones, and replacing the control knobs.
Zakk played this guitar during the 1992 “Live and Loud” tour.
Later on, both Gibson and Epiphone produced a ZW signature model based on this guitar.
In reality, there are two identical Les Paul pelham blue guitars – one of which was stolen in 2014 but luckily recovered just a couple of days later.
Zakk mostly plays the orange/black Gibson models, although there are couple of different color combos available, as well as a cheaper Epiphone version which Zakk endorsed a while ago.
More recently, he also acquired a black and white bullseye EDF-1275.
Gibson produced only a limited number of this guitar, while Epiphone still makes and sells a somewhat cheaper version of the ZV.
Zakk has few of these, perhaps the best known one has black paint-job with white dots, which he used in the music video for “Suicide Messiah”.
Based on some of photos on Zakk’s social pages, he still has the guitar, and takes very special care of it.
Zakk was seen playing one version of the guitar with The Les Paul Trio in 2013, and it featured bulls-eye finish and a EMG ACS pickup. Another version of the guitar can be seen on a video posted on EMG’s YouTube channel. This one featured darkened natural finish with a Black Label Society logo featured on the front of the body.
– Marshall JCM 800 4210 Combo Amp Used on the first Ozzy Osbourne album.
– Metaltronix M1000 Although some articles that we’ve read during our research indicate otherwise, Zakk said that he never used this amp in the studio ( source ). He supposedly only used the Metaltronix preamps on the tour that followed the release of the first album (1988/89).
– Marshall JCM 800 In the more recent years, before switching to his own brand of amps, Zakk mainly used Marshalls. The company even made him his own signature model which is basically a beefed-up version pf the JCM800 2203. His cabinets are usually stacked up with 200W EV speakers.
– Wylde Audio Amp In 2015 Zakk announced that his working on his own brand of audio equipment, including a brand new amp.
Backstage pedals: – Dunlop DC Brick Power Supply – Jim Dunlop ZW38 MXR Black Label Chorus – MXR Eddie Van Halen Phase 90 Pedal – Jim Dunlop EVH117 MXR Evh Flanger (Used on Crazy Horse.)
Zakk is using signature Jim Dunlop strings . .011 to .070 on down-tuned guitars and .010 to .060 on standard tuned guitars.
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This guitar started appearing towards the late 90s. The guitar is obviously a black Les Paul Custom wrapped in some mylar film to make the mirror effect on the circles, with two EMG humbuckers instead of the stock pickups.
This is just basically a black Gibson Flying V with bullseye design, loaded with two EMG pickups and Floyd Rose tremolo. His first Flying V was probably a vintage guitar, but nowadays he mostly uses the signature model from Gibson.
Zakk designed this guitar with the help of Epiphone. It was inspired by some older models, like the Bo Diddley Gretsch. The body was designed to look like a coffin, and it’s made of one-piece mahogany, with the neck being maple with ebony fretboard. The guitar is also equipped with two EMG pickups, and the Floyd Rose tremolo system.
Guitar given to him by Dimebag Darrel, shortly before his death. Zakk only used it once on stage to play “In This River,” to pay a personal tribute to Dimebag.
Only instance of Zakk playing this guitar is a video recorded in 1994, during Pride & Glory UK tour ( Zakk Wylde Lovin Woman – acoustic ).
Seen mostly around the time Zakk worked on his solo album in 1996, which was mostly acoustic. It is safe to believe that he used the guitar on some of the songs on the album, like “As Dead as Yesterday” and “Way Beyond Empty”.
This is one of the more recent acoustic guitars. It was custom-built for him the feature a natural bulls-eye and buzz-saw designs, and a EMG AT125U Piezo pickup.

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The guitarists behind The Thin White Duke's greatest songs
David Bowie always had a keen ear for a great guitarist. From Mick Ronson in the early Seventies to Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1983 to Reeves Gabrels in the Nineties, some of music’s most distinctive guitarists played a role in shaping and creating the sound of Bowie’s stylistically fluid music.
As we look back at the long career of Bowie, who died January 10, we celebrate both his music and the guitarists who created it with him. Here are nine of the greatest, along with signature tracks that exemplify their contributions.
Bowie’s association with guitarist Mick Ronson was without a doubt the most prolific of his career. The two met in 1970 when Ronson was recruited to play in Bowie’s band. That same year, they cut The Man Who Sold the World. Ronson would go on to perform and record with Bowie through 1973, a period that includes Bowie’s breakthrough classic albums, among them Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Aladdin Sane. His stinging signature tone, achieved with a 1968 Les Paul Custom, became a hallmark of the glam era and inspired guitarists like Randy Rhoads in terms of technique and image. “Suffragette City,” from Ziggy Stardust, is a classic example of Ronson’s style and tone.
“Suffragette City”— The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Following Ronson’s exit from his band, Bowie surprised everyone by assuming guitar duties himself. Though he’d shown himself to be a fine rhythm player—mostly on acoustic and acoustic 12-string—he always left the deft lead work to Ronson. For 1974’s Diamond Dogs, Bowie handled guitar duties for the album almost exclusively. (Earl Slick performed the Ronson-like lead work on “Rock ’n’ Roll with Me,” and Alan Parker guested on the hit “1984.”) “Rebel Rebel,” the album’s breakout hit, featured Bowie playing what would become a signature riff of the era. In the video for it, shown below, he mimes using his Kent-branded three-pickup Hagstrom.
“Rebel Rebel” - Diamond Dogs (1974)
3 & 4. Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick
The guitar tandem of Alomar and Slick leant a particularly unique rock-funk sound to Young Americans and Station to Station, Bowie’s mid-Seventies excursions into soul. Slick had first joined Bowie in 1974 for the Diamond Dogs tour, which produced the David Live album. While Alomar handled the bulk of guitar duties on Young Americans, Slick teamed up with him for the funk workout “Fame,” a hit written by Bowie and John Lennon.
Though not a member of Bowie’s band, Robert Fripp earned a significant place in Bowie’s catalog with his droning lead guitar playing on “Heroes,” the title track from Bowie’s 1977 album, his second collaboration with ambient/synth pioneer Brian Eno. Fripp achieved his long-sustaining notes through his “Frippertronics” analog delay system, in which two reel-to-reel recorders were used to create dense, sustaining tones.
Thanks to Brian Eno’s advice after seeing Adrian Belew onstage during a Frank Zappa concert, Bowie offered to hire Belew once the Zappa tour was finished. Belew recalled on his Facebook page how he met Bowie in Berlin during one of the shows.
“So I walked over to David Bowie, shook his hand and said, ‘I love what you’ve done, thank you for all the music.’ And he said, ‘Great, how would you like to be in my band?’ I motioned back towards Frank and said, ‘Well, I’m kind of playing with that guy.’ David laughed and said, ‘Yes, I know, but when Frank’s tour ends my tour starts two weeks later. Shall we talk about it over dinner?’”
Later, he said, “We arrived at the restaurant, went in the front door, and who should be sitting at the very first table but Frank Zappa and the rest of the band! So the three of us sat down with Frank and the band. David, trying to be cordial, motioned to me and said, ‘Quite a guitar player you have here Frank.’
“And Frank said, ‘Fuck you, Captain Tom.’ (Note: Frank had demoted David from Major Tom to Captain Tom.)
“David persisted, ‘Oh come on now Frank, surely we can be gentleman about this?’
“Frank said, ‘Fuck you, Captain Tom.’
“By this point I was paralyzed. David said, ‘So you really have nothing to say?’ Frank said, ‘Fuck you, Captain Tom.’
“David and Coco and I got up and went back out the front door. Getting in the limo David said in his wonderfully British way, ‘I thought that went rather nicely!’ ”
“Heroes” on 1978 Tour with Adrian Belew
The soon-to-be guitar hero was spotted by Bowie after Vaughan and Double Trouble performed at Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982. Bowie tapped him to perform on his 1983 album, Let’s Dance, which produced the smash hits “China Girl” and “Let’s Dance,” both of which featured Vaughan. Bowie wanted the guitarist to join his group for the subsequent support tour, but Vaughan was reluctant to leave Double Trouble, who had just finished recording their debut, Texas Flood. He changed his mind when Bowie’s management offered to let the group open on select tour dates. When the offer was subsequently pulled, Vaughan’s manager took him off the tour, leaving Bowie to rely on his longtime guitarist Earl Slick to fill in.
Gabrels met Bowie in 1987 and subsequently joined forces with him in Tin Machine from 1988 to 1992. Following the group’s breakup, Gabrels continued to work with Bowie from 1995’s Outside through 1999’s ‘Hours.’ Among the best examples of Gabrels’ breakthrough guitar work can be heard on 1997’s Earthling. The album is full of his beautifully noisy guitar squawks and squeals, which at times recall the digital chatter of a 56k modem. The sound was perfect for an album awash in technological isolation, despair and paranoia.
Torn first performed on Bowie’s 2003 album, Reality, whe
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