mike's guitar

[mooserider]

hello!

can anyone tell what brand and what model mike uses for his electic guitar? peter uses a les paul right? But what about mike? Thanks for telling me if you know for sure!

moose

 

[M.Lehto]

It's not too hard to find from www.opeth.com...

Name: Mikael Åkerfeldt
Birth date: April 17, 1974
Lives in: Stockholm/Sweden
Status: Engaged to be married
Family: Anna, 2 cats (Maurice DeBracy and Isaac of York) Mother, father, sister and relatives.

Equipment: PRS Custom 24, PRS CE24
Fender Stratocaster, BC Rich Mockingbird Martin 00016GT, Takamine EF385, Amalio Burguet 3am Seagull S6CW, Landola CT2, Laney GT100L w/cabinet Laney VC100, Fender 1000 Rocpro, Boss GT3, Boss GT6 Boss BR8, Zoom RT123, Gibson Les Paul Std., Fender Stratocaster (1975), CF. Martin 000-28, Amalio Burguet 2am, Laney Combo VC100

Favourite Opeth tracks: Hope leaves, Deliverance, Bleak, Face of Melinda, When, Nectar, Under the weeping moon
Least favourite Opeth track: The night and the silent water
Best event in career: Wacken 2001, Milwaukee 2000, Milan 2001, Rome 1996, Dynamo 2002
Worst event in career: Osnabruck 2001 when I lost my voice on stage.

Favourite food: Tacos, fish soup with sapphron and aioli
Favourite drinks: Carlsberg beer, Corona, coke, water, pear juice, scotch & coke, vodka & russian
Bad habits: Marlboro lights (trying to quit!)

Last seen movie: Reservoir dogs (for the 10th time), The wicker man
Favourite movie: The deer hunter, Star 80, Taxidriver, Cuckoo’s nest, King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Usual suspects, Reservoir dogs, The excorcist, The omen, Elephant man, The shining

Favourite actor/actress: Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Eric Roberts, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jeff Bridges, Tim Roth, Joe Pesci, Benicio Del Toro
Favourite TV series: Not following anything at the time

Favourite video/computer game: Grand theft auto 3 + Vice city, Silent hill 1 & 2, Syphon filter 1 & 2, Phantasmagoria 2, The beast within

Favourite book: American psycho, 3rd stone from the sun
Last read book: Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis (Great!)
Favourite magazine: Classic rock, Terrorizer, BW&BK, Close up

Last bought record: Upgrading my copies of Mountain “Avalanche”, Moody blues “On the threshold of a dream” + “Seventh sojourn” + the self titled Kiss record.
First bought record: Iron Maiden ­ Number of the beast
Best ever song: A day in the life ­ The Beatles
Best ever album: Sabbath bloody Sabbath ­ Black Sabbath, tied with Porcupine tree ­ In absentia
Favourite songwriter: The Beatles (living & dead), Ritchie Blackmore, Steven Wilson, Stefan Dimle/Reine Fiske, Jimmy Page
Favourite musician: The above + Andy Latimer, Jerry Donahue, Trey Azagthoth, David Vincent, David Coverdale, Ronnie Dio, Rob Halford, Jörn Lande, Yngwie Malmsteen.

Playlist (June ­03):
Anekdoten - Gravity
Whitesnake - Ready an' willing
Led Zeppelin - III
Kiss - Hotter than hell
The human beast - Volume one
Muddy Waters - Electric mud
Budgie - Budgie
Travis - The invisible band
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Popol vuh - Hosianna mantra

 

[Staffan]

His main(blue) guitar is a PRS (custom 24?)

 

[mooserider]

thanks guys!!!

moose

 

[Ermz]

Yeah his main guitar is a PRS Custom 24... awesome guitars at that, I got to try one out about a month ago... best thing I ever played.

 

[Staffan]

But it seems to me that it doesn't hold the tuning too well... he's often tuning between the songs.

 

[Algarothsyum]

Yup - and Peter usually plays a Jackson, I think.

 

[phon1c]

But it seems to me that it doesn't hold the tuning too well... he's often tuning between the songs.

You'll go out of tune a lot more in a live setting, and it probably doesnt go out by much, but when gigging you want to be perfectly in a tune as possibly whenever you can.

 

[Light]

Perhaps he's not tuning it but just likes playing with the knobs a bit to calm down like

 

[The Evil Toucan]

Yup - and Peter usually plays a Jackson, I think.

Peter usually plays a sunburst flametop PRS.

 

[Dem0n0fTheFall4]

I saw Mike's PRS in Sam Ash, it was like 3000bucks

 

[opethwundi]

PRS Custom 24, PRS CE24
Fender Stratocaster, BC Rich Mockingbird Martin 00016GT, Takamine EF385, Amalio Burguet 3am Seagull S6CW, Landola CT2, Laney GT100L w/cabinet Laney VC100, Fender 1000 Rocpro, Boss GT3, Boss GT6 Boss BR8, Zoom RT123, Gibson Les Paul Std., Fender Stratocaster (1975), CF. Martin 000-28, Amalio Burguet 2am, Laney Combo VC100

PRS CUSTOM 24...
BC RICH MOCKINGBIRD MARTIN 00016GT...

I LOVE YOUR GUITARS MIKE

 

[thebleakaffinity]

Favourite video/computer game: Grand theft auto 3 + Vice city, Silent hill 1 & 2, Syphon filter 1 & 2, Phantasmagoria 2, The beast within

Mike likes Silent Hill?! Badass :hotjump:

 

[L0bster]

I've seen them play some guitars.

Mike > Blue PRS 24fret, Seymour Duncan pickups
and a Fender Stratocaster, Blue Les Paul vintage
Peter > White Jackson Flying V, RRstyle, Sunburst PRS, and yellowish Les Paul

 

[segaszivos]

OMG! Mikael has the best taste in the world when it comes to music, books, and movies. Most of his favorites are mine.

What song is hope leaves? Is it Damnation? I don't know the Damnation songs as well as the others.

 

[segaszivos]

He also has okay taste in games. The GTA games are teh stupidest games around. Fun, but stupid and get boring really fast.

 

[mooserider]

yes hope leaves is taken from damnation, great song

-the lord