Best guess now that he's just decided he likes the sound.
He plays a National on Bonaparte so could use it if he wanted.
Strange as the selected guitar is the one that sound less similar to the original from all the guitars he could had chosen...
That's the point. He wanted a change, not a replica. He also playes a Les Paul on Going Home, which I think is just wrong, especially with such a distorted sound. But he wanted a change.
But the original recording of Going Home had a distorted sound, so it’s a change back to the original sound then. I like that distorted sound on that song. He did that i 96 too.
True. But for so many years it was played with a clean Stratocaster sound that that is the 'established' Going Home sound. To me anyway. And the original studio recording is as dull as all get out.
Of course that was the Schecter Stratocaster and not the Fender he uses these days. I always felt his Schecter’s had a thicker and better sound for most songs.
Lovely bell like tone on that guitar with the renowned F500Ts. I put a set of them in a build I was putting together last year, so hard to find these days, and they are in my opinion the best sounding Strat pickups ever. Their range of tone is incredible...
