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Because they weren't Gibson.

LOVE the flamed neck! HNGD!!

No pics?? How dare you! Especially the Lita Cali???

It blows my mind that the EVH can be such a dog compared to what he used to be associated with (AXIS and Wolfgang), where you never heard a peep about poor necks or bad quality.

Chris nails it. The New York Guitar Show was like going to a porn convention. I've gone to the one in Fairfield, CT a couple of times recently and one that is trying to get going out on Long Island. The one in FFD is VERY small. The other is promising if they can get more vendors.

Any guitar show is worth a 90-minute drive!

Man....even if I had a billion on hand, I don't think I could ever stomach coughing up that kind of coin for a guitar.

It's absurd that this suit can even be filed after 40+ years. What a load of BS.

There's NO comparison. While FatDawg is a sloppy site, I can pretty much see all guitar pics in less than 5 minutes.

Which is the LAST thing I want when I visit a website, much less one where I'm trying to find rare guitars. It's hard enough to find oddities and get really irritated by some store that thinks it's cute to have some asinine site that is as complicated as can be. That's a sure fire way to get me to NOT come back ever.

WORST. WEBSITE. EVER. Holy shit...

This. I'm actually a little surprised at the negative reaction to the Fallon appearance. He's been that bad for a good long while. I've never been a fan of his in the first place. I don't know why, but I YouTube'd some of his live performances a couple of years ago (maybe it was when his last album came out) and was, honestly, appalled. Sloppy as hell. And just nothing...there. It's amazing to me he's had any sort of career after KISS to speak of. I know everyone has their own tastes and such, but I truly do wonder if Ace die-hards hear something completely different than the rest of us - or just fool themselves into not wanting to face reality.

That was painful to watch and listen to. Ace is so out of key, it's not even funny. Also, what's the deal with the black tape covering the brand of his guitar??? I see this a lot on TV shows.

Just for shits and giggles, can someone PM me a rough price on these?

Does he need an apprentice?? I'm in CT...

I as thinking the SAME thing. Only in Japan do they seem to truly appreciate music. They'd be hard-pressed to draw 100 people in New York, I bet.

Agreed on both counts. So glad to see he's re-doing the Dio stuff with the old band. They created a lot of magic. BTW, his tone is SO much better now. Love that crunch. Looks like he's using ENGLs with the LP

Really odd that they would go through all of that, but not to the neck or control pocket. And, I just don't understand why people don't do SOMETHING to retain the damn serial on these guitars. Write the damn number down, reproduce it when done. Simple. Anyway, nice score!

A link would help....

I want to hear what John has to say to Greg when he gets it back. Keep us updated, Greg. Wonderful job! Hope to have your skills some day.

Wow. This is a holy grail piece. You can never let this go and it must stay in your family forever. Congrats. I can't believe that monster only weighs 6.6!! Or is it really 666...

Brent, while I like your playing, it is incumbent on any player with a new Explorer to play the following song: (forgive me if you did it in your video, but my Flash player is acting wonky this morning.)

we (HFC) usually do. He speaketh the truth.

Which makes sense, given he treated the company like an uber-boutique brand and has always had that "air" about him. Heck, I recently told someone about my recent score and he gave me the same confused look that someone mentioned earlier. The brand had virtually disappeared from people's radars 15+ years ago, at least. I think that move to make Hamer boutiquey killed it. That's not to say what was created wasn't extraordinary. It was until the end. But I think back to my guys in Judas Priest slinging Hamers to where things are today and it's night and day. Of course, as Chris said, it was a multitude of things over the years. But I think that played a big role.