lockjawnight

Nice, nice. Good pickup

I can remember the story of Dave Mustaine when he wanted to buy Jackson.......wish someone like that could swoop in and scoop up this company for a song to get it off of Fender's ledgers and put some capital into it......

Yep, Jackson Guitars has been doing that for years. Helped of course by our friends at FMIC.

On the Joe Perry point in an earlier post...I agree wholeheartedly. Perry is a larger part of this than he's getting credit for. On the acoustic/country/folk side the name I see missing is Maybelle Carter.... and then if we listen to the real old Flatt and Scruggs stuff (from the 50's) Earl Scruggs just dominates a Banjo. He's EVH 25 years earlier. The man is an alien.

I'll take Blackmore, Van Halen, Lynch, Sykes, Rabin, and Gilmour. What I wish I was better at isn't the fast stuff. It's the ability to play the hard blues/rock electric guitar s-l-o-w-ly like the British players can (and they always could) Gilmour, Blackmore, Clapton-the whole bunch can play very slowly and still have dynamics that are unbelievable. Gibbons is an American that can do it. IMO.