Many moons ago I was in a progressive two guitar band and the other guitarist had the original 5150 and it was a crunch monster. I had a Peavey VTM 120 a Loooooong time ago. That was a great amp as well. I'm down to three amps at the moment. I have a Soldano SLO and my original one owner [me] 50 watt JCM 800. Put a Boss yellow OD in front of that with some EMG's and hoo boy! But I play the Mark IV almost exclusively these days. It has all the gain you could want and it's got balls for days. It pushes the Recto cab into the pain threshold pretty quickly. But lugging around an all tube 1/2 stack is not my idea of fun these days.
My practice amp is a Peavey Vyper 30, so I'm a Peavey guy myself now that I think of it.
Taking some time off.
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Is the Soldano a 30 or 100? Either one of those amps drip tone. Both of you guys have a nice axe collection for sure.
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My SLO is an early 100 watter. I lucked into it when it got traded in to my local store for a PRS. I traded a new [then] Krank Rev1 and cash for it.
The only guitar I own not in the picture is my trusty Gibson J45 from about 1978. Another guitar I've owned for over 30 years now.
The only guitar I own not in the picture is my trusty Gibson J45 from about 1978. Another guitar I've owned for over 30 years now.
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Man oh man that amp is worth some big bucks! Funny how things like that seem trivial at the time in the way back when. A kid sold me his EHX setup of a Memory Man and Attack Decay for $25 so he could party that weekend, the Memory Man walked off from a gig one night but the Attack Decay I still have. Last I saw on Reverb they are selling for over $1700. Turns out there were only a couple hundred ever made back in 81-82
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My Gibson Explorer: A Love Affair
I have a few minutes here as I take a lunch break and thought I'd write a little ditty about a guitar that means so much to me. In 1984 I was a young guitarist of 19 who had been playing for a couple of years. I had finally gotten a professional grade instrument in my Kramer Focus 6000. That year would see me getting my Marshall 50 watt JCM800 from Luca music in Providence RI with tax money. My band 2nd Thought was starting to play the local and Prov and Boston scenes and I was really hot shit [or so I thought] at the time. The mid 80's was a special time for playing music, especially if you were in a rock band. The women were... aggressive, shall we say. Peers were usually jealous of everyone, I was no different. It was fierce, it was LIVE with energy. The club scene was monstrous. Gigs were happening everywhere. Opportunities to open for major acts came down the pike like rain if you had someone in your camp dedicated to booking you. My singer Joe Coletti was a charismatic figure in his own right. He was quite the conversationalist and could talk a dog off a meatwagon. With women? Just insane!
I needed a second guitar at this point. If the Kramer broke a string it was over. I started looking and found a Les Paul Standard locally for [get this] 300 bucks! It was a mid 70's guitar and Les Paul's were at the time not in vogue. The Super Strat was all the rage and LP's were selling for cheap so guys could buy stripped down one pickup Kramer's and Charvel's. It would be a couple of years before Jackson really took off so Charvel's were all the rage at the time. I ended up owning several during the coming decade.
It was then that I found my baby... This Explorer was hanging on the wall at my local shop. It was a leftover, unsold 1984 Explorer in classic white with gold hardware. BUT, it had sat in the window for a while. If you know anything about Gibson classic white is that it starts to yellow. And it starts to yellow pretty quickly too. So there it was, sitting there all yellowish and gold and I pulled it down from the wall. From the back of the shop I hear Pat O'Driscoll [the owner] yell "I'll give you a great deal on that fiddle Bobby". I said I needed to try it first so he hooked me up to an ADA pre-amp that was in a rack on the showroom floor. This was the HOTTEST pre amp at the time and anyone worth their salt had one. It was Pat's personal rig that he used when he played out. Pat is/was a brilliant guitar player.
You ever get that feeling about a thing? When you first touch or see it? That visceral deep in the gut feeling? That's the feeling I got when I played this guitar for the first time. The Dirty Fingers pickups in it were HOT. So much hotter than anything I'd ever played before. The overdrive was smooth and went into feedback so controllably. It sustained as well as any Les Paul and played like butter. There was a hitch though, no tremelo. I abuse the bar I admit. Back then I used it to some musical competence, but I was still struggling with it. Not like today where I can use it either subtly or with shrieking dive bombs of harmonic rage. Back then I was a novice with it. But all my guitars MUST have a trem on them. I'm looking at you late 70's Les Paul...[God, do I wish I still had that guitar]
Pat explained that there is a system called the Kahler Tremelo system. It retrofits where the stop bar tailpiece goes and even had a locking nut. A few holes cut into the guitar and you are good to go. If the guitar had not been so yellowed I may not have even gotten it. But the combination of the yellowed finish and Kahler were too good to pass up. I will get it repainted and have a trem on it. I'll be James Hetfield that plays lead guitar! I'll be such Hot Shit no one will be able to look away!
So we made a deal. I'd trade in the Kramer and get the Explorer and Kahler for it plus a few bucks from me.
Pat ordered the Kahler for it and I left with the Gibson and that would be that for 2 weeks. Pat called and said the Kahler was in so I went to pick it up. I tried to research the Kahler but I found little about them. This was looooong before the Internet so guitar mags were all I had. I saw that the band Photograph used them and Carvin guitars came with them as an option. Even Charvel guitars came with them and I eventually got to play one a week before I got mine. It was tremendously smooth and you could pull UP on it! I was sold.
Here it is in its original color with an old Laney half stack behind.
Carving a hole into your new guitar is not for everyone let me say that. I brought everything over to my Dad's house where I am currently living. My dad has a nice little workshop down in the basement here and we got the router out and had at it. I've learned a lot about luthier's and guitars over the years. I'm certainly no luthier but I can do a set up on a guitar and make fine adjustments and intonation.
So I had it all set up and raring to go. It was still that awful yellow but it was a powerful weapon in my hands. About 8 months after all of this my buddy Jimmy [who I gave the back To The Future model too] said he had a friend who painted guitars for a living. Who paints guitars for a living? I learned that he worked for Lane Poor Instruments in Fall River Mass. Very cutting edge sawblade type fingerboards made of resin with no metal frets. One piece designs and very high tech stuff. Sort of like Steinberger but different in many ways. It was during a conversation with the painter Chris [Bass player for local legends Sirath] that I was told of a special color he had. It seems Sting had a bass made by Lane Poor. He picked a very dark black cherry for the color and then ordered that color destroyed so he would be the only one to have it. But, Chris had saved a baby food jar of the toner off to the side. I was thinking a dark color so the decision was made to paint it Plum Pearl with the Sting toner. I shit you not folks... Two weeks later and it was done. I went after work to pick it up and all I could say was WOW!
But it was to be short lived. We used to rehearse in my drummer Mike's basement. There are columns in that basement. DAY ONE of having it all back together and I tap the back of the headstock against a lolly column and the paint chipped off in a chunk.. After that I never cared if it got damaged again. The paint was so thin and Chris had sanded it down so much between coats it was really very thin. It was NOT durable at all. It got dings and scrapes just from looking at it I swear. For some years it wore the Sting plum pearl toner until one day I was so mad I said F IT! I took it apart and sanded it down to bare wood. Then I threw on some Tung oil. I stayed that way for many years. I was living in Baltimore and working for NAPA when I met a talented auto body guy named Rick. Rick is one of those guys you meet that can build and paint anything. He is an artist and body man. His brother is the guitarist for The Martians, which are a locally signed band from Baltimore. Rick admired my models which I displayed one at a time at my NAPA. My terminal had a spot in front so I put a Jo-Han case there and would switch out cars i built periodically. When the Tom Daniel Rommel's Rod got reissued I built one and displayed it. He loved it so much he wanted it. So we made a deal. I'll provide the paint and he would paint my guitar with base/clear and buff it. I gave him the model and the guitar and off he went. One week later he called and asked me to come to the shop as my guitar was done. The paint I chose I personally mixed at my NAPA. It is their Martin Senour Crossfire line. I wanted sparlky silver but Rick didn't have a gun that would shoot it with the flake size I wanted [Think 70's van or Bass boat]. So I compromised and chose Sunset Orange Metallic. I'd never seen an Explorer in orange and frankly I love the color. I had primered the guitar before giving it to Rick and had made a stinger like the custom shop on the back of the headstock with a natural [tung oiled] neck. Rick painted it perfectly and buffed it. So that is where it is today, still wearing its Sunset Orange Metallic in all its glory. It's still the only orange Explorer I've ever seen.
As it is today.
Over the years I have customized ever square inch of my guitar. The only things left original is the paint and decal on the face of the headstock, the wood itself and the frets. The frets are in rough shape these days and the plan is to have it refretted some time this summer. I'll be going with a taller fret wire than original even though I do like the low frets it came with. My tastes have changed and taller will be better. The original Grover tuners started snapping during my heavy string years back in the mid 90's. I wears a chrome set now of the same type. I changed the nut for a Graphtech sometime during the 90's. It has helped tuning stability a great deal. The last thing was pickups. This guitar has had many different pickups in it over the years. DiMarzio was a favorite of mine. The bridge Dirty Fingers pickup failed and went microphonic on me so I switched it out for an X2N Power Plus. That stayed in for a long time. Then I went with a Steve Vai set of DiMarzio's in it for a few years. After the new paint I went with a Het Set from EMG. James Hetfield of Metallica's signature pickup set. That is what is in it today and I have no plans to change them out.
This guitar has evolved over the years. As I changed as a player and a person it has changed with me. It has always been there for me. It has never left me hanging on stage. It's never left my side all this time, some 36 years later. It has been played by a few famous players [no name drops]. If the case could talk there would be more than a few people facing charges of that I am certain.
So there it is. I have owned MANY guitars over the years. Many come, many go, but through it all this Explorer has seen it all. It hangs on the wall right next to my computer. It never leaves my sight. It's always there for me should the need arise to shred. Until two night ago of course. I get all inspired, plug it in and it goes HONKKKKK...... I know what it is. EMG's are active pickups. They require a 9 volt battery, and It was deader than disco. Do I have a phillips head screwdriver? Yes.... Is it too big? Yes!
Arghhhhhh....
I have a few minutes here as I take a lunch break and thought I'd write a little ditty about a guitar that means so much to me. In 1984 I was a young guitarist of 19 who had been playing for a couple of years. I had finally gotten a professional grade instrument in my Kramer Focus 6000. That year would see me getting my Marshall 50 watt JCM800 from Luca music in Providence RI with tax money. My band 2nd Thought was starting to play the local and Prov and Boston scenes and I was really hot shit [or so I thought] at the time. The mid 80's was a special time for playing music, especially if you were in a rock band. The women were... aggressive, shall we say. Peers were usually jealous of everyone, I was no different. It was fierce, it was LIVE with energy. The club scene was monstrous. Gigs were happening everywhere. Opportunities to open for major acts came down the pike like rain if you had someone in your camp dedicated to booking you. My singer Joe Coletti was a charismatic figure in his own right. He was quite the conversationalist and could talk a dog off a meatwagon. With women? Just insane!
I needed a second guitar at this point. If the Kramer broke a string it was over. I started looking and found a Les Paul Standard locally for [get this] 300 bucks! It was a mid 70's guitar and Les Paul's were at the time not in vogue. The Super Strat was all the rage and LP's were selling for cheap so guys could buy stripped down one pickup Kramer's and Charvel's. It would be a couple of years before Jackson really took off so Charvel's were all the rage at the time. I ended up owning several during the coming decade.
It was then that I found my baby... This Explorer was hanging on the wall at my local shop. It was a leftover, unsold 1984 Explorer in classic white with gold hardware. BUT, it had sat in the window for a while. If you know anything about Gibson classic white is that it starts to yellow. And it starts to yellow pretty quickly too. So there it was, sitting there all yellowish and gold and I pulled it down from the wall. From the back of the shop I hear Pat O'Driscoll [the owner] yell "I'll give you a great deal on that fiddle Bobby". I said I needed to try it first so he hooked me up to an ADA pre-amp that was in a rack on the showroom floor. This was the HOTTEST pre amp at the time and anyone worth their salt had one. It was Pat's personal rig that he used when he played out. Pat is/was a brilliant guitar player.
You ever get that feeling about a thing? When you first touch or see it? That visceral deep in the gut feeling? That's the feeling I got when I played this guitar for the first time. The Dirty Fingers pickups in it were HOT. So much hotter than anything I'd ever played before. The overdrive was smooth and went into feedback so controllably. It sustained as well as any Les Paul and played like butter. There was a hitch though, no tremelo. I abuse the bar I admit. Back then I used it to some musical competence, but I was still struggling with it. Not like today where I can use it either subtly or with shrieking dive bombs of harmonic rage. Back then I was a novice with it. But all my guitars MUST have a trem on them. I'm looking at you late 70's Les Paul...[God, do I wish I still had that guitar]
Pat explained that there is a system called the Kahler Tremelo system. It retrofits where the stop bar tailpiece goes and even had a locking nut. A few holes cut into the guitar and you are good to go. If the guitar had not been so yellowed I may not have even gotten it. But the combination of the yellowed finish and Kahler were too good to pass up. I will get it repainted and have a trem on it. I'll be James Hetfield that plays lead guitar! I'll be such Hot Shit no one will be able to look away!
So we made a deal. I'd trade in the Kramer and get the Explorer and Kahler for it plus a few bucks from me.
Pat ordered the Kahler for it and I left with the Gibson and that would be that for 2 weeks. Pat called and said the Kahler was in so I went to pick it up. I tried to research the Kahler but I found little about them. This was looooong before the Internet so guitar mags were all I had. I saw that the band Photograph used them and Carvin guitars came with them as an option. Even Charvel guitars came with them and I eventually got to play one a week before I got mine. It was tremendously smooth and you could pull UP on it! I was sold.
Here it is in its original color with an old Laney half stack behind.
Carving a hole into your new guitar is not for everyone let me say that. I brought everything over to my Dad's house where I am currently living. My dad has a nice little workshop down in the basement here and we got the router out and had at it. I've learned a lot about luthier's and guitars over the years. I'm certainly no luthier but I can do a set up on a guitar and make fine adjustments and intonation.
So I had it all set up and raring to go. It was still that awful yellow but it was a powerful weapon in my hands. About 8 months after all of this my buddy Jimmy [who I gave the back To The Future model too] said he had a friend who painted guitars for a living. Who paints guitars for a living? I learned that he worked for Lane Poor Instruments in Fall River Mass. Very cutting edge sawblade type fingerboards made of resin with no metal frets. One piece designs and very high tech stuff. Sort of like Steinberger but different in many ways. It was during a conversation with the painter Chris [Bass player for local legends Sirath] that I was told of a special color he had. It seems Sting had a bass made by Lane Poor. He picked a very dark black cherry for the color and then ordered that color destroyed so he would be the only one to have it. But, Chris had saved a baby food jar of the toner off to the side. I was thinking a dark color so the decision was made to paint it Plum Pearl with the Sting toner. I shit you not folks... Two weeks later and it was done. I went after work to pick it up and all I could say was WOW!
But it was to be short lived. We used to rehearse in my drummer Mike's basement. There are columns in that basement. DAY ONE of having it all back together and I tap the back of the headstock against a lolly column and the paint chipped off in a chunk.. After that I never cared if it got damaged again. The paint was so thin and Chris had sanded it down so much between coats it was really very thin. It was NOT durable at all. It got dings and scrapes just from looking at it I swear. For some years it wore the Sting plum pearl toner until one day I was so mad I said F IT! I took it apart and sanded it down to bare wood. Then I threw on some Tung oil. I stayed that way for many years. I was living in Baltimore and working for NAPA when I met a talented auto body guy named Rick. Rick is one of those guys you meet that can build and paint anything. He is an artist and body man. His brother is the guitarist for The Martians, which are a locally signed band from Baltimore. Rick admired my models which I displayed one at a time at my NAPA. My terminal had a spot in front so I put a Jo-Han case there and would switch out cars i built periodically. When the Tom Daniel Rommel's Rod got reissued I built one and displayed it. He loved it so much he wanted it. So we made a deal. I'll provide the paint and he would paint my guitar with base/clear and buff it. I gave him the model and the guitar and off he went. One week later he called and asked me to come to the shop as my guitar was done. The paint I chose I personally mixed at my NAPA. It is their Martin Senour Crossfire line. I wanted sparlky silver but Rick didn't have a gun that would shoot it with the flake size I wanted [Think 70's van or Bass boat]. So I compromised and chose Sunset Orange Metallic. I'd never seen an Explorer in orange and frankly I love the color. I had primered the guitar before giving it to Rick and had made a stinger like the custom shop on the back of the headstock with a natural [tung oiled] neck. Rick painted it perfectly and buffed it. So that is where it is today, still wearing its Sunset Orange Metallic in all its glory. It's still the only orange Explorer I've ever seen.
As it is today.
Over the years I have customized ever square inch of my guitar. The only things left original is the paint and decal on the face of the headstock, the wood itself and the frets. The frets are in rough shape these days and the plan is to have it refretted some time this summer. I'll be going with a taller fret wire than original even though I do like the low frets it came with. My tastes have changed and taller will be better. The original Grover tuners started snapping during my heavy string years back in the mid 90's. I wears a chrome set now of the same type. I changed the nut for a Graphtech sometime during the 90's. It has helped tuning stability a great deal. The last thing was pickups. This guitar has had many different pickups in it over the years. DiMarzio was a favorite of mine. The bridge Dirty Fingers pickup failed and went microphonic on me so I switched it out for an X2N Power Plus. That stayed in for a long time. Then I went with a Steve Vai set of DiMarzio's in it for a few years. After the new paint I went with a Het Set from EMG. James Hetfield of Metallica's signature pickup set. That is what is in it today and I have no plans to change them out.
This guitar has evolved over the years. As I changed as a player and a person it has changed with me. It has always been there for me. It has never left me hanging on stage. It's never left my side all this time, some 36 years later. It has been played by a few famous players [no name drops]. If the case could talk there would be more than a few people facing charges of that I am certain.
So there it is. I have owned MANY guitars over the years. Many come, many go, but through it all this Explorer has seen it all. It hangs on the wall right next to my computer. It never leaves my sight. It's always there for me should the need arise to shred. Until two night ago of course. I get all inspired, plug it in and it goes HONKKKKK...... I know what it is. EMG's are active pickups. They require a 9 volt battery, and It was deader than disco. Do I have a phillips head screwdriver? Yes.... Is it too big? Yes!
Arghhhhhh....
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...
Re: Taking some time off.
I was scouring yard sales years ago for old skateboards. There was a sale I went to that had a lot of old guitar gear. It was the sons who left it behind and didn't want it anymore. There were all these old pedals and i remember there being that Memory man and a Big Muff there. But since that stuff was old i didn't care. I'll bet dollars to donuts there was a Time Attack there as well. There must have been 20 pedals in the box. DOH! I asked about guitars but they had already sold them.Handiabled wrote:Man oh man that amp is worth some big bucks! Funny how things like that seem trivial at the time in the way back when. A kid sold me his EHX setup of a Memory Man and Attack Decay for $25 so he could party that weekend, the Memory Man walked off from a gig one night but the Attack Decay I still have. Last I saw on Reverb they are selling for over $1700. Turns out there were only a couple hundred ever made back in 81-82
I could have gotten the entire box cheap too. Live and learn.
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...
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Yep - the first time I saw this sexy goddess dressed in purple and wearing knee high boots climbing out of an T-67 Firefly at the aerodrome I used to work at, and the first time I wrapped my arms around her a few years laterDragline wrote:You ever get that feeling about a thing? When you first touch or see it? That visceral deep in the gut feeling?
Married 21 years this year
Stuart Templeton 'I may not be good but I'm slow...'
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Speaking of missed opportunities...
Way back (1991), when I had first started playing with a band, we went to see a "big" local band. It was at some old mechanic shop in the middle of a corn field in Kansas.
(A couple years later, we ended up playing there...opening for Overkill...we didn't even know we were opening for them!!!)
Anyway...their guitar player (amazing player) had a Jackson Rhoads...my dream guitar!!!
We (the band) moved to Michigan in 95...when I found my Rhoads. Blahblahblah...Me and the wife moved back to KS in 2000.
Driving through town one day, I saw this metally looking dude having a yard sale. He had an LTD "strat", some cheapo acoustic and a bunch of porn
I stopped, shot the $#!+ for a bit and asked if he knew anybody looking for a guitar player. He didn't, but mentioned they were thinking of replacing their bass player. I went to their next practice...loved their music and it was WIDE open for a bass player to do all sorts of cool bassy stuff. Their bass player cut out early and left his gear. I asked the guys if we could run through that last song they played...we did. They called that dude immediately.."YERRRR FIRRRRED!!!".
After a couple months, dude breaks out some ratty old case and busts out a Rhoads...an old Rhoads. Turns out, he had traded some white powder to the guy from that band I had seen years before. This guitar was from the first production run with the Jackson name...THE guitar that Randy Rhoads set the specs for!
It was #81. Dude offered it to me for $500!!!!
I just didn't have the money at the time
Way back (1991), when I had first started playing with a band, we went to see a "big" local band. It was at some old mechanic shop in the middle of a corn field in Kansas.
(A couple years later, we ended up playing there...opening for Overkill...we didn't even know we were opening for them!!!)
Anyway...their guitar player (amazing player) had a Jackson Rhoads...my dream guitar!!!
We (the band) moved to Michigan in 95...when I found my Rhoads. Blahblahblah...Me and the wife moved back to KS in 2000.
Driving through town one day, I saw this metally looking dude having a yard sale. He had an LTD "strat", some cheapo acoustic and a bunch of porn
I stopped, shot the $#!+ for a bit and asked if he knew anybody looking for a guitar player. He didn't, but mentioned they were thinking of replacing their bass player. I went to their next practice...loved their music and it was WIDE open for a bass player to do all sorts of cool bassy stuff. Their bass player cut out early and left his gear. I asked the guys if we could run through that last song they played...we did. They called that dude immediately.."YERRRR FIRRRRED!!!".
After a couple months, dude breaks out some ratty old case and busts out a Rhoads...an old Rhoads. Turns out, he had traded some white powder to the guy from that band I had seen years before. This guitar was from the first production run with the Jackson name...THE guitar that Randy Rhoads set the specs for!
It was #81. Dude offered it to me for $500!!!!
I just didn't have the money at the time
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Lucky man...Stuart wrote:Yep - the first time I saw this sexy goddess dressed in purple and wearing knee high boots climbing out of an T-67 Firefly at the aerodrome I used to work at, and the first time I wrapped my arms around her a few years laterDragline wrote:You ever get that feeling about a thing? When you first touch or see it? That visceral deep in the gut feeling?
Married 21 years this year
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...
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I missed a few things because of shallow pockets that I knew was a great deal but couldn't come through. The worst was a Robin Machete in a tobacco sunburst with Floyd. The 4X2 headstock, the whole shebang. 900.00 bucks and it's mine. I could only scrape together about 700.00. Last year I missed out on Hamer Scepter that was very nice. Basically a case queen with no dings. I had to bow out at 1500.00... Had I not bought that ESP Horizon III, maybe.......Fermis wrote:Speaking of missed opportunities...
Way back (1991), when I had first started playing with a band, we went to see a "big" local band. It was at some old mechanic shop in the middle of a corn field in Kansas.
(A couple years later, we ended up playing there...opening for Overkill...we didn't even know we were opening for them!!!)
Anyway...their guitar player (amazing player) had a Jackson Rhoads...my dream guitar!!!
We (the band) moved to Michigan in 95...when I found my Rhoads. Blahblahblah...Me and the wife moved back to KS in 2000.
Driving through town one day, I saw this metally looking dude having a yard sale. He had an LTD "strat", some cheapo acoustic and a bunch of porn
I stopped, shot the $#!+ for a bit and asked if he knew anybody looking for a guitar player. He didn't, but mentioned they were thinking of replacing their bass player. I went to their next practice...loved their music and it was WIDE open for a bass player to do all sorts of cool bassy stuff. Their bass player cut out early and left his gear. I asked the guys if we could run through that last song they played...we did. They called that dude immediately.."YERRRR FIRRRRED!!!".
After a couple months, dude breaks out some ratty old case and busts out a Rhoads...an old Rhoads. Turns out, he had traded some white powder to the guy from that band I had seen years before. This guitar was from the first production run with the Jackson name...THE guitar that Randy Rhoads set the specs for!
It was #81. Dude offered it to me for $500!!!!
I just didn't have the money at the time
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...