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Monday, April 20, 2009

All About Jackson Guitars

By George Smith

Jackson Guitars started in the guitar industry in the 70's from a small guitar setup store located in Southern California. From then on, Jackson guitars have been a well known place to look for guitars, shredding axes, and other guitars.

In summer of 1979 Grover Jackson announced his self-built Charvel guitars at the NAMM show Atlanta, the guitar has made itself popular to the hard and heavy bands. Because of the companys name, Randy Rhoads, a guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne band contacted Jackson in 1980 to ask them to design a unique new guitar.

Though this creation for Randy was later on rejected because of a new version with additional features that Rhodes himself suggested, this has not become an obstruction for Jackson Guitars popularity to boost in mid 80s. Some of the famous and lasting Jackson creations are the Kelly TM, King V, Double Rhoads, Soloist TM, Bolt on Neck Dinky, Concert TM Bass, PC1, and the devilishly designed X-shaped Warrior. Until now Jackson Custom Shop is the longest-standing custom shop in the US.

Like other guitar manufacturers Jackson Guitar has made popular by their series of guitar collections. The JS series includes 8 models, MG Series has 7 models, Pro Series with its 17 models, USA Select Series contains 18 models, X Series with 5 models, Concert Bass Series has 3 models, and Artist Signature has 11 models.

They also have variety of guitar models according to Body Type the Dinky, Kelly, King V, Rhoads, Soloist, Warrior, Concert Bass, and Artist Signature. Sixty guitars are sorted by models and others are sorted by Orientation. Orientation Guitars are still divided into Left Models, which include 5 designs, and the Right models, which have 55 designs.

Jackson guitars is also used by many bands including Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden who played a late 80s Custom Shop Guitar, Chris Beattie from Hatebreed plays the Jackson signature series bass, Christian Olde Walbers from Fear Factory plays a 6 & 7 string Signature Dinky, Phil Demmel from Machinehead finds the Demmeltion King V awesome. These and a lot of other guitarists continue to use Jackson guitars. - 18418

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