Tagged As: Custom Jackson Guitars
Question:
I've been attending quite a few shows featuring heavy metal band lately and I've noticed a lot of the guitarists in those bands play Jackson guitars. Is this because: (a)Jacksons are the best guitars for metal (b)Jackson pays a lot of guitarist to use their guitars.
Answer:
I think Jacksons may be used in metal more often due to the thinner necks, maybe the pickups are voiced better for metal, and possibly the body style is easier to handle for lead guitar theatrics......I know you use explorers, ever try to lift that thing up in the air to play super fast leads? However, if money was no object, I'd be buying a custom explorer from a little guitar shop in California that just happens to handle a LOT of Jackson's custom shop work, at least as far as the finishes go. They also make necks for their USA built series quite often, you can go in and see stacks of necks laying around with the Jackson logo on them.