2025 is the Year of Purple Guitars --> Let's See 'Em!
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JamesPaul
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Wattage
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That is the Gibby CS version, absolutely stunning
Gibson needs more purple in their regular production lineup.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Sweet! Nice Peavey amp collection too.
Juanhanglo
Active member
Here's my lone contribution
A mucle car purple js2450.
What a guitar! I kinda knew 25 years ago that it would be a great fit, but never saw one in the wild to try. It took 30 seconds to confirm that. Lol.
I'm a huge fan of RGs, and this makes them seem.....tame by comparison?
Satch designed a heck of a guitar.
A mucle car purple js2450.
What a guitar! I kinda knew 25 years ago that it would be a great fit, but never saw one in the wild to try. It took 30 seconds to confirm that. Lol.
I'm a huge fan of RGs, and this makes them seem.....tame by comparison?
Satch designed a heck of a guitar.
ExplorersRock
X-Files Duckbucker
Me looking at these purple guitars:
I loved the original 540R bodies for that reason.
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Solarflares
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Solarflares
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No. Frank’s original FGM’s were based on the 540S-LPF though. Which is in similar territory.
It’s funny. For the sake of just 12 months, the GIT class of ‘86, and the rest of the world’s new shredders, might well have been playing radius guitars - rather than RG550 variants.
“Flying in a Blue Dream” was of course 1989, and that was most people’s first exposure to any kind of radius concept.
It would be a big discussion for elsewhere perhaps, but if it wasn’t for Dave Lee Roth luring Steve Vai into his band, Steve’s guitars wouldn’t have been stolen, and he might well have continued with the odd home built Performance guitar, until much later.
Basswood was always destined to arrive, and Grover’s eventual ‘76 Green Meanie prototype was probably going to be it for Steve, with the previously purchased Performance guitars handling spare duties. Guitars only last so long when you play them 9 hours a day though, and the Meanie was certainly not durable for Steve’s kind of stage use at the time.
But the rise in profile for Steve, meant that companies were falling over themselves to make him stuff.
I’m sure he’d put the feelers out long before DLR. Only - Now it was real - with Ibanez.
So, alongside the first 200 Jem’s, the RG550 was born, and sold in droves. All those shredders - playing maple fingerboards! Lol
After Joe Satriani’s radius fully emerged we now had two camps. Either the angular, hard-line Jem/550, or the more comfy-looking and rounded Radius - both being seen as the ultimate shred guitars, played by two artists at the top of their game. But by now it was all rosewood and ebony fingerboards, and Seymour Duncan was now in full production too.
A very interesting time between ‘84 and ‘88, that’s for sure.
An impossibly trying time for small, boutique makers, and a fucking nightmare for the big boys. Many firms went out of production, and all because Dave Lee Roth wanted.
I still think that Warren De Martini had the best tone out of any of them, with his Performance guitars and Marshall 50’s.
Ty Tabor single-handedly championed drop-C# in rock, and yet another generation was born, to go with the crowd that were already exploring 7-strings, and lower tunings. Then, suddenly it was the 90’s, and you couldn’t get arrested if you played above the 9th fret, for a while - and you couldn’t join a band unless you looked like a Sonny Barger impersonator. A purple guitar would have earned you a solid kicking! Now it’s all beards and goatees, tattoos and chains. Funny old game.
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Bill Dennis
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I bought my purple PRS in 2001... it was glorious... it has since faded into something.... brown maybe? Still sounds glorious but the color did not age wellIt really does seem like purple guitars are FINALLY getting the attention they deserve from players and the guitar market as a whole in 2025!
I know I'm a huge fan of purple guitars and it seems many of us have been bitten by the purple love bug at some point or another.
So, who here currently owns or is lusting after a purple guitar?
Please share!
As for me, I actually picked up 2 purple guitars this year...a Schecter John Browne "Tao 6" and a PRS SE CU24 in "Violet" with a killer top!
I'm selling the Tao 6, simply because it's a bit too "Strat"-shaped for my liking, but the guitar is certainly unique and the finish is gorgeous!
I'm also VERY much lusting after the Kirk Windstein signature from Solar Guitars!
Only thing holding me back is the location of the output jack, which is on the inside of the lower wing...ugh!
Something about rich purple finishes, ebony boards, and big white inlays really speaks to me!
I actually have this concept saved from the builder at Balaguer guitars...it's a custom Espada model:
ehdwuld
A Ficus
Can we see a pic ? I'm curious now
