On the bench - Ibanez X-series Destroyer

[Chris Pile]

Brought in this afternoon - had to share. Original owner, original case, all original parts - it's been played. It's dinged up, scratched, gouged, just gigged hard. It was filthy. Gave it a good bath, some new strings and a setup from scratch. Plays like a dream, sounds like a monster. These things are GREAT! I'd say it's an '83 model.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Sweet my first guitar was an '88 DT 250 Destroyer.

 

[Securb]

I would play the fuck out of that thing.

 

[Wattage]

Love it!!! My buddy Donnie had that guitar back in our HS band days. GREAT guitar

 

[Liam1963]

Now THAT brings back memories!

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Wonderful DT500; these are among the best spec'd ones they made, surely.

A good candidate for a Genesis style reissue.

 

[Mincer]

I seem to remember a guitar like this on the cover of Guitar Player back in the 80s. The story was about the upcoming boom in quality guitars made in Japan.

 

[formula73]

I had an 82 RRII counterpart to that. I wish I still had it. Great guitars.

 

[Securb]

My bass player had the DII bass. The thing sounded like thunder. I remember one recording engineer getting frustrated because he said it sounded like the bass strings were being hit with a 2x4. We were like, "Yeah, we know that is why we like it. Let it go."

 

[Chris Pile]

I had one of the very first Destroyer basses.... It was kind of pinkish-orange with cream P-J pickups, 32" scale. It was awesome. Played it for years, finally sold it to some idiot who ruined it by painting it white and patting it dry with dirty carpet. All to match his guitar players white Kramer.

 

[Securb]

My bass player had the orange but had it painted Iridescent black; it looked fantastic. Our road manager was an auto painter for his day gig.

Looked kinda like this