Who makes you want to get a V?

DrNewcenstein

He Did the Monster Mash
Counterpoint to the "Who makes you want a Strat?" thread :D

For me, it was the Schenkers (Rudolph and Michael), KK Downing, and Robbin Crosby (though I was never a huge fan of RATT).

They always looked so much cooler than a Strat or LP for Heavy Metal IMO.

I think the only other guitar I truly thought looked the part of Heavy Metal was the SG Standard or 3-pickup SG Custom because of the two pointy horns.

Explorers always looked a bit "too round" for Heavy Metal for me, especially once I saw dude from .38 Special rocking one in the "Hold On Loosely" video.

Never mind Mathias Jabs' Explorers. Alongside Rudy's V, it looked like it belonged there, but off by itself, not so much.

But when you saw KK and his Hamer single-hum V in the Heading Out To The Highway video, or Robbin "King" Crosby with Big Red in Round and Round, you knew it was meant for poking people in the eye :lol:

Tipton's SG Special with its dot inlays just looked too boring to me - gotta have me some blocks ('70s) or trapezoids!
 
Re: Who makes you want to get a V?

For me it was what not who. The Ibanez Korina(Alder) Flying V/Rocket Roll hanging in the store in 1974. It just looked like it was going Stratospheric hanging there. Then I saw an Explorer/Destroyer and have been lost on pointy guitars ever since.

Pair of Hamers

2005 Vector and 1996 Standard
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How about this ?


 
Re: Who makes you want to get a V?

Albert king and Rudolf schenker. I got a Jackson rrt cuz of the killer looks, white with black bevels.
 
Re: Who makes you want to get a V?

Dave Mustaine, and Hendrix, also that RR1 I saw in the guitar shop back when I was 11, when I played that it sounded like sex and infinite orgasms in a small cramped space, it left me with a brick in my pants.
 
Re: Who makes you want to get a V?

A number of my favorite players have used them, but I couldn't deal with the shape.
 
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