Your first Jackson experience

[scotty]

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I went to a local shop where I had bought a Model 2 new and sales guy wanted take me in the back where they had the USA guitars. Hell I wanted to check them out, so I followed him. He kept showing all these really great looking Jackson guitars. He also kept asking me if I wanted to plug in and play. I kept saying no just enjoying the window shopping. Then he showed me this Pink Crackle, I said to myself I think I can play that one with out doing something stupid. I fell in love with that ugly guitar. I couldn’t leave the shop with out her, so I wrote a hot check and told them not to cash the check till Monday because that was pay day. (It wasn’t) I went to bank and took out a loan. That how I got my San Dimas Dinky. I still love that guitar.

[guitarshredder]

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Hey guys, thanks for worrying, but I'm paying for this guitar in increments, I'll be done paying very soon though!!! Man, I love you guys, you really protect YOUR own when it comes to guitars, dudes!!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[wulfe13]

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The first time I actualy realized what a Jackson was and that I liked them was when I saw the cover for Stryper's Soldiers under Command album! I saw them before that but that's the first time I remember seeing them.

[TheSteveMan]

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I went to a local shop where I had bought a Model 2 new and sales guy wanted take me in the back where they had the USA guitars. Hell I wanted to check them out, so I followed him. He kept showing all these really great looking Jackson guitars. He also kept asking me if I wanted to plug in and play. I kept saying no just enjoying the window shopping. Then he showed me this Pink Crackle, I said to myself I think I can play that one with out doing something stupid. I fell in love with that ugly guitar. I couldn’t leave the shop with out her, so I wrote a hot check and told them not to cash the check till Monday because that was pay day. (It wasn’t) I went to bank and took out a loan. That how I got my San Dimas Dinky. I still love that guitar.

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That's an awesome story, got any pics?

[Firebird V]

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That is a great story!

[IrfaanSE801]

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Ah, my first guitar was some beat up old Jackson Dinky I believe. Had a thing for em ever since

[TheSteveMan]

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Oh yeah I forgot to add my first Jackson experience!
I really wanted a new guitar because what I had was a piece of junk, so I talked my mom into taking me out to guitar center to browse around (couldn't drive at the time so I had to bug my mom every time I wanted to go there). I had somewhere in the $200 range in my pocket for gear and I was trying to talk her into letting me order a Kramer from Musicyo but she didn't want to do an internet order so she insisted that we looked to see what we could get here in town.
So I checked out GC.. there were Ibanez RGs, Jacksons, Floyd Rose Strats, so I sat down and made my rounds, and then I noticed the one: a DR-3 in trans green! The price tag said $600-something but I looked it up on the net and saw that everyone had it for $400... called GC and asked somebody to look it up and he said 4-something so when I went in to get it they gave me a pretty big hassle about it because the tag on it said 600 but they gave it to me for 420, the correct price, and I was a happy camper! It was a sweet axe for me to (attempt to) shred up, and she served me well.
I feel so silly for selling her.. because man she was nice! But my complaints:
Rosewood fretboard.. I just prefer finished maple for the look and feel.
Duncan Design pickups... just didn't do it for me.
JT580LP trem... yuck. The satin chrome was nice, if that helps. But the trem didn't suit my tastes so well.
I should have kept that axe, upgraded the pickups and the trem, but I didn't [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[diablomozart]

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playing charvel junkie's red soloist before he bought it from the original owner [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]...remember the name brian eberhardt dude?....d.m.

[lerxstcat]

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I saw them in many 80s metal videos, but didn't buy my first until 1996, a JDR Pro Reverse from Musician's Friend. It's made in Taiwan, but similar quality to the Performer
Series MIJ models. The neck's a bit fatter though.

I bought it because they had the Easy Pay Plan and I could pay it in 6 installments, but have the guitar right away. I still have it and it's a nice guitar, but now I also have 2 DK-2s, a PS-2, a Kelly Performer with a JTX maple-board neck (HUGE improvement), 2 Model 6s, and a USA Charvel proto Strat I got from DM that's a beautiful axe. It's my only USA
J/C, but I love them all.

[diablomozart]

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take good care of her...d.m.

[ScarredDollFace]

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A Trans-Black KE-2 Kelly at my local GC. Once I played her, I was hooked. I wish I could of got her. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]


Nick

[VitaminG]

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Jackson? Isn't this the CHB (Charvette/Hondo Board)? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Jacksonfan]

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[pagemalicious]

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Seeing Megadeth play their Jacksons in the Symphony Of Destruction video. I thought Marty's Kelly looked amazing.

My first experience playing a Jackson, was playing a friends PS2. He set it up pretty badly, so that put me off Jacksons for a while, untill i played an RR3 which i have today.

[FATKAT]

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Meeting Charveljunkie, September 2003 [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]