How and when did you discover Jackson/ Charvel?

[dannyr]

Somewhere around 1984, after playing only Les Pauls for a several years, I wandered into a local music store and played a Jackson Soloist for the first time. I knew immediately that I had to have one. After saving $ for about a year, I purchased my 1st Jackson strat. I have played Jackson exclusively ever since and have owned several different ones. I was interested in hearing how others discovered these guitars.

[IrfaanSE801]

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My first guitar was a beat to shit Jackson Dinky. Don't own one now, had to sell em all, but my collections gonna grow again before the end of this year

[86mod5]

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I couldn't figure out what what kind of guitar Jake E. Lee was playing when he started with Ozzy because I had never heard of Charvel at that time and couldn't make out the headstock logo. That's when I did some research and discovered Charvel.

[veliyasin]

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Dave Mustaine.

[donf]

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I sold a friend of mine an 83' Les Paul, so I could buy a guitar I wouldn't be afraid to bang around. He told me about a Mod 6. I researched, bought one and love it. So much so, I bought a second one.

(I still want the Les Paul back though) [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[thurston]

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My pink 5FX sat in a shop here for about 18 months. Everytime I went in to dig, that metalflake neck-thru monstrosity/beauty caught my eye. I finally decided I wanted a guitar with a 25.5" scale and bridge humbucker, so I went down and haggled with the dude to bring it home.

[GodOfRhythm]

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Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett's '85 SD Rhoads.

[Megadeth79]

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Hangar 18 video.

[toejam]

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Seeing all the ads in guitar mags in the '80s and all the cool players who used them. I finally got my first Jackson (a Kelly Standard) in the early '90s mainly because of Marty Friedman. I returned it because I hated the lo-pro trem at the time. A few years later I got a black '94 string-thru Professional Dinky HX that I saw in a Venneman's Music Emporium catalog. I wanted a 24-fret Dinky/Soloist body with string-thru TOM bridge after seeing Scott Ian with a few, so this was perfect for me. Since then, I've had a couple Charvels, another Kelly and a few Dinky Reverses, a USA JJP as well as another Dinky HX, but they're all gone now except for the black HX which I'll never get rid of.

[Zerberus]

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FIrst guitar was a Rhoads Knockoff [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[neilli]

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I started playing when I was 13, and got my first guitar magazine in 1986 - I guess that was the time when my heros all played J/C guitars. The first one I loved was Mustaine's 'Megadeth' guitar, then Hammett's Rhoads, Spitz's guitars etc My first decent guitar was a Charvel Model 2, in 1989, then I got a Jackson catalogue in 1990 and the rot set in!
I had a time when I went Ibanez crazy (for a couple of years around 1994), and I've had ESPs, Hamers etc, but then came to the conclusion that Jackson and Charvel guitars just do 'it' for me, and I don't want to play anything much else!

[Drake S.]

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I was 11 years old & went to my second concert some short dirty blonde haired kid was playing a white Jackson V with pinstripes. Where does Ozzy find these guys? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[CodeOfHonour]

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In the early 90ies: a lot of the us-death-metal-bands played Jackson.

[STLKINGV]

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I saw the Ratt 'Round and Round' video.... In 1986 ran out and bought King V #J1370... [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

Adrian

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

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Van Halen I!!