Salon de la musique - Paris

[SLY]

Hello guys,

I don't know if it's the right place to post, but this week end, we had a music "meeting" in Paris. Not comparable to Namm or Frankfurt, but anyway, I took pics of the Jackson booth to share with you.

Unfortunately, there was not a lot of Jacksons, not a single Charvel, and no custom shop at all. Nevertheless, I hope that you will find it interesting :













And for the French specialties, you had :

Vigier Excalibur and Marilyn:





And Lâg Stephan Forte signature (Adagio) :

[Spivonious]

Trés bien!

[Endrik]

mmm Vigier rouge.... quel est le prix?

[SLY]

Thank you for the French language, it's a pleasure for me to see that people share my culture.

For the Vigier, the suggested retail price is 2800€ with VAT included (19.6% in France), so it should be with today money conversion near 4000$!!!

[thetroy]

Wouldn't that mean retail is more like 2400 euro since there's no VAT here?

That's about the same price as a USA Jackson - not too bad.

[toejam]

And Lâg Stephan Forte signature (Adagio) :

Love that 7-string! Interesting pickup selector switch and location.

[Spivonious]

Okay, weird things on the Adagio sig:

1. pickup selector switch
2. location of said switch
3. output jack at strange angle
4. only high side of upper frets is scalloped

[toejam]

It's also got 27 frets.

[thetroy]

I do like the angle of the jack. Much less likely to fall out that way.

[DHardmanJr]

Those Vigiers are nice guitars. I got a chance to play one once and the action was incredible. The "zero fret" in front of the nut thing is pretty interesting as well.

Cool pics.

[SLY]

Wouldn't that mean retail is more like 2400 euro since there's no VAT here?

That's about the same price as a USA Jackson - not too bad.

You're right. Life seems easier when you have no VAT to pay!!! As I'm French, I can tell you that paying tax is my second hobby! Unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to chose or not for this one!!!

The Adagio sig is like an Ibanez sabre with a very thin body. The neck is also really thin for a 7 strings. I had the luck to play on Stephan's gear, and that thing is designed for shredding, with a special pickup selector switch really close to the strings to not move far away from the strings while "sending the fingers" like Stephan said. Incredible guitar and very interesting, but I do not like the feeling on this one (neck too thin and action too low). I'm still waiting for a 7 strings USA soloist!

[bibz]

That pickup switch is exactly where and travels exactly how our old jazz guitars have they're selectors under the pickguard thats usually there, thats interesting

[Snoogans]

Tres bon!
Love the pink Rhoads!
Seeing the amount of Vigiers there, did they happen to have Cristophe Godin doing any demos?

[zebutcher]

The Lag seems to be a baryton. Good point.

[KBRR]

cool pics... thanks