Any non-metal Jackson players here?

[bonefamily]

The middle position of the DK2M, with the volume down a bit, is really nice for cleaner noodling stuff.

I used to find the middle pup on my SDK2 to always be in the way (right in the picking zone). lately, I've been using it more and more with different tone and volume settings and have been finding it to be very nice. I was going to remove it, just to get it out of the way for the pick but now I'm glad I didn't.

On those same terms, I was also going to move the volume control to where the tone control is (and just bypass the tone circuit) because I also was finding it to be in the way. Now that I'm getting used to it being right there next to the bridge pup I'm kind of liking just how close it is. Probably a good thing too because just about all the other Jacksons I'm seeing have the volume control about in the same place on most of them, and when I start getting more Jacskons (as the GAS is always there) I won't have to move all the volume controls.

[Jayster]

I only play Klezmer on my jacksons.

[jacksonpc1]

I play anything I want on my Jacksons. In one band I play in, we play covers ranging from David Allen Coe to Finger Eleven.

I get some weird ass looks from older folks when I am playing old shit kickin' country & western music on my Bela but who gives a crap!!!! It sounds good no matter what style of music I play!

[Flatpicker]

Besides Polka?

I've seriously been into Chet Atkins and Les Paul lately. So whatever you call that.
Country Jazz? Redneck Jazz?

[dave4378]

Depends on what you call metal. If you ask a 16 to 20 something year old they include all that drop D chugga chugga crap & Screamo when they speak of metal. You ask someone in their late 20s & up & they may call anything from Ratt to Exodus metal.
Then you've got the neo classical stuff like Cacophony & loads of other little sub genres that almost transend that that label, but still get thrown in the same heap. Even 80s pop rock stuff like Steve Stevens' work on Rebel Yell, Simply Irresistible or Dirty Diana gets clasified as "metal guitar" by a lot of people. Either way metal never really got that much respect from the so called "serious players", which is kind of ridiculous, since a lot of the really awesome metal guitarists have their roots in blues & could blow some of those blues players out of the water no doubt.
I Don't limit myself to just metal though & yes i use Jacksons for other styles & i'd much prefer using a Jackson than say a Les Paul or a Strat or a Tele, which by the way all sound great in their own right.
It's really about what feels right for you & not which stereo type fits which genre/style.

[bonefamily]

You ask someone in their late 20s & up & they may call anything from Ratt to Exodus metal.

Heck, those groups were in my metal days and I'm 43 now...