I am soo screwed, now I kinda want one.

[WYLDCHYLD]

Wow...that black and gold one blows me away...beautiful.

[leftykingv2]

Anyway the link to a description of Kirk's Rhoads is wrong.

He got it in 1985 along with James who got the Kill bon jovi King V. Both guitars were brought along with Metallica for the 1985 puppets recordings in Copenhagen.

Besides it is a RR custom from 1985. RR1t is a later day description of that version but not the same. I have yet to see the actual specs of Kirk's rhoads.

If the sound is horrible to begin with the a P.A is not going to help it sound better.

I have seen numerous players with horrible stage tone that sound like god after the sound man is done putting them through the P.A. and into the mix. That is a really outlandish statement. It sounds like you don't believe that a good P.A. and sound guy can change the tone of someones guitar in the mix. If this is the case then why do P.A. systems have all kinds of compressors and tone modeling capabilities?