Remaining Dave Mustaine guitars are being sold!

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:23pm #1

Holy sh1t!! :eek:

I know he sold off most of his guitars after he disbanded Megadeth, but didnt think he'd ever get rid of THE ONE.
If you have the bandwidth go to their website and download the 20MB (!) ppt presentation.

Droooooooooooool................

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:25pm

Eh, aren't Megadeth playing in Dublin soon?...

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:27pm

They are - afaik the farewell tour.

He disbanded Megadeth after his arm injury and the fallout with Junior after the last Hero tour.

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:29pm

Hmm, shouldn't he be selling the guitars after the tour....

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:32pm

goddammit, dont you read the papers?

You'll be happy to hear he's endorsed by ESP now

http://www.espguitars.com/sig_dave.htm

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:35pm

I knew that anyway.

His ESP's are supposed to be terrible

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:36pm

Havent read any reviews about his ESP yet - but i loved that Jackson!

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:36pm

He wanted to buy Jackson when they were for sale but he got all pissed off that they didn't offer it to him.

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:38pm

What do you mean?

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:41pm

Jackson didn't ask Mustaine if he wanted to buy the company which he did. He was pissed off because he'd used Jacksons for years so, as usual, he got the hump and fecked off to ESP.

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:43pm

Hmmm, i didnt know about any other arrangements apart from his normal endorsement deal - but anyways - selling that KV-1, he must be out of his mind.......ooooooooooh it hurts watching it go!!

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:45pm

He'll get **** loads for it though...

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:46pm

I'm sure he will, but how can he bring himself to sell his Number One?

I can't part with a nasty old ass guitar strap, let alone my number one!

feylya · 11-01-2005 9:48pm

He's Dave Mustaine.

The man is a fool

*waits for flaming from Megadeth fans*

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 9:49pm

ooohhh, where can i get $50,000.......

Droogie · 11-01-2005 10:43pm

Feyla, i think ur wrong about the situation with Mustaine moving to ESP...

Fender bought Jackson and when negotiations started for a new endorsement deal with Mustaine, the Fender ppl only offered him one guitar a year, as oppose to the 11 he was getting before the takeover... He gave them a big middle finger and ESP moved in and sealed a deal which benefited Davey a "little more"...

Thats the deal...

feylya · 11-01-2005 11:10pm

No, I'm fairly sure it was the purchasing thing...

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 11:21pm

thb, i never knew that Fender bought Jackson - last thing i know was that they acquired Gretsch.

Feylya - did you mean buy shares or what?

feylya · 11-01-2005 11:29pm

No, I mean become owner of the company completely. Own 100% of it.

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 11:45pm

You're right. Never knew that, interesting.......here's what i dug up:

"Guitar World: After all those years playing Jackson Flying V's, why have you now switched to esp?
Dave Mustaine: well Jackson came up for sale a couple of times and I wanted to buy it, and then each time the sale was pulled. And then they tried to sell it a third time- I was contacted again by somebody within the company who said they wanted me to buy it, because we'd been friends for such a long time. And while we were positioning ourselves to buy the company they sold it to fender, which I thought was a bit disrespectful knowing that I'm the number one endorser they had. But I let go.
Guitar World: Did you head straight to esp from there?
Dave Mustaine: I contacted Hamer, Gibson, and Esp. Hamer is a really small company, so they were going to have a hard time keeping up with what I want for my endorsement, let alone answering the sales orders that people put in because of the guitars I endorse. I talked to Gibson and they were excited but they could not reconfigure the guitar to be a 24 fret guitar, so I was kind of handcuffed there.
So I talked to Marsh Gooch, Matt Masciandaro, and Jose Ferro at ESP. They said, "We have a V, but we discontinued it because no one's endorsing it." I went into their warehouse and I picked up one of their flying V's- it was called a V350 at the time- and I went, "**** this thing's awesome" and I said, "yea I'm willing to play this guitar, if you're willing to make a couple of changes on it to make it even better." So we made some changes with the body, the headstock, some of the inlay stuff, and the knobs and electronic configuration. "

feylya · 11-01-2005 11:48pm

Woo, go me

Ancient1 · 11-01-2005 11:50pm

go feylya indeed

(for a second i thought you were boozing and posting again

)

feylya · 11-01-2005 11:52pm

Yes, I do that too often

SirLemonhead · 12-01-2005 12:46am

Yeah, it was a bit crap of them to suddenly sell to Fender if they were in the process of selling to Mustaine. Can't blame him for being annoyed.

Doctor J · 12-01-2005 10:10am

His white King V was the source of much droolage in my yoot

Ancient1 · 12-01-2005 1:49pm

Here's the KV-1 which he had painted silver:

http://www.jacksonmuseum.com/museum/museum-v-pics/J2713.html

feylya · 12-01-2005 1:51pm

Don't like it.

Doctor J · 12-01-2005 1:51pm

Excellent. I had planned on winning the lotto tonight, now I know what to blow it on.

You may all have a look at it from behind a velvet rope

Ancient1 · 12-01-2005 1:54pm

If you win the lotto and get the guitar, i'll be your best friend.

Forever and ever.

Doctor J · 12-01-2005 1:55pm

Ancient1 wrote:

If you win the lotto and get the guitar, i'll be your best friend.

Forever and ever.

If I win the lotto and get the guitar, I won't need friends

Ancient1 · 12-01-2005 1:57pm

Bastard....LOL.

Remaining Dave Mustaine guitars are being sold!

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