Kisser

I think it was late Thursday night when I woke up & couldn't go back to sleep. So it was late night / early morning guitar trawling & this update appeared in my feeds - Jackson finally did a signature for Sepultura's Andreas Kisser. This, of course, nearly took forever but thankfully it happened because it's a deserving recognition to one of the leading guitar proponents in aggressive music.

It's a simple, single pickup guitar (EMG 81) with an FR1000 bridge so this hints at a mid-price, non-American make. That body graphic will make / break some buying decisions among us. It's a definite put off for me but that's just me.

Since his early Sepultura days, Andreas Kisser's guitar of choice was his single pickup Charvel model 2 which had a personalized, sticker body (above). Otherwise, the guitar would look like this:

He should be given a Charvel as a true acknowledgement of the circumstances but we know how it is with Charvel now; they don't make any more pointy headstock models. Fender accords Jackson with all the pointy headstock affair so this was probably the reason this signature deal went the Jackson way. 

Of course, Mr. Kisser also has a Jackson RR so going the Jackson way wouldn't look wayward. While a single pickup guitar is absolutely my thing, an FR bridge + a signature touch are not what I would pay for. 

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