25th= Greatest guitar ever made.

[phatduckk]

no seriously. all joking aside.... the 25th is THAT GOOD. it really is.

 

[dmullen]

Psssst, don! how about this one?

25th Anniversary Ernie Ball Music Man

lol...if I could I would! Just beautiful!

 

[kissmyaxe]

wow, what I would give for a 25th or even a 20th, they both seem like such versitile stunning guitars! BP you should do a JP BFR run where we can order a chambered body so us lefties have the joy of experiencing this evolution of EBMM guitars, I think perfection would translate onto a JP!

 

[Sweat]

That one at the Perfect Guitar is killer. I really want to try one of these out but there are none in the entire state of TX when I asked a couple of weeks ago.

The BP AL is another one that's causing loss of sleep...haha.

I'm justifying holding off for now by telling myself I want to see what other colors the 25th will come in in any future limited runs. And it may even have the game changer on it.

Well actually there are several in Texas, now some are fourm owned

but all kidding aside the North Dallas Guitar Center has two of them in stock.
One is quilt, maple, hardtail and the other is nice flame, roewood,trem

 

[roburado]

Psssst, don! how about this one?

25th Anniversary Ernie Ball Music Man

Shhh...I'm eyeing that one.

 

[Astrofreq]

I'm going to take my hardtail Axis down to GC and A/B the tones.

 

[hbucker]

I've played one without plugging it in and was extremely impressed with the feel, setup and unplugged tone. Likely the best feeling new guitar I've ever taken off the wall at a store.

How would you characterize the pickups? PAF? Modern? Classic? ...??

 

[robberns]

Have to share my 25th

ordered from a buddy here in MA that is a MM dealer.
Thanks, Joe (Performance Music Center)

 

[DaPatrooch]

That's sick! Congrats.

 

[fogman]

welcome to the forum robberns!!!
what an intro!!!!
I love that top!!!

 

[DJ.]

Beautiful top.. Congrats and welcome!

 

[whitestrat]

whitestrat...have your dealer talk to their distributor and see if we can get them another

Thanks BP, unfortunately timing is a bit bad for me now. I can't afford the 25th during this tight period... but I did want to go and try it. unfortunately it's not meant to be, and I know my local dealer doesn't like keeping stock. Oh Well... I'll have to score one off the bay at a later time or off the forum when one surfaces... it's either that or the ASS piezo I've been yearning for for the longest time.

 

[Whymsical]

ordered from a buddy here in MA that is a MM dealer.
Thanks, Joe (Performance Music Center)

Now that top sucks!

Every new top that gets revealed seems to out do the last.

 

[robelinda2]

I think if i was going to get a 25th, it would be a maple neck, trem.

Love the spank of a maple plank.

 

[dwells]

hmm well my 20th is just sublime so if the 25th is anything like that it would be another master piece !

 

[bkrumme]

I think if i was going to get a 25th, it would be a maple neck, trem.

Love the spank of a maple plank.

+1 I love my maple/trem 25th.

 

[GWDavis28]

ordered from a buddy here in MA that is a MM dealer.
Thanks, Joe (Performance Music Center)

Dude, welcome, that is an awesome topped 25th!!

Where you located in Mass??

Glenn |B)

 

[oldstrat]

If I may but in here and address some issues raised here, this is probably the best new guitar made right now. It's not a '59 strat, but give it 50 years. I got mine through the Pittsburgh GC because they told me I could return it in 5 days, even though it was a special order. How can you go wrong with that? I took it home on Tuesday about a month ago , played it for a couple of hours, called Eric at GC on Wed morning and told him he couldn't have it back, and played live with it of Wed night. It was instantly comfortable and perfect. I got the maple neck because I like the brighter, slightly thinner sound, and it looks stunning. This is perhaps the most versatile guitar out there. It doesn't really sound like any other instrument, but if you were to try and duplicate a familiar sound, it's a lot more like a classic LP than a strat or tele. The tone reminds me somewhat or Dickey Betts' '59 gold top. You can get real twangy, but not as assertive as a tele, and ther is no stratty quack. The cleans are incredible. I especially like the combined outer coils in paralell. This is a nice fingerstyle sound (Jorma with hot tuna). I get a great John Abercrombie-like tone with the neck pup in series, touch of overdrive and roll off the treble. A cool and useful thing you can do is crank up to the point of overdrive in the series mode, then switch to the paralell mode for a cleaned up, chimey rhythm. You can then play a fairly clean thin rhythm sound in paralell, switch to series for a fattened up fully overdriven lead or power chorus tone. This works great for me as an only guitarist in our band.
Off the subject of what a great guitar this is, 25 years ago, when I was 25, I bought a 25 year old strat. 25 years later, I got a 25th anniversary guitar. Cosmic, no?

 

[Big Poppa]

OLdSTrat....wow great review thanks a bunch