How about an EBMM Vinnie Moore Sig. guitar?

[AxSport4me]

Just a thought!!!!! The guy is "Moore" than deserving! *lol* But for a business point of view.....it probably wouldn`t be a big seller since he`s not what you would call commercially well known! Still i think it would be very cool!!!!

 

[Jimi D]

They could do it - Vinnie's No. 1 is a Silhouette Special with a Floyd, not something that was ever in regular production... I think it would be cool to see a VM sig. SS on the market...

 

[Raz]

I believe we had this discussion before, and infact someone asked Vinnie this question (you can ask him over at his forums) and he didn't feel it was 'required', or something to that effect!

 

[AxSport4me]

The Silo`s that he plays are almost all stock except he changes the pickups and has larger frets installed!
And sorry if this was a topic before......I`ve only been here for a month!

 

[Jimi D]

The Silo`s that he plays are almost all stock except he changes the pickups and has larger frets installed!
And sorry if this was a topic before......I`ve only been here for a month!

Ernie Ball Music Man NEVER made a production Silhouette Special with a Floyd Rose! and that's what his No. 1 guitar is. You can hardly call it "all stock", since there never was a "stock" model like this to begin with.

Vinnie Moore's Floyd-equipped Sil. Spec.

 

[AxSport4me]

Ernie Ball Music Man NEVER made a production Silhouette Special with a Floyd Rose! and that's what his No. 1 guitar is. You can hardly call it "all stock", since there never was a "stock" model like this to begin with.

Vinnie Moore's Floyd-equipped Sil. Spec.

I understand.......i was refering to a statement Vinnie had said on his website when someone asked if his Silo was stock. He said the only thing he changes are the pickups and puts larger frets on. But it must have been from a few years ago because on his live cd he uses a Silo with a vintage bridge and on his latest cd its a Silo with a Floyd bridge!!! So you are right Jimi D!!!! Anyway i would like to see his Sig guitar happen!

 

[Hookpunch]

I believe we had this discussion before, and infact someone asked Vinnie this question (you can ask him over at his forums) and he didn't feel it was 'required', or something to that effect!

I wonder what he means by "not required" , although there are only a few changes to his silo from stock -I am guessing EBMM could build him his dream guitar based on the Silo. Maybe EBMM has never approched him.

 

[Jimi D]

I believe we had this discussion before, and infact someone asked Vinnie this question (you can ask him over at his forums) and he didn't feel it was 'required', or something to that effect!

Actually, what he said on his forum was that he'd tried it once and it didn't work out so well for him... I presume that he's refering to the Ibanez sig. he had for a while: the production model of that guitar wasn't so great to begin with (and it had a silly paint job, but it was the eighties!), and Ibanez aren't known for treating their endorsees terribly well (unless you're Satch or Vai - just ask JP), so maybe Vinnie's a little gun-shy about the whole thing...

I wonder what he means by "not required" , although there are only a few changes to his silo from stock -I am guessing EBMM could build him his dream guitar based on the Silo. Maybe EBMM has never approched him.

Lets remember that Moore's playing a Silhouette Special and not a Silhouette... There was a Silhouette with a Floyd in production for years, but putting a Floyd on a Sil. Spec. qualifies as a pretty radical change from standard production to my mind...

Anyway, this kind of reminds me of Albert Lee (before he was gifted with the original Axis prototype which eventually became his signature axe)... His first EBMM was a bog-standard Silhouette with a trans-pink finish and three singles which he played everywhere and became identified with, so in Europe they started marketing the Silhouette with this pickup configuration and finish as the "Albert Lee Signature" model - there was no signature on the headstock, but they advertised it with the Morse and Luke, and included it in their catalogs under the "signature" models... Then he got the Axis proto and played that for like five or six years, during which time the only other person to get one was Sir Paul McCartney (who may own the only LEFTY model AL in existence)... When they finally decided to put the guitar into production as the Albert Lee signature model, they did quite well with it...

So if they ever do decide to run a Silhouette Special w/ Floyd as the Vinnie Moore signature model (especially if they back-route the body for pull-ups/floating trem), it just might surprise them how well it would sell...


aside: I've gleaned a lot of this history over the years by reading anything I could get on the company, but I really wish Dudley would come down to the board from time to time and share a little of his perspective on the history of some of these instruments with us...

 

[jimmyp]

aside: I've gleaned a lot of this history over the years by reading anything I could get on the company, but I really wish Dudley would come down to the board from time to time and share a little of his perspective on the history of some of these instruments with us...

I said before on here that I hope Big Poppa opens the vault and shows the stages of our fave MM guitars. I am fascinated by the insights into the new Petrucci, but would love to see the evolution of the EVH and Luke as it was assembled, tested and tweaked by the artist in question - I'm sure there are a few oddities in SLO that the forum would love to see - prototypes with different bridges, pickups, knob placement etc. I hope it happens

 

[blackspy]

Speaking of Sil's with Floyds ... here's a nice looking one on eBay http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2384&item=7325664187&rd=1