Raz said:
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...
Hookpunch said:
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...
