Woooooooooooooo... man that was rad as hell.
I just got back from Gigantour in Dallas and did the meet-n-greet with the band. They are all as humble and attentive as you'd think from videos and/or interviews. Every one of them was as nice as could be.
I, luckily, got to talk to John for about ~8-10 minutes or so (everyone kind of hounded Mike). I asked him about his prototype and he said he's decided to stick with the scale of his current EB instead of the Gibson-scale of the first prototyles. He also said he'd like to change the shape of the cutouts on the back and the way the lower horn is cut/shaped.
He also signed my guitar on the back cut out (I'm going to cover it with a sitck-on classical pickguard cut to shape; I've done this in the past, it's very durable) and checked out the set up and said it's very very similar to how his guitars are set up; not to low, not to high. But, he does like his pickups closer to the strings than mine are.
All in all, it was very cool. John is a really really nice guy (as are the rest of the band) and was very attentive and, dare I say, interested in my questions on technique and stretching (I asked about working out and tightning of muscles/tendons and how he dealt with it; he basically said "just don't overdo it").
I plan on going and seeing them again later in the year for the "Evening with..." tour once dates are announced.
I will have 2 pictures with the band in ~7 days (they're contacting me via email). When I get them, I'll post them. They hammed it up for me in the second one.
