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<b>I thought Jimi or someone had said that for the first year or 2 of production the AL body was called an Axis, then changed when it became Albert's sig model. </b>
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</blockquote> Actually, there were a couple prototypes that were called the Axis, but the guitar was never in production as anything but the "Albert Lee".<br />
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I have a NAMM article from a 1986 Guitar World in which they talk about Ernie Ball showing TWO new Music Man guitars - neither guitar is named, but they mention a Strat-derived model with contoured horns, and an "angular" model with a unique body shape; unfortunately, they only picture the Silhouette prototype, but I think that Ernie Ball actually showed the "Axis" (Albert Lee) model prototype at the 1986 Summer NAMM. Albert received his trans-pink one (perhaps the very same guitar) while playing at a Christmas party for Sterling Ball that December...</div>
