COVER MODELS

Andrew Daly

GUITARIST MARTY FRIEDMAN GUITAR 1991 JACKSON FIREBIRD CUSTOM SHOP PROTOTYPE GW COVER DATE DECEMBER 1991 THIS INTERVIEW JANUARY 2025 PHOTOGRAPHER NEAL PRESTON Q: When and where did you buy this guitar? I’m sure I was somewhere on the road, right around the time of the photo shoot, when Jackson presented me with several guitars of very cool shapes. It might have been a prototype. Q: What drew you to it? I loved the shape. Jackson should get more recognition for being the first top-tier company to make guitars of radically “heavy metal”-looking shapes way before anyone else did. Arguably, they were the only top-tier company making them for a very long time. Before Jackson, all the weird-shaped guitars were sonically and visually suited to other genres, like surf music or…

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Guitar World (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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