You know that guitar Alexi Laiho plays...

[JayKeeley]

....how isn't that a Randy Rhoads Flying V? Just because it's not made by Jackson?

I guess guitar manufacturers can copy designs and just get someone else to endorse them.

So in theory, "guitar manufacturer X" can copy the Eddie Van Halen signature Kramer (with the red & white stripes) and just get it endorsed by a Nightwish guitarist?

Crap thread I know. Apologies for the Alexi image.

 

[Erik]

It's not EXACTLY like a Rhoads. Compare them side by side and you will see that they're different, like my Peavey Rotor is different from a Gibson Explorer, or like the Ibanez Destroyer is.

 

[JayKeeley]

So how about them red sox?

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

its alot different than a Jackson

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

somebody ask alexi's boyfriend then.

 

[JayKeeley]

its alot different than a Jackson

Yep, they're just worlds apart.

 

[JayKeeley]

your mum

EDIT: Wing span as follows

 

[NAD]

I've never played an ESP. Also I really can't stand guitars/basses without a bottom horn, as they are generally impossible to sit down and play.

Don't give me that stradle the V around your leg shit either, that's gay.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

V's are the easiest to play while sitting.

 

[NAD]

Yeah, Explorer styles are fine sitting down and standing up with. I still need to get a Jackson Kelly someday, I fookin' love them things.

 

[NAD]

V's are the easiest to play while sitting.

You need to explain this further, because I've never been able to do it.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

easy as pie. works just as well with my rhoads too.

 

[NAD]

Yeah didn't I already specify don't give me that stradle the V over your leg shit?

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

yeah, instead of your arm and hand being on the far side of your body, its right in the middle, and me likes it.

 

[NAD]

Hey if it works for you, that's rad. I need my hand to the side though, particularly since I play fingerstyle 90% of the time.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

hang out with your wang out

 

[Conti]

there is an easier way to sit down with a rhoads V. Put the smaller horn to the right of your rightleg and rest and on something soft. Thats all you have to do. I dont really like stratling it because the whole fret board is like way infront of you.

 

[lizard]

 

[J.]

2021 has claimed Alexi at 41. Although Im sure his liver had something to do with it

 

[Doom]

Hatebreeder was in the very first "proper" metal CD haul I ever made, and has always been my favourite of theirs. I still like it.

Sucks to go at such a young age. RIP.