Custom Polka Dot V
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Custom Polka Dot V
Somebody get this! I would be all over it but I just bought another Les Paul
http://www.deanguitars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55180
http://www.deanguitars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55180
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If the specialness could wear off that easily maybe they were never that specialPaul Wolfe wrote:Back when Polka-Dot V's were uncommon, they seemed so cool, but it seems that there are so many out there now... to me the specialness has worn off.
Having a break from online activity for a while to concentrate on music. Please email if you need to get in touch. Matt
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Ahhhh, Grasshopper, there is wisdom in the words you speak.Matthew wrote:If the specialness could wear off that easily maybe they were never that specialPaul Wolfe wrote:Back when Polka-Dot V's were uncommon, they seemed so cool, but it seems that there are so many out there now... to me the specialness has worn off.
Nicole, if I could be at the level of Randy Rhoads simply by buying a certain guitar, I would have bought it years ago
These days I'd rather have a guitar that is comfortable to me and sounds good to my ear rather than have a replica of something my idol once played... I must be gettin' old.
Rob200 wrote:Oh nice! But its kinda got a Floyd Rose on it....Lolz When I get my PDV....No Floyd will Soil it lolz
I can understand wanting a replica guitar to be an "accurate" representation of the original, but with all the issues Randy had with trying to keep his Sandoval in tune, I can't help but wonder if he himself would have prefered a Floyd had it been available and had it not been made popular by Eddie Van Halen.
Randy ordered his guitar from Karl Sandoval on 7-3-79 and it was completed on 9-22-79.
Floyd Rose filed his first US patent application for his locking tremolo on January 3, 1977, but it wouldn't be issued until 3 years later on October 23, 1979.
By 1980-81, Eddie Van Halen was endorsing the Floyd Rose tremolo and IMO, made it popular. it was also around that same time that Floyd Rose was negotiating a deal with Kramer guitars.
IMO, Randy simply "missed the boat" when it came to the Floyd Rose tremolo. It had not been available to him at the time he ordered his PDV from Karl Sandoval. And by the time it was available, it was being endorsed by Eddie Van Halen.
The fact that it was being endorsed by Eddie Van Halen didn't prevent other players of that era from using a Floyd Rose, but it's my opinion that Randy was all about trying to create his own identity and probably didn't want that association.
Bottom line IMO ...
The Floyd Rose is a much better tremolo all around.
And had it been available to Randy at the time, and had there not been that association with EvH, I'm pretty sure Randy would have had one on his PDV.
Just my opinion.
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