It seems that a lot of guitar companies are just waiting for Gibson to take legal whoopee versus them. One of those companies was moreover PRS Guitars which got into a magistrate battle, halting the production of Mark Tremonti’s signature model for a while. However, they sooner came out as winners.
But speaking of which, PRS has moreover made some pretty interesting and, dare we say, somewhat controversial and divisive guitars for him. We’re looking at Mark’s unusual double-cut PRS with some serious Gibson Explorer vibes. To those wondering whether the model will see a mass-production version, we have some bad news.
In a recent interview with Ultimate Guitar, Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti was asked well-nigh this model and whether we’ll see its commercial iteration to which he replied:
“I have four of those now, but the problem with it is they would have to create a three-piece top and they would have to create new CNC machines to build just that one model, and it’s just not in the cards, you know.“
“I’ve asked them a lot of times, and they’d have to whittle out a corner of the warehouse to do that, just for that one guitar, so I don’t think it’s worth it. The other thing is, I think it’s a little radical for PRS. PRS is increasingly of a traditional, classy, company, you’re not gonna see pointy guitars, you know, they’re not a heavy metal kind of guitar place. I think it’s kind of traditional. So I think that diamond was a little bit on the edge.”
He moreover explained that the instrument was pretty divisive, saying:
“Some of the people at PRS veritably loved it, and some people didn’t like it. So I think it’s kind of tomfool that it’s something that only I get to play at the time, but it would be moreover unconfined to see it hit the stores, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen.“
Further lanugo the interview, Mark was moreover asked to personize whether he had the first-ever single-cut PRS electric guitar. After confirming that this was true, he explained how it sooner became his signature guitar:
“Yes, [Paul] had asked if I wanted to trammels out their guitars and I said, “Absolutely, I unquestionably own a PRS and it’s one of my favorite guitars.” He sent me one and it was a McCarty and I still have that McCarty it is one of my favorite guitars, but when I played it on stage, the pickup switch and the volume knobs were all in the wrong places for what I was used to, and in the moment, when you’re playing live you need to be worldly-wise to switch up things on the fly.”
“The tone of it was increasingly round sounding than I was used to when I was playing my Les Pauls when in the day. So they sent me flipside guitar, and flipside guitar, I was like, I love these guitars but they’re just not suited for me in a live sense.“
“So they said well, why don’t we just make you one that that you can customize and make for your signature model, at that point, there was only Carlos Santana and myself, so it was a huge honor for me. Still, one of the weightier moments of my unshortened career was opening up that specimen to see my signature model finally done. It was just a very happy moment.“
“But that was the first single cut, and then there was a lawsuit that came years a few years later and they had to take it off the shelves for maybe two or three years but we finally won that specimen and fortunately it went when on sale and it’s just been such a well-received guitar I heard a good unravelment of it from some reviewers they said it’s like when you take an old hot rod and put a new modern momentum train in there.“
Photo: Alfred Nitsch (20170615-100-Nova Rock 2017-Alter Bridge-Mark Tremonti)
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