Quoting Alex Skolnick

[Sparky]

From Ultimate Guitar:

 

Q:

Last year, your signature model guitar finally was released. How much input did you have into the guitar and why did you change to Heritage guitars after having played Ibanez guitars?

 

A:

I had a lot of input on the instrument, not on the shape but on the specs. I don't consider myself a guitar designer, but I know what I like and wanted a guitar that stood up with any great vintage instrument and captured that same feeling. Heritage is the only company I feel that is producing instruments like that on a consistent basis. I only played Ibanez for about five years and like a lot of other companies, they have had good years and not so good years. But ultimately, the Ibanez instruments just didn't give me that feeling I get when I step into a store like Mandolin Bros in New York, Gruhn Guitars in Nashville or any number of stores in Austin, Texas and play those wonderful old Gibsons, Fenders and Martins. Heritage guitars give me that same feeling.

[barrymclark]

Yep! Heritage is a comtemporaty vintage!

 

I agree with him. A lot of guitar choice does go beyond the sound of the instrument alone. You can have two instruments that sound identical but of there is just a vibe on one that other doesn't have, the vibeless one stays behind. New G's don't have the vibe for me the way the old ones do. They left that vibe in K'zoo and Heritage owns it now.

 

Skolick has been a HUGE influence on my playing since I was 13 and he was in Testament. The difference in his style and other prominent metal lead guitarists of the day was pretty evident to me and I loved it. As I got into jazz, I also got into his Alex Skolnick Trio big time. I would say it is my most often played 'jazz' artist. In fact, it is playing in my iPod right now. His cover of Detroit Rock City just finished and the cover of Pinball Wizard is starting.

[smurph1]

From Ultimate Guitar:

 

Q:

Last year, your signature model guitar finally was released. How much input did you have into the guitar and why did you change to Heritage guitars after having played Ibanez guitars?

 

A:

I had a lot of input on the instrument, not on the shape but on the specs. I don't consider myself a guitar designer, but I know what I like and wanted a guitar that stood up with any great vintage instrument and captured that same feeling. Heritage is the only company I feel that is producing instruments like that on a consistent basis. I only played Ibanez for about five years and like a lot of other companies, they have had good years and not so good years. But ultimately, the Ibanez instruments just didn't give me that feeling I get when I step into a store like Mandolin Bros in New York, Gruhn Guitars in Nashville or any number of stores in Austin, Texas and play those wonderful old Gibsons, Fenders and Martins. Heritage guitars give me that same feeling.

that's a short paragraph, but it says VOLUMES!!!

[yoslate]

that's a short paragraph, but it says VOLUMES!!!

 

 

And nothing we haven't heard here, hundreds of times, from...us....! Nice to have someone of Alex's stature second what we know, though!

[Spectrum13]

I like ice cream too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We can all agree with Alex. You don't have to have his talent to appreciate a Heritage.

[FredZepp]

I know what I like and wanted a guitar that stood up with any great vintage instrument and captured that same feeling. Heritage is the only company I feel that is producing instruments like that on a consistent basis.

 

Oh yeah... just tell it like it is....

[Kuz]

+1

 

Preach the truth Alex!