This gave the player a greater ability to perform up bends and let the tremelo feel more vocal. The boffins at Ibanez parent company Hoshino Gakki decided to go all Isambard Kingdom Brunel on us, and over engineer the Floyd with oversized chunky saddles, massive knurled knobs & set the saddles further back on the robust steel bridge plate. The Ibanez Edge system is still in my opinion the definitive evolvement of the Floyd Rose. So at the 1986 NAMM show, Ibanez were first off the block with the stock Ibanez Roadstar remodelled with (rather terrible) pickups that looked like EMG’s. Ibanez, like Yamaha & Aria, were about to take advantage of tremelo guru Floyd Rose’s decision to grant his patent use to the big three Japanese makers. Which at the time was home to a whose who of mid 80’s technical players. But for a couple of years in the late 80’s, Ibanez became the number 1 bestselling guitar over $500 in the USA, until the fatal dual whammy of Slash & the Seattle scene, slayed their metaphorical hairspray dragon, and heralded a move away from the technical precision offered by the ubiquitous pointy headstock axe into a murky heroin filled world of darker, earthier Les Paul infused tones & more…ahem, casualised personal grooming routines.īack in 1985 Ibanez’ Artist relations guru Rich Lasner had been out courting the plethora of new talent on Mike Varneys shrapnel label. Neither had decent distribution at a world wide level. While Kramer & Charvel/Jackson were desirable brands of the day. Ibanez were the first Japanese maker to realise that they could take advantage of the burgeoning 1980’s shred guitar scene & turn themselves into a world leading brand. Not least because the Ibanez RG was perhaps the second guitar after the Yamaha SG to really challenge the Hedgemony of USA is best.
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The History of the original Ibanez RG series is a curious one.
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