By: Steve Miller
Submitted: 2010-06-18 20:11:57 | Word Count: 644
Here are a few guitar firms which can be well known for their quality and their record of movie star players. PRS Guitars are one such business. Paul Reed Smith, proprietor and crafter of PRS Guitars, completed his first guitar when he was a pupil at St. Marys School in Maryland. He continued to construct electric guitars following college and after he finished one, he would bring it to concert events and convince the guitarists to test them out and give him feedback.
Paul Reed Smith ultimately encountered Carlos Santana. The top result of this meeting was that Santana ended up demoing out his electric guitars. (He tried 3 total.) Santana was blown away, and this ultimately altered the path of Paul Reed Smith's life. Santana put Smith in touch with a man named Ted McCarty, who finally grew to become his mentor.
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Ted McCarty is a veteran of the guitar business. He was the president of Gibson Guitars for a number of years and he invented the Gibson ES-335, Flying V, and the Gibson Explorer guitars. Like Santana, McCarty also realized that Paul reed smith had skills and took him under his wing. Both collaborated and developed a collection of guitars together. These electric guitars are actually included within the PRS Guitars line.
Perhaps it was because of McCarty's partnership with Paul Reed Smith that in the end resulted in the problem. Nevertheless, Gibson sued PRS Guitars over their Singlecut electric guitars, which they argued were significantly similar to the Gibson Guitars Les Paul design. Finally Gibson Guitars lost the case, however PRS guitars could not make the electric guitars while the court case proceeding. But the case was resolved in Smith and McCarty's PRS guitars favor.
PRS Guitars have a list of current inventory models and private stock of PRS guitars which are all added on their official web page. There are the Singlecut PRS guitars that had been previously talked about, the PRS guitar SE Series which is a lower end model and barely inexpensive, the PRS SE Torero, 513 Rosewood, and the Santana SE Guitar. Nonetheless, these are just some illustrations for the in depth list offered on the site.
There've been a number of famous musicians who have played PRS guitars. These include Al DiMeola, Carlos Santana, Peter Lindgren, Dave Navarro, Tim Mahoney, Mark Tremont, Larry Lalonde of Primus, Larry Hanson of Alabama, Neal Schon of Journey, Rich Williams of Kansas, Vince Neil of Motley Crue and Steve Stevens with Billy Idol. For more information on the guitarists who play PRS Guitars, please visit PRS guitar's official website.
Here's what one particular person had to say about their PRS Guitar:
In regards to the PRS guitars Custom 20th Anniversary
I love how this guitar looks. I've sought after a quilt finish guitar, but the actual specification would've taken three-four months on a particular order and cost lots more, so I got this one, and haven't regretted it for a minute. Extraordinary full tones - as soon as I took it to the 1st practice, everyone in the group can tell the change (had formerly been playing US Standard Strat and Les Paul Custom). Lighter tone than the Les Paul, but so versatile. The sound control is useable and the choice between single/double wound pickups creates a real variation. Magical.
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I have been a huge fan of PRS Guitars for over 20 year. I've purchased many PRS guitar models from the Custom 22 to the Torero. I hope you find this article useful. You are welcome to post it on your web site as long as you link back to Gear-Vault.com.
