Is Mick Thomson (Slipknot) with Jackson now?

[p88]

Discuss.

 

[CapnForsaggio]

I wonder if this is going to be his particular standard setup - Locking nut, Floyd Rose Bridge with no route (fixed).

 

[xCaptainx]

Jackson Guitars RT'd my tweet last night about it, so I guess it's official.

https://twitter.com/Ross_McDougall/status/748302047934447616/photo/1

 

[Rich5150]

Wow interesting!! Didn't see this one coming as the LACS will build him anything including that super tasty Carbon Fiber top MTM

 

[p88]

Nice! So it'd pretty much confirmed.
He has a pretty sweet custom super strat too, black with white binding

 

[Decipher]

WTF......

 

[Wolfhorsky]

I'm not surpised

 

[BucketheadRules]

Cool!

I love Jackson so it's cool to see their artist lineup growing.

 

[Dawn of the Shred]

Good move!

 

[cip 123]

He's still on Ibby's website as a sig artist, maybe his contract is just coming to an end and he's decided to move. i've honestly never seem him speak super highly of his production stuff everything I've seen him play has been LACS.

 

[Five Ten]

Me no likey the reverse headstock. Any form of reverse banana/hockey stick looks wrong to my eyes, though I'm quite sure I'm in the minority there. I liked his Ibanez MTM's though, so it'll be a shame to see them phase out. Fortunately I already own one, so no big loss to me. Headstock aside, that V is sick. I love Jackson King V's.

 

[noob_pwn]

Jackson have an awesome artist program as well as making sick guitars. They are taking better care of mid tier and above artists than most other companies out there, like ESP for example. I'm not super surprised they've had so many recent sign-ups.

edit: pretty sure Mick used to play a green Jackson soloist before he signed to BC Rich back in the day too.

 

[BusinessMan]

Sh!t I'll need to scoop up one of his ibby's before they're totally discontinued. I really dig the Ibanez modes

 

[MetalHeadMat]

That's awesome! Love all these players using Jackson now. Gus G was a huge surprise!

The Jim Root connection probably helped a lot. When Jim was getting prototypes for his signature, he got a Jackson then a Charvel, before making the switch to Fender. AFAIK if you're endorsed by one company owned by Fender, you have free reign to really use anything owned by them.

 

[s_k_mullins]

Very cool! I love Jackson guitars. Also Mick has sorta come full circle now, since he used Jackson in the very beginning of Slipknot (a King V and a green Archtop Soloist).

 

[Nag]

It might end up looking kinda funny because Jackson guitars all have rather small bodies, and Mick is a friggin ogre

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

It might end up looking kinda funny because Jackson guitars all have rather small bodies, and Mick is a friggin ogre

Well he used the RG for the longest time.

Also explains why he went for the Double Rhoads instead of a standard King V.

 

[Baconjerky]

Me no likey the reverse headstock. Any form of reverse banana/hockey stick looks wrong to my eyes, though I'm quite sure I'm in the minority there.

Yep you are The strat looks sick. Go Jackson!

 

[Aso]

Me no likey the reverse headstock.

I'm with you in the minority of liking non-reverse headstocks.

 

[Mathemagician]

I'm with you in the minority of liking non-reverse headstocks.

You better take your minority outta my country-oh, oh, ...wait I hear it now. As soon as I said it out loud. Yep. That's a Tumpin'. My bad. Your guys are welcome to be here. Enjoy yourselves.