Coll EVH/Vai/Tom Anderson Story Here

[gibson5413]

Very cool read here.

http://andersonforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=403

 

[ratter]

TA seems like a very cool dude! And a little bit of the shine just went off little Stevie Vai...oh well...

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

Great read! That one EVH guitar wired with each string panning different is messed up...I dig it! haha

 

[King Guitar]

Tom and Roy at TAG are some of the nicest people I have met in the industry. As sincere as it gets.

 

[rupe]

I remember reading that a while back...great story! Tom has a lot of cool stories on that forum like all the necks he built for Kramer artist guitars...no, "your" Kramer is not the same as the ones played by the endorsers of the day.

 

[Michi]

Nice read, thx for posting .

 

[jcj]

Funny...Toru (mentioned in the story) used to have a little shop right around the corner from Norm's old location...he did all the work on my guitars back then, as well as everyone I knew. Great guy!

Tom is indeed one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet!

Got another TAG incoming Wednesday

 

[Digital Jams]

VERY cool story and why I still believe that TA is the founding father of today's superstrat

 

[gibson5413]

Funny...Toru (mentioned in the story) used to have a little shop right around the corner from Norm's old location...he did all the work on my guitars back then, as well as everyone I knew. Great guy!

Tom is indeed one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet!

Got another TAG incoming Wednesday

Really? What is it? I have another one that will deliver sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks. I am stoked. I'll post a new guitar day soon.

 

[jcj]

Found a Basswood/Maple (which I've been wanting) with my neck spec's on ebay, so I overpaid

What I like is really hard to find (1 5/8ths, even taper +.05) especially in the Basswood/Maple, so I snapped it up...I just hate the wait for the custom order...done it, but it seems longer, now

Wrong frets and bridge pickup, but that's easily fixed if I love the guitar.

 

[mysticaxe]

Very cool read here.

http://andersonforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=403

That is an awesome story! TA is a really cool dude from the time I met him.

 

[TroubledWine]

Wow, that whole thread was a fun read! Thanks for posting it!

 

[racerevlon]

Looks like Vai's web camp killed the link to the guitar.

 

[Piero the Guitarero]

Looks like Vai's web camp killed the link to the guitar.

well, the linked thread is from 2004!

it's only a matter of time when Vais Webmaster/admin cleans the folders
and sort out what not needed anymore.

 

[rupe]

Here's the guitar that Tom was discussing:

IIRC, it was used to record most of the solos on the "Skyscraper" album.

 

[Drew]

Funny...Toru (mentioned in the story) used to have a little shop right around the corner from Norm's old location...he did all the work on my guitars back then, as well as everyone I knew. Great guy!

Tom is indeed one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet!

Got another TAG incoming Wednesday

Toru's shop is now located within Pat Wilken's shop near the Van Nuys airport.

 

[Digital Jams]

I wonder what would have happened to TA if Vai went with him in regards to both parties?

Vai's design pretty much made the RG which I believe is the 2nd most sold guitar in history next to the strat. before Vai Ibanez was at a cross roads with uncertain times ahead. No artist had the impact Vai had back in 1987 when the JEM came out.

TA did not have the capital at that time but his entire business model could have changed for better or for worse. In the end shops like TA's could not substain that kind of growth, at one point Hamer had many of the big guns with their guitars but just did not have the capital to keep them.

Loyality is a fickle bitch.

 

[jcj]

Funny...Toru (mentioned in the story) used to have a little shop right around the corner from Norm's old location...he did all the work on my guitars back then, as well as everyone I knew. Great guy!

Tom is indeed one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet!

Got another TAG incoming Wednesday

Toru's shop is now located within Pat Wilken's shop near the Van Nuys airport.

Hey thanks man!

Good to hear he's still around!

 

[gibson5413]

I wonder what would have happened to TA if Vai went with him in regards to both parties?

Vai's design pretty much made the RG which I believe is the 2nd most sold guitar in history next to the strat. before Vai Ibanez was at a cross roads with uncertain times ahead. No artist had the impact Vai had back in 1987 when the JEM came out.

TA did not have the capital at that time but his entire business model could have changed for better or for worse. In the end shops like TA's could not substain that kind of growth, at one point Hamer had many of the big guns with their guitars but just did not have the capital to keep them.

Loyality is a fickle bitch.

+1

I have spoken to Tom on a few occasions. Easily one of my favorite people...period. I would add that he is totally fine with his organization (size, production output). He is all about quality control and comfort in making his guitars. How can you not like the man? I think it is cool that the way this story went down doesn't affect his opinion of the the people involved. He knows it's just how things go sometimes and that everything reciprocates in the end.

 

[Lord Toneking]

Cool read! Thanks!

Sounds like Tom is a super cool dude Too bad his guitars are 3 times the amount I can afford because I'd love to have one