Does anyone remember this article/feature from Guitarist magazine (late 90s/early 00s)?

horse · December 2020

It sounds like some kind of chameleon shape-shifting mythical beast

xscaramanga · December 2020

I remember this. I bought my first issue of Guitarist in I think July 1997 (Jackson Roswell Rhoads on the cover, Joe Perry and Nuno interviews inside) so it was not before that.

Dominic Hilton is the name I remember too.

I didn't read every months and only saw one of the installments I think. I'm pretty sure it said it would be a purple metal flake finish.

545454 · December 2020

That's weird, I was thinking about that article recently and had a look through my old mags but couldn't find it. Don't think I ever saw the finished guitar, but am also fairly certain it was Dominic Hilton.

newi123 · December 2020

You guys aren`t old enough! :-)

I think I bought my first copy in 1987 or so, aged 14.......... the only place to find gear info and rock lessons! I loved the Phil Hilbourne stuff, but the bits that were most useful were the Nick Bowcott `in the style of`. 20 or 30 licks in the style of a player, but not an exact copy, and for copyright reasons they didn`t tell you which songs the inspiration came from, so you had to actually listen to the original artist and work it out. And of course no audio to go along with it with the mag!

I still firmly believe that this helped players develop their own style much better than the instant access to note for note stuff we have today. Maybe I`m just old!

No idea on the double cut I`m afraid.........

WezV · December 2020

StefB said:

Wasn’t it a Jazzmaster body with HSH pickups and a large, reverse headstock?

i sure it was a reverse jag/jazz body.... but full size, unlike the supersonic which is downsized and reshaped a bit

jonnyscaramanga said:

I'm pretty sure it said it would be a purple metal flake finish.

this is what i remember... It was another way the supersonic was similar with its blue flake

Loobs · December 2020

Anyone got a contact for Dom Hilton? Can't dig up anything online. Originally saw someone on Offset Guitars asking about it and I'd love to find it for him.

Loobs · December 2020

It's now like a song in your head that you can't name. I have to find the answer!

Loobs · December 2020

jonnyscaramanga said:

I remember this. I bought my first issue of Guitarist in I think July 1997 (Jackson Roswell Rhoads on the cover, Joe Perry and Nuno interviews inside) so it was not before that.

Dominic Hilton is the name I remember too.

I didn't read every months and only saw one of the installments I think. I'm pretty sure it said it would be a purple metal flake finish.

Bloody hell, I remember the issue with the Jackson RR on the cover. That was July 1997?!

Loobs · December 2020

I wonder if this is him: https://thecritic.co.uk/author/dominic-hilton/

Loobs · December 2020

Seems like this guy wrote a lot of educational material around 2000 then dropped off the face of the earth: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27:Dominic+Hilton&s=relevancerank&text=Dominic+Hilton&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

WezV · December 2020

I'm intrigued to see if any of it is how I remember

xscaramanga · December 2020

Loobs said:

jonnyscaramanga said:

I remember this. I bought my first issue of Guitarist in I think July 1997 (Jackson Roswell Rhoads on the cover, Joe Perry and Nuno interviews inside) so it was not before that.

Dominic Hilton is the name I remember too.

I didn't read every months and only saw one of the installments I think. I'm pretty sure it said it would be a purple metal flake finish.

Bloody hell, I remember the issue with the Jackson RR on the cover. That was July 1997?!

Or June, yeah. Aerosmith had just released Nine Lives and Nuno put out Schizophonic.

Philly_Q · December 2020

Loobs said:

It's now like a song in your head that you can't name. I have to find the answer!

It's become like that thread last week about the woman playing guitar with Cathy Dennis on TOTP.

WezV · December 2020

June 1997 is when the supersonic was reviewed

Image: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91gpoMq0MLL.jpg

EricTheWeary · December 2020

Philly_Q said:

I remember it, and I will definitely have the mag somewhere, but not much chance of finding it.
My house looks a bit like this (only with a lot of guitar cases and empty guitar boxes as well):

Philly_Q said:

Loobs said:

It's now like a song in your head that you can't name. I have to find the answer!

It's become like that thread last week about the woman playing guitar with Cathy Dennis on TOTP.

That turned into a debate about veterinary ethics so unless it turns out that building that guitar involved castrating a donkey we are probably okay.

When I worked in Dudley social services I had to cover duty for another team for a day and ended up visiting this guy who was a hoarder. Quite financially well off man who had lived with his mother all his life and when she died he became depressed and largely gave up caring about anything. His house was full of junk, he would piss on the floor, he would threaten the carers that went in to see him, hardly ate and would get drunk. He had been an engineer and had a workshop out the back of his house with top notch equipment and he kept all of that pristine, he would visit his neighbours and do odd jobs and was very IT literate and would help them sort out internet problems. Very odd man. In the middle of all the junk were two what I think were USA strats, for a brief moment I wondered if he could possibly notice if they went off with me - although should I have been successful in stealing off this man with obvious mental health issues I feel I would have needed to have spent a long time cleaning them.
In my defence it was only a passing thought but when you are spending your day in stinky houses you do start wondering 'what am I getting out of this.' I think the moral of this @Philly_Q is the clutter with the magazines and the guitars is okay but when you start pissing on the floor maybe get some help.

Loobs · December 2020

WezV said:

June 1997 is when the supersonic was reviewed

I think it's definitely later than this. I wasn't buying it at this point.

WezV · December 2020

jonnyscaramanga said:

Loobs said:

jonnyscaramanga said:

I remember this. I bought my first issue of Guitarist in I think July 1997 (Jackson Roswell Rhoads on the cover, Joe Perry and Nuno interviews inside) so it was not before that.

Dominic Hilton is the name I remember too.

I didn't read every months and only saw one of the installments I think. I'm pretty sure it said it would be a purple metal flake finish.

Bloody hell, I remember the issue with the Jackson RR on the cover. That was July 1997?!

Or June, yeah. Aerosmith had just released Nine Lives and Nuno put out Schizophonic.

April 1997
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Guitarist-Magazine-CD-April-1997/153837345602?hash=item23d16b9b42:g:AaoAAOSwoDVeTAbV

Philly_Q · December 2020

EricTheWeary said:
I think the moral of this @Philly_Q is the clutter with the magazines and the guitars is okay but when you start pissing on the floor maybe get some help.

Noted. I'm not there yet.

Philly_Q · December 2020

Loobs said:

WezV said:

June 1997 is when the supersonic was reviewed

I think it's definitely later than this. I wasn't buying it at this point.

I bought a Squier Super-Sonic, just like that one. Blimey, 23 years ago.

What the hell was that Gary Moore story about? I don't remember him doing a pop album. Hard to imagine Guitarist putting "blues is dead" on the cover nowadays, half the readership would drop down dead.

WezV · December 2020

Philly_Q said:

Loobs said:

WezV said:

June 1997 is when the supersonic was reviewed

I think it's definitely later than this. I wasn't buying it at this point.

I bought a Squier Super-Sonic, just like that one. Blimey, 23 years ago.

same here, but i think it was when they were selling them off cheap later in 1998

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