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Expert: Matt Maguire Date: 11/21/2007 Subject: brad's guitar s540FM
Question Hi,
I'm french so, sorry for my bad english,
i have the same guitar that brad used many time and I would like to know why he doesn't used it anymore after late 95?
that is a tranparent black guitar custom made : ibanez sabre series 540 flamed maple top, can see it on that url : http://www.robyz.altervista.org/Images/s540.jpg
http://www.cnw.ne.jp/~denki-n/s540.JPG http://homepage2.nifty.com/~tantan/S540.jpg
Answer Hello Thomas --
Je parle un peu de francais, mais je n'ai pas l'etudie depuis neuf ans...alors, je suis reponde en anglais.
Wow, that was a terrible attempt...
Merci beaucoup for the pictures of your guitar. It looks great! I can't tell you WHY he changed guitars, but I can say that Dan MacDonald made his guitars and customized them. He had quite a few and used them at different occasions. Dan MacDonald actually just died, sadly, so any questions we might ask him about Brad's reason for switching will remain unanswered.
Thanks for taking the time to translate your question to English.
