98636725 from DISCHORDIANISM 3135 by Andrew Liles

Guitar: Gibson
Model: Explorer
Serial Number: 98636725

The Flying V is almost certainly the personification of Heavy Metal, BUT, it was Heavy Metal’s second guitar icon, the Explorer that I was most attracted to. Ever since I saw Matthias Jabs playing in Scorpions at the tender age of 12 I needed an Explorer.

I eventually achieved my dream of owning one 25 years later. In the UK, Gibson guitars were and are inconceivably expensive, but in the US they are half the price and a further half that price second-hand.

My Explorer was bought from Craigslist in San Francisco. I was there playing with NWW, so myself and Colin Potter jumped on a train to a place I don’t recall just outside SF and I got hold of this second or maybe third-hand battle scarred slab of wood and wire.

It sounds great and looks great now I’ve added a mirrored pickguard and well, it’s an Explorer. Perfection.

Notable live excursions with Nurse With Wound, Art Errorist and Liles/Maniac/Stokes.

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