![]() The first version was on the heavy side take two hit the bullseye. Rhoads had even sketched out an outline and given the guitar a name, the Concorde. Ozzy Osbourne’s new guitarist, Randy Rhoads, was a rising star and looking for a second V to complement a polka-dot model that Karl Sandoval (another Charvel alumnus) had built him. If the first generation of Charvel instruments were the archetypal Superstrats, their DNA recognisably Fender, the first Jackson model torched the rulebook. Jackson had joined the Charvel shop in 1978 – the same year that Charvel made Van Halen his famous Bumblebee electric – and by the year’s end he had taken over the business and the Charvel brand. These mods were groundbreaking but typical of an era in which there was no shortage of expertise and imagination. His DiMarzios were squealing – could Charvel fix it? Sure, and in a trick learned from Bob Luly, the man who made the Rolling Stones their first sound system, Wayne Charvel potted Van Halen’s pickups in wax. The likes of Eddie Van Halen would visit the shop.
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