jexus christ... people ragging on a dead guy and on someone for having indicidual taste... It's really just like a complete orgy of snobbery...
#1 As for the Jem, well, some people prefer OFR's. OFR's are good bridges, stable, solid and it's all what you're used to at the end of the day. Pickup wise, well, if it sounds good it sounds good. A lot of people here seem to be forgetting that guitars are meant to be played, not spunked all over once a year when you dare to open the hermitically sealed case... Hey, i even think the vwh should have been buried with elvis as it's absolutely horrid. THis looks no worse or better than a lot of the multi coloured jems. I've set fire to my BSB as it wasn;t burnt enough, cause guess what, it's my guitar, that i actually play from time to time, it's what they're there for.
#2 ragging on a dead man really isn't cool. Don't like his style etc, all good, but i don't think anyone can deny that he had a unique style, unique attitude in his playing and has influenced a generation of guitarists during a generation where metal and solo's wasn't cool. Plus, i can hear him do more with one note than 99% of shredders do with a million, and to me, that is class, as that is all meant, which is better than a bland cleanly executed million miles an hour sweep using 11 fingers, your ****, and 1337 powers of mind control...