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Iron Axes (and Autobiographies)

styles within the menagerie of guitar design more useful or versatile than a well-made and properly dialed-in super Strat, and few people understand that style’s appeal better than Iron Maiden’s fleet-fingered melodic monster, Adrian Smith. Smith has chiefly called upon custom Jackson San Dimas models to handle his

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