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YAMAHA REVSTAR RS B

Yamaha has never made a bad guitar. The Pacifica is legendary (in its incarnation as a beginner’s guitar as well as more deluxe offerings). Ditto the RGZ, whose ad copy famously proclaimed, “Naked girls and flaming skulls don’t make a guitar work better. Unfortunately.” Or the Weddington, which foreshadowed the ‘Superpauls’ of ESP and Schecter by about a decade.

But Yamaha’s most iconic guitar is the SG – a pointy-horned-but-not-like-Angus’s guitar which debuted in 1974. The Revstar feels like it belongs

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