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The Art of Roar

the very first guitar with the Jackson name on its headstock made its debut — a custom model designed in collaboration with Randy Rhoads called the Concorde. While the company started out as a custom shop with a clientele of artists who could afford to pay more for quality, eventually Jackson started offering production-line models in the Nineties, including an affordable line of import instruments. Today Jackson is

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