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DELUXE TREATMENT

Shortly after attending my first big gig, watching Thin Lizzy at the Hammersmith Odeon, I bought a Japanese Shaftesbury LP Deluxe Goldtop and loved the sound the mini-humbuckers gave me. I sold it, regretted it and then spent 10 times as much on a 30th anniversary reissue Deluxe Goldtop 20 years later… only to hunt down and recover my old flame in 2019. (There’s another story there, trust me).

To the point. When I saw Dave Burrluck’s review of the latest Deluxe offering in issue 476, my hopes went skyward. At last, a Deluxe being manufactured as a regular production model in what history may consider a ‘good’