David Grissom might not quite be a household name like John Mayer or Carlos Santana but he’s very much a guitarist’s guitarist. David has been a big part of the PRS family since, well, since the start of the company in 1985 when, as a hot-shot Austin, Texas-based guitarist, he traded in a 1959 Fender Esquire for a new-fangled PRS Standard in sea foam green. His hot blues-based style was soon informing Clash-favourite Joe Ely, then he became a part of John Mellencamp’s band and toured and recorded with many, many artists from the Dixie Chicks to the Allman Brothers.
Along the way he ‘invented’ the first vintage-aimed PRS guitar, the McCarty Model, which, after he’d gigged it for some 15 years evolved into the DGT (David
