Back in the days of shred, Jackson guitars became one of the go-to brands for the fleet-fingered guitarist. The company’s first instrument was the Concorde, a Flying V created with Randy Rhoads, before they came up with the Dinky, the first in a series of "Super Strat" guitars of the type favoured by fret burners like Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and others.
Def Leppard's Phil Collen got his own Super Strat, his signature PC1, and in 2010 he hand-painted 30 of them to celebrate Jackson's 30th birthday. Collen would visit the company's paint shop daily – for the best part of a year – adding Pollock-esque splashes of colour on each visit, before signing his name (in Japanese) in white paint.
