Michael Angelo Batio: i hear guitar interview

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10-02-2009:

Michael Angelo Batio says:
I wanted to be different. I wanted to be unique. Not to be better than other guitar players, but really, I play different, I came up with different things live, I just wanted to be unique and have my own voice. Dean came up with the ML shape. That’s the baddest-ass metal shape there is! And it’s a Dean! I like Gibson Les Pauls, I like Strats, but I mean, you’ve got Angus Young playing an SG, you’ve got Page playing a Les Paul, you’ve got Jimi Hendrix playing a Strat, and I wanted to play something different. Dimebag felt the same way. So that’s how I started using Dean: Their shapes were really cool, they’re high-quality USA, and they came up with this – it was called a blueburst, this dark blue into light blue burst finish, and that guitar just freaked me out. I looked at it on the wall when I was teaching guitar at a music store in my home town of Chicago, and “I gotta have that guitar, man!” So that’s how it started.

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