Gretsch are honoring the late AC/DC legend Malcolm Young with the release of a signature guitar this November.
The G6131-MY pays homage to Young’s famously battle-hardened Gretsch Jet. Nicknamed “The Beast,” Young made the instrument his own by removing two of the three pickups, stripping away the finish, and pounding out some of the hardest and most memorable rhythms the world has ever heard.
“I mean, as soon as you hear that first… chord, you know it’s him,” said his brother Angus Young. “To do this… you have to be a master of rhythm, and that’s exactly what Mal [was].”
The Young model features the essential hallmarks of one of rock’s most iconic instruments including “DIY” pickup routes with simulated screw holes, chrome switch plugs, Space-Control™ bridge and ‘60s-style tailpiece. Open-cavity thunder roars from the thin-skin satin finished chambered mahogany body and is magnified by a high-output TV Jones® Power’Tron™ pickup.
The guitar has a double-cutaway chambered mahogany body with a maple top, aged-white binding, a bound ebony fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets and Neo-Classic thumbnails. It is available in Aged Natural stain with black back and sides.
For more details, visit gretschguitars.com
Young passed away November 18, 2017 at the age of 64 following a lengthy battle with dementia; the guitarist retired from the band in 2014 before entering a full-time health care facility in Sydney, Australia that specialized in patients with the illness.
With Angus Young the sole remaining original member, AC/DC’s future remains unknown.
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