The $600 JEM
Nathan Snelgrove
“Fair warning, dude," he said. That was the first the thing he said to me. "Your guitar is weird." I don't remember his name anymore. As far as I was concerned, he was the Guitar Tech, and that was it. Guitar Tech was really good at his job. He came highly recommended and had all the stereotypes: Big beard, long and greasy hair, eyes that looked in two directions at once. He was the real deal. In my memory, I picture him wearing a monocle and smoking a half-finished cigarette with its ashes hanging by a thread, but I know for a certainty I'm making up the monocle.
The guitar he's referring to was a knockoff Ibanez JEM that I bought from a family friend's son for $600 a couple months earlier. JEMs were designed by guitar virtuoso To read the rest of this article: 
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