Description
In a career spanning three decades, Scott Ian is a veritable thrash godfather who has made a living out of pummeling audiences worldwide with his huge sound and formidable chops. He not only co-founded venerable Bronx “Big Four” thrash institution Anthrax, but also helped create and define the entire mid-1980s new wave of U.S. metal. Anthrax has sold millions of albums, toured the world dozens of times over and earned three Grammy nominations, all due in no small part to Ian’s crushing and oft-airborne guitar work. Jackson has honored the longtime Anthrax axe man with the Select Series Scott Ian T-1000 Soloist model, designed by Ian himself and acclaimed Master Builder Mike Shannon and based on Ian’s ’87 Soloist™ (the one with the New York Yankees logo on it).
SCOTT IAN
Scott Ian is an American musician, author and spoken word storyteller best known as the rhythm guitarist, backing and additional lead vocalist, and the only original remaining member of the thrash metal band Anthrax. He writes the lyrics on all their albums. Ian is the guitarist and a founding member of the crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death for which he is also the lyricist. He has hosted The Rock Show on VH1 and has appeared on VH1’s I Love the… series, Heavy: The Story of Metal, and SuperGroup. Ian is also the rhythm guitarist for the metal band the Damned Things, and played with experimental band Mr. Bungle for seven reunion shows in 2020.
JACKSON
Jackson guitars began back in the late 1970s, when heavy music experienced a flamboyant and virtuosic resurgence in popularity and a small Southern California guitar repair shop became the epicenter of a new level of shred-approved excellence. Ever since then, Jackson guitars have been universally lauded as the metal guitars; the shred machines—highly original high-performance instruments of distinctive style and formidable substance. www.jacksonguitars.com
