HETFIELD MX220 FUK 'EM UP
HETFIELD MX220 FUK 'EM UP
What does anyone difinitively know about the paint on that one? I could have swore when I saw it live that it was a midnight purple and several people have said that no, that was just the lighting and it is really a gray/black color. I have one of the LTD's in midnight purple and assumed that this is what Hetfields was back in 1989. All the pics I've seen suggest it's purple.
I don't know if it was a custom order or not. Actually I bought it off Harmony Central or eBay almost 18 years ago. The ad was for a Set Neck Black ESP Explorer. I only saw one picture of it and it looked black to me. When there isn't a light shining directly on it, it was black. At the time I only knew of the bolt on ESP EXPs forsale and I wanted a set neck one (like hets) so when I saw it I bought it. When I got it I realized it was this graphite looking black and had a rosewood fingerboard. I thought it was black with ebony. When I had it after a couple of months I noticed it was more round than the ESP EXPs, and I liked the EXP shape better. I didn't know there was an MX-220 or 250 back then. I loved the black with ebony fretboard and the sharper shaped EXPs. So I sold it looking for a set neck black ebony ESP Explorer. Basically an MX-250. I was a teenager and didn't know any better. It wasn't till later I realized it was an MX-220 made like James' with the rosewood fretboard and graphite black.
I love Hetfield as much as Kirk, but I am glad I never decided not to start an ESP JH guitar collection.
It would definitely send me broke buying all the ESP Hetfield guitars. And I would have to buy another king size bed for the spare bedroom to store them all under. lol
Great stuff EXP, thanks again for sharing man.
I've always seen it as black, but I also have a dark purple guitar that most people think is black, so who knows?
But other than Live Shit Seatle (at the end) the only real video I've seen of the guitar is at the 2:15 mark of A Year and a Half...