“ extras”. The butterbean vintage style tuners, the bone nut and saddle, herringbone binding, the classic PRS bird inlays and a cool gig bag … and the model with the Fishman pick-up system included is just a MAP price of $ 579.00. What is the vision you see for this new PE20E model?
[ Jack ] This is a guitar that can comfortably go from the couch to the stage. It is a fantastic tool for songwriting and particularly nice for helping lyrics along. Once the song is written, it is eminently capable of helping the musician send their message. It will appeal to players and worship leaders that are looking for an understated but stylish instrument to convey their message. A non-pickup version is available with a MAP of $ 499 which is an amazing songwriting tool. At the end of the day for PRS, it’ s about the sound, and we could not be happier with these guitars.
[ WM ] A lot of our worship guitarist readers may not be familiar with the role you have played at PRS all these years working with Christian artists. From Third Day, Casting Crowns, Skillet and many more bands, you have been their liaison at PRS guitars. Tell us how that came about and how those relationships have been an encouragement to you personally?
[ Jack ] This is going to be a hard one to answer in a short way. In the early 2000’ s, I was listening a lot to CCM. My kids and my wife were always on the hunt for new bands, and I sometimes used the messages in the songs for a teen Sunday School class I taught. PRS at that time did not have an A & R branch that dealt with CCM, so I took that on as a passion project.
I basically just reached out to the bands that I was listening to and drove to concerts and festivals to see if there was a way that PRS could help support their efforts. Eventually we found ourselves working with just about every band I was listening too. Third Day was the first band I met with. Conspiracy No. 5 was, and is, one of my favorite records. Mark and Mac and their tech Brian all quickly became friends.
Casting Crowns was another band I was listening to a lot, and I reached out to Hector early on. We started working with Skillet when Ben Kasica was playing guitar along with Korey. Underdog from Audio Adreneline was such a great record, and Tyler Burkum was fantastic to work with.
It’ s a long list. Jon with Switchfoot, Jon with
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