In this article, it reads, "When John Mayer stepped out on stage with a pink Jackson Soloist, some guitarists had a meltdown."

In the 1989 Seattle concert by Metallica, Kirk Hammett is seen playing a red Jackson Soloist with a black pickguard during the song "The Thing That Should Not Be," starting at the 33:00 minute mark. This performance is documented in the video "Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge - Seattle 1989 [Full Concert]," remastered by 4K Video Enhancer on YouTube.

Jackson Soloist Serial #: J0334 This pink Jackson electric was used extensively on the Alcatrazz "Disturbing The Peace" tour in late 1984 and 1985, and re-appeared during the "Eat 'Em and Smile" Tour. It has also appeared in a few magazines and ads - namely a DiMarzio pickups ad with Billy Sheehan. It was once outfitted with a plastic wrist-rest, and had the words IKE TURNER written on the front of the pickguard in white lettering. It has since had the rest and pickguard removed, the screw holes filled, and the guitar was repainted a lighter shade of pearlescent pink. A crack in the nut/back of headstock has been repaired - hence the extra set of screws in the back of the neck. Interestingly, this guitar also displays Steve's early experimentation with what would become the lion's claw cavity on the Jem guitar. Deep grooves (painted black) descend into the guitar body under the floyd rose string-lock screws. This guitar languishes in the Harmony Hut.

Trent Reznor seen live playing Jackson Soloist

For one of the most prolific whammy bar fiends of all time, the locking tremolo was indeed an intriguing device. Beck had taken to a pair of custom Jackson Soloists in the mid Eighties around the recording of the Nile Rodgers’-produced Flash. Loaded with true single coil pickups, Beck’s pink Jackson oddly sported a Kahler trem while his orange one rocked a Floyd Rose. Beck used (and appeared in ads for) Seymour Duncan’s Convertible amps around this time - although he used the Duncans alongside his tried-and-true old Marshalls.

Mick posted a photo on Instagram of a set of new guitars, both of which were customized to his liking: a Jackson Soloist, and the lesser-known Jackson Double Rhoads.

Gary Moore used a couple of these models in the late 80s to early 90s.

In a Yahoo Entertainment article, Pete Townshend discusses purchasing a Jackson guitar and expresses his fondness for it. While the specific model is not explicitly mentioned, it is confirmed that he acquired and enjoys using a Jackson guitar. Some have speculated that it is either a Jackson Soloist SL3 or a Jackson Virtuoso

in this image, gary is with a red jackson soloist

In the YouTube video "SLAYER 'Seasons In The Abyss' Live on The John Stewart Show," Jeff Hanneman can be seen playing a Jackson Soloist. This custom shop model features distinctive stickers, a Kahler tremolo, and EMG 81/85 pickups. It served as a prototype for his ESP signature guitars.

Steve Stevens isn't one of those musicians who need a separate country estate just to house their guitars — he estimates that at most he owns 30 — but his collection is noteworthy for its eclecticism and its customised peculiarities. Though his main instrument is the Hamer that bears his name, each of his Steve Stevens models is modified in fanciful, almost eccentric fashion.

Most extraordinary is the Raygun guitar, finished in black metal flake. Why is it called the Raygun? Hamer's Jol Dantzig explains: "Steve has this huge collection of toys, including robots and rayguns. We put one of the rayguns into the guitar and created a separate compartment in the back for the electronics so that you could actually 'play' the raygun through the amplifier. There are three momentary buttons and a slide switch on the face, arranged just behind the bridge. The varying combinations of buttons give you different pulse patterns. Steve played it for the first time at Live Aid with the Thompson Twins, and I'm sure that most people thought it was a synthesiser."

Pickups are a Seymour Duncan custom Allan Holdsworth model in the bridge and two Duncan APS-Is in the neck and middle positions.

The original Prototype SS Stevens is called "the Pac Man guitar with the Barney Rubble paint job," because its cracked day-glo finish has reminded some of Barney Rubble's shirt, according to Dantzig. It's gone through so many mutations by the finicky Stevens, JD Dworkow refers to it as "the testing pad." Pickups are the same as those on the Raygun. "We also just threw on an old non-fine-tuning Floyd Rose tremolo," says Dworkow, "one of the very first ever made." Much of Stevens' work is done by Manhattan luthier John Suhr, who's serviced instruments for the likes of Mark Knopfler, Mick Jagger, Brian Setzec, and Eddie Martinez.

Other unique examples of guitars that combine practicality and self-indulgence are a phosphorescent seafoam-green Hamer with a built-in Roland GR-700 controller; "the Christmas Tree," a three-quarter-size, three pickup Jackson Soloist painted in what Dworkow calls "this ridiculously grotesque purple-maroon metal-flake and strange green colour"; and a 1976 Ramirez Spanish acoustic "built before they stopped using the really good Rosewood. Steve picked it up in Chicago, and it's a beautiful guitar."

Rumours that Stevens is currently devising an electric six-string with portable bar, rotisserie, electric can opener and Waterpick are entirely unfounded. For now.

In this post gina can be seen using a jackson soloist. This was one of her go to guitars when she played in metallica tribute band misstslica, as well as king dimond tribute queen dimond. She no longer uses this guitar live because it doesn’t quite fire the sound baroness goes for