I feel like dimes guitar should be in a museum with the dean from hell.

RIP Elliott your hard work brought dean back with other people like Darrel

OMFG...😓....I just found out that Mr. Elliot Rubinson, CEO Dean Axes, Thundering Undertow of Bass for MSG & many more, Salesmeister of Great Will, had passed away, within a couple years ago, (Presently 5/‘18), Brain Cancer. I’m just aghast. Rock In Peace, Mr. Rubinson, & thx so much for bringing Dean Guitars back to glory. 🤘

Elliott's the man, all class. May he rest in peace.

Most guitar companies either copy Fender or Gibson. I love that Dean has it's own style. Not copying anybody!! Cool!

How were these guitars so unknown back then? Dean is my #1 brand, they constantly make amazing guitars

I've got an 82 Tobacco Burst ML signed on the headstock by Dean Zelinsky himself. My other Deans are made in Korea .. The Dime Tribute ML Tobacco Burst plus 2 Dean Z's both black one with the V headstock and finally a fully bound Z with gold hardwear.. I love them all, but my US ML with the v neck profile is something very special.... Plus being signed by Dean with the **/50 underneath his makes it extra special.... I'll never sell it … Ever !!!

We miss you Elliot. I’ve had my Dean V for years, it’s the one guitar I’ll never part with. I respect its legacy and cherish the work and passion Elliot has given the brand.🙏🏻

Man I wish I was born in the 70's, just to be alive when dime was, unfortunately he died when I was four but he is still my favourite ever guitarist he's like my jimi Hendrix

seeing that tobacco ML teared me up a little , how Fucking awesome would it to be to see dimebag standing right there next to it :(

I have a Korean-made Dean Cadillac Select and I love it. It has a quilted maple top in Trans Amberburst finish which I don't see very many of.

Just bought an import ML Select made in Indonesia and I can't believe how good that guitar is. It is just fantastic! All their import guitars come through the USA custom shop for inspection and set-up before going out to the dealers.

I got an '84 Dean V just the other month from a coworker with a Super Distortion swapped into the neck pickup, my god that guitar screams. This video makes me want to find one of those late 70's ones!

They didn't revive the Company DIMEBAG DiD.......... #FACT#

This the most beautiful collection of guitars I've seen since the video of John 5's vintage teles.

That BlueBurst bass was mine... it was a custom order through Music City in Port Credit Ontario. There was a matching pink burst one too. It originally came with cream DiMarzio pickups that sounded terrible... so I put in the EMGs... I had to move the Badass bridge too. I just couldn't get it to intonate. It has a monster custom case... and a whole bunch of round marks on the back from an '80s studded belt. It's history... I have no idea how he got it though...

I love Dean Guitars. I just bought a Dean European CZECH Made Korina V with DMT Schenker( after market PUs) added. I can't wait to pick it up tomorrow

Killer collection. I always loved Dean guitars. They built whatever the fuck they wanted and you either bought it or moved on. They took a big hit on quality at one point during ownership changes, but I truly believe they are getting back to that beloved status as a great name. Now their custom shop has always been top notch. I am talking about the general public factory.

Awesome guitars for sure - What a great clip on the Dean Machines

best guitars ever made

1980 I went into a music store in Dayton Ohio and I had a choice between a Gibson XR Les Paul and a Dean Flying V with a Flame Maple top, Block inlays and Tobacco Sunburst finish. I chose the wrong one. I have less regrets over marriage decisions. That Gibson was an absolute chuck of shite.

Man, I fuckin' love that Elliot Easton prototype guitar. And, it's one of the few designs I've seen that doesn't look goofy as a left-handed model. I'd like to have a bass with that shape.

I have a 1978 Dean ML with patent pending on the back serial # 672, it still plays great!

I had a 1982 Dean ML with sunburst finish. It had an after-market Floyd Rose installed, and the lead pickup was fried, but it otherwise was a cool guitar. I could kick myself for selling it.

I used to have a Dean Z88 Guitar with a Kahler locking tremolo back in 1990. It was black, Charvel/Jackson style headstock, 1 sealed humbucker and 2 sealed single coils pickups. 1 volume and 1 tone knobs and 3 silver toggle switches. I traded a 1988 Fender Squire Bullet Strat and $100.00 for the Dean. I got it from a small shop in Hollywood called American Guitars on Sunset and Gardner near Guitar Center and Jabco amps. I wrote about it on Harmony Central 20 years ago.

I had a Dean e'lite back in the early 1980's, it was blue burst with with binding and Bill Lawrence Pick-ups ... I bought it new at the Guitar Shop in Scottsdale, AZ ... I sold it to a co-worker in the late 80's and before I could buy it back, it was stolen from his home ... if anyone has a lead on this 30 year old mystery, let me know ... I'd love to find that guitar again!

Apparently the red side dots are cut up plastic sticks from a children's game. They stopped using them when the toy store ran out.

I love my Dean

I've had several, and currently own several more.

Every ml in that room looks killer

I just got my first dean. A Z 35 anniversary. Plays bad ass. 51/150 production. Paid 350 for it. Very happy with it.

Thought he would mention Billy Gibbons regards the Z. I hate to see so many guitars never being played btw.

I wish I had Dimebag's Tobacco Burst ML

Best kept secret is out.... Recently bought a Evo Special 2nd hand off ebay as a project to mod, but this thing is way better than I expected, Flame Maple 1 piece top, mahogany body/neck, Grover tuners, and some rocking standard Hums, seriously close to my 91 Les Paul custom sound wise, but way better finished in some areas. Is this a fluke? Best bit is it cost me 300 quid 😎 It's pretty mint condition, so I'm gonna keep it as is, gotta feeling the value will increase. Hello Dean, and thank you 🤙

I like the smaller series 3 headstock myself

Being a pantera fan I've liked Dean,the only one I ever played was actually a playmate edge of all things,I was so impressed with it though I'm thinking if going back to buy it,the neck was fast the action was set perfect,its just a simple little beginner bass,but its awesome

Found my ml 80 in a pawn shop back in the early 90s man glad I still have serial number is 80 0137

I think Dean Z and Hamer Standard make the best Explorers

love the Beer Deans!

What about the "Tropical Era"? 90~96

I would love to have these guitars

I freaking love Dean guitars and used to be a Gibson player but now it's Dean or nothing ! I just bought a new Dean Cadillac and Z to support Dean and piss on Gibson !

I like the look of the original headstock better, but the "shrimp fork" style has straighter string pull and probably stays in tune better. I always wanted one of these original USA guitars in the early 90s when I first started playing. Now the prices are outrageous.

Lovin my old Deans. Got a Dean Z Eighty-Eight in gunmetal gray and one in black, as well as a Dean Z Playmate in white, all three have that ebonol fretboard. Looking to but a Dean Firecrackle in black and white here shortly, possibly an Autograph as well.

@2:06 Is the only one of these guitars that matters.......Jesus, what I would do to own that!

What model is the sea green guitar at 11:27 and 11:38 with the twin serpents graphics ?

The early Deans were fantastic. So were early Hamer (USA still are) and BC Rich. Early Seagulls, Eagles,and Mockingbird etc.

R.I.P Elliott

there's a Busch beer guitar for sale at my local guitar center for 500

Although I respect you gathering up the original 70s and 80s Deans, I also think it sucks. I am a kid (born in 68) of the 70s and 80s, and used to drool over them at Rock World. I'd love to own a real one now, but if you buy them all back, I can't very well do that! Sweet collection, just the same. Somewhere I have a picture of me, with a tangly mullet (I might add), after shredding on a Cadillac. I should have bought it back then, I guess! That was at Superior Music and Sound, after Rock World closed its doors. They had all the cool stuff! I am pleased to see a guy can at least buy a US made one again. I really want a BIG ass headstock! #1 or #2.

Very cool stuff!!

that red zero is fucking insane

Hey! Why do they have Dime's ML? It has to stay in his house in Texas where it belongs.

Either way these are freaking beautiful and while I have a couple of Ibanez's to own first, I'll have to look into the new Chicago series sometime. They look really nice. Either that or their '79 and then some aftermarket pickups.

great post....many thanks....z

I had a 78 V, 79 V and 2 79 MLs

At 6:56 when he talks about the Z my heart stopped, I'm not sure what year it is but I bought one for £70 (UK) and decided to fill in the dents and scratches, it's the body's hanging in my bedroom with primer on it ready for the colour coat to go on. Have I made a mistake? I know that I'll be contacting Dean about the ML I've got before working on that one! I was thinking of giving it a new paint job and inlaying a dime (coin) into the body with Dimebag's date of birth / death as a tribute.

what can you tell me about a dean ml with the shrimp fork headstock and a 6 digit serial number. Roger Troutman of Zapp owned it before me and his name is on the guitar using the Zapp bumble bee incorporated into the R in his name. it also has the Floid rose tremolo but looks a lot more flush to the body than the one on Dime bag's guitar. it may have been a custom job for roger done by the Fujigen plant in Japan . tho. that is speculation on my part so IDK. when I bought the guitar I was told the security tape on the case was from the last tour roger did in Japan. there is an 87 in the serial number so I have always assumed it may be an 87.

where is this gallery and is it open to the public?

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥This is just amazing for studying ♥ ♥

Dimebags guitar didn't have a bill Lawrence XL500? Strange.

Gibsob did tha v shaped headstock in 58

I've just bought a Dean superstrat here in the uk made between 1986 1997 USA on the tip of the headstock, so that's the Tropical Music shop or Dean's dark period. 24 frets HSS pups the SS are angled not a V headstock more like fender type and a Floyd Rose. Serial number on the last fret 20317 but it means nothing as I've looked all over the internet for this guitar and I am struggling.for information. I paid £225 for it

I have found a dean Cadillac blue burst with gold chrome details can you please tell me about it

I’ve got a Baby Z, one pickup volume and tone knobs. I bought it in ‘82 still have it. Would like to sell. All black with case.

The model 1 headstocks is called a BFG, or a Big Fucking Headstock.

so dimebag's tobacco sunburst ml is different from 79 transbrazilian burst?or they're the same?

I love my Cadillac.

Love that Dean. #27

So they call the deluxe model the Standard and the entry level is a Flame because there's no flamed top. That seems backwards:)

Did Dimes guitar have a bolt on neck?

Its funny how the mind changes as you get older. I wouldn't even look at these things in the store in the 90's.......However, now its the first thing that I look for.....No Dean's? ok thanks for your time

what can you tell me about Dean Baby Z

Agreed Contessa BC Rich is in the same Group

Is it just me or does this guy look like Alex Van Halen?

never based in highwood IL?

I would like to have one of those ML's...

Cool

i like the bfh

song: vinnie moore - meltdown

Joseph Beuys???

Do they make any lefty’s ?

Correct me if i am wrong i dont own a dean guitar so i have no idea how dimebag go all the way up to 24 frets in the end of walk solo since ML has only 22 frets

05:46 for me the nicest one.

@MartyCannava it could of been a custom ?

@MyFretsonfire Sorry I wasn't very well informed about gear at the time^^

I WANT DIMEBAG'S ML !!!! :'(((((

3:27 this is all what we need to know about spacing

RIP Elliot

put dimes guitar back in his home where it belongs please

I love my 82 v

Vinnie Moore - Meltdown!!!!!!

i would like the elliot easton prototype

Does it mean it's an 80s model I called armidillo they said it was made before the bought the company it's a Brazilian burst flame in real good shape it's a z series baby what's it worth but priceless to me

One thing that i can not simply leave out... the design of most dean guitars is really baaaaddd at least in my honest personal oppinion :P

where is the rebel guitar?

now i am not a crazy metal head but i can tell you a thing or two about dean i don't no what happened with dime bag darrel deal but he used a washburn not a dean during pantera my first new guitar i bought was one of the first modle's i gave it to my sister she loves hevey metal.. dean was after they broke up it is obvious that he switched or allowed dean to sell his name but it was after they were done.. as a matter of fact my next one i bought i was looking at the razor dean dime bag modle but i went with the southern flag washburn and i never looked back… but i am sure lator he did some thing i rurally lost interest in them all together now a days i am really into the blues..

Why does the bass has EMG guitar pickups?

That’s crazy that a ceo of a company that makes guitars thinks a recessed Floyd has anything to do with how the front posts are mounted. A recessed Floyd just means it’s been routed out a little bit around the fine tuners so you can raise the pitch lmfao

clicked this video only because i saw the kiss sticker and knew right away it was dime.