BACK IN 2007, I wrote an article for Guitar World on an instrument that holds a special and unique place in the six-string legacy of Randy Rhoads. Now reverently known as RR3, it was the third custom, asymmetrical Flying V electric guitar made for Rhoads by California luthier Grover Jackson in the early Eighties. Sadly, Rhoads died — in a March 19, 1982, airplane accident while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne — before he could take delivery of the guitar.
Instead, the ax ended up in the hands of one of Randy’s biggest fans, SoCal guitar ace Sean Michael Clegg. For the next 35 years, Clegg played the guitar on session dates and on gigs and studio recordings with his prog-metal band, Accomplice. He
