not just an INSTRUMENT, it's a WEAPON

Who Is Michael Angelo Batio?

Batio is an exclusive user of Dean Guitars. He has developed a signature guitar with Dean, known as the "MAB 1 Armorflame.

Michael Angelo Batio is an American virtuoso guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northeastern Illinois University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory and Composition. In 2003, Guitar One Magazine voted Batio the fastest guitar player of all time. MAB was also mentioned and listed recently in Guitar World Magazine in an article where he was listed as one of top 50 fastest guitarists in the world.

Batio is ambidextrous, and can play two guitars at the same time - either in synchronization or using separate harmonies. When playing one guitar, he plays as a right-handed person even though he is naturally left-handed. He is noted for his "MAB Over-Under" technique, which he invented, where he flips his hand over and under the neck, approaching the strings from above, then below, instead of from under the neck like other guitar players. Batio often plays with his fret hand above the neck, in a piano-playing style.

Michael Angelo Batio designed his signature MAB1 Armorflame to handle the punishing leads that he is known for the world over.

Featuring an ultra slim, super fast, 24 fret neck, an ebony fingerboard, EMG active 81, S and 85 pickups, a genuine Floyd Rose tremolo, this guitar is not just an instrument, it's a weapon!

Features:

• Alder Top/Body
• 25-1/2" Scale
• Batio Spec. Maple Neck
• Ebony Fingerboard
• Abalone Block Inlays
• Grover Tuners
• Nickel Hardware
• DBD Traction Knobs
• Genuine Floyd Rose Bridge & tremelo
• EMG 81, EMG 85, & EMG SA Pickups
• 'Armor Flame' Graphic
• Deluxe Dean Hardshell Case
• Free Shipping to lower 48 states

About Dean Guitars - A Quick History Lesson...

Dean Guitars was born in 1976, in the attic of the Chicago suburban childhood home of company founder Dean B. Zelinsky. The eighteen-year-old Zelinsky was convinced that guitar design and manufacturing had hit a wall. Rock music was huge and guitar makers were failing to keep up with the times. The world was ready for a guitar that looked, played, and sounded superior to what was available from manufacturers at that time. Zelinsky had a better idea.

What followed was a line of electric guitars that for the first time allowed players to play to their potential. With its highly visible V-shaped headstock and trademark wing logo, Dean became in effect, the first boutique guitar line in the history of rock music.

These guitars had to be played to be believed, and played they were! Dean guitars started showing up on rock stages worldwide, album covers, and especially on the newly emerging channel called MTV. Dean Guitars were featured in the award-winning MTV Video of the Year three of the first four years running. By the time Dean created the famous Spinning Fur Guitars Dean’s early place in Rock history was firmly cemented.

Over 30 years later, you can still buy the same USA made boutique Dean Guitars. Today, Dean Guitars has taken that same concept of creating a superior instrument to a whole new level. Dean is now a full line of fretted instruments including electric and acoustic guitars, basses, jazz guitars, resonators, banjos and mandolins. More importantly, Dean is dedicated to delivering these fine quality instruments at a value that is second to none.