"This is an ESP M-1 guitar from 1987. It featured a bolt-on neck and an alder body. The M-1 was the most inexpensive model ESP offered at the time and Lynch had received a couple of them from ESP prior to his endorsement with that company. Because of it's elaborate paint job, it was dubbed "Mr. Graffiti."
The interesting story here begins with graphic artist Dan Lawrence, then a contract employee with B.C. Rich (ed. note: refer to the B.C. Rich Gunslinger models owned my Lynch in this section) at the time of this guitar's inception.
Dan was given the body to be painted for a "high profile guitarist." He took the body home and began to use the "crackle" paint shrinkage process as an effect to make it look like someone had tried to light the guitar body on fire. Within the course of the night, Dan had added the phrase "shit shampoo" along with other nonsensical phrases. Over the next few nights, this guitar body was passed around to three other graphic artists, each contributing other graffiti-like images and within four days, the guitar was finished. Used on the “cry of the gypsy” solo.
