Un peu de documentation sur EVO (cité d'une interview qu'a donnée vai en australie y a pas très longtemps...)
A: I guess that's' the beauty of having your own guitar.
S: Yeah it is, it really is. A: I read somewhere that you can pick up any Jem and it's comfortable for you to play because it's exactly how you want your guitar to be.
S: Well, provided that the store, y'know, or whoever gives it to me set it up right. Yeah, there's no difference in my guitar, in Evo, than any other Jem really. But, y'know having said that, guitars just inherently sound different even if they're right off the production line one right after another, it's just a matter of, y'know, the wood, the ageing... The thing that I found most effective in the sound of a guitar, besides obviously the kind of pick-ups and stuff like that, the sound of the guitar in it's organic state is the resonation between the neck and the body. And y'know if you take a neck and you, ah, tap it, it has a vibration to it, and it will speak a particular pitch and if you tap the body of the guitar that will speak a particular pitch. If those pitches resonate, y'know, harmoniously, such as a perfect fifth or a perfect fourth or an octave, y'know, it'll have an effect on the sustain and some things. And maybe one of the reasons why I'm so attracted to Evo, is because of the pitch ratio in the pieces. But that can change from guitar to guitar to guitar, y'know. So you've really gotta kinda... I mean it's, it's almost nebulous, but if you're so in tune to the instrument you'll notice.
A: One question that everyone came up with is why are all your favourite Jems white?
S: [Laughs] It just happened to turn out that way.
A: Just that way? S: Yeah, when um, when the white Jem came out I was sent, like, three of them to check out, and I couldn't tell the difference between them, 'cause they were exactly the same, um, one of them had Breed pick-ups and the other had Evolution pick-ups. The Evolution pick-up was brand new at the time and this guitar was brand new so it makes sense to play whatever model is being sold at that time. That's why I wrote Evo on the guitar, it was that particular guitar that had the Evolution pick-ups, and um, every time we'd come out with a new model, it would make sense if I was to play it, for promotional reasons and whatnot. Y'know, a guitar kind of, it's nothing but wire and wood, but as a performer you impose upon it your personality and your touch and that guitar will develop it's own kind of personality. It becomes your friend sort of, y'know, it's the tool of your emotional expression and as a result of that you can sort of cultivate an affinity for it and a relationship. In reality it's still just wire and wood, but ah, you give it a personality, and the more a guitar is played and the more it's aged, it takes on it's own characteristics. I mean if I go out and pick up a brand new Jem right now, it feels new to me, y'know and it feels like it needs to be broken in. So although I've said in the past I can go to any Jem, pick it up and play it because they're all the same in a way, in many respects they are, but nothing can take the place of y'know just hours of, of, of sweat being soaked into the guitar and your personal emotion, your emotional investment in the instrument. It's a little frightening because you put too much into an instrument and ah, if anything happens to the instrument, you have to remember it's just wire and wood.
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