B.C. Rich

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B.C. Rich is a manufacturer of guitars and bass guitars, known for their unusual and somewhat threatening body shapes, popular among exponents of extreme metal.

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The B.C. Rich guitar company was started in the late 70s and early 80s by the late Bernardo Chavez Rico (or "Bernie, Sr.") as a repair shop primarily for Spanish and Classical-style guitars. Later Bernie expanded into solid-body electrics after repairing the snapped neck of Bo Diddley's legendary Gretsch. Rico adopted the professional name B. C. Rich and began making Les-Paul-inspired guitars. Later models such as the Eagle, Seagull and Mockingbird would express the personalities of Rico and staff designers like Neal Moser (currently with his own company). (Rico loved exotic cars and motorcycles, designer clothes and custom paint schemes--all of which would manifest themselves from time-to-time in certain guitars.)

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Extreme metal: Extreme metal is a broad term of heavy metal music genres that are characterized by more aggressive styles, such as Black metal, Death metal, Doom metal, Grindcore, and Thrash metal....

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