I have a funny story about Michael Angelo Batio....
One day I needed some guitar strings and went into a music store near my house. They were having a guitar clinic that day featuring Michael Angelo Batio and were giving away an autographed Tradition Strat copy.
My buddy and fellow geezer & I went into the store and registered to win the guitar and then went home for a while. Neither of us had heard of Michael Angelo Batio.
Before the drawing I called my buddy's house and woke him up. "LET'S GO GET YOUR GUITAR!" I told him.
We walked into the music store and were the lone geezers amongst a store full of metal-heads and NITRO fans.
When they called the winner of the guitar drawing it was my buddy. The store full of metal-heads got real quiet as this geezer who had never even heard of Michael Angelo Batio walked up and got his autographed guitar.
I got to meet him as well and he was very nice and seemed really down to earth.
The guitar was a piece of crap and he eventually sold it.