Lonnie Mack played a Flying V when I saw him and Hendrix did on a song or two. I saw Albert King at a street festival in the 1980's. He was friendly and bragged about Stevie Ray Vaughn.  B. B. thought a lot of Stevie too and it seemed to go further than liking his guitar playing.  

Yes technically you are probably right about Jack and the Allman Brothers.  Duane and Dickey had a lot of energy and hot licks in the early days and Jimmy Herring is an amazing player and Derek and Warren were hot in the 2000s but nobody has the crazy licks and mojo Jack Pearson does. Jack sounds better on an 87 dollar Asian Strat than 95 % of really good players on 2,000 dollar guitars and on slide too. 

@rusty The Flying "A", as Jack likes to call it, was given to him by Joe Bonamassa  when they were doing tracks for Reese Wynans album. It's an Epiphone reissue that Joe said they made for him. Jack said I like it, it plays really nice. Joe says You can have it I got at least a dozen of them. And yes, it's got that Albert tuning on it that lets you bend the strings as much as you'd like.
For Robertdee, it is not about cost or label or anything else other than his rules for buying a guitar.
1. For jack and his very bad back, weight is a real issue. That's why you'll never see him playing a Les Paul for any length of time. Nothing about it other than weight when it comes to why he plays this versus that.
2. Sustain. Jack always plays a new electric unplugged. If it doesn't resonate and have sustain unplugged, it sure won't do it when you plug it in. Other players that have played some of Jack's Squire comment on how much resonance they have.
3. The neck. By luck or whatever else, these Squires have straight necks. That allows them to hold the tuning. Of course Jack has the lightest touch of any guitarist I've ever been around, so that helps too. (I've known him for 40 plus years and in that time I have seen him break two strings total. I don't think he ever broke one while playing in the ABB)
Notice that price is not mentioned in any of this. And, it's not every Squire that has the three way combination mentioned above. So, even if the price had been higher, that would only have limited how many he could buy at one time, not whether he would have bought it or not. They're really good guitars. His cousin Ricky tells the story about going to Guitar Center with Jack when he found them. He would pull them off the rack, hand them to Jack and Jack would play them. If they had the 3 qualifiers, he would set them to the side. Elsewise he would give them back to Ricky to put back on the rack. After a bit, a salesman came over and said something to the effect of "You're not going to buy that cheap guiutar are you. We have some really nice top end guitars over there (pointing)" Jack dryly said "No, I'm going to buy these three."
Beyond that, he has never played a song the same way twice. He is literally playing what he hears in his head. And he doesn't think about it, he just does. He is always in the moment, responding to what he hears around him. That's what players like Joe,Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Bergeson and many, many more love about his playing. He did, for a while, play with Mike Snider and his string band on the Grand Ole Opry. Mike fired him (friendly firing) because he could not play the same lick on the same song every time.
Thank y'all for keeping Jack in y'alls memories. 

Jack Pearson teaching us how to do it! Yeah I wish it were that easy.

Porkchopbob.  Check out the nice slide guitar on the first tune they do. 

Jack takes a little ribbing on being a minimalist with grear. Someone asks Jack about his guitar and amp and pedal board. A Fender Squire from Singapore that is cheap and stock but Jack did put a volume knob on it. Fender stock amp and......no pedal board but Jack would like to have a pedal board someday:)

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Maybe Jack's channeling Albert King with that V-shaped axe?  

I tell people often - no sacrilege or blasphemy intended - the Allman Brothers Band never had a better guitar player than Jack Pearson.  Hear that any way you want to.

Uh oh. 😮 😋 

Thanks MikeWest. Just read what you wrote. Yes I heard Jack in an interview mention the guitar store salesman tried to steer him away from the Squire by Fender cheap Singapore guitars and Jack said the neck felt great and straight, the guitar vibrates real good without an amp and it was light weight so to the salesman's surprise and disappointment Jack bought those cheap guitars. He couldn't talk Jack into buying the more expensive axes made in the US or Mexico. 

Next to the Martn and Taylor selection at the big guitar store here Fender had a selection and the real cheap Stratocasters and I mean 120 dollars or 180 dollars look like the expensive Strats except in a Font like the Fender logo is Squire. The older ones has "by Fender" on the back of the headstock and the two newer ones "by Fender " is on the front on the headstocks next to Squire.  The salesman told me " Listen you don't want one of those. They do look exactly like Stratocasters and they are a Stratocaster in a way but I'll level with you, the woods are cheap,  the pickups and electronics are cheap and they are made in Asia by permission of Fender but Fender doesn't watch construction and assure quality.  They are just to compete with other makes of cheap Asian copy cats. A 14 or 15 year old may be happy with one for awhile but I doubt you would find the Squire version satisfactory.  Gibson's cheap versions of their models under the Epiphone name are built better than these Squires.  You just don't get much for 140 or 180 dollars." That is not verbatim just what I remember.  I've got to take that man to see Jack someday. 

So Jack's Flying V is the cheaper Epjphone version. I remember reading Joe Bonamassa in a guitar mag saying that Gibson gave him several flying Vs but they were Epiphones their cheap version.

About two years ago I saw a bar band and the young guitar player had an Epiphone Les Paul. Les Paul's name was on it and it was a sunburst and a good Les Paul has a nice clean fat tone that I really like and this one sounded pretty good. I'm beginning to think a good cheap guitar is.....A GOOD GUITAR. Price probably isn't that important except when you pay 2, 800.00 for a Sunburst Les Paul and a 400.00 Epiphone sounds just as good. That is when price makes you feel sick on your tummy:)