No one would ever accuse The Contortionist of lacking progressive tendencies. This goes for their musical direction as well as their choice in instruments.
So it was an obvious choice for them to be guinea pigs for the Ibanez line of fan fret guitars that includes the RGIF7 and RGIF8 (and the SRFF4505/SRFF805/806 basses) that we profiled at NAMM this year. Robby Baca went on record playing and talking about the new guitars.