Gibson is Flexing New Muscle
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Tony M.
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All this fuss about a too heavy very uncomfortable guitar that has
a badly angled strap button and a stupidly placed selector switch.
There are so many good sounding guitars out there that actually have ergonomic value.
I don't see how the first bad idea Les Paul drawing didn't go right into the wastebasket.
a badly angled strap button and a stupidly placed selector switch.
There are so many good sounding guitars out there that actually have ergonomic value.
I don't see how the first bad idea Les Paul drawing didn't go right into the wastebasket.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
So--- I find the numbers of guitars being sold then --- compared to now as comical---
Current figures for SAMICK who builds for roughly 400 "makers"
Samick is the largest guitar maker in the world. They began corporate life as a piano maker just after the Korean war. Today they are said to make 60 guitars per minute. That's 720 per hour or 1,380,000 per year. ..............
Their factories make an incredible 4000 models for 400 brand names, including Washburn, Aria Pro, Rogue, Silvertone, Abeline and Boston.
In the wicked web of corporate partnerships and cross-ownership, Samick boasts on their website that their instruments are made in Korea and Indonesia (much cheaper labor), but NOT in 'communist China.' Yet there was a well-publicized joint-venture between Samick and Bechstein to make pianos in Shanghai a couple of years back.
Samick also owns 33% of Steinway pianos.
Current figures for SAMICK who builds for roughly 400 "makers"
Samick is the largest guitar maker in the world. They began corporate life as a piano maker just after the Korean war. Today they are said to make 60 guitars per minute. That's 720 per hour or 1,380,000 per year. ..............
Their factories make an incredible 4000 models for 400 brand names, including Washburn, Aria Pro, Rogue, Silvertone, Abeline and Boston.
In the wicked web of corporate partnerships and cross-ownership, Samick boasts on their website that their instruments are made in Korea and Indonesia (much cheaper labor), but NOT in 'communist China.' Yet there was a well-publicized joint-venture between Samick and Bechstein to make pianos in Shanghai a couple of years back.
Samick also owns 33% of Steinway pianos.
All this fuss about a too heavy very uncomfortable guitar that has
a badly angled strap button and a stupidly placed selector switch.
There are so many good sounding guitars out there that actually have ergonomic value.
I don't see how the first bad idea Les Paul drawing didn't go right into the wastebasket.
Nothing sounds quite like a Les Paul. I spent 27 years trying to find another guitar that could give me the tone through a Marshall that I was looking for and nothing else did it.
Once I got a Les Paul, I got rid of everything in my house that wasn't a Les Paul...
Even @gball will tell you, nothing else sounds like a Les Paul.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
OK No One has posted this yet.
mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
...Or talked about the Jimi signature "Strat" they put out a few years ago...
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As I've said elsewhere, the whole ordeal makes me not want to pay their prices more than I already didn't.
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As I've said elsewhere, the whole ordeal makes me not want to pay their prices more than I already didn't.
Tony M.
Ambassador
Just in case these are in response to my post...
I didn't say anything about the way they sound
but since the subject has been brought up, every
single one of us would fail a blindfold test between
a Les Paul and any other 2 pickup 24.75" solid guitar.
No magic there, just wood and metal and some plastic.
The guitar is just a pitch controller for the amplifier.
Stop deluding yourselves.
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Mine was directed @ Roberts post
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
"What's that, Tony M....??? I can't Hear You Over My Marshall's..."
"I'm disappointed in you, Tony. M...."
DonP
Guest
There's an Anderton's video. Chappers is blindfold, and The Captain is playing various guitars. He picks up one and strums it. "Well that's an SG" says Chappers. The Captain asks him why and he just says because that is what an SG sounds like. OK, Chappers is definitely a connoisseur, but nevertheless this is proof that there is more to a guitar than a piece of wood and some pickups.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
...Or talked about the Jimi signature "Strat" they put out a few years ago...
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Remember When Gibson Tried to Market a Hendrix Signature Strat?
A look back at the baffling affair, in which Gibson and Authentic Hendrix LLC announced—and quickly retracted—a line of Hendrix Strat copies.
A Rare Gibson Jimi Hendrix Strat-Style Guitar Went Up for Sale On Reverb
Check out video of the never-released guitar in action.
Gibson & Authentic Hendrix Announce 3 New Hendrix Guitars
Available in "Experience," "Signature" and "Little Wing" variations
As I've said elsewhere, the whole ordeal makes me not want to pay their prices more than I already didn't.
This guy addresses those Fender Copies and even plays some.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
sounds different from your previously mentioned 2 humbucker gibbo scale lumps of wood---
OP
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
Don't agree with you on this one, TM. Simplying my rebuttal: If you were to use the same pickups on a standard LP and a standard SG, the LP will always sound beefier, scoopier, with more sustain than the inherently midrangier SG. Even acoustically, these same traits will be evident. Now apologize to the Tonewood Godz...
