The Most Hilarious Gibson Bashing Video I've Ever Seen!
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Jethro Rocker
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Never watched yet.
The old bass player in my originals band was a knob. He was on once about LPs being good for 60s 70s and nothing else. A hammer if you have a nail.
I mentioned it is the player not the guitar.
He shut his stupid millenial yap fairly shortly after.
Check out 7:30 min in.
The old bass player in my originals band was a knob. He was on once about LPs being good for 60s 70s and nothing else. A hammer if you have a nail.
I mentioned it is the player not the guitar.
He shut his stupid millenial yap fairly shortly after.
Check out 7:30 min in.
Clockworkmike
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Oh dear...well I was just getting ready to kick back and watch a movie....but I guess I gotta go do my civic duty and crush some dopey sounding beanie-headed girl's soul in the comments....
OP
Now, now...be nice!
SG John
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I could only put up with 50 seconds of her ranting. I have better things to do with what time I have left on this planet.
I did like the John 5 video. Of course he jumps right into a bunch of Stones stuff with the Les Paul. I liked what he was doing in open E at the end with the Tele.
I did like the John 5 video. Of course he jumps right into a bunch of Stones stuff with the Les Paul. I liked what he was doing in open E at the end with the Tele.
Clockworkmike
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Forgive me, but you're too late lmao
Dude!!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!!
Maybe hold back a *little bit* next time….for the childrenz….
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Clockworkmike
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Lmao in all fairness, it WAS outside the TTR field of play, so that family friendly V-Chip of mine just seems to glitch up a lot when not here
SG John
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Session 5
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This article published in 2017, do you think some of the reasons in this article, is why Gibson is reaching out with lawsuits, because they are losing market share..I believe it is. Now here we are a few years later, with all the new changes in the organization, have things changed for the better. Not so sure they have.
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Whatever you do make sure gball doesn't see this...
Ha!
I thought her comment asking if the SG was designed by a twelve year old was kind of funny.
Clockworkmike
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Lol so, apparently if one were to allegedly dig deep enough thru the comments, there potentially is a post by someone asking if the creator was a new Dr. Seuss character to which someone else may or may not have created a Dr.Seuss poem, presumably describing said creator and her disdain of "Gibbons" in a colorful but perhaps, unfriendly child-like rhyme maybe recently
Clockworkmike
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Yeah this was written just prior to Gibson's bankruptcy and much needed removal of CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, the man who ruined Gibson for a lot of people during his idiotic reign of terror in his last 15 years with the company.
On one hand, Henry Juszkiewicz along with Dave Berryman and Gary Zebrowski, helped rescue Gibson in 1986 during a time when the company was months away from bankruptcy, following the company changing out from ownership under Norlin Musical Instruments to rebranding as Gibson USA. Their initial change in direction led to one of their most successful eras, especially during the 90s and quality and sales had improved tremendously.
However, by the mid 2000s, Henry Juszkiewicz began acting incredibly stupid and ushering in a lot of bad building ideas and newer, extremely hated designs to appeal to younger audiences while cutting quality. This conflicted with the crafters, who had suffered a massive reduction in work force ordered by Henry Juszkiewicz. Workers were being overtasked with builds, which led to corners being cut from both exhaustion and simple lack of concern in retribution against the corporate. Customers became increasingly outraged and turned their backs, causing sales declines and ultimately Gibson entering Chapter 11.
The new regime, now known as Gibson Brands Inc, has certainly stepped up their quality and the workforce is seemingly more stable and happy, but due to the setbacks they suffered; prices are high trying to make up for losses but that's making issues worse it seems now. The new CEO, James Curleigh, isn't the best either and doesn't have a great idea of music instruments with his background; but he's certainly an improvement over the awful direction his predecessor made.
These two photos sum up the damaged thinking of Henry Juszkiewicz
A company like Gibson - or Fender for that matter - do not see market changes on the same level as we do. The perspective is different.
The people who would buy a Les Paul Replica, do so because they are either unwilling - or unable - to purchase the genuine article, and therefore, they would never be considered in this equation anyways.
This is, i believe, to be a universal truth and a byproduct of consumerism. You can apply this logic to all manner of products in the modern marketplace.
Gibson has its niche, as does Fender. Some buyers subscribe to a doctrine of blind brand loyalty. Others, shop strictly on the premise of trying to find the cheapest - playable - guitar they can possibly find.
Still fewer, i think, regard the USA Made Gibsons as the last holdout of American made quality, notwithstanding just how many of your guitar heroes have played them.
Modern artists, like Machine Gun Kelly, have popularized the pink Schecter, Cobain popularized a Mustang, Robbin Crosby popularized the Jacksons, and Eric Johnson, SRV and Hendrix the Stratocaster.
The funny part is, nobody realizes how the "replicas" of these artist's guitars are in no way even close to the ones played by the artist, except in appearance. I have seen this firsthand in my time working at Fender in artist relations.
Its all about marketing. Its all about sponsorship. Its about influencing a purchase based on appealing to your influences, whomever and whatever those might be.
I paid $1,200.00 for a pre-release Ibanez DT-555 in 1983, mostly because i saw Phil Collen playing it on Def Leppard's video of 'Photograph.'
Now, i have evolved to a point where scale length, neck radius, fret longevity, tone and reliability - along with American manufacturing - has become much more important to me.
I've owned imported guitars that were playable. I had two very good Schecters and a MIK Squire, the latter of which i gigged with for 28 years. But, none of them can match the $3,000 2021 Gibson Les Paul 50's Standard Gold Top for feel, recirded tone and overall quality.
None of the $800 to $1,000 Gibsons were even close in terms of fit, finish and quality - and you cannot expect them to be - when you see the labor that goes into a Gibson build. To make them cheap requires significant cuts.
Play whatever you like....
Clockworkmike
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Lmao I'm glad someone else noticed the absolute messy laundry situation too. Guess mom must've been watching her soaps?
Clockworkmike
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It's fair to say that for the most part: you do get what you pay for I guess. While I personally am ok with like you said, playing what you like; it's also worth noting that someone can't judge an entire company as a whole for one guitar they might've bought on the lowest end of the spectrum.
That's the problem with these kinds of people here. Same kinda people who would go buy a Les Paul Tribute Honeyburst and then complain about the lack of binding they saw on a Standard Honeyburst, not really grasping the level of guitar they bought. Nothing in the world wrong with a Tribute but it's built with less features intentionally to make it more affordable but that seems to be lost on someone randomly buying it, thinking they really were gonna get top grade for that price.
It's the same logic as car buying. The sell base models everyday and then they sell deluxe versions of the same model. And Im sure dealers have to suffer idiots over that same argument everyday on why this version costs more than this one when it's the same model.