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    Slash "Jessica" USA Les Paul

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    On 4/16/2024 at 5:08 PM, Pinch said:

    Here's why Gibson should hire me for marketing strategies:

    Since the Jessica appears to have the same pickups as the other Slash signatures, chances are the novelty has slightly worn off for people who bought one of those - I'm positive they as well as the Jessica are great guitars (the pickups sound amazing in videos), but even me as a fanboy thinks it's been a bit much Slash stuff lately. Seeing as it's my belief that Gibson will release a Hetfield 1984 Explorer in a year or two, here's what they should have done.

    They should not have signed Mustaine. I have nothing but respect for his playing - he took metal rhythm guitar one or three steps further, and in a very musical way. But fanboys of Mustaine - the prospective market - is going to buy a Jackson King V. His golden era was when he played that Jackson, and that will always be foremost in the minds of guitar-playing fans. He's bounced around since his alleged dispute with Jackson - ESP, Dean - and I cannot imagine they sold a whole lot off his name. At premium prices, like for his Gibsons, I'm afraid they won't be a big seller.

    Gibson should have saved the resources to either focus on an earlier 1984 Explorer reissue with lots of marketing before embarking on the Slash campaign, or even better, put out a 1984 Explorer with lots of marketing in between the Appetite Amber, November Burst, Victoria and the (limited?) Anaconda Burst, and the release of the Jessica. The new Standards (the 50s/60s) must have revived the company's resources, so slower and steadier would have been a viable option. I believe it would have made a larger profit, and kept the Gibson name in ever higher esteem.

    Also, there's people's means to actually buy these guitars to reckon with. I daresay most who bought one of the Standards, maybe even a Slash signature model too, do NOT have the means to spend that kind of money on a guitar again for the foreseeable future.

    I almost wet my pants reading that.

    To much Slash, how dare you!

    Dixie Dregs Last Night

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Sgt. Pepper

    Saw The Dixie Dregs last night at The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC. Killer venue. Really small theater. The Steve Morse Band opened. The Dregs did about 2 minutes of Jessica before they launched into Cruise Control. In my wife’s words about the show “that was amazing”. 

    Here is a link to the set list.

    https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dixie-dregs/2024/carolina-theatre-durham-nc-7ba83a10.html

    We are seeing Dweezil there in September.

    Well DANG! --- RIP Forrest Richard (Dickey) Betts

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Sgt. Pepper

    12 hours ago, rct said:

    But remember this.  They weren't modes and scales to him.  They were notes.  2nds and 9ths, 6ths and 13ths, 4ths suspended beyond suspension.  There is major tension as well as minor tension, this is where he lived, major tension and relief.  Lots of jazz in that country boy.  Lots of mistakes too, you only had to see them a few times to catch a bad night or a bad romp through one of their best.  Sometimes he just didn't hit the note(s), and you could tell, he didn't hide it at all.  But rhythm.  Man, that guy could comp behind anyone at anything, just one or two times through Blue Sky and you would see a man happy to play behind Warren or Jack Pearson.  The live one from the late 90's, An Evening With The ABB, man, that Blue Sky is just a lesson in how to play that song by the guy that wrote that song.  Just incredible to listen to that, a joy to see him do it.  Holmel NJ, 4 or 5 times or so in the late 90's they did Franklin's Tower into that one and he was perfect each time.  Joyous, the only word I got.  Him and a couple chords, his shoulders and Butch following his shoulders, Jaimoe following Butch, Oteil following both of them, it was magic sometimes.

    "We gotta long way to go this evening so if you don't hear what you wanna hear well, that's just tough.  This is an old song called BLUE Sky..."

    I could just cry.

    rct

    I saw and met Jack in Nashville. He plays a few times a month at an old converted train station. The night I saw him he played Elizabeth Reed, he might have done another ABB song, I had a few beers in me. He definitely played Reed.

    How does one add an avatar image to their profile?

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Sgt. Pepper

    7 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said:

    Classic movie - great line was   "The new phone book is here!  The new phone book is here!''  He thought he'd reached fame and fortune because his name was in print.  I don't think they bother making phone books anymore.  Last one we received was only an inch thick and plastered with ads for lawyers. Even on the cover. 

    It was so funny when he left home and on the first day he made it as far as the end of the fence.

    D-D-Day

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    4 hours ago, MorristownSal said:

    The one that looks like an 000-28 is a custom with cherry back and sides and maple binding. Otherwise same specs as an 000-28. It’s called The Cherry Hill 

    My pants just got tight.

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    Les Paul supreme versus 59 custom ULA

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Dub-T-123 said:

    The best answer is going to be to play them and decide yourself 

    That of course is the best advice, but one has to have a store near by and that store has to have ever model he wants to try. You may get the first one, but there’s no way you’re gonna get the second one.

    D-D-Day

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted · Edited by Sgt. Pepper

    5 hours ago, MorristownSal said:

    EM, mine is a 2020 Heritage Artisan Aged 535 in Ebony. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Seth Lover SH55s. It’s a warm classic bucker sound. I love it. It has a nice classic sound; sometimes I get Gretsch-y tone out of it… like compressed old POCO, and sometimes just some good slightly driven blues. Warm blues.  And it has a nice fat clean tone as well.

    i don’t go on any electric forums, because that’s just a rabbit hole I don’t need! I also have a Mexican tele that does its job. But the Heritage is great. I went in with the aim of buying a translucent red ES335, and this one sounded just as good, but it was used, so I saved a few bucks.

    You can see it on the end here.

     

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    My buddy has a Heritage ES-335 clone, he told me it’s the one guitar he would run into his house for if it was on fire.

    What are the 2 Martins? One looks like a D-15, and one looks like a 000-28.

    Beginning my search for an acoustic that is a pleasure to play

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Sgt. Pepper

    Probably most Gibson’s are going to be easier to play just because of their scale length at 24.75”. Now they do have some stuff that’s longer than that. Martin dreads are 25.4”, and most Martin 00 and 000’s are 24.9”. The oddity being the 000-15 at 25.4”. Remember shorter scale means less tension to tune it to concert pitch. Not sure what scale Guilds are. I think a lot of nylon Spanish guitars are 25” or so.

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