Sgt. Pepper

Nah it’s actually the Sun 8 minutes prior. Takes that long for the Suns rays to reach us.

I was sucking a teet. I do have 2 kids that are drinking age.

Nice. I was at the outlet mall yesterday buying my wife some new Crocs and there was a booth selling those.

It has ever since Etsy purchased it.

Oct ‘66 I was hatched.

Here in SC we are just gonna be able to see a sliver of it.

I got fingers and toes that are 57.

9:40 Eastern Time it’s on. The Lady Gamec-ocks of SC beat The Lady Hawkeyes of Iowa yesterday. That phenom from Iowa never won a National Championship.

Ya know who wouldn’t want that . . .

Did you see I was 16 and not 57? Huge difference.

As a 16 year old kid GC in San Jose on Bascom Ave saw me coming.

Mine was ebony too. Cause it was made before . . . well you know why they went to Richlite.

Aftermarket stuff won’t work or do you have to have OEM stuff?

Gibson’s prices on their website are the exact same advertised prices in the music stores in the US. Years ago what was on their site and stores prices were way off. MSPR is what they suggest it should be sold for and a lot more than what the store pays Gibson for one. Remember both have to make a profit. Once the guitar leaves the factory and goes to any store it’s now the stores and they can charge whatever they want for it. It’s not Gibson’s guitar anymore. The store isn’t just selling it for the exact same price they paid Gibson. If so, they would just be moving guitars for Gibson for free and that ain’t happening especially scumbag Guitar Center.

1000 bucks in ‘87 seems high to me. It’s 2024 and SG Specials are now 1600. That’s a price increase of only 600 bucks over the course of 37 years. Or a price increase of 16 bucks a year. Gibson seems to increase their price on stuff by a few hundred bucks ever year now. Hell all makers do. Glad you included the verbage Made In The USA. Haven’t they always, Gibson’s that is?

Why are Les Paul’s faked? Here is the answer $$$$$$$$. Nothing more nothing less. If it costs a faker $100 to make and they profited by $200. For them it’s a win all day long.

Canada is too polite a country to exploit its work force. You guys/girls are excluded.

That will cost China $300 to make. If anyone can do it they can. It’ll fall apart after a month but it’ll be cheap.

Is it one of those acoustic sound hole cap things?

Yep the B B’s with B B King and the crown on the head say Gibson no where on the guitar. Fakes I’m sure.

Buy that and if a guy named Frank was your dad that is a sure way to get Dweezil’s tone.

China has never ever exploited its people. Wait it’s happening right now there. Never mind.

The fact that I used an Epi’s is not my point. I just saw it at a crazy low price and thought that’s so cheap, or another word affordable. How much are they really profiting? I could have posted the least expensive or any Gibson, Martin and so on. One has to factor in, first how many man hours are going in to making it, and multiply that by their hourly wage, and then what is the actual cost of all the raw materials, and the stuff you have to buy to assemble it, and finish it. Also do you get a case, gig bag, or nothing to store it in. And then ship it somewhere. And lastly, how much profit do they want to make. I know I will never actually learn the figure of what it cost to make it vs their profit.

A lot.

Forgot about shipping cost. I’m going with $35 total parts and labor. And that may even be overestimating.