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american cheez

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  1. if it's rock, please post it conspicuously. writing your own stuff is way cooler than covers. i will check it out for sure
  2. i've been playing stuff off of the album below. nothing difficult or unusual. just fun: https://youtu.be/dxfG8g1fN8Y the cover is everything that should be on a good rock album
  3. good point, imo and very true. i love the way they sound when other people play them. i cannot seem to get that same sound from them, and have better success with other pickups. at times, you can get them for insanely good prices if you're patient and quick. like a craig's list trap door spider.
  4. the above. all the live-long day. you got an ebony board and it looks sweet as helllllll. it's a studio. paint it if you want. cover it with my little pony stickers. by modifying it, you won't kill value it doesn't have, the way a more expensive model might. if the guitar feels good in your hands, the looks will grow on you over time. edit: i would totally bin that pickguard though
  5. i thought about it. so, ok, the one missing leg thing is overcome by a chair. but the one arm missing thing, i dont see how you could be playing, unless you strum/pick with your remaining foot. or maybe only do tapping. then i thought about it some more. you don't say either way whether you paid with your own limbs.
  6. i don't see evidence of the bad QC that the internet suggests. that doesn't mean it isn't there. just not my experience. however, when they employ people full-time who's job is strictly QC , there should be very, very few bad ones going out the door. i bought mine sight unseen and had confidence doing so. i was not disappointed in any way. i dont consider a guitar neededin set up adjustments to be a defect. wood moves when moved around to different climates. minor adjustments are to be expected.
  7. i think maybe i "get it". if i have 3 cupcakes, and i KNOW they're awesome, i want to share them with people i like/care about, more than i actually want to eat them. the trouble is, sometimes i catch myself finding something that is awesome for me, and i want to immediately go and tell everyone that i have found THE WAY. i know darn well i must be right, because of my personal experience. the idea that what's right for me may not be what's right for someone else just doesn't occur to me. i HAVE to make sure you can have this really awesome thing too. i never realize it when i'm doing it, only later. maybe the o/p is doing that.
  8. i know that acids in one's hands can destroy strings with speed, and wear the finish off of those parts. i had no idea that things could come to that like what is above. how long does it take for them to become like that?
  9. can i ask, why do you need a new bridge? is the old one no longer functioning properly? i dont know what happens to them to be worn out, so i thought i might ask. i never kept a guitar long enough for that.
  10. funny, i never cared about weight until i bought my current LP with modern weight relief. i am soooo spoiled by it. now weight is a big factor when choosing a guitar.
  11. i have to say, w/o the poker chip, that guitar still looks amazing
  12. if it's true (not saying it is or isn't) it's not bigotry to point out something factual
  13. that's such crock. not that he said it, but what he said, about being hand made and the need to choose one in person. they are made with as little handwork as possible, for one, and even those processes are refined down to a routine because after all, a gibson guitar is produced in a factory. they are not made one-at-a-time in a small workshop by some ancient luthier who looks like gepetto. it's a busy production facility that supplies the entire world with gibson guitars. they send hundreds and hundreds of them out the door every single day. that statement is henry using branding techniques in order to deceptively make people think of a gibson guitar as a boutique item that is rare and exclusive. the truth is, most of them are just like the rest. they are as ubiquitous to guitarists as potoato peelers are to a cook. you absolutely can buy them sight unseen and get a good guitar, and there is no valid excuse for not being able to do so. because even if henry had a factory full of santa's elves making the entire guitar by hand, there would still be no excuse for sending bad product out the door. especially when every single new guitar comes with a signed inspection card, and contains QC stampings in the body. this type of branding isn't sustainable with the rest of gibson's marketing. stores are beginning to drop gibson due to the amount of guitars they are forced to carry, and the dealer price increases, as well as other rules for retailers. eventually, ordering them through online retailers will be the only way to get one for alot of people. here in delaware there is nowhere near the selection i am used to seeing in toronto. yet, i did buy mine there (toronto) sight unseen, and got a wonderful instrument. edit: here is an article that sort of underscores my point about branding. the economics aside, what they have to say about gibson's branding is accurate: https://reverb.com/news/guitaronomics-have-guitars-become-more-expensive-over-time?
  14. he wouldn't care. he's just a wage slave like the rest of us
  15. you referring to me? i deny being smart, AND being a troll. i do have a tendency to rant, one of my few shortcomings. i don't see how i can be a troll defending a brand on it's very own own enthusiast forum. i would think that should work the other way. those bad-mouthing the brand should be the ones considered trolls. do you think anyone in gibson's management would feel differently than what i stated in my post? do you distrust the company who makes the guitars you love so much as to believe they deliberately send a less than perfect product out the door to specific retailers? that certainly would not line up with their publicly published policy which clearly states any guitars unable to be repaired after QC evaluation are destroyed. there are no factory seconds from gibson. lastly, if a guitar is made correctly according to factory spec, where you buy it matters very little in terms of what you get. the heritage cherry sunburst guitar you might buy at your local guitar store is no different than one you buy 1000 miles away from amazon.com or wherever. there may be minute differences in set up, but those are things purposely made to be user adjustable. no one tries before they buy from sweetwater or musician's friend, and yet they sell truckloads of guitars with regularity. while i don't actually know this, i'd be willing to bet that no one working for sweetwater or musician's friend spends their day doing set-ups on sold instruments. whatever you get is a combination of what the factory did, and weather conditions during shipping and warehousing. that said, i realize some people are ridiculously picky, and will return a guitar because they discovered an orange peel section in the neck joint that is as wide as a hair.
  16. like many people on many forums, you guys go out of your way to avoid logic and rational thinking. all of you seem to believe in the jukebox hero guitar, and can't seem to understand that a guitar is a tool made of wood and plastic and metal. there is no magic in the guitar. none at all. do you guys not know how a factory even works? they make money by getting product out the door, period, the end. there is no QC guy looking over guitars and directing less than perfect ones to a pile marked for best buy. a guitar passes QC or it doesn't. there is no more to it than that. i personally know at least a dozen people who have scored insane deals on gibson guitars sold at best buy. guess what? they bought fine guitars at discount prices! ZOMG!!!!!!! i know guys who bought 2014 studio pros that retailed for $1500 can, at best buy for $500+ in early 2016. brand spanking new, perfectly good guitars for almost 70% discount. even if you opened the box and there were no pick ups and tuners on it, you still made out like a bandit. guess what? they were perfect. another thing is the tired old song and dance guys love to spew about not buying a guitar they haven't played. dumb, dumb, dumb, 100x. you get a guitar that isn't right, you take it back and get another. screwed up instruments are rare, anecdotal internet not withstanding. for every internet horror story, i can trot out ones to show otherwise. i in fact bought my current LP sight unseen from a box store. (long & mquade) i ordered it and had it delivered to my house. i never saw it till i opened the box. i got a beautiful guitar that plays great and sounds wonderful. it was not random chance. stop believing in magic.
  17. been playing mostly originals here lately. at the end of feb i'm recording in a world famous studio. i need to get my sh*t together so i can be less annoying to the guy manning the board. but don't be impressed, cause i'm paying for it, (albeit a greatly reduced fee through a mutual friend) and the music is not for distribution.
  18. alot of folks used to believe that adding mass at the headstock increased sustain. people used to bolt giant brass weights up there, made for exactly that purpose. i don't know one way or the other if it's true, but i notice no one's doing it these days. however, i did add a set of gold locking sperzels and a roller nut to a strat once, the tone did seem to darken. i loved it, and thought it was a giant improvement.
  19. wow! that's gorgeous! i have the same guitar, i'm sorely tempted to mod minethe same way, now that i've seen the pics!
  20. i dunno, but when i look at the over all picture, i still see it as a branding thing mostly. almost all the sub $1000 guitars are gone from the line up. 30% price increase across the board. the available guitars have been culled and simplified significantly. years ago i saw the interview where henry j responded to a question about gibson's pricing and he stated simply that his data showed that sales increased when prices went up. he created some formula that he uses to keep sales at a certain level. he said then that when he came on board gibson was hurting. part of what turned them around was their branding. they evoke nostalgia, and boutiquey-ness. exclusivity. class. it's kinda the same reason people seem to love relics so much. he doesn't care about music in the slightest. he doesn't care about the customer in the slightest. he's a ceo. for him it's all numbers and shareholders to answer to, etc. time will tell if it was a bold stroke of genius or an overzealous cash grab. the thin with the tuners and zero nut thing, i think is them trying to move things forward, technologically. how do you be old-school with out being stodgy, cumbersome, slow? maybe one might try taking the guitar to a new place with the help of new technology. that seems to be the road they are taking/attempting. i have to say, for me, i am disappointed to learn those tuners don't work. the idea is a good one, despite what many people think. i had every intention of buying a set for my strat. but if it doesn't work, then it's crap. surely gibson know this. yet they are forcing them on people and upcharging them for it to boot. that's just typical corporate greed, ubiquitous these days. if the zero nut thing works or not i don't know. if it does, than it's a good thing, that needs to be executed in a more attractive fashion. we'll see if the buyer's pockets are as deep as henry predicts they are. i don't think they are but i've been wrong before.
  21. cool guitar, but cooler still, guitar face.
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