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    Gibson Records

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    Yeah, but that was back when they used to MAKE "records".  [wink]  Perhaps if someone developed a "smartphone" that could play both CDs and vinyl they'd STILL be doing it.  :rolleyes:  But....

    God forbid Gen Xers and Millennials should get off their phones to do something so stupid as to listen to music off of a quality medium.  AND quality sound reproduction components.  [blink]

    Whitefang (resident curmudgeon) 

    Left Handed Slash Anaconda???

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    On 7/27/2021 at 4:04 PM, DZA said:

    Bugger!

    So you think they would make a leftie for me in the custom shop? how do I navigate to their? 

    To their what?  [wink]

    Y'know,  since the "invasion" of The Beatles, left handed playing wasn't that well known or recognized.  Many left handed guys(like me) learned to play right handed probably because seeing all the other guitarists play that way we felt that was the way it HAD to be played.  Turning the guitar upside down and restringing it never occurred to us.   And for the record, GLEN CAMPBELL was a "lefty" who played right handed too.   In fact, the only left handed guitarist I can now think of who played a guitar designed for left handed play was FRANK REMLEY, guitarist for PHIL HARRIS and JACK BENNY.  But I never became aware of him until recent years.   You can spot him and his guitar in this goofy Jack Benny skit from the early '50's...

    You're living in wonderful times.  No longer do left handed people need to turn guitars upside down and restring them (or not) to learn and play guitar.  Being able to buy most any model guitar ready made for left handed players is something long past when they should have been available.  I hope you're successful in your search.

    Whitefang

    MTV turns 40 today

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    I've always attributed the ruin of modern music to Mtv.  Mediocre music being popular just because the video was "cool".   The sanctuary for cookie cutter spandex laden and over formulated "metal" bands where the only real difference was the names. My kids(at the time, 9 and 6 years old, respectively) would sit mesmerized by that dreck for hours.  But at that age, how could they know better?   Now, every blue moon something good would make it through.  Like Joe Jackson's "Mad At You" or those hilarious send-ups by "Weird Al" Yankovic.  and a very few others.  For better music fare I'd tune in Friday late nights for the then fledgling  USA network's "Night Flight" and the "New Wave Theater" program.  [wink] and "Video Artists" was fun to watch too.  Cleverly creative artists using the video camera and associated technology to create visual artistry.  NOT goofy music "videos".  

    Whitefang

    Gibson Records

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    I think the "records" part of the name is just for market effect.  Most of their stuff will mostly just probably be available for "streaming and download".  And of course, for a nominal fee.

    Whitefang

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    You know it's bad when...

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    So far, I never paid more than $400 for a guitar.  But I only have two.  A near 50 year old Epiphone acoustic that was a gift so cost me nothing,  and a near 10 year old Washburn 12-string acoustic that cost $385 after the trade in of a Washburn 12-string I bought at a pawn shop for $200.   

    Buying a multiple thousand dollar guitar wouldn't bother me, depending of course, on the guitar and how "multiple"  the $1,000 is.  [wink]

    Whitefang

    Gibson Records

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    11 hours ago, MissouriPicker said:

    Exactly!  I’d love to see them do something like NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, focused on average, unknown folks who perform one or two songs with their Gibson guitar.  I’ll be very surprised if it happens, but it would be cool if it did (but again, I doubt that it will).

    Like I stated previously, I'm all for that.  Most people already know the long established artists that use Gibson instruments, so showcasing talented unknowns who also use them is not only a good showcase for promoting new talent,   but also for promoting Gibson as not only a maker of good instruments(they hope)  but also philanthropic enough to help up and coming artists.  Having a "company with a heart" rep never hurts.  [wink]

    Whitefang

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    Kirk Hammett joins Gibson roster

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    Sure appears so Chris.  [wink]

    Look, I don't know much about Metallica save for the fact that nothing I've heard from them ever appealed to me. But that really doesn't mean I think they were no good.  Just that their music didn't catch my ear, so to speak.   You can't knock success, although you can question  how that success could have been possible.  And there's a lot of music out there I like that people I know and love can't stand and vice-versa.  One example,  one of my closest friends just LOVED that tune "Rock On" by David Essex.  I could never stand that POS.   At the same time, HE could never understand why I liked to listen to that classical music "crap".  [cool]

    What I don't get Chris, is how you can dismiss ALL the music that a band you claim to have loved made.  or still makes.  Another "for instance".

    Me and some friends "discovered" The Mothers Of Invention back in '67.  Became BIG Mothers and Zappa fans.  And over the years, Zappa has proved himself to be not only a giant in musical creativity, but also a giant self centered and opinionated prick.  But don't think this means I can't listen to "Freak Out"  or "Apostrophe" any more.     Other bands I liked either no longer exist or otherwise changed not for the better.  But I'm glad I still have their earlier stuff to enjoy from time to time.  

    Whitefang

     

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    Customer Service

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    Must be more than one of him(or her) registering the complaint.  Notice it was posted, "WE have been trying to obtain a return mailer....."   So this person is possibly representing a group with the same complaint,  Or often refers to himself as "we" for whatever reason.  

    Must be the one nurses think they're addressing when they bounce into your hospital room and cheerfully ask, "How are WE today?"  [wink]

    But too, it might be a legitimate complaint.  Never having dealt with Gibson customer service, I can still imagine it's not unlike "customer service" anywhere else.  IF you get past the too loud and distorted "hold" music, you wind up with some guy from Sri Lanka  calling himself "Keith" or "Kevin"  who seems to have as much difficulty understanding you as you do him.  

    And maybe that's one of the pitfalls of online purchasing of some items.  No way to go to where you bought it and lodge a complaint.  No other way to deal with it besides corporate "customer service"  Anyway, griping here won't get this person satisfaction.  It's not like the Gibson quality control people scan this forum to learn what people hate or like about Gibson instruments.

    Whitefang

    Gibson Records

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    21 hours ago, SG-12 said:

    I came across this video from 1969.  Very cool, or should I say groovy.  It's only 1:25 minutes long, but gives a good description of what MC5 was all about.  A salute to you, Whitefang!

    Mc5 live at West Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan 1969.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atFmYDi_Ivs

     

     

    Yeah, thanks.  Takes me back.  Dig Denny, the drummer,  who I used to live across the street from.   What tickled me was that the stage they were playing on closely resembles the bandshell in Memorial park in their hometown of Lincoln Park, MI.   That place has had some local bands play on it over the last couple of decades,  and could only be seen on "public  access".  [wink]  Usually what I call that  "Cookie monster death metal" crapola .   :rolleyes:

    Whitefang

    Kirk Hammett joins Gibson roster

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    Sure.  A guy with a good fan base from a band with that same base is a good bet to entice impressionable young 'uns to buy product.  ie;  A guy I knew in high school sold his Gibson SG  and bought a Stratocaster.  Sure, they're good guitars, but he got it only because Hendrix played one.  :rolleyes:

    It's just like that other peeve of mine.   Guitar makers that market fat bodied, archtop hollow guitars as "jazz" guitars.  When it's clear that when some notable jazz guitarists ply their trade on other type of guitars, like ED BICKERT,  who used a Telecaster.  Jazz can be played on any type of guitar, just as more than just jazz can be played on what makers call a "jazz" guitar.  

    And since some of the greatest blues guitarists used a wide variety of different guitars( Vaughn with a Strat; Buddy Guy too;  B.B. with a variety of "Lucilles" ranging from a 400 to the modified 335 he used till the end and several others using LPs) there's really nothing that can be defined as a "blues" guitar.  

    And what about all those country drawlers who play(probably for free) Takamines?  They became part of their uniforms, as much as all those matching cowboy hats.  [wink]

    Whitefang

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    Gibson Records

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    ????  

    But, The Beatles weren't selling apples!  [wink]

    I got that in my e-mail this morning too.  And if it does help promote new artists without any genre specific sounds or who fit the criteria of some demographic study I'm all for it.

    Whitefang

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    Stupid Jokes

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    A traveling salesman had car trouble.  It was getting late and he needed to find a place for the night.  He came to a farm and went to the farmhouse to see if he could get some help.  The farmer said he could put him up, but then said, "But I'm afraid you'll have to share a bed with my son."

    The salesman turned around and walked away saying,   "Sorry.  I'm in the wrong joke."

    Whitefang

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    Coca Cola or Pepsi?

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    Sure.  One diet doesn't work for everybody, and what one person finds is unhealthy for him isn't necessarily unhealthy for someone else.  One example.

    My father in law smoked unfiltered cigarettes since anybody can remember.  And he was diagnosed diabetic by the time he was 70.  And he died in 1999 at age 86 of a condition(I forgot the $50 word it was called) that was neither smoking or diabetes related.

    Another---

    My fraternal Grandfather was what was called "rotund" for all his adult life.  Most these days they would have called him obese.  And he died in 1981 at age 87 of kidney failure.  And on yet another hand;

    The second to the youngest of my wife's sisters died in 1990 at age 42 of a brain aneurysm.  Non smoker, non drinker and super model slim.

    Nothing offers any guarantees for everyone.  We can all only do what seems to work best for ourselves and try to avoid taking in too much well meaning but useless advice. 

    Whitefang

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