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Gibson Announces Discontinuation of the Dark Fire


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All the same, it is interesting. Is the Dark Fire (and the Robot in general) going to be another dabble into gimmickry or is it going to be embraced as the standard for the future? Only time will tell, but there have been other dabbles with technology and guitars that have never taken off. Maybe, Dark Fire's time is now because we are embracing technology more when it comes to music, but I just can't help hesitating..........why is it we still lust after a LesPaul Standard with a sunburst flame top and a valve amp [-X

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..........why is it we still lust after a LesPaul Standard with a sunburst flame top and a valve amp :-k

 

Something in the way our own little CPU was encoded during childhood and early adult life. Remember the huge flow of intense feeling triggered by the first time you heard Led Zep / Dylan / Police / Public Enemy / Eminem / MrBig / U2 / Arcade Fire / Linkin Park ' date=' whatever worked for you then, same with the first time you played or heard a LesPaul and a Tube amp. All that generated an aggregation of encoded synapses & neurons. Then it is bi-directionnal, the next time you trigger that group of cells you feel good again. Thus we as human beings are tempted to re-use our already aggregated feel good centers. So once adult, it gets real hard to wander into uncharted territories, because it is plain easier to feel good just re-visiting charted ones.

 

Now with Dark Fire, the challenge is to target a new technology at grown ups with lots of spare cash, whereas teenagers would be a lot more receptive to new stuff. While obviously re-runs of 50s LesPaul clearly hit the sweet spots in lawyers, traders and other wealthy adults.

 

... Luckily, average men reach adulthood when they get around 50 or 60, if ever! So it leaves some time for us experimenting with new gadgets :-) And it makes it all that harder for our ladies to understand why, since they are all mature and wise since their early 20s :-)

 

 

 

As always with me, this is half a joke and half scientific! For the real story please check "what the bleep do we know" the movies or the book.

 

(this should entertain most of you till DF is officially released)

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why is it we still lust after a LesPaul Standard with a sunburst flame top and a valve amp :-k

 

It's a mathematical answer:

 

1 Les Paul + 1 Valve Amp = Aural Sex

 

Simple...

 

While there is a place for all sorts of technological enhancements, the basics are still the best and the foundation on which everything else is built

 

Over & Out

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