marco mancini Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Being a gibson customer i would rather see an ALLEN COLLINS replica of a FIREBIRD III 1964 with that dog ear pick up epiphone on the neck that was Value for money not this one come on Gibson ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 (edited) I get where you are coming from Marco..... But this is a ltd edition of 125 - they'll nearly all go to rich collectors anyway. There was an Allen Collins sig Explorer in 2015 I think. Not cheap. According to this Christie's auction house page, he used 4 Firebirds - https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5865115 I saw Johnny Winter (with his Firebird) twice, back in the early 70s. He was an exceptional guitarist even in those days. Edited December 18, 2021 by jdgm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco mancini Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Sure he was a great guitarist but you cannot put at 9000 bucks a guitar such that into an european market while not having cheaper and reliable versions of it for people who don't want having the sign of a famous guitarist over the headstock . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, marco mancini said: Sure he was a great guitarist but you cannot put at 9000 bucks a guitar such that into an european market while not having cheaper and reliable versions of it for people who don't want having the sign of a famous guitarist over the headstock . Gibson can make what they want, look at all the other high dollar stuff they make (The Hendrix Flying V at 10k, Adam Jones LP at 10k, Tom Petty SJ-200 at 10k Peter Frampton LP at 7k, Chuck Berry ES-350T at 10k, Markus King ES-345 at 7k, and the list goes on) and these are not guitars for us regular folks who wear an occasional python boot. Those 125 are already spoken for or probably sold like jdgm said to rich collectors and football team owners who don't play them and just show them off. Edited December 18, 2021 by Sgt. Pepper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco mancini Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 The thing that p*** me off is that in Italy you can buy in a shop a JOHNNY WINTER firebird at 9000 bucks whereas you can't see an array of normal glowing Firebirds which basically sound the same at 2000 bucks . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) No. but..... You can go to an official Gibson dealer and order one of 7 options (including the JW) from the Custom Shop but they'll never be that low ($2k) again. Cheapest is the non-reverse at $4499 - https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Custom-Shop And if you did you'd be buying a guitar unseen and you'd have to wait for it to be built and delivered. Uh-oh. So if you were going to do that you might as well check ebay 1st - I am in UK and there's about 10-15 I could bid on, in Europe and the USA. "...an array of normal glowing Firebirds..." Nice thought Edited December 18, 2021 by jdgm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco mancini Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Well i ve already got mine which i had to buy in japan through EBAY and all in all i m quite satisfied of it . Definitely i'm not for rusted bolts and bridges , and gaunt and haggard woods for 9000 bucks , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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