Silenced Fred Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Okay, so Epiphone makes a Slash signature, but I'm pretty sure he plays a Gibson. PRS is making an Orianthi SE Signature, but does she play it? Why do they make signature guitars that the artists don't play? Isn't the whole point to be the guitar that they play? I guess I just don't get it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Okay' date=' so Epiphone makes a Slash signature, but I'm pretty sure he plays a Gibson. PRS is making an Orianthi SE Signature, but does she play it? Why do they make signature guitars that the artists don't play? Isn't the whole point to be the guitar that they play? I guess I just don't get it...[/quote'] Widens the market and options for the consumer Its made to similar specs as the real guitars just more affordable...Same reason for epiphone and squier and the SE line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Okay' date=' so Epiphone makes a Slash signature, but I'm pretty sure he plays a Gibson. PRS is making an Orianthi SE Signature, but does she play it? Why do they make signature guitars that the artists don't play? Isn't the whole point to be the guitar that they play? I guess I just don't get it...[/quote'] sorry fred but... gary playing my ahem! his sig les paul [YOUTUBE] [/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted March 21, 2010 Author Share Posted March 21, 2010 sorry fred but... gary playing my ahem! his sig les paul [YOUTUBE] [/YOUTUBE] BWAHAHAHAHAA I gotcha, he plays his sig. 1319- But if they don't play it, and it isn't original specs, is it still a sig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Beach Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 After finding out that the chick has a sig guitar, I looked it up to see if she actually played it. Turns out the guitar is based off a higher end guitar that PRS custom made her, and she actually does have the USA version and the SE version out on the road and plays both every night. It's the same with Tom Delonge from blink 182 and Angles and Airwaves, he used to have a sig Gibson, but now he has a sig Epiphone. He doesn't play the Epi so why does he have the sig model with them now? Simple all the 13 year olds that wanted it couldn't afford the Gibson, but the could afford the Epi, so now he has an Epiphone model that sells quite well. Slash is the same way, but he gets both Gibson and Epiphone because the older AND younger generation like him. So they but out a guitar in price ranges for both groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 BWAHAHAHAHAA I gotcha' date=' he plays his sig. 1319- But if they don't play it, and it isn't original specs, is it still a sig?[/quote'] Well I guess technically it is because, remember a signature guitar is usually what the artist plays but in other circumstances it is based on some thing else, like personal preferences for a guitar like Johnny A, he didn't play that before, but Gibson used to do one offs for him, and they began to understand what he liked and wanted out of a guitar, so thats how that guitar came out. Or the Joe Bonamassa Goldtop, that was a guitar that Joe's dad owned when Joe was a kid and he always liked that guitar, so thats the inspired by model. I guess its just what the artist wants in the guitar. If I were to do a signature model, it would be based on things or upgrades I hve done to my Les Paul or the things I would have done in a one off style In the case of the epi take the slash tobacco burst model as an example he didn't play it but he picked his favourtie aspects of the les paul and put it together. In a guitar centre interview he said (paraphrasing here) It has the same finish, neck profile and pickups, (can't remeber the rest of the electronics) but its a little lighter priced than the Gibson model. I think when they do a model that they actually played its an inspired by' like the slash goldtop or the John Lennon Casino I think half this post is redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Some Sig models are just to make money. Some sig Models, like the Leslie West Dean, are actually played by the artist. Some, like the Slash Epi and the Jimmy Vaughan Strat are designed with Fans in mind. They just want to make a good affordable guitar with features you only find in expensive guitars. Like One Piece Maple necks or Gibson USA electronics (like my Joe Pass Epi). The corporations only want sales, the Artist they work with have several different motives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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