Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

[John_L]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

I think Grover Jackson summed it up when he called Ed Roman a Pirate during his chat with us.

Thing is to read what Ed says about himself why is it I had never heard of him till I started to come on to guitar boards a couple of years ago. I'm not claiming to be an expert on the history of the electric guitar but in his mind he is a more important figure than Ted McCarty, Grover Jackson, Paul Reed Smith and Wayne Charvel. Yet I've heard of all of them.
He's just the guitar equivalent of the dodgy used car salesman. A big lot but you would be better off going to the main dealer.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

I think Grover Jackson summed it up when he called Ed Roman a Pirate during his chat with us.

Thing is to read what Ed says about himself why is it I had never heard of him till I started to come on to guitar boards a couple of years ago. I'm not claiming to be an expert on the history of the electric guitar but in his mind he is a more important figure than Ted McCarty, Grover Jackson, Paul Reed Smith and Wayne Charvel. Yet I've heard of all of them.
He's just the guitar equivalent of the dodgy used car salesman. A big lot but you would be better off going to the main dealer.

John L, you're so much more fun when you're trashing things I don't like. :clap:

 

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

I picked up and handled a new Pearlcaster at the Dallas Guitar show several years ago. I didn't actualy play it. As far as fit and finish, I'd say you could grab a random MIM Strat off the wall at GC and be as satisfied.

The higher end guitars on display looked a bit undersized to me .... as if they were 7/8th scale.

 

[John_L]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

While we can all agree Ed Roman is 'Bit Crap' Special Ed Roman is quite good.

The best young Canadian on You Tube by far.

 

[Red_Label]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

No, but I extensively overlooked him for over an hour talking gear with a sales rep, and found him very interesting in a funny opinionated gear leprechaun sort of way!

But I will say this....If you can own a guitar store that has thousands of killer guitars in Las Vegas, and his store is NO JOKE, then you've got something going on.
His store is the size of a Walmart full of every imaginable kind of guitar. It's really something to see if you go to Vegas.

When he was up here in MT, I had been browsing one of the stores I hang-out at and was waiting to chat with the owner, but Ed just sat there on the bar stool chatting his ear-off forever. Eventually, I got tired of milling around and waiting, so I start to head-out the door when the owner stopped me and said "hey Red, do you know who this is? This is Ed Roman". I said, "yeah, I'd kind of figured that out". Because by this guy's talk, it had just become apparent to me who he was, but I was still suprized to see him up here. Anyways, we all chatted for a while and then I headed-out. I popped over to the other store that I hang-out at (which incidently is right next door to the first), and I had been in there for a bit chatting with a friend when Ed popped in there. We got to talking guns (cause I like those almost as much as I do guitars) and Ed pipes up that he just had a whole truckload of his guns brought-up from his place in Vegas to his place in MT. While I don't doubt that the guy has some guns, I have a feeling that the term "truckload" was a bit of an exaggeration. The guy obviously talks a pretty big talk and I tend to take him like I take a used car salesman. I wouldn't trust my nest egg to him for sure.

 

[IanBallard]

Re: Has anybody here actually owned or extensively played an Ed Roman guitar?

I'd like to see a brawl between Ed Roman and Henry Juszkiewicz. Seriously. No rules... maybe some broken bottles and folding chairs laying around.... etc.

For serious, yos... looks like there's no escaping the flamage with this guy. Hopefully he'll just go away with Fred Phelps to Siberia or something.