Chris Pile
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https://www.musicradar.com/news/nea...l-custom-silverburst-guitars-have-been-stolen
Gibson wisely published the serial numbers...
Gibson wisely published the serial numbers...
13 new Les Pauls stolen off the truck....
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Well, you're not wrong.
beaubrummels
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Of course, the most valuable signed ones all have the same serial, so there's that...
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
How many Gibsons do you own?
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
I feel bad for the Adam fans. But - as for Gibson? Eff them. I hope Gibson spends 950K and never finds one not them. Everyone gets their money back, with the option to wait for and buy another, or buy a guitar from a company that cares.
If Gibson REALLY cared they would spend the BS money on the "hunt" in making another guitar. 13 of those guitars actually cost $13k to make. So don't even pull that "$95k of guitars" got stole.
Gibson lost $82k profit - that's why they care.
If Gibson REALLY cared they would spend the BS money on the "hunt" in making another guitar. 13 of those guitars actually cost $13k to make. So don't even pull that "$95k of guitars" got stole.
Gibson lost $82k profit - that's why they care.
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
Well, it detracts from you argument a bit. You didn't feel "robbed" enough to stop buying them.
I have 4 - only one bought new (and that one is professionally mangled).
I have problems with the company - not the instruments in general.
I haven't bought one new since 2006 and the ONE guitar I did buy since then was used. Their prices have jumped incredibly since then so again, what's your point? You have to buy new in order to think they are overpriced and inferior quality wise compared to other brands out there?
Jack_TriPpEr
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I'm not even a Tool fan, but I do acknowledge that they had strong sales numbers for their new album and concert ticket sales in 2019 before the pandemic set in. Example pics attached.
When you wrote that they're not relevent, what metrics are you looking at when you say that?
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nexion218
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I think Securb was gonna say that owning one dud is not a base to give to company a bad rep. While he is correct, I think that you having gone through 50 of those instruments makes his argument moot.
I couldn't possibly outdo Gibson's own efforts in giving them a bad rep...
Aceman
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The thing is - Gibsons are like Ferraris.
Find me ONE Ferrari owner that said it was a dud.
Find me ONE H&K firearm owner that said it was a dud.
Find me ONE Kiesel owner that said it was a dud.
Seriously don't think they exist, or Enzo Ferrari showed up to personally un-eff the situation, and allow you to kick the offending builder in the @$$ a few times if you so desired. For what Gibson is, their performance is unacceptable, and inexcusable.
Find me ONE Ferrari owner that said it was a dud.
Find me ONE H&K firearm owner that said it was a dud.
Find me ONE Kiesel owner that said it was a dud.
Seriously don't think they exist, or Enzo Ferrari showed up to personally un-eff the situation, and allow you to kick the offending builder in the @$$ a few times if you so desired. For what Gibson is, their performance is unacceptable, and inexcusable.
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
Well, Ugly is an aesthetic opinion. I LOVE Silverbursts.
However - you do raise a great issue, and this is a Gibson issue: Excessive delay between band relevance and sig model. If I'm a Tool fan - I had a Silverburst decades ago.
Love them or hate them, KISS was one of the biggest bands in the world and can fill areas indefinitely even today. You can sell as many Ace/Tommy/Bruce guitars (especially Ace) as you can make. Same with Slash, Page, etc.
Tool? Lizzy Hale? etc...Not so much, and not for so much $$$
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Which brings me to the question...there are a lot of signature models out there these days, by guitarists who don't really have a massive success (not even on the level of Tool, much less KISS). In fact me, my guitarist friends, and my younger teen-to-20s students don't know who some of these people are.
Obviously I don't blame the players...if you can get a sig model *anything*, kudos to you given how stingy most companies are. But it seems now that the signature models are the first time I am hearing of some of these artists, and not through their music being especially popular much less ground-breaking.
Obviously I don't blame the players...if you can get a sig model *anything*, kudos to you given how stingy most companies are. But it seems now that the signature models are the first time I am hearing of some of these artists, and not through their music being especially popular much less ground-breaking.
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