13 new Les Pauls stolen off the truck....

[Chris Pile]

I think that's indicative of how spread out and diverse the music biz has become, and why it will be harder for one superstar to emerge with mass appeal across the board like a Steve Vai or Edward Van Halen..

 

[idsnowdog]

If I was one of the thieves I would be disappointed there weren't any SG's or 335's in that shipment.

 

[nexion218]

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.

Happened to me too! I was scrolling through the Jackson website when my eyes got caught on the only 7 string Warrior on their roster, the Dave Davidson sig model. Never heard of him, nor his band, looked like a run of the mill hipster from a core band, but gave it a listen. Since then he's become my fave modern player, the epitome of what a modern, metal oriented, yet trained and savvy player should sound like (at least to me). But without the sig model, I wouldn't have had any idea about him or his band, despite being this monster of a player. I think all this has to do with the number of "available" or "audible" musicians, courtesy of the the internet and the instant world we live in. I could do a demo today and have people listen to it on the other end of the globe 30 seconds after I hit the "export audio mixdown" button in my DAW. Studio equipment and instruments are avaible and available on the cheap, basic knowledge to do recordings at home alone is basically free and a few google queries away. All this is not a bad thing, in fact I too reap the benefits of it and I keep saying that one of my most prized music related acquisitions is my cable router: a gateway to all the musical knowledge of the world. But at the same time the easy accessibility has diluted and transformed music in such a way that it's hard to image how a next guitar god could emerge, who would stand out so much and be so iconic as the heroes of the past. It is really hard to be unique in this vast sea of music, methinks. Even harder than 20 or 30 years ago.

 

[Artie]

. . . there are a lot of signature models out there these days, by guitarists who don't really have a massive success . . .

Case in point: I "discovered" Robert Cray by seeing his sig Strat in the Fender catalog. Loved the hardtail Strat. Looked up his music. Meh. Nothing bad, but nothing to write home about.

P.S. I'm not familiar with Tool. What's a good vid to give me a taste of their flavor?

 

[Mincer]

Case in point: I "discovered" Robert Cray by seeing his sig Strat in the Fender catalog. Loved the hardtail Strat. Looked up his music. Meh. Nothing bad, but nothing to write home about.

P.S. I'm not familiar with Tool. What's a good vid to give me a taste of their flavor?

As far as Tool, I have no idea.
But Robert Cray did have a few hits on MTV at the time.

 

[nexion218]

Case in point: I "discovered" Robert Cray by seeing his sig Strat in the Fender catalog. Loved the hardtail Strat. Looked up his music. Meh. Nothing bad, but nothing to write home about.

P.S. I'm not familiar with Tool. What's a good vid to give me a taste of their flavor?

Most of their vids are és nsanely unique, I believe one of them is a visual artist of sort, though not sure about that. I recall some sick, disturbing stopmotion visuals... As for the music, my all time fave from them is Sober.

 

[Artie]

But Robert Cray did have a few hits on MTV at the time.

As for the music, my all time fave from them is Sober.

I'll check out both.

 

[Securb]

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).

Yep, or they are not even "guitar" players. Sully Una from Godsmack had a signature Gibson. Sully is a lead singer and drummer by trade. Chad Kroeger the singer for Nickleback has a signature Les Paul and as much as I hate Nickelback I have to admit it is a beautiful guitar. Black stained flame maple.

 

[Mincer]

Sure, a lot of signature gear is great, and it seems to be the only time big brands mess with their standard formula. Maybe we just don't have rock stars anymore.

 

[Demanic]

I would almost be willing to spend the money on a Petrucci signature, just because I know what his standards are.
Although I do have an Ibanez V-Blade that was originally supposed to be marketed as a Sam Totman signature until someone at Ibanez changed their mind and went with the Iceman.
And after putting an X2N in the bridge position, I love it.

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[GuitarStv]

So . . .



I guess you could say there were less Pauls in the shipment than expected?


: D

 

[Aceman]

This made Sunday with Ola this week. He has some very interesting thoughts including one we didn't mention...

2:32- 7:37

 

[Artie]

Nice music room. When he said, "Hello beautiful people," I swear he reminded me of Donald Sutherland (Oddball), in Kelly's Hereo's.

 

[Mr. B]

There is one that looks EXACTLY like those for sale on Ebay right now for 15,999. Could it be one of the stolen ones?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2020-Gibso...676837?hash=item4db788c9a5:g:EFYAAOSwxF5fsslT

 

[Mr. B]

Nope. Found the serial numbers for the stolen ones. The one on Ebay is not one.

Serial numbers for the stolen guitars:

Gibson Adam Jones 1979 Les Paul Custom Aged and Signed

• 73529531 #42
• 73529531 #69
• 73529531 #41
• 73529531 #71

Gibson Adam Jones 1979 Les Paul Custom VOS

• 73529111
• 73529047
• 73529114
• 73529145
• 73529072
• 73529030
• 73529091
• 73529126
• 73529024

Anyone with information on the stolen guitars is being urged to contact Detective Kenny Polley of the Whiteland Police Department at KPolley@whitelandpd.us or (317) 535-8100.

 

[solspirit]

Most of their vids are és nsanely unique, I believe one of them is a visual artist of sort, though not sure about that. I recall some sick, disturbing stopmotion visuals... As for the music, my all time fave from them is Sober.

I believe it's the bass player. Sober is an excellent song.

 

[AlexR]

^ Adam Jones is the artist.....or he was in the business of special effects until the band got their deal. I think he was working on special effects for one of the Jurassic Park movies at the time.

 

[Adieu]

I'm genuinely confused why anybody cares.

 

[Aceman]

There is one that looks EXACTLY like those for sale on Ebay right now for 15,999. Could it be one of the stolen ones?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2020-Gibso...676837?hash=item4db788c9a5:g:EFYAAOSwxF5fsslT

They ALL, as in everyone ever made, ever, look exactly the same....