EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

[lex666]

This is kind of a two part question:

1. This is a really cool collectible, but would you spend $25,000 on it? Even if you could afford it, would you play it, or just display it? Seems like spending $25,000 on something to display would be a waste... All that detail would only matter to a guitarist, but I don't think it was made for guitarists. So who is it made for? Rich guys?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/static/evh/index.html

2. If you did play it, would you play it live? Wouldn't you feel obligated to play VH tunes on it? Thats what the audience would expect...

 

[Smilemon]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

Well, i bet its a hell of a player. And i would play what ever i felt like on it.

 

[tone?]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

So who is it made for? Rich guys?

yeap

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I wouldn't touch that thing with a 40 foot pole. I really don't like how it looks.

 

[J Moose]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh



:eek13:

 

[Smilemon]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I wouldn't touch that thing with a 40 foot pole. I really don't like how it looks.

I cant help but notice a striking resemblance between it and the guitar in your avatar...

 

[OrkestrA]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

billie joe's slammin a frankenstrat... no doubt!

 

[El Dorado]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I love the 218 product reviews on the MF.

 

[Mike M.]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

While I would never want to own one I would love to at least have the chance to try one out, just to see what it's like. That would be enough.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I could see Blackie being rebuilt and sold for a high price, though I wouldn't pay $25K for it. I hate Van Halen so I wouldn't buy Frankenstein either.

Also, it disgusts me that people buy guitars to put them on display or in storage to fetch a high re-sale value. It's a GUITAR, not the Mona Lisa.

I think after a certain price your paying for a name not a guitar, you could pay $1,000 instead and do your own exact replica of whatever guitar you love.

 

[AzCat]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

A better question is, "Who's going to hang it on their wall and look at it?" That'll be the fate of nearly all of them.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

i'd use it if i was a rich man..... i was a huge fan of Ed's and that guitar.... i assume everyone in a bar or where ever you play it they would expect VH

I thought the Charvel EVH stripped axes were the nicest playing super strats i ever played.... if i had the cash i'd own one..... and they are VH Stripped... they feel so sweet i'd use it!

 

[Zerberus]

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I´ve posted my opinion on these axes a few times, and I won´t go into it here again because I´ve honestly grown very tired of the "It´s 200$ worth of parts" argument that completely disregards the hundreds of man hours that go into such a project..

In a nutshell: I´ve played one, and would buy one in a heartbeat if I had the cash, becasue I know that guitar is top notch. Regardlesss of whether I look at it as as a luthier, collector or player, ANd I´m not even much of an EVH fan at all. More important ot me is that this is a perfect recreation of a piece of guitar history. Much akin to owning your own original /"official facsimile" of the Declaration of Independence or having your own Eli Whitney Cotton Gin

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I'm certain some asshat will show up at an open mic and try to rally three others to get up there and play "Panama."

 

[WhoFan]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

back around 189/90 i had a cheap strat painted up like the Black and White paint job on VH's first album era.... i did get a bit of hasseling from people here and there... some saying "who do you think you are? EVH?"..... ha ha ha ha... but i could care less... I did end up repainting that guitar to my own custom job. Basicly a white body with different colour paints spattered on it... ah the 80's! It looked cool!!!!

But to tell the truth i could find it hard using a $25,000 reproduction of Ed's axe out in a bar.... i don't even take my $2000 axes into bars... But i still want the Charvel version!!!! that thing rocks!!!

 

[MikeS]

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No denying the craftsmanship involved, nor the playability of the guitars, but for me it's just a copy of a well storied, yet ass ugly guitar. It's akin to going through the painstaking detail of making a replica, brush stroke for brush stroke, of a modern painting. At the end of the day it's a highly crafted replica of a piece of bad art, IMO.

I guess I'm morally opposed to the idea of making such an exact copy of any piece of historic, artifact, or artwork, regardless of context. At that point the copy is no longer a work of art, but rather a work of craft.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

It's no more stupid to buy that guitar and hang it on your wall than it is to spend $50000 on a painting or a sculpture. If I could afford to, I would buy it, hang it on the wall for everybody to see, with the added bonus of being able to take it down and play the bloody thing. I would also buy a Blackie, an SRV, an Andy Summers Tele, a Rory Ga.......

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

I cant help but notice a striking resemblance between it and the guitar in your avatar...

completely different guitars

 

[big_black]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

It's no more stupid to buy that guitar and hang it on your wall than it is to spend $50000 on a painting or a sculpture.

The difference being, one artist creates art, the other crafts it...there is a big difference between the two.

This guitar is more akin to tracing a masterwork, rather than using skill and creativity to create one. A sure sign of someone with more money than sense...as is paying $25,000 for a copied work.

 

[KeyOfG]

Re: EVH guitar - but who's gonna play it?

completely different guitars

Not by too much really.

[quote="big black]A sure sign of someone with more money than sense..[/quote]

A lot of people can say that about anyone in a higher income median but they fail to imagine the scope of the situation. And that is, people who can and do spend that amount cash have no problem doing so. Compared to their net worth it's equivalant to just a few hundred dollars. And that is where the distinction lies between how much money is really being spent. Yeah for someone who can't fathom or lead that sort of life it's a very wasteful purchase. A purchase, no less, that could probably pay off a lot of incurred debt, send a sibling to college, build a few schools in impoverished countries, and so forth. But those people who can afford these high dollar guitars probably already do spread their money to places that they deem good, and necessary. It is but a tax write off by that point, and good karma spread too.

Regardless of it being "FRanK3SteiN", Blackie, Seymour's acquired & Jeff Beck's old Blackguard with forearm and tummy contours intact (or should I say shaved off), SRV's #1, etc, etc... Fender has sold off all of the Tributes that they've made, and they will probably continue to make more later too that sell out quickly as well. These guitars don't even come close to the price that many vintage models sell for day-to-day all over the world.

It's all perspective, and where you are with it.