Seymour Duncan Announces The Joe Bonamassa "Bolin Burst" Humbucker Set!
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beaubrummels
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FWIW the price appears to be the standard Custom Shop rate, with $35.00 to Joe for signing them. "Hey, nothing personal, it's just business."
these bolin pups are sending money to the bolin family too, not just sd and jb makin a few bucks.
ive met joe a few times, first time was opening for him in memphis when we were both in our early 20s. he was a jerk. but honestly, i was a cocky prick too at the time. ive met him since and he has been nothing but gracious and jovial. he came from nothing and is now one of the most recognizable and vocal proponents of the blues. whether you like him or not, he can play circles around all of us. his marketing team is crazy aggressive, but that seems to be the way these days.
ive met joe a few times, first time was opening for him in memphis when we were both in our early 20s. he was a jerk. but honestly, i was a cocky prick too at the time. ive met him since and he has been nothing but gracious and jovial. he came from nothing and is now one of the most recognizable and vocal proponents of the blues. whether you like him or not, he can play circles around all of us. his marketing team is crazy aggressive, but that seems to be the way these days.
Did he remember he was a jerk to you when you had met up with him again?
Chistopher
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When are they gonna release a Bonaburst guitar?
Pretty telling maybe?
JamesPaul
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This one got me thinking, are most of what are considered those "great historic guitars" like this one, the result of getting some "magic" set when grabbing random pickups out of a bin on the assembly line?
I had a Book of Faces exchange with my original Seymour Duncan pickup supplier and he shared some of what he has in his pickup notes which support this.
"Seth Lover told me when there was a heavy workload, the coils got tied off as soon as they looked full. Sometimes some bobbins got more windings. Bill Lawrence showed me his notebook and verified that. He kept a journal of all the PAFs he had serviced and recorded, all the stats for each (resistance, capacitance, inductance, etc.) and no two were identical."
Exactly, I have issues with customshop paf derrivates unless they're really, really interesting pieces. I find, for example, the Candy set way more interesting. Not because of Erick Steckel, but the entire design appeals more to me. Maybe it's just that there are so many Bonamassa pickups around that I'm losing track, and therefor interest.
Chistopher
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I'm fine with them having an obscene amount of custom shop options, and letting the ones that sell well drip into regular production. Which is what they do now, as far as I'm aware.
If there were a dozen production Joey B pickups, then I'd start to take issue.
interesting take. I'm the exact opposite. Don't know why.
Masta' C
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The problem with introducing too many options is that it dilutes the sales of other, similar models, so that none of them become particularly "popular" after a while.
When it comes to PAF-types, there are already many, similar variations and these new ones aren't particularly groundbreaking.
Pickups like the '78 and High Voltage set were tied to much more high profile artists and took decades to enter standard production. That "trickle" is incredibly slow.
Regardless, I don't think we're going to see any standard production Joey B pickups in the near future, if ever.
Masta' C
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GuitarStv
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lol
JamesPaul
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No, although he actually is on to his next release....
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...162-epiphone-joe-bonamassa-59-les-paul-custom
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...162-epiphone-joe-bonamassa-59-les-paul-custom
