The Gibson Garage Nashville!

[dave74]

80's time machine maybe?

Oh the new models are not at all the same quality?

 

[Aceman]

The is an example of someone who heard the word "Customer Experience" getting way out of hand.

"We need to create a customer experience that leverages the rich tradition of the Gibson instrument as an Icon in music. It should exude the style and class that exemplifies Gibson innovation and excellence...."

And I can walk into a GC and still within 10 guitars at $2k+ find a WTF? example.

This is what happens when you begin running on the Icon business model: All style, and substance running low as you market shrinks, margins dwindle, and you keep raising prices...

 

[beaubrummels]

I can't imagine any actual musicians buying anything there. What you will get is rich tourists who budgeted $8k 'fun money' for their weekend Dental Conference in Nashville. I guess it is no different than the Harley Stores that are popping up all over.

Shhh, don't tell Bonnamassa

 

[devastone]

Oh the new models are not at all the same quality?

When I think of quality MIA and MIJ Kramers, I think of the original ones from Neptune, NJ, I don't have any experience with the new Gibson Kramers, I don't even know where they are made. Sorry, really need a sarcasm font.

 

[Mincer]

The Kramer brand went bad long before Gibson's current ones, with the previous owners band sawing anything they could find into a guitar shape. The current Kramers are indeed a step up from the ones in the early-mid 90s.

 

[devastone]

Agreed, they were on a downhill turn in the 90s. I was thinking of these days:

 

[Mincer]

^ Yes, *those* were the Kramers that should be remembered. Just a few years later, they slapped the Kramer name on the worst crap they could find.

 

[NegativeEase]

Weird Coincidence -I'm in Nashville tomorrow and it opens tomorrow!

Man, I'd have to be some kind of sadomasochist to go there on opening day -but I'll do a drive by and if it's empty and Mark's looking lonely I'll go in.

Will report back.

Ya know, despite a few friends probably going there today, it has been pointed out that there is a better than not chance that Joe Bonamassa will be there -not my scene man.

BUT if I need a tooth pulled or legal advice...... I'm definitely going in!

 

[Bogner]

I can't think of a better place to play Cannibal Corpse riffs at volume today...

 

[GuitarStv]

Ya know, despite a few friends probably going there today, it has been pointed out that there is a better than not chance that Joe Bonamassa will be there -not my scene man.

BUT if I need a tooth pulled or legal advice...... I'm definitely going in!

You should bring in one of the Joe Bonamassa garden gnomes for him to sign.

 

[devastone]

You should bring in one of the Joe Bonamassa garden gnomes for him to sign.

FTW! Extra points if you bring a crayola instead of a sharpie for him to sign with!

 

[Aceman]

Bonamassa there? Why isn't he opening up Brickandmortarmassa's himself?

 

[dave74]

That's funny that Kramer went down in the 90's while Kramer from Seinfeld was getting hugely popular. Remember that movie Kramer vs Kramer? lol
Maybe these new models are a step forward at least.

 

[NegativeEase]

You should bring in one of the Joe Bonamassa garden gnomes for him to sign.

Well Well, The following will not surprise you then.

I got off on Demonbreon St. yesterday and started to head that way -and immediately got behind a guy on a three wheel trike motorcycle in a USA Joe Bonamassa shirt heading toward the garage.

I hit the eject button, maybe try today.

 

[devastone]

Just prepare yourself, you are heading into Bonamassa/Agnessi territory, it will be difficult.

 

[ErikH]

Kramer was dead in 1990. That's when the fire sale in NJ happened. There was an attempt to resurrect the brand with some Czech made models in the mid-90's but they didn't survive. Then the MusicYo thing happened after Gibson acquired the name and that went belly up. The current offerings the last few years are all made overseas in Korea or China. IMO, they don't touch the quality and feel of the 80's guitars. They are better somewhat better than the MusicYo offerings. The mid-90's Czech models were pretty darn good, and I'd rank them above the MusicYo era. They may share a name and shape, but that is about it. I've owned a few 80's Kramers and still have one. It will go with me to my grave, or to our oldest daughter.

 

[NegativeEase]

Just prepare yourself, you are heading into Bonamassa/Agnessi territory, it will be difficult.

I mean, both types are fine if geeking out on guitars -I'm good with most people in a personal setting.

I just don't think a frenetic room full of lawyers and dentists in Harley chaps talking about 8,000 Les Pauls is my scene -especially when their wallets are occupying any chance for me to touch a guitar or ask a geeky question.

I care about music and guitar history -not side bar 401k and lake house conversations which tend to happen at these types of scenes.

So if it's busy with collectors, I'd rather wait for a better time

 

[JamesPaul]

I still need to get that visit in beforehand. I'm counting on being able to sleep when I'm dead.

 

[Aceman]

I just don't think a frenetic room full of lawyers and dentists in Harley chaps talking about 8,000 Les Pauls is my scene -especially when their wallets are occupying any chance for me to touch a guitar or ask a geeky question.

No no no!!!! You have to look at like this;

As they discuss them, you then say "Man, awesome, play something on it! I want to see how you vibe with it!!"

And then sit back and watch the tragedy unfold. Then when they say it has this/that/the other defects that make it not exactly awesome/playable, ask to see it and just shred it hard right in front of them....

Good times. You can do this in a GC, but it would be wayyyy more fun there!

 

[NegativeEase]

No no no!!!! You have to look at like this;

Ask they discuss them, you then say "Man, awesome, play something on it! I want to see how you vibe with it!!"

And then sit back and watch the tragedy unfold. Then when they say it has this/that/the other defects that make it not exactly awesome/playable, ask to see it and just shred it hard right in front of them....

Good times. You can do this in a GC, but it would be wayyyy more fun there!

Ha. didn't consider that angle .... sweeeet!