Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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I quite like the Orange one too. Not sure about the Floyd though.
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jeremyb wrote:Dead serious, just look at the shape of a les paul, it's a tele!!!
Nah mate - both guitars take their design cues from earlier acoustic guitars with cutaways. Gibson had been making cutaway acoustics decades before Fender was even an idea....google a 1930's L5 or something. In terms of the general design, Gibson by a long shot.

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GrantB wrote:
jeremyb wrote:Dead serious, just look at the shape of a les paul, it's a tele!!!
Nah mate - both guitars take their design cues from earlier acoustic guitars with cutaways. Gibson had been making cutaway acoustics decades before Fender was even an idea....google a 1930's L5 or something. In terms of the general design, Gibson by a long shot.

Why do I feel like I've just been trolled?
I didn't think guitars existed before the tele?!?!?!?!?
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jeremyb wrote:I didn't think guitars existed before the tele?!?!?!?!?
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sizzlingbadger wrote:I quite like the Orange one too. Not sure about the Floyd though.
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More pros coming out with the negativity! https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge ... p_now.html
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jeremyb wrote:More pros coming out with the negativity! https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge ... p_now.html
That is a weak interview...I’m no defender of GIbson but he’s just flogging the horse and popping out the standard lines.

He starts by saying he likes “his deal with ESP”. Conflict of interest much?
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jeremyb wrote:I didn't think guitars existed before the tele?!?!?!?!?
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Link please!
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Terexgeek wrote:Link please!
Well, the Cort thing is a joke...but this isn't

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/ ... me-rapidly

We can only speculate, but I think the balance sheet it the highest level will look pretty smelly in terms of liabilities. Buying legacy audio brands as Apple and others romp all over that space with consumer oriented solutions was a dumb decision. Henry is clearly operating outside his horsepower rating in making those decisions.

The guitar brand will survive though, I'm positive. It's too valuable.
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GrantB wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:Link please!
Well, the Cort thing is a joke...but this isn't

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/ ... me-rapidly

We can only speculate, but I think the balance sheet it the highest level will look pretty smelly in terms of liabilities. Buying legacy audio brands as Apple and others romp all over that space with consumer oriented solutions was a dumb decision. Henry is clearly operating outside his horsepower rating in making those decisions.

The guitar brand will survive though, I'm positive. It's too valuable.
Hopefully it all washes out with someone not stupid ending up in charge. Would love to see Gibson focussing on a smaller range of quality instruments, rather than knee-jerk and pathetic attempts at expansion and innovation.

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telefiend wrote:
GrantB wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:Link please!
Well, the Cort thing is a joke...but this isn't

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/ ... me-rapidly

We can only speculate, but I think the balance sheet it the highest level will look pretty smelly in terms of liabilities. Buying legacy audio brands as Apple and others romp all over that space with consumer oriented solutions was a dumb decision. Henry is clearly operating outside his horsepower rating in making those decisions.

The guitar brand will survive though, I'm positive. It's too valuable.
Hopefully it all washes out with someone not stupid ending up in charge. Would love to see Gibson focussing on a smaller range of quality instruments, rather than knee-jerk and pathetic attempts at expansion and innovation.
This, but I think innovation needs to be artist driven, not "Let's build the next game changer". I am happy to be corrected but from the Telecaster to the 335 each step forward came from the players requesting a solution to a problem. Not the upper management producing what they think the market needs. If Gibson allows itself to be artist focussed, then innovation will come.
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GrantB wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:Link please!
Well, the Cort thing is a joke...but this isn't

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/ ... me-rapidly

We can only speculate, but I think the balance sheet it the highest level will look pretty smelly in terms of liabilities. Buying legacy audio brands as Apple and others romp all over that space with consumer oriented solutions was a dumb decision. Henry is clearly operating outside his horsepower rating in making those decisions.

The guitar brand will survive though, I'm positive. It's too valuable.
Hmm, smelly indeed, unfortunately if things end up nipples aimed ceiling-wise we will be force to endure a bank pruning models and range with only "profitable" models surviving. What that would look like I don't know. I have a feeling the overheads of the Custom shop may prove to be too much of a liability and the neatness of shipping high volumes of Epiphone brands from Asia from contracted factories will win. I am happy to be wrong.
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I think Henry has operated outside his horsepower rating for a while. For contrast check out PRS going from strength to strength, charging good prices but customer focussed.
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