Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Gibson has always been erm... courageous in their designs and many of them were received with similar shock horror. And some years later, everyone thinks they're cool. Explorers, Firebirds, Flying Vs, etc etc.
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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twistedthoughts wrote:
slowfingers wrote:I bought one of those when I was 14. Didn't have a Bigsby but it cost me $320 second hand. It was the only Gibson cheap enough for me to afford. I played it through a hideous home made S/S amp and to this day, I have no idea what it really sounded like.

Swapped it for a drum kit when I was 16. Dumb move, regret it. :(
Bro - have you seen what those look like?

I'd rather put some strings on a kick drum and play that.
It was brilliant. The only guitar I've owned that made me look pretty. :thumbup:
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slowfingers wrote:
twistedthoughts wrote:
slowfingers wrote:I bought one of those when I was 14. Didn't have a Bigsby but it cost me $320 second hand. It was the only Gibson cheap enough for me to afford. I played it through a hideous home made S/S amp and to this day, I have no idea what it really sounded like.

Swapped it for a drum kit when I was 16. Dumb move, regret it. :(
Bro - have you seen what those look like?

I'd rather put some strings on a kick drum and play that.
It was brilliant. The only guitar I've owned that made me look pretty. :thumbup:
you sold your teles???
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What next from Gibson - a Custom Shop reissue of the 1980s Les Paul Studio?
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*UNIQUE* wrote:And I suppose Ted McCarty and Leo never played guitars....but somehow they knew what guitarists wanted.

This from Wiki about Ted - "He instead talked with every guitarist he could in order to find out what guitar players were interested in."
An American friend of mine who played a part in the development of the G&L Comanche and ASAT describes Leo Fender like this, "He'd give me a guitar to play for a week. When I returned it, he'd ask what I thought. To every comment, he'd fix me with an intense stare and snap,'Why?'... all the time jotting down notes on a pad. It was quite a scary interrogation until I got used to it".
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http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... tudio.aspx

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I like that, seriously.
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slowfingers wrote:
*UNIQUE* wrote:And I suppose Ted McCarty and Leo never played guitars....but somehow they knew what guitarists wanted.

This from Wiki about Ted - "He instead talked with every guitarist he could in order to find out what guitar players were interested in."
An American friend of mine who played a part in the development of the G&L Comanche and ASAT describes Leo Fender like this, "He'd give me a guitar to play for a week. When I returned it, he'd ask what I thought. To every comment, he'd fix me with an intense stare and snap,'Why?'... all the time jotting down notes on a pad. It was quite a scary interrogation until I got used to it".
I remember an article in a British magazine about the rise of the Japanese makers. They interviewed a few retailers and one commented that Ibanez would send men in fawn raincoats to ask questions about how their guitars were received and what could be done to improve them. Something, he said, that Gibson and Fender never did.

Around that time I had an Ibanez Artist that'd cost me 200 quid brand new. The nearest Les Paul would've been about 550 and, to my eyes at least, the Ibanez was every bit as good and in some ways (the smoothed neck / body join for example, and aluminium shielded control cavity covers) actually better. To this day a Les Paul has a clumsy-looking neck join but we're all just used to it.

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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jeremyb wrote:http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... tudio.aspx

BG's dream guitar, a tele with a fat arse and a floyd :thumbup:
That's cool...finally not a stupid idea. I can see this one selling well.
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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*UNIQUE* wrote:
jeremyb wrote:http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... tudio.aspx

BG's dream guitar, a tele with a fat arse and a floyd :thumbup:
That's cool...finally not a stupid idea. I can see this one selling well.
Yep pretty tasty, I'd have one of those :D thank god its not tele shaped :D
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Honestly, the only Gibson style for which I feel total revulsion is the Nighthawk.

For all I know, they might be brilliant guitars, but they look so ugly. At least to me. My apologies to any Nighthawk owners and fans.
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Bg wrote:
*UNIQUE* wrote:
jeremyb wrote:http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... tudio.aspx

BG's dream guitar, a tele with a fat arse and a floyd :thumbup:
That's cool...finally not a stupid idea. I can see this one selling well.
Yep pretty tasty, I'd have one of those :D thank god its not tele shaped :D
An LP is basically tele shaped if you think about it...
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Looks cool. I'm not sure if they have done this before, but if they haven't, why has it taken them this long to do it.

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No e-tune device. i wonder if it can't handle a trem.

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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jeremyb wrote:An LP is basically tele shaped if you think about it...
Nah, dunno... I think Gibson was selling archtops with a cut away as far back as at least the 1930s (the Super 400).

If anything, the tele looks like a very simplified (and flattened) version of those.
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