Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Moderators: Slowy, Capt. Black
- Lawrence
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 1336
- meble-kuchenne.warszawa.pl
- Joined: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:00 pm
- Location: Beta Canum Venaticorum
- Has liked: 30 times
- Been liked: 383 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
oh and number 22 is coming along ....sanding....sanding....sanding....
GrantB wrote:
“You might be cool, but you’ll never be playing a white Steinberger through a JC120, wearing a white jumpsuit with white shoes and sporting a mullet cool”.
“You might be cool, but you’ll never be playing a white Steinberger through a JC120, wearing a white jumpsuit with white shoes and sporting a mullet cool”.
- GrantB
- ADMIN
- Posts: 12892
- Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:04 am
- Location: Where I need to be
- Has liked: 844 times
- Been liked: 1556 times
- Contact:
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Any hints to the spec?Lawrence wrote:oh and number 22 is coming along ....sanding....sanding....sanding....
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible god and destroys a visible nature. Unaware that this nature he's destroying is this god he's worshipping." - Hubert Reeves
-
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2411
- Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:35 pm
- Has liked: 41 times
- Been liked: 212 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Very very smooth.GrantB wrote:Any hints to the spec?Lawrence wrote:oh and number 22 is coming along ....sanding....sanding....sanding....
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
Lawrence wrote: Every orchestra that comes thru here is a covers band as are most of the jazz bands...
- Lawrence
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 1336
- Joined: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:00 pm
- Location: Beta Canum Venaticorum
- Has liked: 30 times
- Been liked: 383 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
its shorter, fatter, and more complex than anything before. Observant folk may have already worked out its miniHB, miniP90, mini90...with a 6 way Freewayswitch.GrantB wrote:Any hints to the spec?Lawrence wrote:oh and number 22 is coming along ....sanding....sanding....sanding....
that's all Ill say for now!

GrantB wrote:
“You might be cool, but you’ll never be playing a white Steinberger through a JC120, wearing a white jumpsuit with white shoes and sporting a mullet cool”.
“You might be cool, but you’ll never be playing a white Steinberger through a JC120, wearing a white jumpsuit with white shoes and sporting a mullet cool”.
- jeremyb
- Chorus of Organs
- Posts: 28194
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:03 am
- Has liked: 4553 times
- Been liked: 2440 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Sounds bonkers and I'll probably love it!!
#gayerformayer
Slowy wrote: But bullshit and guitars is what we do here. It's all we do here.
- WellyBlues
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2674
- Joined: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:01 pm
- Location: Welly
- Has liked: 315 times
- Been liked: 242 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
"And the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
- Terexgeek
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 4546
- Joined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:12 pm
- Location: Christchurch
- Has liked: 1373 times
- Been liked: 453 times
- Contact:
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
I wonder if they will put resources into defending the copyright on their images?WellyBlues wrote:An affordable(?) Gibson for the rest of us?
https://www.musicradar.com/news/give-yo ... earl-cover
Tin Awesome Random Samick Experience!!
- Cdog
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 3585
- Joined: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:01 pm
- Location: Christchurch
- Has liked: 1903 times
- Been liked: 371 times
- Contact:
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Can I get this in clown-burst?WellyBlues wrote:An affordable(?) Gibson for the rest of us?
https://www.musicradar.com/news/give-yo ... earl-cover

- jeremyb
- Chorus of Organs
- Posts: 28194
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:03 am
- Has liked: 4553 times
- Been liked: 2440 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
1988 Gibson SG Showcase Edition, cause everyone needs triple EMGs 

- Attachments
-
- 118368942_10157323184136835_2026855375217244070_o.jpg (887.78 KiB) Viewed 979 times
#gayerformayer
Slowy wrote: But bullshit and guitars is what we do here. It's all we do here.
- KNNZ
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2387
- Joined: Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:03 pm
- Location: Orewa
- Has liked: 1779 times
- Been liked: 637 times
- WellyBlues
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2674
- Joined: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:01 pm
- Location: Welly
- Has liked: 315 times
- Been liked: 242 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
We need a "burn it" button! Previous 2 posts here and that PRS tiger monstrosity are sufficient proof. ymmv.
"And the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
- Olderama
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 5571
- Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:04 pm
- Has liked: 1012 times
- Been liked: 797 times
- jeremyb
- Chorus of Organs
- Posts: 28194
- Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:03 am
- Has liked: 4553 times
- Been liked: 2440 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
I always wondered if 3 pickups exerted significant pull on the strings to cause any issues?!?!?!?
#gayerformayer
Slowy wrote: But bullshit and guitars is what we do here. It's all we do here.
- HackSaw
- Vintage Post Junkie
- Posts: 2330
- Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:34 am
- Location: AKL
- Has liked: 136 times
- Been liked: 450 times
- Green Bastard
- Tokai
- Posts: 496
- Joined: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:30 pm
- Has liked: 13 times
- Been liked: 42 times
Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
That sg is mean.
Have the Gibson sorted their shit out, nearly a year without new release shockers in here, or has everyone given up caring.
Have the Gibson sorted their shit out, nearly a year without new release shockers in here, or has everyone given up caring.