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Re: Ebay echoplexi... (spoiler: Gibson bashing thread)
man this is great,i canīt wait for the next israel
gaza strip design!
jesus has gibson gone out of their minds?!
L.a
--- Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> wrote:
> >Okay, that's three questions. But here's another
> question ... WTF
> >Gibson!?!?!?! Have you guys bankrupted yourselves
> on that "digital guitar"
> >thing that nobody is going to buy or is it that you
> guys just don't care or
> >is it that you're just so incompetent that you
> can't get it together enough
> >to fill your obligations to the company that made
> it for you and the
> >customers who you have strung along for the past 6
> months?
>
> neither.
>
> the point is that gibson has massive profits from
> idiots who purchase
> their guitars -- many of which are only ever used
> for decoration and
> not for playing (see eg this
>
http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2000/dec11a.html)
> because
> of some sort of Gibson cachet. I think of them as
> the Franklin Mint
> of guitar builders.
>
> Their eccentric chairman rules the company by whim,
> going off and
> buying all sorts of things (ie companies) and then
> throwing them
> away. He's been obsessed by this digital guitar
> idea, never
> understanding that as long as there are lots of
> guitar pedals and
> tube amplifiers there will NEVER be a market for a
> digital output for
> a guitar!
>
> I could go on at some length about how an electric
> guitar is a
> "perfect instrument" -- heck, I believe you can even
> play it in a
> vacuum which would make the electric guitar unlike
> any other
> non-electronic instrument.
>
> So give up on assuming anything rational will happen
> from these guys. sorry...
>
> /t
> --
>
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> and arts mailing list
>
>
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