expiredChityWok posted Jan 11, 2022 05:52 AM
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expiredChityWok posted Jan 11, 2022 05:52 AM
Gibson Les Paul Deluxe '70s Electric Guitar (Cherry Sunburst)
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Give it six months. More likely a year. Right now, EVERYTHING music .. pedals, amps, guitars ... everything is OVER .. THE .. RAINBOW expensive.
In addition, and keep in mind I play Gibson and Martin and nothing else, but Gibson .. has .. uh .. LOST THEIR MINDS. The CEO there wants to re-position the company as the Tesla or Maserati of guitars or something.
That ain't rock and roll. That's Doc Rock. Doctors who enjoy playing on the weekend.
Furthermore, please let me say this in the strongest possible terms I can express .. Gibson Ain't What She Used To Be. Get you an OLD Gibson .. and by old .. I mean .. Pre-1990.
Otherwise, the best "slickdeal" you can get on a Gibson guitar is ..
.. to buy an Epiphone.
I own no Epiphones so I do not have a dog in the fight. I own NINE Gibson guitars and probably .. oh, 70 Gibsons over 45 years.
I don't lay my hands across a Gibson today if it is new. It makes me want to cry. Something so excellent, so beautiful ... is gone.
Get an old one, hold on to it, sell it for twice what you paid in five years.
I have no alternative electric guitar I could point you to at this time. They are all junk from China and Malaysia and, God forbid, Korea. If you must buy a new electric, Epiphone is as close to an old Gibson as you are probably going to get.
But still, they feel cheap and they do not have the Gibson sound because of the pickups.
The greatest guitar I ever played in my life is a 1984 Gibson Flying V Designer Series. It hangs on the wall right there next to my Martins.
I've owned 13 Gibson Flying V's in my life.
No other guitar is even close.
That's my wisdom of 45 years of playing guitar professionally I can pass along.
I never post. I said this because I have vast and extensive knowledge on the subject matter.
And my opinion is the general consensus of all advanced guitar players today. All of them.
Right now is a pandemic and everybody is cooped up inside and prices are insane. INSANE.
Don't waste your money.
Epiphones are not in the same league, Frets for the most part are poorly done and rarely level, electrics and most pickups are subpar. Bodies and necks having multiple pieces (like 5 across the body) of wood glued together!! Ya do pay for what ya get. For the price not bad, but to compare against a Gibson, not even close. Have both brands and repair and set up all makes for people.
Also pre 1980, there was some horrid Gibson's made back then, pancake bodies, maple necks, was similar to the early 2000's but not near as bad. However they did do some Great ones in the era too. Don't get me wrong just pointing out not everything was perfect back in the day. Perhaps ya should (with open mind) go play a few of the new ones.
Not sure if you've ever checked out or played the Heritage Guitars? The H-150 is superior to the Gibson (today vs today). For those that don't know the Heritage story check it out on Youtube. Original Gibson Facility in Kalamazoo that a bunch of employees (some top level ones) didn't want to move to Memphis when Gibson changed manufacturing locations. They purchased the Plant and all the equipment and started their own version of Gibson Guitars. They make them still the old ways on the same equipment the famous 58-59-60 Les Paul's were done. Quality is Excellent and you get features on the H-150 (Les Paul equivalent) that are only available on the LP' Custom shop models, like long neck tenon, one piece (not 2) mahogany back etc.
Cheers
For anyone looking for one of these, is a great price.
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Do they pay for return shipping without restocking fees? I'd be livid if I had a broken knob and scratches. It's a big discount but damn, $2000+ after taxes is still a big chunk of change .
Wait
Give it six months. More likely a year. Right now, EVERYTHING music .. pedals, amps, guitars ... everything is OVER .. THE .. RAINBOW expensive.
In addition, and keep in mind I play Gibson and Martin and nothing else, but Gibson .. has .. uh .. LOST THEIR MINDS. The CEO there wants to re-position the company as the Tesla or Maserati of guitars or something.
That ain't rock and roll. That's Doc Rock. Doctors who enjoy playing on the weekend.
Furthermore, please let me say this in the strongest possible terms I can express .. Gibson Ain't What She Used To Be. Get you an OLD Gibson .. and by old .. I mean .. Pre-1990.
Otherwise, the best "slickdeal" you can get on a Gibson guitar is ..
.. to buy an Epiphone.
I own no Epiphones so I do not have a dog in the fight. I own NINE Gibson guitars and probably .. oh, 70 Gibsons over 45 years.
I don't lay my hands across a Gibson today if it is new. It makes me want to cry. Something so excellent, so beautiful ... is gone.
Get an old one, hold on to it, sell it for twice what you paid in five years.
I have no alternative electric guitar I could point you to at this time. They are all junk from China and Malaysia and, God forbid, Korea. If you must buy a new electric, Epiphone is as close to an old Gibson as you are probably going to get.
But still, they feel cheap and they do not have the Gibson sound because of the pickups.
The greatest guitar I ever played in my life is a 1984 Gibson Flying V Designer Series. It hangs on the wall right there next to my Martins.
I've owned 13 Gibson Flying V's in my life.
No other guitar is even close.
That's my wisdom of 45 years of playing guitar professionally I can pass along.
I never post. I said this because I have vast and extensive knowledge on the subject matter.
And my opinion is the general consensus of all advanced guitar players today. All of them.
Right now is a pandemic and everybody is cooped up inside and prices are insane. INSANE.
Don't waste your money.
Epiphones are not in the same league, Frets for the most part are poorly done and rarely level, electrics and most pickups are subpar. Bodies and necks having multiple pieces (like 5 across the body) of wood glued together!! Ya do pay for what ya get. For the price not bad, but to compare against a Gibson, not even close. Have both brands and repair and set up all makes for people.
Also pre 1980, there was some horrid Gibson's made back then, pancake bodies, maple necks, was similar to the early 2000's but not near as bad. However they did do some Great ones in the era too. Don't get me wrong just pointing out not everything was perfect back in the day. Perhaps ya should (with open mind) go play a few of the new ones.
Not sure if you've ever checked out or played the Heritage Guitars? The H-150 is superior to the Gibson (today vs today). For those that don't know the Heritage story check it out on Youtube. Original Gibson Facility in Kalamazoo that a bunch of employees (some top level ones) didn't want to move to Memphis when Gibson changed manufacturing locations. They purchased the Plant and all the equipment and started their own version of Gibson Guitars. They make them still the old ways on the same equipment the famous 58-59-60 Les Paul's were done. Quality is Excellent and you get features on the H-150 (Les Paul equivalent) that are only available on the LP' Custom shop models, like long neck tenon, one piece (not 2) mahogany back etc.
Cheers
For anyone looking for one of these, is a great price.
Everyone in here do yourselves a favor and listen to all of the above posters.
Like them, I've been playing guitar now for over 120 straight years. I own over 300 guitars, all 300 of which are made out of the bones of dragons covered in fragments of the Shroud of Turin. For pickups, I use the vocal chords of famous Sirens - Parthenope, Ligeia, and Leucosia themselves scream with perfection as I strum each chord. I've owned every Gibson guitar ever made. Hell, I once bought the entire company Gibson itself. So trust me, I know a thing or two about guitars. I don't even waste my time with Ferrari's or Heineken, I skip straight to Bugatti's and Moet.
I have the finest taste in everything, and like I said, I've been playing for over 175 years now. The greatest guitar I've ever played in my life was a piano I stole from Billy Joel and retrofitted strings to it. It screamed like a banshee. Never in my 192 years of playing has anything sounded that good.
So seriously take these guys words for this. Between their 45/50 years of experience, and my 214 years of guitar playing experience, we know what we are talking about. I heard that current Gibson guitars don't even have necks or strings, or pickups. They don't have volume knobs or tuners or a bridge anymore. Now you just pay $2,000, and go home to find they sold you a cheap gig bag filled with rocks and sand. You can get creative and carve some of the rocks to different sizes and emulate different chords, but take it from me and my 236 years of professional music making experience on this earth, that one really hurts your knuckles after a while.
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