"Guitarists": Exploiting our demographic has gone too far

Victor · 06-23-2007, 06:52 AM

This madness must be curtailed.

I have infornt of me an full color advertisement for "The Jimi Hendrix Liquid Experience"..........it comes in a bottle. I suspect it is some kind of soda pop. Then again, It could be afro-'merkun hair product. It promises to deliver "Peace. Love Purpose". Who the fark knows.

Gibson have released a Kiefer Southerland Signature Guitar.

Overweight middle aged men are shelling out $25,000 for Van Halen guitars that where built for well under $300 of parts in the day.

And dont get me started on the Digitech Clapton Pedal.......what's next people?:

Curt Cobain Signature Series Bullets?

It's nice to idolize, but where will this all end?

Victor · 06-23-2007, 06:54 AM

Oh, forgot to mention the Fender Rory Gallagher Strat..........factory beaten to smithereens. INCULDES A FACTORY POLISHING CLOTH!

AHHGGHHGH! MY EYES - THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

I am in the wrong business.

Victor · 06-23-2007, 07:04 AM

Further madness. "Kerry King" has a signature Marshall amp. The only other man before him to have such a thing was

*DRUMROLL*

Jimi Hendrix. Who is Kerry King? Some putz that wears cheese graters on his chubby little forearms and says "hail satan" alot - that's who.

You see where this is headed?

lm6y · 06-23-2007, 07:34 AM

You forgot the Fender Andy Summers Telecaster.

When will it stop? As soon as people quit buying it.

scottmandue · 06-23-2007, 07:36 AM

I hear the hello kitty strat is on backorder.

Fender sells a couple of guitars and basses now with the pre-worn paint scheme... WTF is up with that?

I can understand some of the signature guitars... i.e. the Eric Johnson or Clapton strat, but whatever happened to coming up with your "own" signature sound?

Victor · 06-23-2007, 07:39 AM

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Originally posted by lm6y
You forgot the Fender Andy Summers Telecaster.

When will it stop? As soon as people quit buying it.

That, I can sort of understand. So long as the premium over an (already hideously overpriced Tele) isn't more than fifty bucks.

Victor · 06-23-2007, 07:42 AM

'scuse me if I am wrong, but aren't the EJ and EC strats just, well.....STRATS??? Maybe with some slightly different pickups and in a limited color scheme, but plain old Strats made from timber off cuts and poorly coated malformed bits of pressed tin?

Victor · 06-23-2007, 07:45 AM

Pardon the ranting by the way.

It is alchohol induced and largely based on my seeming inability to aquire musical skills beyond anything with opposable thumbs and an addiction to ebay could learn after a bottle of tequila.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

It's okay, I'm sure you'll be able to find all that stuff marked way down at GuitarCenter's once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-repeated sale of the week next week.

Shuie · 06-23-2007, 08:02 AM

IMO, the EJ strat is probably the best bang for the buck strat there is if you can find a used from the first 1000 or so of that were made. I've found a couple in the 400-600 serial number range for ~$1100. I cant get over the big frets, but some of them are actually good guitars.

scottmandue · 06-23-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
It's okay, I'm sure you'll be able to find all that stuff marked way down at GuitarCenter's once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-repeated sale of the week next week.

LOL!

Reminds me of the time I was in guitar center and some leathered up pseudo rock star was all up in the face of a salesman who apparently sold him a guitar at "absolute rock bottom price" only to find the same guitar on sale later at a lower price.

Re: Signature strats... I know nothing... although I have seen a $300 strats and $30,000 strats with a very wide variety of hardware/electronics on them and there are hundreds of kinds of wood that can be use for the neck/body all yielding subtle differences in tone.

Only time I buy at Guitar center is if they have a sale on something and I like the printed price (be sure to bring the ad with you). I bought a Yamaha 5 string bass for $450 that I thought was a good (not great) deal... and a Ferington Bass for $275, you can't even find those anymore.

Sonic dB · Sonic dB's Garage

Quote:

'scuse me if I am wrong, but aren't the EJ and EC strats just, well.....STRATS??? Maybe with some slightly different pickups and in a limited color scheme, but plain old Strats made from timber off cuts and poorly coated malformed bits of pressed tin?

Maybe...

I have the EC Signature Strat. I did not go into Sam Ash looking
to buy it.... I went in to check out the Am Standard Strats. So
I played a few of them, and nothing sounded very good....
so, hey what is that black Strat over there?

Plugged it in and "bam" what a great sound! Pretty versitile axe
with multiple pickup combinations of the Fender Noizeless pickups
and also a treble booster tone thing. It is a great sounding
guitar, so I bought it. Props to EC.

Also...the Hello Kitty Strat was on back order that day...

stuartj · 06-23-2007, 04:43 PM

Ive got my order in for the Jimmy Page Les Paul at $12k, and im saving to the limited edition Paul McCartney (wait for it) Epiphone acoustic at $100k.

I wanted a Rory Strat, but when I got on home I found a scratch on it so I took it back. See it there, just near the top.

ToddM · ToddM's Garage

The one that ticks me of to no end is PRS, completely ruining or eliminating every innovation of the guitar as it was originally conceived for cost reasons, but then saying these "improvements" sound better.

I am just waiting for the PRS to make an 85 standard reissue that brings back all the innovations; it WILL happen.

WolfeMacleod · 06-23-2007, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by Victor
Further madness. "Kerry King" has a signature Marshall amp. The only other man before him to have such a thing was

*DRUMROLL*

Jimi Hendrix. Who is Kerry King? Some putz that wears cheese graters on his chubby little forearms and says "hail satan" alot - that's who.

You see where this is headed?

Pretty sure that Slash was the first person with a Signature Model amp.

ToddM · ToddM's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Victor
'scuse me if I am wrong, but aren't the EJ and EC strats just, well.....STRATS??? Maybe with some slightly different pickups and in a limited color scheme, but plain old Strats made from timber off cuts and poorly coated malformed bits of pressed tin?

The EJ strat is actually probably the best strat out there for the money. It is the one of two non custom shop strat I would buy.

It has the 50s body which is a deeper cut, lighter weight bodies and nitro finish... all of which contribute to increased resonance. The string eyelets at the headstock are also staggered so that the strings are perfectly parallel to the neck with no string tree required. All hardware is vintage.

There is no backplate from the factory so there are no holes for the backplate screws. Not many people keep their blackplate on for serviceability so this is kind of a nice touch.

Kind of the opposite of this strat is the Jeff Beck model which uses all the advancements from the 90s like the roller nut, and the locking tuners with the latest pickups.

Both are great strats

tabs · 06-23-2007, 10:19 PM

The next limited edition guitar that they are going to introduce is the "AIR GUITAR"

bigchillcar · bigchillcar's Garage

i'd like to see what some industrious seller on e-bay could get for a 'signature air guitar' myself..

VINMAN · 06-24-2007, 04:54 AM

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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
It's okay, I'm sure you'll be able to find all that stuff marked way down at GuitarCenter's once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-repeated sale of the week next week.

LMAO

cashflyer · 06-24-2007, 05:18 AM

All this hubbub about the Hello Kitty strat has really piqued my interest. I've got to get on their waiting list tomorrow when the shops open!

Do they sell a blank HK pick guard that I could fit to my current strat? Or would the HK clone make me seem too much of a poseur? I gotta protect my guitarist cred, you know...