Never been much of a gearhead, so I wasn’t even aware there was Gibson discourse! Are sales of Epiphones/Gibsons on the decline? They’re nice guitars, I suppose, but I prefer a thinner neck myself.
Yeah, QC on Gibsons has been real bad recently, management doesnt know how to run the place, they cement tjeir reputation as the dentist’s brand by putting out expensive signatures, and the quality of epiphone is bypassing the Gibsons theyre meant to be cheap copies of
The good thing about guitars is that there’s no shortage of really good ones on the secondary market that have just been in storage for twenty years and need to be cleaned up a bit. At least that was the case when I bought my last one threeish years ago.
Not sure about sales, but Gibson pretty heavily markets on the boomer nostalgia/“prestige” factor. Their line up is stale, the don’t adjust for modern specs and features younger guitarists are looking for. They’re not bad guitars, but the prices are inflated relative to the quality.
Perfect example, they recently released a recreation of the ‘59 humbuckers, for a thousand dollars. Not a whole guitar, just pickups. There’s no good reason for pickup set to be over like $400, maybe $500 dollars .
Oh my god, that man isn’t dead yet? He was already firmly cemented as being Dad Music in the 80’s, even before he became a world-renowned child safety expert.
You could swap “Harley” for “Gibson” and it would all still be true.
Never been much of a gearhead, so I wasn’t even aware there was Gibson discourse! Are sales of Epiphones/Gibsons on the decline? They’re nice guitars, I suppose, but I prefer a thinner neck myself.
Yeah, QC on Gibsons has been real bad recently, management doesnt know how to run the place, they cement tjeir reputation as the dentist’s brand by putting out expensive signatures, and the quality of epiphone is bypassing the Gibsons theyre meant to be cheap copies of
The good thing about guitars is that there’s no shortage of really good ones on the secondary market that have just been in storage for twenty years and need to be cleaned up a bit. At least that was the case when I bought my last one threeish years ago.
Not sure about sales, but Gibson pretty heavily markets on the boomer nostalgia/“prestige” factor. Their line up is stale, the don’t adjust for modern specs and features younger guitarists are looking for. They’re not bad guitars, but the prices are inflated relative to the quality.
Perfect example, they recently released a recreation of the ‘59 humbuckers, for a thousand dollars. Not a whole guitar, just pickups. There’s no good reason for pickup set to be over like $400, maybe $500 dollars .
They’re kinda crap quality and appeal to all the Clapton stans mostly
I thought that asshole played a fender?
Yep, he’s a Strat guy
Oh my god, that man isn’t dead yet? He was already firmly cemented as being Dad Music in the 80’s, even before he became a world-renowned child safety expert.