Sickening.... just sickening...

Dord

There's a new guitar magazine coming out called Guitar Aficionado. It's a magazine for those douchebags that buy vintage guitars just to lock them away so that they can say that they have them. People like these drive up the cost of vintage guitars for everyone else.

It's just fucking sickening... they say the magazine is aimed at "an elite breed". :rolleyes:

http://www.guitaraficionado.com/

There's more info on the douchebaggery here.

feylya

So people have found another way to cash in on peoples' desires, much like Fender making relic replicas... TBH, there's many other things I'd get annoyed over before I got annoyed over that.

CianRyan

This is a piss take right?
Some one please tell its a piss take!!!:(

judas101

really crappy site

Voodu Child

I can't wait for the Ibanez RG issue

Oh wait....

Dord

CianRyan wrote: »

This is a piss take right?
Some one please tell its a piss take!!!:(

It's true, it's going to be published by Future US. This is the company behind Guitar World and a division of the company that publishes Guitarist.

Darkstrike

Like there isn't enough elitist musicians around!:rolleyes:

-=al=-

it looks pretty bad

cant be real and if it is, ill eat my hat

Patricide

Makes me die a little inside. The whole fact that there were pictures of guitars next to cars like luxury items. There made to be played dammit!!

brendansmith

I really dont see what everyone getting so worked up about.

How about you play your guitar and leave whoever else put there guitar in their safe if they want.

As for them driving up prices by doing this... vintage anything is expensive.

Red Sleeping Beauty

It looks like it's for people that don't even play guitar! :mad:

Doctor J

I can't wait for Vintage Television Afficionado magazine to come out. You know, these days you've got all these high falutin' flat screens, wide screens, universal remote controls but, let's be honest, they haven't got soul, they're just not as good as a late '50s Philco or a classic Admiral. Everyone knows the original televisions were the best ones, they have mojo. You just can't beat watching your favourite sports team on a 13" black and white round screen in glorious mono. These modern sports watchers don't know what they're missing. Of course, the old TV's were better built too, they knew just what they were doing with 50's electronics and they made the TV's out of magic wood, it gave them a better picture than the soulless modern TV's. When they were experimenting and figuring out just how to build the TV's in the 50's, that's when they made the best ones. As we improved our knowledge and ability to make TV's, that's when we started making worse TV's, you can see the logic quite clearly.

Ahhh I'm in a good mood today, I can't drag any more sarcasm out of me for the moment :pac:

If you really want an old piece of crap, stop wasting time playing and go back to college, work hard and maybe someday you can own one. There's nothing wrong with that.

Let the rich horde the old guitars, I say. Leave me the good guitars.

Johnny Storm

Doctor J wrote: »

...Let the rich horde the old guitars, I say. Leave me the good guitars.

Wait a minit! You're saying they're not the same? :eek:

BTW I think these magazine fukcwits have missed the boat by a year or two .....

Doctor J

Johnny Storm wrote: »

Wait a minit! You're saying they're not the same? :eek:

BTW I think these magazine fukcwits have missed the boat by a year or two .....

I am implying something along those lines, yes

Don't you mean yacht, btw? :pac:

Quattroste

I think this is a great idea. I'll be paying for my annual subscription for the first year of this magazine. The thing is.... and this is the brilliant bit.... I'm not going to even read them. I am going to keep them in their plastic coverings and lock them away for years so when the Vintage, Vintage Magazine Collectors, Collectors start collecting I'll have a full series of untouched, 1st edition, Guitar Aficianado magazines.

These will be sold and I will use the funds to buy a vintage Epiphone Rasta Les Paul and a vintage Marshall MG10. Sweet.

Dord

-=al=- wrote: »

it looks pretty bad

cant be real and if it is, ill eat my hat

I demand a youtube video of that. :mad:

Oink

Dord wrote: »

I demand a youtube video of that. :mad:

Seconded.

All in favour say Aye.

CianRyan

Aye.

fish-head

I've never seen two things more fundamentally at odds with each other than a Telecaster and a Ferrari.



That mag's gonna go down like a lead balloon...

Edit: On closer expection, it's a Porsche.. but still!

Johnny Storm

fish-head wrote: »

I've never seen two things more fundamentally at odds with each other than a Telecaster and a Ferrari.
...

Good point.

In fact, if that mag did what it says its going to do it would be all PRSs, shurley?

Doctor J

That's right, everyone knows Telecasters are more of an Aston Martin DB5 kinda guitar.

CianRyan

But they don't like vintage cars in this magazine.
So because of that, I'd say a spyker C8.

Quattroste

What the fcuk is a Ferrari???

-=al=-

Dord wrote: »

I demand a youtube video of that. :mad:

did we determine out if its real yet?

Dord

-=al=- wrote: »

did we determine out if its real yet?

Seems to be real. At the end of the "presentation" page it says it's being published by Future US. Also the WHOIS report for the website shows that it's registered to Future US.

http://whois.domaintools.com/guitaraficionado.com

CianRyan

Get a chompin' boy.

darrenw5094

Quattroste wrote: »

What the fcuk is a Ferrari???

Some day Ferrari will come out with an electric guitar.
That '59 Les Paul Standard does look tempting though.....it is a steal and an investment too. I would have to sell a few of my own to cover that. Wonder if the owner will do a trade for a Marshall MG and Fender Squire???

Red Sleeping Beauty

This month's Guitarist has a decent feature on the 50 Guitars you should play before you die.

Dord

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

This month's Guitarist has a decent feature on the 50 Guitars you should play before you die.

Yeah I saw that, some funkin' sweet guitars there! :eek::cool:

Red Sleeping Beauty

Dord wrote: »

Yeah I saw that, some funkin' sweet guitars there! :eek::cool:

There was/is but to be honest the only ones that I'd really really really wanna play are a '52 Telecaster and a '59 Les Paul . I'm just cliched like that


The Troy Lee whatshisnamefromQotsa has a Yamaha sort of semi with a bigsby and 3 P90 pickups with a fancy pickup selection. I've always wanted to try that out. I've mastered GAS quite well I think... I used to see all sorts of guitars, well mainly Fenders or Gibsons but I can narrow down what I like now to just Les Pauls and my Sheraton

Ancient1

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

I've mastered GAS quite well

Huh.

:pac:

Famous last words.

Red Sleeping Beauty

It's true It is indeed possible to manage it!
I've gone from having 8 guitars and wanting more to having 4 guitars. I've a Stratocaster that I don't play/needs work but I won't get any decent money for it so no use selling it.


There's no guitar I want. Perhaps a cheap Squier 51 to upgrade but other than that I can go in to t aguitar shop and *just about* control teg GASSing

I was in Glasgow there last week and they've some decent guitar shops. They have Gibson and Fenders at eye level , you can touch them!! And I left the shop happy.

Popped a small boner lookin at a few of them but other than that... GAS free

rcaz

But... They're all the same guitars that you always see everyone playing... I get why people praise them, but I don't get why people get all like this over them...

Show me a jewel-encrusted ancient Les Paul gold top with vintage P90s and solid gold fretboard with diamond frets and platinum fret inlays, and I'll show you my badly-rewired, utterly unshielded and spray-painted Squier strat. They're both just bits of wood.

Doctor J

El Pr0n wrote: »

They're both just bits of wood.

So's a cricket bat, but that doesn't make either of them into a good guitar.

John

Doctor J wrote: »

I can't wait for Vintage Television Afficionado magazine to come out. You know, these days you've got all these high falutin' flat screens, wide screens, universal remote controls but, let's be honest, they haven't got soul, they're just not as good as a late '50s Philco or a classic Admiral. Everyone knows the original televisions were the best ones, they have mojo. You just can't beat watching your favourite sports team on a 13" black and white round screen in glorious mono. These modern sports watchers don't know what they're missing. Of course, the old TV's were better built too, they knew just what they were doing with 50's electronics and they made the TV's out of magic wood, it gave them a better picture than the soulless modern TV's. When they were experimenting and figuring out just how to build the TV's in the 50's, that's when they made the best ones. As we improved our knowledge and ability to make TV's, that's when we started making worse TV's, you can see the logic quite clearly.

Ahhh I'm in a good mood today, I can't drag any more sarcasm out of me for the moment :pac:

If you really want an old piece of crap, stop wasting time playing and go back to college, work hard and maybe someday you can own one. There's nothing wrong with that.

Let the rich horde the old guitars, I say. Leave me the good guitars.

I've got a scalloped remote control. Makes me flick faster.

rcaz

Doctor J wrote: »

So's a cricket bat, but that doesn't make either of them into a good guitar.

No way. My point is, it's a bit of wood, why would anyone bother coveting a guitar so much? Sure, the Les Paul might be nicer to play than my old strat, but if you really wanted to play a guitar, my old strat wouldd do the job perfectly.

Doctor J

The point being, there's a lot more to a guitar than a bit of wood.

Ravelleman

Doctor J wrote: »

The point being, there's a lot more to a guitar than a bit of wood.

There's bits of metal and sometimes plastic too.

Alanstrainor

El Pr0n wrote: »

No way. My point is, it's a bit of wood, why would anyone bother coveting a guitar so much? Sure, the Les Paul might be nicer to play than my old strat, but if you really wanted to play a guitar, my old strat wouldd do the job perfectly.

That's a weird way to look at it tbh, you could apply that thinking to anything, why buy a ferrari when a micra would do? They both have seats, wheels and a steering wheel? Both "do the job", but they both do it very differently!

rcaz

Yeah, I guess. That's my philosophy on it, anyway. I'd never spend thousands on a guitar.

John

Although, have you played a guitar with better build quality to compare to your squier? I'm not saying yours is a bad instrument but I had what was a fairly decent Epiphone Les Paul Custom and there were frets that would give me grief no matter how the guitar was set up and over time the whole thing would drift out of tune (plus one of the pickups fell out!). I bought a Gretsch and noticed a massive difference in how it feels and plays. I don't think I'd ever spend anymore than €1500 but I do think there is a tipping point that you need to reach in order to get a decent, reliable guitar.

Quattroste

El Pr0n wrote: »

Yeah, I guess. That's my philosophy on it, anyway. I'd never spend thousands on a guitar.

Clap, clap, clap.... well done man. There is a lot to be said for your philosophy.

It's all based around needs and wants. You have what you need and you control your wants.

I have what I want which is more than I need but I still want more and need to get it :pac: It's a disease

Them there's the lines of my next song

eoin5

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

It's true It is indeed possible to manage it!
I've gone from having 8 guitars and wanting more to having 4 guitars. I've a Stratocaster that I don't play/needs work but I won't get any decent money for it so no use selling it.


There's no guitar I want. Perhaps a cheap Squier 51 to upgrade but other than that I can go in to t aguitar shop and *just about* control teg GASSing

I was in Glasgow there last week and they've some decent guitar shops. They have Gibson and Fenders at eye level , you can touch them!! And I left the shop happy.

Popped a small boner lookin at a few of them but other than that... GAS free

I work in a guitar shop with same and most of my days are consumed with an internal battle something like: "I should buy X for blah because itd be much better than my Y for blah and its got a really nice finish... wait, NO.., I dont need it, i dont need it... " etc

Its not easy. Someday theyll find me in a fetal position in the corner mumbling to myself

Red Sleeping Beauty

El Pr0n wrote: »

Yeah, I guess. That's my philosophy on it, anyway. I'd never spend thousands on a guitar.

Play a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Tele '52 and you'll change your mind
If you don't then you're craaaaaazy

eoin5 wrote: »

I work in a guitar shop with same and most of my days are consumed with an internal battle something like: "I should buy X for blah because itd be much better than my Y for blah and its got a really nice finish... wait, NO.., I dont need it, i dont need it... " etc

Its not easy. Someday theyll find me in a fetal position in the corner mumbling to myself

Just stop searching Music sites unless you need something. Impluse buys are awful

rcaz

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Play a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Tele '52 and you'll change your mind
If you don't then you're craaaaaazy

I really don't like Les Pauls - they're too heavy, I don't like the way the top is contoured so that the strings are so far away from you, the body sits at an awkward kinda angle on me when I'm sitting down. And on a side note, I think they look boring.

I have a Fender Jazzmaster, I LOVE that thing, and I'd put it streets ahead of my Squier, but if all I needed to do was play the guitar, the strat would be all the guitar I'd need.

Red Sleeping Beauty

El Pr0n wrote: »

I really don't like Les Pauls - they're too heavy...........

Sorry, I stopped reading there. YOu're on my ignore list now

rcaz

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Sorry, I stopped reading there. YOu're on my ignore list now

That's another thing about Les Pauls - their owners