Reliced acoustic, for only eight grand!

rcaz

I don't like relicing at the best of times. But this??

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Acoustic-Instruments/Round-Shoulder/Gibson-Acoustic/Aaron-Lewis-Southern-Jumbo.aspx

The guitar $3,653 in perfect brand new condition (ALREADY OVERPRICED), and an EXTRA FIVE GRAND to make it look WORSE???? :eek:
A real '51 Gibson would be CHEAPER!

I didn't like Gibson before. But now? **** Gibson :mad:

Lands Leaving

Who on earth wants a stain'd signature guitar?

Signed and wrecked reliced its 17000. Who's that rich AND stupid?

partyatmygaff

Just buy the guitar and "relic" it yourself if you're so desperate to have a battered looking guitar.


I mean come on, if you want your guitar to look well used.... Well just use it and abuse it then.

b0bsquish

Aged and signed for $17,198...I'll take 10!

If a 2 year old ran the company, they'd do a better job.

Fingers Mcginty

El Pr0n wrote: »

I didn't like Gibson before. But now? **** Gibson :mad:

You don't say :P

Done and dusted

some how I dont think this is true:

"The Grammy-nominated songwriter, frontman for hit rock band Staind, wrote some of the last decade’s most enduring and gut-wrenching songs"

rcaz

Fingers Mcginty wrote: »

You don't say :P

I didn't realise I moaned that much on here

MetalDawg

Done and dusted wrote: »

some how I dont think this is true:

"The Grammy-nominated songwriter, frontman for hit rock band Staind, wrote some of the last decade’s most enduring and gut-wrenching songs"

Gibson have lost the plot. And Staind suck.

Alanstrainor

Ah ffs, what's up with them. Relicing guitars is the easiest money making ploy ever.

Make a nice guitar, completely wreck it and charge more! It's messed up, if i wanted it i'd do it myself. I did do it with a tele when i was like 15, it doesn't bother me, i didn't pay someone else to do it. Good god, this buy a "pre relic'd" guitar business is just a joke. Gibson are desperate.

Tiny Explosions

Yeah doesn't really make a lot of sense....though I'd still like a Joe Strummer telectaster http://www.fender.com/features/joestrummer/ http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=199

rcaz

Tiny Explosions wrote: »

Yeah doesn't really make a lot of sense....though I'd still like a Joe Strummer telectaster http://www.fender.com/features/joestrummer/ http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=199

Ah, just get a Tele, paint it black and beat the **** out of it? The ideas behind that guitar have nothing in common with the ideas behind The Clash :pac:

Fingers Mcginty

El Pr0n wrote: »

Ah, just get a Tele, paint it black and beat the **** out of it? The ideas behind that guitar have nothing in common with the ideas behind The Clash :pac:

Good point :cool:

nickcave

The guy from Staind? What.

I remember when this guy first broke, fueled entirely by his band's sponsorship by Fred Durst. Even coming as it did at the height of the nu-metal craze, his faux-Cobain tosh was gone and forgotten about in well under a year. It's really indicative of the current state of gibson that they've chosen somebody like this for a signature model. Even ignoring the price-point of the guitars, he's scarcely a talented songwrited, and a power-chords-only guitarist.

And he's supposedly "wrote some of the last decade’s most enduring and gut-wrenching songs". And what "continued artistry" are they referring to exactly? I've just checked, and the band are still together, but have continually released albums that have pretty much bombed.

I'm watching some music videos of his (incognito to save me from myself) and although I had forgotten almost entirely, he wrote some seriously awful tunes.

Watch this for example.

"It's been a while
since I've gone and f***ed things up
Just like I always do."

Wait, what?