New Gibson Firebird X Demo

darrenw5094 · 29-10-2010 07:09PM #1

Yesterday Gibson had an important revolution in guitar music to unvail in the Hard Rock Cafe in NY. Retail $5500.

Here is a demo of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyWlF6tWig

punchdrunk · 29-10-2010 07:54PM

please god somebody sell the CEO of Gibson a Lexus with a dodgy breaking system...that thing is ****ing horrendous :mad:

darrenw5094 · 29-10-2010 07:58PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

please god somebody sell the CEO of Gibson a Lexus with a dodgy breaking system...that thing is ****ing horrendous :mad:

$5570 is the price on the official Gibson site.

Dord · 29-10-2010 09:06PM

Jaysus, someone put that thing down... And quickly!

Fingers Mcginty · 30-10-2010 10:04AM

OH God terrible demo in all fairness...the purple Haze intro was toe curling stuff....Should have got Billy to demo it. He could make anything look cool

stephenshields2 · 30-10-2010 10:21AM

I would honestly prefer $5500 worth of plastic surgery on my anus.

Honestly.

BostonB · 30-10-2010 10:26AM

man thats one ugly guitar

lucianot · 30-10-2010 07:16PM

Same reaction in several guitar related forums. Incredible.

Dord · 30-10-2010 08:08PM

Here are some REAL Firebirds...

'66 non-reverse Firebird

'76 reverse Firebird

'64 Firebird I (I really want this!

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There is no comparison possible between these and the monstrosity in the first post. These guitars are in a whole other league.

Dord · 30-10-2010 08:18PM

This would also suffice. :pac:

Patricide · 30-10-2010 08:38PM

Reverse firebirds are teh sechs, that "thing" in the first post is only good for the fire as far as my eyes are concerned.

punchdrunk · 30-10-2010 09:07PM

I'll have one in "roxy music red" please!

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Dord · 30-10-2010 09:14PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

I'll have one in "roxy music red" please!

Remove two of those pickups and shave them sideburns! :mad::pac:

bad2dabone · 30-10-2010 09:19PM

stole this pic from the mylespaul forum:

Yakult · 31-10-2010 12:42AM

Wow, whats with Gibson and their horrible horrible designs for "new" guitars. Or should I say mutations of original models.

And wtf, Hannah Montana??

:rolleyes:

rcaz · 31-10-2010 02:35AM

Hate the look of the thing, hate the ridiculous price, and I wouldn't buy a new Gibson anyway, but some of the technology in that thing is pretty cool. I think their problem is, they make all these 'innovations' but don't leave them open-source enough.

Patricide · 31-10-2010 09:45AM

El Pr0n wrote: »

Hate the look of the thing, hate the ridiculous price, and I wouldn't buy a new Gibson anyway, but some of the technology in that thing is pretty cool. I think their problem is, they make all these 'innovations' but don't leave them open-source enough.

They also make any guitar with innovations cost about 3 times as much as a guitar without...

Johnny Storm · 31-10-2010 09:48AM

punchdrunk wrote: »

I'll have one in "roxy music red" please!

Phil is the man.
His red Firebird on the inside sleeve of "For Your Pleasure" (1973?!!) was my first ever object of GAS

Edit: Here's what I'm talking about....

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Eoin Madsen · 31-10-2010 11:11AM

In fairness, the shape is not any uglier than the original. :P There are lots of overpriced ugly guitars out there (hell, probably most of them). It all seems like a bit of an over-reaction, particularly the comments on the gibson site.

PeterIanStaker · 03-11-2010 12:21PM

Perhaps Gibson should have put that money into quality control instead of building this Fisher Price my - first - guitar/ Wii controller

New Gibson Firebird X Demo

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