I'm at my dad's work today, and eating a pie, I obviously had a bubble of thought on guitars.
Specifically cheap ones, like Squires and then the moderately acceptable like, in the case of Fender, maybe the Mexican built ones.
Now I was tryingto think like a new beginner to the guitar and thought - if i wanted a guitar, I'd want a good guitar not necessarily knowing that there were a great big difference to them. Hence why I would look at the cheap guitars, unaware of the hugely great difference there is in build quality and general "I $%&#ing love this" kind of feeling that you feel later on.
So if your dad, who would possibly buy your first guitar went into the guitar shop and asked to buy a beginner guitar, they would generally be directed to a guitar kit. The usual Squire guitar, with amp, lead, and everything to get your kid off his ass and into some music and possible theory.
So - why do I think this is wrong? Maybe it is wrong or right in some ways but I think in the long run if you put work into potentially lower guitar, i.e. the Squire then you could have a quality guitar (without knowing it, let's remember that) and have a good investment. There are hundreds of guitars out there that are absolute shiteE. And surely you could get off your feet and look into making them better and eventually the price would very much so decrease to the suitable level of a middle class family man with a kid headbanging to some Black Sabbath or tapping his foot to some blues or jumping off the walls and flinging his arms to some screamo (excuse the stereotyping).
Like the Yamaha Pacifica for example, and I only know its goodness from ear so sorry if you disagree, don't blame me. It is generally thought as a good quality guitar and more and more people I hear recommend a Pacifica over a Squire. I unfortunately didn't get that advice when I bought my Encore - but that's in the past!
And also, if a guitar is build like shite, sounds like shite, feels like shite (not the warm and pungent (sp) type "feel") without a doub ti think some kids would give up on the guitar cause it doesn't 'work' with them. It's just a piece of wood put in a certain way to give you as much satisfaction when you buy, then disappear altogether when you use it.
Thoughts? Just want to talk about something as obviously I'm so $%&#ing excited with pie in hand and working for my dad (without getting paid)
Like, the way I thought about it in my head was the general lacking of range in guitar models in the shop, like you'd have a Stratocaster/Telecaster American Standard but have half a dozen Squires in different colours. Why not a Deluxe? Or even a Deluxe from the Mexican range, or the Lonestar, or a HSS setup for Christ's sake. Sometimes you have to set your God damn money grabbing hands aside and think about the general fun you could have and the person buying if you differentiate a bit.
But now I've lost myself in how to link that with my original argument so there's two arguments for you.
Why can't they make shite guitars better (and I mean like Fender and Gibson, not some random company who can't achieve the favorable diminishing returns) like, eventually they can get their prices down again.
Maybe I'm just having one of those thoughts that will ultimately end in - that's life, it grabs you by the balls, not the other way around.
I'm probably just annoyed at them cause I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland and maybe the company controls the stock but still.. I had to talk about it, cause you know, I'm so excited right now.
