Gibson Strat - no, really...

[MisterMuncher]

This post isn't going to be popular.

OK, it's a horrendous piece of grave-robbing, bandwagon-jumping, hypocritical nonsense from top to bottom. It's a dick move by Gibson standards, with makes it an ultra-dick move by anyone elses. However...

This looks to be an entry level (or slightly higher) instrument, and there's some remote possibility that Experience Hendrix or whoever have some sneaking smidgeon of regard left that might encourage them to ask Gibson to perhaps run some QC on these, for a change. So you'd be getting a set-necked, double-cut guitar that might not be made of chewing gum and string for not an awful lot of money.

Am I the only one seeing a Squier '51 sized light at the end of the tunnel? This could be the low initial cost mod-and-bodge rocket of the decade.

[dave_mc]

I have to take umbridge with shredders being modern

They've all borrowed massively from centuries old violin music!

agreed, that always annoys me too. Just because it's "modern" in popular, mainstream music doesn't mean it's modern. Most shred and neoclassical is just classical music with distorted guitars, with the odd bluesier section chucked in...

[Philly Q]

This looks to be an entry level (or slightly higher) instrument, and there's some remote possibility that Experience Hendrix or whoever have some sneaking smidgeon of regard left that might encourage them to ask Gibson to perhaps run some QC on these, for a change. So you'd be getting a set-necked, double-cut guitar that might not be made of chewing gum and string for not an awful lot of money.

Why would Experience Hendrix, or Authentic Hendrix, or whatever-the-$%&# they're called now, have any regard for quality control?  :?

The Hendrix "family" are far bigger money-grabbing whores than anyone at Gibson.

[MisterMuncher]

Perhaps naked self-interest might drive them to ensure the name isn't humped into the ground by being eternally hitched to shite?

After all, they have to dine out on that name for the next couple of decades at least.

As an aside, I owned a fender VoodooCaster a while back, and I'm (slightly masochistically) wondering how this thing will compare.

[murraymurray]

the billy joe armstrong get someone else to play guitar in your band while you just dance around guitar hero controller?

Epic pwnage, i take it you watched the VMAs too?

Nah didnt see it, i just hate that guy, and that band, and anyone who considers them to be punk.

[noodleplugerine]

Do the kids these days care as much about Hendrix, maybe someone more up-to-date would have been a good starter pack choice

Great point. I don't think todays youngsters who pick up a guitar has Jimi as one of their favourite players. The might not even know who he is! So I'm guessing the guitars won't sell much and know real guitar player would ever by this guitar, right...?

They do. Hendrix is absolutely standard listening for any 13 year old considering picking up a guitar.

Purple Haze/Fire/Voodoo Child, are still among the first songs any guitar teacher shows students.

[Dmoney]

Do the kids these days care as much about Hendrix, maybe someone more up-to-date would have been a good starter pack choice

Great point. I don't think todays youngsters who pick up a guitar has Jimi as one of their favourite players. The might not even know who he is! So I'm guessing the guitars won't sell much and know real guitar player would ever by this guitar, right...?

They do. Hendrix is absolutely standard listening for any 13 year old considering picking up a guitar.

Purple Haze/Fire/Voodoo Child, are still among the first songs any guitar teacher shows students.

i didnt try and learn any hendrix till i was 26. but then i never really had a guitar teacher.

[murraymurray]

i didnt try and learn any hendrix till i was 26. but then i never really had the right tools for the job (a gibson strat)

[Dmoney]

i didnt try and learn any hendrix till i was 26. but then i never really had the right tools for the job (a gibson strat)

bang on!
seeing this guitar has made me look at getting a new guitar again though... just not one of these.

[WezV]

there is no doubt young guitarists will come across hendrix at some point.  but we are not talking about young guitarists here, just potential guitarists.  The average 12 year old does not know hendrix

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 if they decide to play guitar and go to the shop with their parents they will not be influenced by the hendrix thing, but their parents might be!!

i think i only got into him because of all the guitar magazines i was reading AFTER i had brought my first guitar

[AndyR]

i think i only got into him because of all the guitar magazines i was reading AFTER i had brought my first guitar

Not a bad call here Wez! :D

I only got into Hendrix from showing further interest in "what can you do with this 6 string thing". It was word-of-mouth from peers, media, heavy-rock-discos (! what happened to them?), etc... And all this happened in 1979-80, much nearer to the event (I can remember a load of fuss on the 10th anniversary - I've even got the singles "box-set" somewhere!!)

I started on guitar to accompany my voice, influenced by folk/pop/country stuff. The things that grabbed me shortly after (ELO, Bolan, Queen, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, then Hendrix) came as an extension to what I was already doing.

However, I have since come across, over the years, young folks who are getting interested in playing an instrument because of "rock", and they already know their "history". I've been constantly amazed by teens (or younger) who know about stuff, in depth, that was "old-sh1t" before I started :lol: (I've got one, a nephew, coming round tomorrow - he knows "modern" stuff I've never heard of, sure, but he'll play some riff he's picked up and I'll go "who's that? sounds like xyz..." and he'll go "yeah it's great, isn't it?" - it was barely recognisable Deep Purple last time... I'm half expecting Purple Haze, Little Wing, et al, tomorrow... :lol:)

[Ratrod]

This is a hot topic on every guitar forum around the world.

I wonder when the Fender Les Paul will make it's debut.

[Prawnik]

Gibson doesn't see real players as their customers anymore. they only wanna sell cr@p to collectors and such. Dentists, lawyers etc.

(Edit: if you are adentist or a lawyer, don't take it personally. unless you actually buy that overpriced collectors cr@p.)

I have long maintained that Gibson is more or less a "lifestyle product" aimed at a similar demographic to Harley-Davidson: guys undergoing a mid-life crisis with disposable cash.

n.b. I am a lawyer, although I am too young for a mid-life crisis. "Perpetual adolescent" is more accurate in my case.

[ToneMonkey]

Harley-Davidson:

Don't get me started on those complete hunks of wrongness.  Wrong, just wrong, engines shouldn't jump about like that.

Harley and Gibson can both kiss my (_*_)   <-- That's my arse BTW  :lol:

[WezV]

my mum and her new fella just brought a harley - i find it all very amusing!