Gibson's latest abomination

[Matt77]

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Sammy-Hagar-Red-Rocker-Les-Paul/Neck-and-Headstock.aspx

Rather than start a new thread everytime they make some fugly guitar, I'm just going to keep posting on this one. Sadly, it could be a long thread

[MrBump]

I can't actually see the guitar in that link, only bits of it...

[MrBump]

^ actually, just had a click around and found it.

To be honest (if I'm still allowed to say that...) I think it's OK.

[AndyR]

Ummm... apart from the "chickenfoot" square @rsey symbol on the headstock...

... I have to admit that one does look fairly goddam gorgeous in my eyes. :lol:

The stuff on the headstock would be a deal-breaker for me though.

[Matt77]

Lovely guitar.... just ruined by the headstock.
A bit like going out with Salma Hayek and then tattooing "mine" on her forehead

[phlip]

Lovely guitar.... just ruined by the headstock.
A bit like going out with Salma Hayek and then tattooing "mine" on her forehead

Yeah what everyone else said. It's very nice looking except for the hideous headstock.

[AndyR]

I'm relieved it's only the headstock you had issues with there, Matt! :D

I'm not sure, even if I was Sammy Hagar myself, that I'd put something as daft looking as that on such a gorgeous looking guitar...

Hang on... don't tell me he's done that to a guitar?

Perhaps they could make him some nice gibson t-shirts with that logo and "Sammy Hagar" printed tastefully above the left breast...

(... and, of course, "tw@t" in big letters on the back)

[Philly Q]

I don't think he'd really want all that cr@p on the headstock, they just had to do something tw@ttish to make it a "signature" model.  And in the process ruin a standard LP in a very beautiful colour.

I think Sammy's just taking advantage of his slightly-higher profile with Chickenfoot to move up the endorsement scale.   He does like a signature model that boy:

[Ratrod]

That headstock look hideous with that stuff painted on.

This don't look right either.

[Philly Q]

What, the metal jackplate?  I noticed it, but it doesn't bother me.  Do they still use plastic jackplates on most LP models? 

[shobet]

After the sale of some of the Cabo Wabo tequila business I don't think little Sammy boy is short of a bob or two, so I imagine any endorsements are not based on financial necessity. I also suspect that he's not missing the Van Halen bucks that much either.

[AndyR]

It's funny, I don't know much about Sammy Hagar since his live solo album in the late 70s early 80s. We thought it was ACE, and then a year or two later I heard the Montrose album that Space Station and Bad Motor Scooter came from and formed a slightly different opinion :lol:

I heard the first Van Halen album with SH on once, when it came out, and decided Van Halen was no longer for me... for all his, er, "wotever", Diamond Dave is still the man for me... He, and the groove that the rhythm section created on those early albums (and I include EVH in that rhythm section) are what made Van Halen so special. As a guitarist, the EVH stuff was obviously "wow!" to me, but not enough on it's own.

So whatever "Cabo Wabo tequila", and, er, "Chickenfoot" might be, I'm not entirely sure :lol:

[shobet]

Cabo Wabo, is a Tequila brand founded in the late 90s by Hagar. He recently sold an 80% stake in it for reportedly $80,000,000. I think he has some night-clubs or something with the same branding.

[Ratrod]

What, the metal jackplate?  I noticed it, but it doesn't bother me.  Do they still use plastic jackplates on most LP models? 

No, it's the knobs. The LP I had, had the pots mounted on a metal grounding plate so they were all at a 90 degree angle to the guitar.

[Philly Q]

Ah, I see what you mean.  Mine had a grounding plate too, but I think the knobs ultimately ended up parallel with the carve of the top.