Gibson factories have been raided today!

[Telerocker]

I'm digging swampash more and more. Tonally and the weight-advantage. When we gig 3,5 hours, I don't want a 5kg Les Paul hanging on my neck.

[Transcend]

actually thinking about it i would just stick to basswood.

Find another rocket roll II or something

[Alex]

Try swamp ash! You might like that even more!

[Transcend]

i tried a voodoo explorer that was swamp ash once and found it very muddy but that was through a mesa dual rectifier which i have always found to be muddy also.

Hmm maybe

[Telerocker]

i tried a voodoo explorer that was swamp ash once and found it very muddy but that was through a mesa dual rectifier which i have always found to be muddy also.

Hmm maybe

Must be the Mesa... :)

[Loomer]

i tried a voodoo explorer that was swamp ash once and found it very muddy but that was through a mesa dual rectifier which i have always found to be muddy also.

Hmm maybe

Must be the Mesa... :)

Must DEFINITELY be the Mesa. My main guitar is swamp ash and the clarity of it is almost staggering. Even with an A-pig in it, it can do that whole "djent" thing the kids are so worked up about these days..

[nfe]

Reactions to this have been hysterical on US-centric forums. Obama Administration bending to foreign laws while punishing their own citizens for trying to run a business!

Definitely wasn't a colossal company breaking laws they were well aware of and could easily have adhered to. Definitely not.

[Loomer]

Reactions to this have been hysterical on US-centric forums. Obama Administration bending to foreign laws while punishing their own citizens for trying to run a business!

Definitely wasn't a colossal company breaking laws they were well aware of and could easily have adhered to. Definitely not.

Let me guess; SS.org?

[nfe]

Affirmative!

[Loomer]

Affirmative!

*grooann*

Now, blanket-banning mods aside I still quite like that forum, but by God... How American can you get? If Gibson gets busted for shady business then I'll applaud it no matter how much I happen to love Gibson guitars. If you break the law, there must be a consequence for it. It's a simple thing, really.

[MDV]

Captain Creative Calamity Henry is claiming that the raid is illegal, of course.

Someone in the justice department probably ordered a firebird X when drunk, it arrived, they tried it and then exacted appropriate vengence.

[marauder]

i tried a voodoo explorer that was swamp ash once and found it very muddy but that was through a mesa dual rectifier which i have always found to be muddy also.

Hmm maybe

Mine was with the terrible stock pups, especially the neck.  Bridge was just harsh.

[WezV]

interview with henry
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/08/26/gibson-guitar-ceo-on-obama-doj-raids-were-being-persecuted/

[Loomer]

interview with henry
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/08/26/gibson-guitar-ceo-on-obama-doj-raids-were-being-persecuted/

Oh sweet lactating Virgin Mary those people piss me off. Referring to an international law as if it somehow doesn't apply to the US? Talking about Gay Marriage (and why is that still such a huge issue over there?) and Immigration in a matter where those things have no relevance whatsoever?!

What kind of ass-backwards logic is that?

I'm glad I'm at work so I can't watch that interview. I'd probably just fly into a screaming rage over it. I do know, however, that I probably won't find it morally defensible to buy a factory-new Gibson anymore..

[blue]

if they're guilty of using illegal wood, then that's sad but i would have to support the raids.  it is odd though that almost a year after the first raid there haven't been any charges or, apparently, clarification of what's going on.  the anti obama right wing rhetoric of that editorial comment is crazy, but i can perhaps understand Henry's feelings of victimisation if his factories are being raided, his property taken away indefinitely, and all with no explanation of what's actually going on.