Medicine Melancholy wrote:Does anyone else hate when people say "X Guitar was never popular for a reason"?
It reminds me of those forums that that you spend a while on and discover they're filled to the brim with bigots and assholes, and you get comments like "Well, have you ever thought the problem might be you?"
It's what's called Argumentum Ad Populum in debate, a logical fallacy.
People have different taste in guitars. Some guitars may be "better" than others but some people don't want conventionally "good" guitars. Acting as if people shouldn't like a particular guitar is kind of silly. If a guitar is over-rated then I might see it as an annoyance - but I think that applies more to Les Pauls than offsets.
The overwhelming amount of people that hate on offsets or mustangs in particular though, hate on them because they were designed as simplified, student instruments. They take that fact as though it means they're inferior. As if Leo Fender would have designed a piece of shit and knowingly released it as an inferior piece of crap because it's a student instrument. That is absolutely not the case though. They were still made of the same materials, and built to the same quality as the higher end lines, but because they were more simple, and bare necessities guitars they were cheaper. They are great guitars, and get different tones, doesn't mean they are bad, just different. People that will hate on it, are just being ignorant to something that is different, or hating on it because it was designed for beginning students.
By my same logic I could attack people that hate on les pauls or strats because they're popular and "overrated". When in reality, it's just different than what most of us like. They are popular for a reason though, they get great tones, and are very versatile, so that's why they are used so much. But some people in the counter culture of sorts amongst us offset/shortscale Fender players, they're frowned upon for being too over-used.
