Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:44 pm
good gibsons are very good. bad gibsons are atrocious.
thing with fender is that they only seem to have squier the gets some degree of creative freedom. fender usa will continue to churn out increasingly expensive strats from increasingly cheaper parts/labour, and each year will announce their "best standard model evar". balls. it will still sound like a fender, and nothing will make it any better than the strat i got when i was 13 years old.
dicks will still buy the mia clapton model. yet another relic line is just flogging a dead horse, and confusing the nervous twitches as another reason to add yet another line of guitars.
mate of mine works for fender - couple of years back they had to cull a load of models since every colour, bridge, pickup combination was just too much. looks like their heading back the same way though.. just let squier do interesting guitars please - P90 teles and things that the us workshop would recoil in horror with.
fuck it. want custom, buy warmoth and build it yourself.
thing with fender is that they only seem to have squier the gets some degree of creative freedom. fender usa will continue to churn out increasingly expensive strats from increasingly cheaper parts/labour, and each year will announce their "best standard model evar". balls. it will still sound like a fender, and nothing will make it any better than the strat i got when i was 13 years old.
dicks will still buy the mia clapton model. yet another relic line is just flogging a dead horse, and confusing the nervous twitches as another reason to add yet another line of guitars.
mate of mine works for fender - couple of years back they had to cull a load of models since every colour, bridge, pickup combination was just too much. looks like their heading back the same way though.. just let squier do interesting guitars please - P90 teles and things that the us workshop would recoil in horror with.
fuck it. want custom, buy warmoth and build it yourself.
epic