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man this is great,i canīt wait for the next israel gaza strip design! jesus has gibson gone out of their minds?! L.a --- Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> wrote: > >Okay, that's three questions. But here's another > question ... WTF > >Gibson!?!?!?! Have you guys bankrupted yourselves > on that "digital guitar" > >thing that nobody is going to buy or is it that you > guys just don't care or > >is it that you're just so incompetent that you > can't get it together enough > >to fill your obligations to the company that made > it for you and the > >customers who you have strung along for the past 6 > months? > > neither. > > the point is that gibson has massive profits from > idiots who purchase > their guitars -- many of which are only ever used > for decoration and > not for playing (see eg this > http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2000/dec11a.html) > because > of some sort of Gibson cachet. I think of them as > the Franklin Mint > of guitar builders. > > Their eccentric chairman rules the company by whim, > going off and > buying all sorts of things (ie companies) and then > throwing them > away. He's been obsessed by this digital guitar > idea, never > understanding that as long as there are lots of > guitar pedals and > tube amplifiers there will NEVER be a market for a > digital output for > a guitar! > > I could go on at some length about how an electric > guitar is a > "perfect instrument" -- heck, I believe you can even > play it in a > vacuum which would make the electric guitar unlike > any other > non-electronic instrument. > > So give up on assuming anything rational will happen > from these guys. sorry... > > /t > -- > > http://extremeNY.com/list ....... extreme NY music > and arts mailing list > > ===== www.luis-angulo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/