Gibson Announces New Leadership Team

[planetgaffnet]

I do love my Levi's 527 jeans. 

They're 26 better, right? 

[amptech]

I buy Levis 559 jeans used on Ebay for $20 or less.  Don't really care where they're made.

I'm a 516 guy all the way, but they stopped making them in 2004 or so. So it's ebay for me too
Strangely, they all are located in Germany. A weird collector, perhaps?

[Dave W]

I'm a 516 guy all the way, but they stopped making them in 2004 or so. So it's ebay for me too
Strangely, they all are located in Germany. A weird collector, perhaps?

We don't know any weird collectors is Germany, do we? 

[the mojo hobo]

Too many basses? I didn't know that was possible!

If Levis are $50 then I can see buying $50 American-made jeans as an alternative. But I buy regular fit Wranglers, $17 at Target and Walmart. I wear each pair about once a week and they last a couple of years. No complaints.

The room that the basses are in is slated for demolition in the spring, but when the project is complete there will be more room.

My jeans are 36" length which can't be found everywhere.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Levi Strauss moved manufacturing overseas a couple of decades ago, long before Mr. Curleigh joined the company. You can't be a big player in the clothing industry otherwise.

Their old factory is less than 5 miles from my house.

[Dave W]

Levis can't top this. 

[amptech]

 

[gearHed289]

I haven't actually read this yet, but should be some interesting tidbits - http://msretailer.com/gibson-ceo-curleigh-interview/

[4stringer77]

Good to hear he's listening. Hope he listens to some bass players too, at least ones like us.

[Dave W]

It sounds positive to me.

As the article says, he just took over on November 1st. Unfortunately there's no shortage of people of limited intelligence dumbasses who don't realize that instant change won't happen.

CME just announced a limited run of custom color SG Standards, at no extra cost, and the Gibson bashers are already at it in the comments on Reverb. Not that Gibson didn't deserve bashing for Henry's disastrous last few years, they did, but that's over now; now the new Gibson is being trashed for offering a limited run. No pleasing some people. And there are the usual complaints about the price, even though the competition is that expensive or more.

[slinkp]

Those SGs look and sound pretty nice to me.

[doombass]

CME just announced a limited run of custom color SG Standards, at no extra cost, and the Gibson bashers are already at it in the comments on Reverb. Not that Gibson didn't deserve bashing for Henry's disastrous last few years, they did, but that's over now; now the new Gibson is being trashed for offering a limited run.

Haha, I wonder what they'd say if Gibson offered Les Paul Standard and Firebird in Sunburst along with SG and ES-335 in cherry only?

[Dave W]

Haha, I wonder what they'd say if Gibson offered Les Paul Standard and Firebird in Sunburst along with SG and ES-335 in cherry only?

I think you know the answer to that.    With all the LP variations there are now, you still see complaints about features somebody wants on one model or another.

I just looked at the 1960 catalog on Jules' site. Gibson solidbodies that year were LP Standard in one sunburst finish, LP Custom with and without Bigsby in ebony, Special in two finishes, Junior in cherry and TV, and Melody Maker in sunburst. Gibson should go back to that just to hear all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that would happen.

[veebass]

It sounds positive to me.

As the article says, he just took over on November 1st. Unfortunately there's no shortage of people of limited intelligence dumbasses who don't realize that instant change won't happen.

CME just announced a limited run of custom color SG Standards, at no extra cost, and the Gibson bashers are already at it in the comments on Reverb. Not that Gibson didn't deserve bashing for Henry's disastrous last few years, they did, but that's over now; now the new Gibson is being trashed for offering a limited run. No pleasing some people. And there are the usual complaints about the price, even though the competition is that expensive or more.

Those SG Guitars are getting a bashing on a certain anti Gibson bass forum.

[Dave W]

Those SG Guitars are getting a bashing on a certain anti Gibson bass forum.

ffs, what a bunch of idiots (with some sane comments thrown in).    Gibson has been doing solidbody colors almost as long as Fender has, and the SG guitars are no exception. Just off the top of my head, the late 60s SG Melody Makers, the early 00s Platinum SG, the more recent army green Government SG, the red and blue SG Deluxe of the late 90s, etc., not to mention the special run of SG Basses for the Japanese market maybe 6 to 8 years ago. There's an original finish gray SG Firebrand on my local Craigslist, that's another one.

This special run isn't copying Fender colors. And it's just a special run for one dealership. Fender has also done special colors for CME.