Are you fired up for Gibson's "Dark Fire?"

[Blazer]

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/DarkFire.aspx

Looks mighty fine, what a sweet looking axe. And I'm sure that Les Paul Himself, who's always tinkering with his guitars trying to coax new sounds out of them would approve whole heartedly.

[ZezozeceGlutz]

The Dark Fire's tone potentiometer and CPA have also been redesigned so that turning the tone knob allows a very intuitive and significant change in tone, thus giving you even more ability to dial in your desired tone.

...but what does that mean?  A different taper to the pot?  An active filter?

What is it other than a Robot Guitar with a piezo, special finish, and a new interface for recording?

[angrymatt]

Dude!!!...

Obviously it means carbon fiber inlays.  Shah.

[Darrol]

If they are going to put "Fire" in the name, it should come with an optional flame design.

[Dave W]

When it comes to selecting great names, it's hard to top the Les Paul Money Bass.    Not to mention the dollar sign TRC.

[godofthunder]

 $ my favorite  Would have been perfect for a Gene Simmons siggy bass 

[eb2]

I got the email on this last week or so.  I know I have always been a curmudgeon with Gibson, but I read about this and the first thing I thought was "whoop-de-do, they are doing something to a Les Paul again."  Is it just me, or is this a company that has transformed itself into the One-Trick-Pony hall of fame?  The distance between this and the infamous "The Paul" is not too big.  They have a couple of CNC machines programmed to crank out Les Pauls.  That is about it.

I will say the Les Paul Special reissues they did recently were both very nice and much more accurate than most of their misnamed reissues.  But between the Les Paul bent, and the 2 pups/tuneomatic/stud routing programs, they are mailing it in.

[Dave W]

The Les Paul and SG are what the customer base wants, so we get endless variations of them. Most of those variations appear to sell better than their non-LP non-SG guitars. Hard to blame Gibson for that.

Of course Fender does the same thing. At least they have more basses.

[uwe]

Fair comment. Gibson has been relatively adventurous compared to, say, Fender, Ric or EBMM (discounting the Bongo). They've tried lots of things over the years and decades - often out of sheer desperation to conquer that elusive market niche - and eventually had to give up almost all of them because they are forever identified with their classics. Even here among the devoted few, how many of you bought a TB Studio 5 String, a Money/Doublecut or would have bought a Continental V?

[Dave W]

Okay, I didn't buy any of those, but I'd be first in line for an SB350 reissue! 

[uwe]

Those sound kinda dead qualified advisors tell me.

[Dave W]

At least you admit I'm qualified.