Anyone in NYC for the Revolution?

[Highlander]

I'm ahead of my time again...

[godofthunder]

 I guess I just don't get it. All those on board effects will surely fail at some point. it's like the RD Artist all over again. Once they run this, and I bet it will be a short run getting parts will be almost impossible. maybe it's just me but effects belong in a pedal board not in your guitar. A pedal goes bad you just by a new one. Ever try and replace a board in a RD ?

[godofthunder]

Another thought, you are stuck with Gibsons effects..............................part of the fun of effects it the vast array of pedals to make your own sounds. There goes Henry drilling another hole to let the water out of a sinking ship.

[lowend1]

http://www.guffsturdpolish.com/default.php

[nofi]

well, it ain't exactly the wheel....ah hell it's a 5500 dollar solution to a 200 dollar problem.

[Dave W]

well, it ain't exactly the wheel....ah hell it's a 5500 dollar solution to a 200 dollar problem.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

It's not necessarily bad, it just doesn't seem to be anything that's not already available, and for a lot less.

Official Revolutionary Announcement 

[Lightyear]

Fireturd 

[Freuds_Cat]

HTTP Error: 503 (Service Unavailable)

I'm sorry but that made me laugh 

[Iome]

This is so sad....   

[fur85]

If they think a bunch of marketing hyperbole (with no actual information) and pictures like this will sell a $5000 guitar, they may need to do a little more market research....

[uwe]

The look ain't bad, but it will flop, I'm sure. Guitarists remain technology averse, they didn't even accept active instruments with a 9 volt battery much less something like the RD Artist guitars. If you like a guitar like that, chances are you are already a keyboard player.

But I applaud Gibson for giving it a try and I'm sure those things - if in working condition - will be all the rage among cultist collectors in thirty years time.

This is like when the Volkswagen Group brings out a modern street racing car under one of its many subbrands, knowing that only a few will get sold, but that the technology prowess exhibited by the product "oils the overall brand perception". Which is fine, you just shouldn't believe that it is the future of rock'n'roll. Even The Boss wasn't.

[mc2NY]

WOW! A Gibson Fireturd made by people in bamboo huts and demo'd by a huge Mexican  

BRILLIANT!!!

Gibson has tapped into cheap labor and the emerging wave of Latinos in the USA in one swoop.

.....and here I was hoping the HUGE news might have been that they bought Hamer from Fender, so Gibson could have a killer custom shop.

They should have threw on a Firebird VII trem and banjo tuners to make the Robo-tuner earn its keep!

[eb2]

The Firebird X, based on the shape of the 1960s guitar of the same name,

Wha?


Shove blue tooth into this and save $5000.  It's a better looking guitar.

http://www.celebrityrockstarguitars.com/rock/atkins_files/GretschSuperAxe.jpg

[Dave W]

From a thread at the Les Paul Forum:

[Stjofön Big]

"If you like a guitar like that, chances are you are already a keyboard player." Very nice said of Uwe! I applaud it.