More on the Gibson raid

[the mojo hobo]

I still think Gibson should come out with an All-American line. Think of it! Thunderbirds with Maple necks with Maple fretboards through Swamp Ash bodies. SG basses too. I'll bet they could export at least one of each model to Germany.

[uwe]

Satan begone!!!

[Chris P.]

https://www.regenwald.org/aktion/761/illegales-tropenholz-fur-edelgitarren

Someone's sent me this. My German isn't that good.... Some anti-Gibson petition?

[Basvarken]

Are they really that ignorant to send a petition in German to Henry J?
I think they should've considered translating it into English...

[Dave W]

Are they really that ignorant to send a petition in German to Henry J?
I think they should've considered translating it into English...

They lecture him on the destruction of rainforests, criticize him for criticizing the laws and petition him to use native woods. He'll ignore that in any language.

[uwe]

Open Letter to Henry J:


"Dear Henry,

mein Name ist Uwe, ich bin innöcent. I haff a fffiew of your feine basses. I did not instigate or condone this. My misled countrymen ... Ostfront all of them! I don't even like Sting either!!!! That peroxied Fenderling wiff hiz squeaky voice ... Please do continue building your instruments for handicapped minorities - basses that is - in whatever shape or form, with nuts cut from the last unicorn horn and Sequoia tops, I do not care, I vill glädly continue to buy them all!!!

Subservient Regards

Uwe


PS: For ze avoidance of doubt, lieber Henry, all open border issues between Poland and Deutschland have long been resolved amicably and juskiewiczly too!!!"

Phew!!!

[Barklessdog]

Open Letter to Henry J:


"Dear Henry,

mein Name ist Uwe, ich bin innöcent. I haff a fffiew of your feine basses. I did not instigate or condone this. My misled countrymen ... Ostfront all of them! I don't even like Sting either!!!! That peroxied Fenderling wiff hiz squeaky voice ... Please do continue building your instruments for handicapped minorities - basses that is - in whatever shape or form, with nuts cut from the last unicorn horn and Sequoia tops, I do not care, I vill glädly continue to buy them all!!!

Subservient Regards

Uwe


PS: For ze avoidance of doubt, lieber Henry, all open border issues between Poland and Deutschland have long been resolved amicably and juskiewiczly too!!!"

Phew!!!

LOL!

[Chris P.]

Please send that! 

[Dave W]

Brilliant, but what does Sting have to do with it?

[uwe]

Rainforest Alliance, he's widely identified with those tree-hugging do-gooders (due to his engagement for them) who earnestly think preservation of the planet is more important than historically correct fretboard wood.

Besides, you can blame Sting for pretty much anything.

And I want a bass with dodo bird beak fretboard inlays and a body sown in quagga zebra hide!!!

[dadagoboi]

I want a bass made from the vital organs of Sting's environmentally incorrect NINE children.

[uwe]

Ah, yes, a Shylock bass, made from a pound of flesh cut near the heart ...

[dadagoboi]

I was thinking of a more ballsy instrument.

[uwe]

Eunuch of that!!!

[Highlander]

Sting could use graphite, or maybe a concrete overcote... oops, concrete is not green... lime mortar... takes longer to set but worth the weight...