Achtung! If you've had it with Henry J.

Help!I'maRock! said:
Personally, I think it's a whole lotta headstock corksniffery. People need to detach themselves from brands, buy the best thing, and stop settling for "good enough".
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Whoa! That's crazy radical, anarchy talk! Your liable to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of the country on an empty container ship headed for South Korea.
 
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BoomBoomBigelow said:
Whoa! That's crazy radical, anarchy talk! Your liable to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of the country on an empty container ship headed for South Korea.
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My Reverend bass is from South Korea. And it's better than every Gibson SG bass I've ever played. Maybe I can tour the factory.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
But some less so than others:
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You're not buying the first two because they're attached to bodies that are ugly and expensive.
You're not buying the Gibson because it has gold hardware and you can't afford it without mortgaging your house.
You're not buying the last one because you can't even see it.
 
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i don't know the whole story of what happened to gibson after kalamazoo.....but i thought it became an employee owned company, like H.D.
how did this assclown henry get to own it?
 
mongooz said:
i don't know the whole story of what happened to gibson after kalamazoo.....but i thought it became an employee owned company, like H.D.
how did this assclown henry get to own it?
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Henry and a group of investors bought the company from Norlin in the early 80s.
 
mongooz said:
i don't know the whole story of what happened to gibson after kalamazoo.....but i thought it became an employee owned company, like H.D.
how did this assclown henry get to own it?
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I think some of the employees left to start Heritage when Gibson was circling the drain. Henry J and two other guys bought it when it was a couple of months away from closing back in 1986. I think it had been run almost into the ground at that point. The three guys saved it, pretty much so they too can run it into the ground, or at least that seems like their current plan. I have no love for Henry, but he took Gibson in 1986, with a reputation of 'old guy guitars' and 'out of touch with current music', to where it is today, regarded as a company with an amazing history and a producer of great instruments (even if that isn't always true). It was pretty much a PR revolution. If he had stopped back around 2008 everything would have been good.
 
The first guitar I ever built when I was in high school looked like this:

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I took a Les Paul style kit and took all the binding off and sanded all the edges round like a strat. I made the bottom cut so it would be in symmetry with the treble cutaway. At one point it had an EMG active in the bridge and a passive covered pickup in the neck, but it was later swapped out for a Duncan JB. The Kahler trem was the biggest mistake I made on the guitar, so my later guitars went Floyd.

I've always liked the Les Paul recording model because it's Les Paul's personal model.... I think at some point I need to make a guitar that pays tribute to my first guitar, pays tribute to Les, and gives a big middle finger to Henry J. I'll have to give it some thought so I can figure out how best to accomplish all three. :)
 
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