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Toker41
Better Than You
Back in the 80's I could have bought a new Les Paul for $800. Now a Custom runs $3000 (I was just shopping yesterday for one). I REFUSE to pay it! There is no new guitar that is worth that! The industry is robbing musicians. These things are NOT HAND MADE! One is better off calling the BC Rich, or Gibson custom shop and custom ordering one to be HAND MADE. It really wouldn't cost much more, and in the end would be worth it far more than an assembly line model that doesn't even come from the factory set up right. I played 23 new Les Pauls yesterday, and they were all crap! Not one worth over $1000, yet there was not one priced under $2500. One of the sales guy started getting pissed (I was in the store all day) and said I'm wasting time because they are all the same. I proceeded to tell him he was wasting my time by speaking. I saw one that I really liked, but they wanted $3200 for it, and although I had the money, I refuse to pay it for an assembly line product. I can get a custom made one of a kind for that.
Sorry, I know it's off subject, but I have been searching for a new guitar for over a year and a half now (my Custom made BC Rich Warlock was stolen). It takes a long time to find a really good one, and the way I see the musician getting ripped off is sickening. I really feel bad for the kids in the garage bands that spend their parents hard earned $1000 and come home with a Jackson hunk of shit made outta base wood. (or worse those damn florescent Stevie Vai Model Ibanez with the handle cut out of them....god, remember those awful things? Kids were eating them up at $1400!!! Pure crap!)
k...I'm done venting.
P.S. Keep it in the case, but don't lock it. Lock the room instead! Also, try buying each of the kids their very own guitar. Get them the $100 model. That will keep them from being so curious about yours. It might also teach them to respect an instrument, not to mention all the benefits from being exposed to musical instruments early in life. Each of my kids play (or play with, as the case may be) their own, and never touch any of mine even though they sit right next to theirs (in the case!).
Sorry, I know it's off subject, but I have been searching for a new guitar for over a year and a half now (my Custom made BC Rich Warlock was stolen). It takes a long time to find a really good one, and the way I see the musician getting ripped off is sickening. I really feel bad for the kids in the garage bands that spend their parents hard earned $1000 and come home with a Jackson hunk of shit made outta base wood. (or worse those damn florescent Stevie Vai Model Ibanez with the handle cut out of them....god, remember those awful things? Kids were eating them up at $1400!!! Pure crap!)
k...I'm done venting.
P.S. Keep it in the case, but don't lock it. Lock the room instead! Also, try buying each of the kids their very own guitar. Get them the $100 model. That will keep them from being so curious about yours. It might also teach them to respect an instrument, not to mention all the benefits from being exposed to musical instruments early in life. Each of my kids play (or play with, as the case may be) their own, and never touch any of mine even though they sit right next to theirs (in the case!).
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