Members benzem Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Gilbert has a sense of humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzztone Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 [video=youtube;bwAw9ThDQmk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kevman Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Humor? Got a sense of it?Fwiw i love my semi with "actual" f holes but that thing be feedin back like a mo when things get hairy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kevman Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Also those Ibanez S series pickup selector switch surrounds are hideous. Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted April 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Gotta love HCEG. Ugly guitar decorations (as long as they're traditional ugly guitar decorations, of course!) are a matter of personal taste, live and let live, who are we to judge? But "hair metal > Nirvana" is both incontrovertible scientific fact and unquestionable religious dogma.He he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Stickers do not suggest the illusion of function. Painted f-holes do. Pink painted f-holes don't. Does that make them okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Painted F-holes on a guitar are annoying, but not nearly as annoying sometimes as the A-hole attached to that same guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueJames Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Ugly, and about as believable as this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Armchair Bronco Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Ugly, and about as believable as this: It's unfathomable that a big corporation paid a lot of money for a team of designers to dream up this car! Someone probably got a promo out of it, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 He's paul gilbert...he can do whatever the {censored} he wants... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axegrinder Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 ^^^ In my experience, girls have enough f-holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mschafft Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Electric guitar has become such a serious instrument. It's all about the old vintage correct blablabla. There's an element of fun in those Ibanez ! Do we say Ibanezes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Painted F-holes on a solidbody are about as cool as a rear-deck spoiler on a hatchback... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Edward Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Electric guitar has become such a serious instrument. It's all about the old vintage correct blablabla. There's an element of fun in those Ibanez ! Do we say Ibanezes ? YES. Excellently put. They aren't to my taste, but they have an element of FUN. Gilbert is a showman - he was never going to have a very conservative guitar. PLUS.... he's a professional musician. Whether it offends your sensibilities about "art" or not, if you want to make a living from music, there has to be an element of selling your product. Branding is part of that. Having a guitar with a clear, identifiable look to it, something quirky, unique, sticks in the mind.... that helps. Brian May and his Red Special. Johnny Ramone's Mosrite. Hendrix's upside down Strat. All clear, visual brands. Actually, Ramone even knew this when he went looking for a guitar - he bought that first Mosrite (the blue one) for two reasons - one, it was the cheapest in the shop, and two it was different than what everyone else was playing at the time, and it set him apart. Long before I ever heard anything by Gilbert, in the pre-internet days I had seen him in S guitar magazines. I knew two things about him instantly that distinguished him in my mind from all the other players in there. One, those fake F holes, and two, all those posed shots where he held his (obviously right-handed) guitar left handed. Some of those photos are stuck in my head to this day. That's a clever bit of brand management right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 I quit playing guitar this afternoon because I can't stand painted on F-holes or goldtops...True story AWESOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floyd Rosenbomb Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Slightly less annoying than Hello Kitty artwork... :poke: Zing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 anything to distract from the stretch marks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members budalash Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Seriously, Squier Hello Kitty Strat? X2? And you dare to question other people's taste?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted April 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 What does Hello Kitty have anything to do with anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gwimlock Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Guitars are art. Painting pink f-holes is no different than Warhol painting Marilyn in green and yellow. I mean, what makes sense about a red car? A blue car? A black car? Nothing. They should all be primer gray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members budalash Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 What does Hello Kitty have anything to do with anything? I have no doubt that you are a very intelligent young man and that your question is a provocation, but I will tell you anyway. When one is in possession of something as hideous as a Hello Kitty guitar, one should have enough wisdom not to question any other guitar design. Period. And if you do think that painted F-holes are ugly, you should be wise enough not to say in in public. For some stupid reason, and this is very typical of this forum, people have the need to let the rest of the forum population know that they don't like something. Do you really think we care? As is evident from above, I think that the Hello Kitty guitar that you own is the ugliest looking thing ever unleashed on the guitar buying population. Did I make a thread about it? No...Who cares what I like and dislike... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted April 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Hello Kitty is one of the most famous and beloved designs in the world, far more universal than any guitar design. I understand why someone might consider it hideous, but I think anybody with a brain would realize that it's not a widely accepted fact that it's hideous, since Hello Kitty designs make more than a billion dollars annually worldwide. As a result, I fail to see what this has anything to do with painted F-holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members budalash Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 The fact that Hello Kitty design is so popular and makes so much money is irrelevant here. I was referring to what guitars with their 'logo' look like. Again, this is just my opinion, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to state it again, as this kind of negative talk can become annoying real fast, regardless of who/what it is directed against. By the same analogy, if I put a Coca-Cola sticker on my PGM, is it gonna look better than the F-holes? We all love Coca-Cola and the profit Hello Kitty makes compared to that of Coca-Cola is laughable. My Ibanez PGM 500 is red and...wait...hey, there's an idea! Seriously though, no need to take this any further, it's more than OK that you think F-holes are ugly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted April 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Well then you yourself could have left it at that, instead of making it about how me liking Hello Kitty robs me of the right to vocalize why painted F-holes are stupid BECAUSE HOW DARE YOU... I have no problems with people who play guitars with painted F-holes. I like Paul Gilbert. I just think his guitar looks stupid, that's all. As much as, for instance, Steve Vai's guitar is somewhat laughable and ridiculous looking, I don't find it offensive at all because it completely fits the image and looks coherent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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