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I'd be at a total loss if somebody did a gear review online and they weren't a pudgy old white dude doing a bunch of pentatonic blues licks through a tube screamer in to a low wattage amp. I certainly can't think of any other scenario when I would be using a guitar, amp or effects pedal in any other way.

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I'd be at a total loss if somebody did a gear review online and they weren't a pudgy old white dude doing a bunch of pentatonic blues licks through a tube screamer in to a low wattage amp. I certainly can't think of any other scenario when I would be using a guitar, amp or effects pedal in any other way.

 

 

Selection bias. Youngsters playing punk are both less picky about their gear and less likely to sit down and write about it.

 

Also, old white dudes are more likely to be able to afford a US-made Strat, Tele, 335 or LP.

 

If you want to know how an Epiphone Goth Explorer with bumper stickers all over it sounds when played through a Marshall half-stack, just go out to the downtown clubs and hear one in action. Buy the kid a beer after his set and he might even let you try it out. Be prepared for it to be tuned to drop-D.

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Selection bias. Youngsters playing punk are both less picky about their gear and less likely to sit down and write about it.


Also, old white dudes are more likely to be able to afford a US-made Strat, Tele, 335 or LP.


If you want to know how an Epiphone Goth Explorer with bumper stickers all over it sounds when played through a Marshall half-stack, just go out to the downtown clubs and hear one in action. Buy the kid a beer after his set and he might even let you try it out. Be prepared for it to be tuned to drop-D.

 

Why white :(

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Why white
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It's still the case in America that the vast majority of people rich enough to spend $3000 on a guitar without running up foolish credit card debt are both old and white.

 

I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying how it is.

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I have never seen anybody play an epiphone goth explorer in a 'club downtown'. I think generally epiphones into solid state marshall or valvestate amps are high school battle of the bands territory. In the underground 'clubs' I think I see more than anything Gibson SG Standards into a JCM800 or Sovtek Mig50. Which doesn't help me anyways.

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I have never seen anybody play an epiphone goth explorer in a 'club downtown'. I think generally epiphones into solid state marshall or valvestate amps are high school battle of the bands territory. In the underground 'clubs' I think I see more than anything Gibson SG Standards into a JCM800 or Sovtek Mig50. Which doesn't help me anyways.

 

 

Where did I say "solid state"?

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look, I'm not telling everyone what guitars they can own or who can review what, or that i deserve things to be reviewed a certain way.

 

I'm just saying I want a brazilian schoolgirl to show me what a parker fly sounds like through a Sunn model-t by playing diminished chords and improvising on the whole tone scale. geeez.

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Wow! "Obamacare" critique coming from a guy named "Trotsky." Well, Mr. Trotsky, on behalf of pudgy blues guys everywhere: What'cha got? That is, in the way of constructive musical discussion.... Regarding gear? The clubs? Your music? We eagerly await your response.

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Wow! "Obamacare" critique coming from a guy named "Trotsky." Well, Mr. Trotsky, on behalf of pudgy blues guys everywhere: What'cha got? That is, in the way of constructive musical discussion.... Regarding gear? The clubs? Your music? We eagerly await your response.

 

 

you've figured out my secret! clearly what I've got is voting in a fascist socialist president and congress to take money from pudgy blues guys with taxes and fake climate change data so lazy minorities that never worked for what they got can buy expensive music gear to buy reviews. ALso,

 

OVERALL: 10

I've played rock, jazz, and blues guitar in bands for 25 years, I've played nearly every piece of gear there is and I can say that this guitar, amp, pedal, and or pickup is the best out there and if someone stole it I'd track them down and and beat th &@ out of them.

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I'd be at a total loss if somebody did a gear review online and they weren't a pudgy old white dude doing a bunch of pentatonic blues licks through a tube screamer in to a low wattage amp. I certainly can't think of any other scenario when I would be using a guitar, amp or effects pedal in any other way.

why not go to Youtube and punch in Metalzone or Dinky or MG. Maybe you'll get closer to what you want.

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considering the average level of apparent intelligence and perception of pudgy blues guys, they'd be better off if someone else got their inflated accountant/middle-management wages.

 

 

Oh man, you mean there's metal too? I didn't realize there were TWO genres of guitar music

 

 

"i like all kinds of music - country AND western."

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you've figured out my secret! clearly what I've got is voting in a fascist socialist president and congress to take money from pudgy blues guys with taxes and fake climate change data so lazy minorities that never worked for what they got can buy expensive music gear to buy reviews. ALso,


OVERALL: 10

I've played rock, jazz, and blues guitar in bands for 25 years, I've played nearly every piece of gear there is and I can say that this guitar, amp, pedal, and or pickup is the best out there and if someone stole it I'd track them down and and beat th &@ out of them.

 

 

As I expected. Best of luck with your politics and your music.

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