ptm1diver Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Wow, that clip makes me want to place an order for a custom shop G uitar. Great amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stike Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 On 6/13/2017 at 7:38 PM, murkat said: 2010, the year of the nashville "flood". most of the plant got flooded, as well as R&D. R&D moved into the GCS / Pro Shop, where I worked, to attempt to finish that firebird abomination. That "thing" was, is, Henry's baby. He designed it, He wanted it as so. Back and forth the R&D crew went between GCS / Corp. With that "Thing" for months. R&D was so hazed by us no matter what excuse they came up with. It's been awhile but there was a Firebird X at my now closed local Guitarget. How that A.) it passed inspection in Nashville to be sent to a dealer and B.) was not sent back to Nashville immediately after unboxing at said dealer will forever plague my memory. The clearcoat and this is not an exaggeration looked brushed on. I was standing there looking at every visible flaw when the salesguy came by to see if I needed help. When I involuntarily blurted out that is the worst fucking factory finish I've ever seen he just said "Yeah that color is kinda ugly." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchee Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 4 hours ago, Stike said: It's been awhile but there was a Firebird X at my now closed local Guitarget. How that A.) it passed inspection in Nashville to be sent to a dealer and B.) was not sent back to Nashville immediately after unboxing at said dealer will forever plague my memory. The clearcoat and this is not an exaggeration looked brushed on. I was standing there looking at every visible flaw when the salesguy came by to see if I needed help. When I involuntarily blurted out that is the worst fucking factory finish I've ever seen he just said "Yeah that color is kinda ugly." Knowing your considerable expertise with guitars, finishes, and a spray gun, that ain't good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 On 6/14/2017 at 9:27 PM, chromium said: So we'll take that as a "no" to the question "Does he even play?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortious Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Mildly interesting article on Gibson/Henry. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-gibson-brands-guitar-henry-juszkiewicz-20170618-htmlstory.html He blames the total failure of auto tuners and the Shitbird on 'not enough marketing dollars'. Quote The self-tuning guitars that Gibson pioneered in recent years tripped up the company when Juszkiewicz insisted the technology be rolled out on a broad swath of its models, turning off some traditionalists. “Technology is a wonderful thing,” Juszkiewicz said. “But technology doesn’t always sit well [with consumers], mostly because there’s not enough marketing dollars to let everybody know what it’s all about.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 6/13/2017 at 0:13 AM, Texsunburst59 said: One of these days WAY,WAY in the future, that guitar is going to be worth A LOT of money. Maybe. 30 years from now, when they remake the Austin Powers "Goldmember'" movie and that ugly Gibson replaces the ugly Musicvox Spaceranger in the movie....then, maybe, it might be worth more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 6/13/2017 at 11:05 AM, Funky Chicken said: Just take in the whole outfit. The too-small denim jacket, the tan pants, the sneakers straight out of the Mel Torme episode of Seinfeld... I take TOTAL BLAME for the Henry Monster. I think I melted his mind with all the really weird shit I used to play on WCMF from midnight to 6 a.m. in Rochester, NY during his formulative years. I think he spent his summers smoking doobies up along Lake Ontario, listening to "Maggot Brain" by Funkedelics and "Ummagumma" by Pink Floyd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyB Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 6/16/2017 at 3:11 PM, sixesandsevens said: So we'll take that as a "no" to the question "Does he even play?" He's the embodiment of what it sounds like to walk into a Guitar Center on a bad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Wow... It's nice to see a guitar player I can poke fun at. That was really terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 6/12/2017 at 7:30 PM, crunchee said: That sounds about as appealing as a group Ipecac chug-a-lug: The inclusion of that clip made this whole thread worthwhile- LMFAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veatch Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Who wants chowder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 On 6/13/2017 at 10:05 AM, Funky Chicken said: Ever see somebody pick up a guitar who doesn't play guitar and they look all awkward and sh!t? It looks just like this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Don't know if I've told this story here before, but it's worth revisiting. I got free tickets from a Manager buddy at the Hard Rock Café for a Bad Company reunion pay-per view in Orlando. Two seats in the second row right in front of Paul. I think Pat Travers opened for them and, as is customary, I had to hit the head during the intermission. The meet and greet was going on with Bad Company, so I was in a hurry. I'm standing at the midget shower relieving myself and this guy comes uncomfortably close to me and says, "Hey, that's my shirt!". I preceded to turn away from the onlooker and pack things up. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I'm Henry Jusk-a-whatever and I designed that shirt (it was the first generation Gibson Historic in denim)". He stuck his hand out to shake mine and I put my finger up and said, "I better wash my hands first, Henry". He went on to tell me how he was involved in every aspect of Gibson's turn around. I thought to myself then, this is a weird dude. To this day, I'm not sure he wasn't looking at my junk. We never did shake hands. Then, when I went back to our seats after the meet and greet, he was two seats left of me in the front row. He kept turning around smiling the entire show. Every time I wore that shirt, there was some level of creepiness that came over me. I guess he's a personable guy, but his social skills left something to be desired. Ralphs played a Historic made to look like his original burst for one song. The tech walked out to grab it from Mick right after the song ended, so I think it was a contractual deal as I saw it for sale in Vintage Guitar not long after that for crazy money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 1 hour ago, The Shark said: To this day, I'm not sure he wasn't looking at my junk. We never did shake hands. Crazy story. At least he didn't offer to "shake the dew off of your lily." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Custom Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 2 hours ago, The Shark said: Don't know if I've told this story here before, but it's worth revisiting. I got free tickets from a Manager buddy at the Hard Rock Café for a Bad Company reunion pay-per view in Orlando. Two seats in the second row right in front of Paul. I think Pat Travers opened for them and, as is customary, I had to hit the head during the intermission. The meet and greet was going on with Bad Company, so I was in a hurry. I'm standing at the midget shower relieving myself and this guy comes uncomfortably close to me and says, "Hey, that's my shirt!". I preceded to turn away from the onlooker and pack things up. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I'm Henry Jusk-a-whatever and I designed that shirt (it was the first generation Gibson Historic in denim)". He stuck his hand out to shake mine and I put my finger up and said, "I better wash my hands first, Henry". He went on to tell me how he was involved in every aspect of Gibson's turn around. I thought to myself then, this is a weird dude. To this day, I'm not sure he wasn't looking at my junk. We never did shake hands. Then, when I went back to our seats after the meet and greet, he was two seats left of me in the front row. He kept turning around smiling the entire show. Every time I wore that shirt, there was some level of creepiness that came over me. I guess he's a personable guy, but his social skills left something to be desired. Ralphs played a Historic made to look like his original burst for one song. The tech walked out to grab it from Mick right after the song ended, so I think it was a contractual deal as I saw it for sale in Vintage Guitar not long after that for crazy money. Sounds like you missed a docking opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 13 minutes ago, Studio Custom said: Sounds like you missed a docking opportunity. Not sure I missed anything. Dude reminded me of George Gruhn for those of you that know George. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hbom Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 On 6/17/2017 at 2:39 PM, Tortious said: He blames the total failure of auto tuners and the Shitbird on 'not enough marketing dollars'. I take this to mean that if Gibson had spent enough marketing dollars to give every guitar player in the world one of those goofy guitars, and paid them all to use them, the auto tuners would have been more successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murkat Posted June 19, 2017 Author Share Posted June 19, 2017 4 hours ago, The Shark said: there was some level of creepiness that came over me. imagine every gibson employee feeling like that at any gibson event He attends. He is truly creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 5 hours ago, hamerhead said: Ever see somebody pick up a guitar who doesn't play guitar and they look all awkward and sh!t? It looks just like this.. yeah, Potsy Weber looked more experienced with a guitar in his hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveL Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 The weird thing about the auto tuners... You could take them off and pretty easily drop in some grovers or kluson type tuners, reliable fender must have easily sold a couple hundred sets of min-etunes, where did they all go? a landfill somewhere? I was just surprised that you could sell the auto tune on ebay pretty easily. No amount of marketing dollars would save the 2015 Gibson's here's a poor guy with a 2015 classic with a pretty nice top, can't even find a taker for $1200 https://nh.craigslist.org/msg/6126955681.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prototype-fan Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 6 hours ago, hamerhead said: Ever see somebody pick up a guitar who doesn't play guitar and they look all awkward and sh!t? It looks just like this.. I was thinking the same thing... Almost like those models "playing" guitar in Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video..... At least there were some attractive women to ogle over in that video.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stike Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 3 hours ago, kizanski said: yeah, Potsy Weber looked more experienced with a guitar in his hands. Or one of Ed Roman's bikini "babes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 4 hours ago, kizanski said: yeah, Potsy Weber looked more experienced with a guitar in his hands. It's nice you can go to a forum where all your friends KNOW WHO POTSY is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veatch Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 20 minutes ago, The Shark said: It's nice you can go to a forum where all your friends KNOW WHO POTSY is! Wa, wa, wa... Wait. That was Chachi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 12 minutes ago, veatch said: Wa, wa, wa... Wait. That was Chachi... And was the other guy's name "Potsie" or "Potsy"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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