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Blasting-Zone.com: What prompted you to stop playing Ibanez guitars? Are you still playing Les Paul Gibsons?
Alex: "Well, the Ibanez was a great metal guitar when I started playing it, but a couple of things happened. I felt that the quality of the guitars that were being sold weren't of the same quality as the guitars I was playing. They would send me these really nice, well-crafted guitars, but then if you went and bought one in the stores, they were just terrible. I felt bad that people were buying an instrument because I played it and then having it not be of the same quality. Another thing was that once I switched to playing jazz, I was mostly playing hollow body guitars, which I still do. I've found that the Les Paul guitar is a very versatile guitar and it actually feels the closest to a hollow body. Much more so than a Stratocaster-type guitar. So I started playing Les Paul guitars and then got turned on to Heritage guitars. Heritage guitars are actually made in the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo and it's run by old Gibson workers. The guitars are very similar to Gibsons but the quality is…as good as the Gibsons from the '70s and the '80s. A Gibson now…they have good years and they have bad years. And there such a big company, everything is mass-produced. Some of them play great and some of them play not so great. It's kinda hit-or-miss. I still play a couple of Gibsons, but the ones that I play are older. With Heritage, you can buy a new guitar with them and it's guaranteed to be handcrafted."
quoted from Blabbermouth
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Alex: "Well, the Ibanez was a great metal guitar when I started playing it, but a couple of things happened. I felt that the quality of the guitars that were being sold weren't of the same quality as the guitars I was playing. They would send me these really nice, well-crafted guitars, but then if you went and bought one in the stores, they were just terrible. I felt bad that people were buying an instrument because I played it and then having it not be of the same quality. Another thing was that once I switched to playing jazz, I was mostly playing hollow body guitars, which I still do. I've found that the Les Paul guitar is a very versatile guitar and it actually feels the closest to a hollow body. Much more so than a Stratocaster-type guitar. So I started playing Les Paul guitars and then got turned on to Heritage guitars. Heritage guitars are actually made in the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo and it's run by old Gibson workers. The guitars are very similar to Gibsons but the quality is…as good as the Gibsons from the '70s and the '80s. A Gibson now…they have good years and they have bad years. And there such a big company, everything is mass-produced. Some of them play great and some of them play not so great. It's kinda hit-or-miss. I still play a couple of Gibsons, but the ones that I play are older. With Heritage, you can buy a new guitar with them and it's guaranteed to be handcrafted."
quoted from Blabbermouth
be warned: please keep his politics quotes out of this thread, or go start your own!
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