Interesting read about Jap guitar market

[Carbuff]

Kinda interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/ap_en_mu/gibson_in_japan

[RacerX]

"It is so cool," says Yuki Yamaguchi, a 19-year-old student who bought a $5,400 Tak Matsumoto Gibson on three-month credit. "I open the case and look at in and go: 'It is so cool.' "
Amateur musicians like Yamaguchi, who acknowledges he hardly has time to play his guitar and spends more time admiring it, may be just buying a dream.
But they make for serious business.
"Some of these consumers own five, 10, 20 guitars because they're collecting. They're collecting for the love of collecting," he said during a recent visit in Tokyo."


Hmmmm, sounds familiar!

[Grandturk]

What a shite article - shallow tripe.

"Other brands don't have that kind of history," Jones said. "We are living, breathing rock 'n' roll history."

Fender anyone?

[shreddermon]

Yeah, I loved this crapola, too...

"Gibson has built its fame on custom-made guitars"

[Norton]

This article is...



crap

[mm2002]

Quote: "The hand-aged Gibson Les Paul Special is a replica of the 1960 original,..............."

I just love this shit! "Hand aged" ???? I know there are people here who are fans of "relicing" axes, but why??? If it isn't old, why try and make it look that way? Fuck that stupid shit. Would you go buy a brand new car and beat the living shit out of it just to make it look old?
Anyway, sorry about the off topic thing, but damn I just don't get it.

[Carbuff]

This article is...



crap

Ha! But interesting crap.:ROTF: :ROTF: