Sanctuary
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Gibson fold
May 02, 2018, 12:36
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https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/gibson-guitar-maker-sees-future-034215777.html
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Gibson fold
May 02, 2018, 22:28
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*worried I'll never get that Les Paul I've always wanted*
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Lugia
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Re: Gibson fold
May 10, 2018, 10:17
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This thing with Gibson doesn't surprise me, actually. Ever since the 1980s, Gibson's rep around Nashville was that it was where music companies went to die. They had a reputation for gobbling up stumbling music firms and then totally neglecting them as assets. Moog and Oberheim are two firms that I know of offhand, and I know there were several others of note. Thankfully, both firms I mentioned have made it back from Gibson's graveyard out on Elm Hill Pike, but others haven't over quite a few years. They also had a habit under their current CEO of banking on innovations that either didn't work, or weren't desired, such as their continuing belief that their "robot" tuned guitars were what everyone was clamoring for.
It's irritating, yes...but if/when Gibson goes under, perhaps those segments of the company that used to do quality work will regroup under some other name, unfettered by the current firm's chronic mismanagement.
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Mark1971
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Re: Gibson fold
May 15, 2018, 13:29
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Sanctuary wrote:
The guitar bit is pretty much "business as usual". Looks like their main issue was trying to diversify & those branches of the company weighing the lot down. Not an uncommon thing in business.
Aside from that there have been issues with Gibson's output. Their adopting of the automated mechanical tuners the other year was a big folly. They've made mistakes before and indeed made some mad looking guitars (The Explorer, Flying Vee etc..) that caught on and some others (Moderne, Corvus etc..) that didn't.
I splashed out on the bucket list guitar I'd always fancied 5 years ago, when they did a nice reissue of the '63 ES335. The quality of that seems great, but none of their stuff is cheap and the question is "Do you get what you pay for?" ...
On the Fender side of things, they've gone the opposite way to Gibson and you can buy Fender guitars at every price point made in loads of different countries with wildly variable quality control. Bottom line is, if you've got a normal amount of cash to spend on a guitar, chances it's definitely not going to be a Gibson.
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