Xtreme Rawk Ibanez ad revisited

[DigMe]

Remember this thread? Ahh..the good old days.

Anyway..ever since then I've made sure to take notice of the ads in Bass Player, mainly because the ad referred to in that thread was so entertaining. Well, ever since then I haven't found one other Ibanez ad that was along that vein. While Ibanez still has similar types of artists in their ads it seems like the quotes from the artists in the ads seem to be a bit more refined. Makes me wonder if that thread possibly got back to the Ibanez marketing dept. and they quietly took steps to not quote goobers anymore. Or maybe goobers like that only come along once in a blue moon and it's just coincidence. Either way though the artist comments in the Ibanez ads do seem to be a bit more knowdgable than "The pickups on the SRX are super loud-way better than the pickups in other basses if you want to rock out."

brad cook

[the ombudsman]

Oh, that reminds me of some jerk who did a column in Canadian Musician magazine a while ago. He was talking about basses and said something like "If you want a real bass, you really have only three choices: Fender Precision, Fender Jazz, or Gibson Thunderbird".

Yeah right.

I should've wrote to the magazine to express my disgust towards their Xtreme (heh heh) lack of judgement.

[jenderfazz]

Haha I remember that ad. Or at least the thread about it.

[Edwcdc]

I kind of feel like a master of bass playing after reading that.
Rawk on brothers!!

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

it was PHAT.

[DigMe]

Classic Peter McFerrin post on page 2 of that thread:

Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin

Um, Allo, about half of their reviews are of basses that list for under $1000 US. I realize that your indifference curves are skewed toward purchasing more hard drives for porno and warez storage, but c'mon.

It is 90% ads, though, you're right. Man, what a lame magazine--I'm glad my subscription expired.

brad cook