It was a Fender study. I don't know how many of them are buying electrics, though. I would guess very few, based on how many I actually have encountered in the past year.
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Gibson 2019...seriously?
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Still looking for the citation or article; oh wait, here it is:
Fender Study Finds Half of New Guitarists Are Women – Rolling Stone
(October 2018)
Study is UK-specific, but consistent with US sales and demographic data. (The article referring to the study linked above only refers to "guitar" but does not discuss "bass guitar" specifically.)
My guitar collection colors have always consisted of black, charcoal, white and natural or tobacco. I only strayed in the mid 90s with a British racing green Ibanez s470 that just looked unbelievable on the wall. I recently purchased a 6 string epiphone sl LP last year for my daughter in turquoise which she ended up painting her entire room turquoise soon after so I get the appeal. I surprised myself a week ago when I purchased a new ocean turquoise fender elite p bass when I had my heart set on a white bass. Something about these bright and pastel colors that just grab you regardless of body shape
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, looks like they are trying to catch up to Fender with the new colors, I think they are ok if you like the colors but I wouldn't get one of these guitars or basses in any color..
Well…it wouldn't be TB without a Gibson thread getting trolled every month or so would it?
Mere levity on a board that welcomes it every day.
Gibson for 2019 is offering the SG in Ebony and Heritage Cherry, the Thunderbird in Vintage Sunburst and Heritage Cherry Burst...they dropped the Bright Cherry, and the EB in Natural Satin and Wine Red...4- and 5-string versions.
Depends on your opinion of Babicz bridges. To me they're over designed and vastly overhyped. But regardless of what I may think, by precisely knowing the specs on each of their own instruments, Gibson doesn't need the range of adjustments a 3rd-party bridge needs since those are designed to be a 'one size fits all' piece of hardware. So a bridge designed and made by Gibson for its own instruments makes far more sense.
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pink guitars are hilarous. i want one to take on gigs specifically for the comedy factor
First thing I thought! I don't think they work on the SG unfortunately.
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Has no-one heard of TV yellow? It's a classic color, especially for those who can remember television before color television...
Btw I am of course way too young to remember it first time round.
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It's the yellow with the tort (and every other of the new colors with tort) that looks hideous. They would look much better if they ditched the tort guards and went with either black, white or cream color guards for those new colors.
Exactly, and it requires like $20 worth of electrical components to do and would really set them apart.
I dig the olive drab one actually. Would look killer for a reggae/dub band (don't ask me why, just looks..tuff
...sorry, but of course IMHO
A thread posting mere observations isn't necessarily a "Let's knock Gibson" thread, especially from someone who actually likes Gibsons.
We're talking about mere esthetics here on a board where functionality is often cited as far more important than looks.
