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edwin
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Username: edwin

Post Number: 1965
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 2:45 pm:   Edit Post

Or at least what they look like.

http://guildguitars.com/community/artists/
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 3226
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 3:02 pm:   Edit Post

Epic!

Must be the Alembic strap that caught them off guard ...

elwoodblue
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Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1576
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 3:05 pm:   Edit Post

: )))) Ha!
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 3227
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 3:11 pm:   Edit Post

The photo credit points to our very own little corner of the interwebs!
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4037
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 9:42 pm:   Edit Post

Edwin ! You have studied law , tell me if Guild now owes you financial compensation your the use of your image . I am really curious . There obviously has been no___" model release agreement" . :-) _____ LOL !

That is a good picture , you look very introspective !

Wolf
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 6001
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 9:21 am:   Edit Post

Hey Phil, did you know there's some guy pretending to be you up at some restaurant/bar/music hall in San Rafael named after a turtle or something?

hehehehe

Bill, tgo
bigredbass
Senior Member
Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 2358
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 5:34 pm:   Edit Post

I know these current production 'Newark St. Basses' re-issues are supposed to re-create the originals, but for me they pose a few problems:

a) Obviously they lost the blueprints for these with TWO pickups . . . .

b) I guess it's a nice stylistic touch to have TWO thumbrests ( . . . which confirms what I always thought, that a lot of guys who played these in the old days sure sounded like they had all, or obviously, TWO thumbs) and the bridge saddles made out of the same hardwood, but it's 2015 already . . . WOOD bridge saddles? On that funky little bridge? Really?

These aren't really my cup of tea (would have never known, right?), but honestly, at least sell parallel versions of these things built like a real bass, wouldja? A real bridge, two pickups, real keys. Or better yet, make a Squier version, it would turn out right.

SO, for the Guild Monday Morning Meeting, here's the talking points:

a) Shoot your web designer.

b) Get Phil's picture in there, we've run Barry Gibb's pic in TWO places.

c) The 'Product Pagge' tab needs work, troubleshoot that 'SPELLLEEE CHICKER' program.

d) Find the 'two-pickup' blueprints so we can shut that nut up on the ALEMBIC chat room. Call Babicz and HipShot.

e) See if one of the New England state highway departments is interested in some wood bridges, cheap. We'll pay the shipping.

There. I feel better.

Joey
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1966
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 5:55 pm:   Edit Post

Hey, don't cut short my moment in the sun! :-)
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4044
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 7:03 pm:   Edit Post

Hey Brother Edwin , You had better put on some Sun Screen
SPF 15 ! : The Sun might get really bright !

Love for you and your Family .
Wolf
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1967
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 7:36 pm:   Edit Post

That was at the High Sierra Music Fest in 2007 and it was 115 degrees out. The weird stripy thing around my neck was actually an old shirt I ripped up and stuck in an ice water bucket for a while to try to stay cool. Much fun, but kind of brutal.
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member
Username: edwardofhuncote

Post Number: 291
Registered: 6-2014
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2015 - 2:23 am:   Edit Post

Joey should get some kind of prize for ^that^ post! That's the funniest thing I ever read at 5:30 am. Made my Monday!
pace
Senior Member
Username: pace

Post Number: 1120
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 4:14 pm:   Edit Post

Chiming in late, I know.... But..... Simply hysterical on all fronts!!!!....

If it's any consolation to Joey, I know the U.S. shop up in New Hartford is making a two pup version, but alas, Westerly style humbuckers~ no bisonics....

As a local highway dept employee, they can keep the wood bridges, eh saddles, maybe an equestrian group up there can make better use of them....
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1978
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 4:36 pm:   Edit Post

Well, I sent them a note thanking them for posting my picture and that I'd be happy to endorse their lovely bass. We'll see what happens.
hammer
Senior Member
Username: hammer

Post Number: 685
Registered: 9-2009
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 6:36 pm:   Edit Post

Thought the New Hartford Guild facility turned off the lights about a year ago. Was the decision reversed? Used to live no more than a few miles of the place when I resided in CT
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4072
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 7:40 pm:   Edit Post

Made in China ?
cozmik_cowboy
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Username: cozmik_cowboy

Post Number: 1852
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 8:23 pm:   Edit Post

Guild's US operations are now in Oxnard, CA, under the direction of former Gibson Acoustic honcho Ren Ferguson.

Peter
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4073
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 8:38 pm:   Edit Post

That's great !
bigredbass
Senior Member
Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 2363
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 - 10:53 pm:   Edit Post

I've often thought that if you took all the 'former Gibson ______________' there are, we could have a yearly reunion at Titan Stadium here in Nashville, IF it would hold all of us. I wonder how long Ren was in de-programming?

Joey
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 6021
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 9:27 am:   Edit Post

Well, it now appears that Edwin has been removed, but there is no Phil Lesh to replace him. Come on Guild, get your act together!

Bill, tgo
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1980
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 9:37 am:   Edit Post

Hah! As if he could ever replace me! ####
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 11710
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 3:57 pm:   Edit Post

Really!
cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member
Username: cozmik_cowboy

Post Number: 1854
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 8:40 pm:   Edit Post

Why Joey, do you mean to imply that working for Henry isn't all cherries??? I'm shocked! (in my best Claude Raines voice)

Peter
bigredbass
Senior Member
Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 2364
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 9:37 pm:   Edit Post

I'm sorry, but I have to play this hand:

Why no, CC, working for The Henry isn't all cherries . . . . IT'S the PITS (in my best Gilbert Gotfried voice)

Joey
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member
Username: edwardofhuncote

Post Number: 304
Registered: 6-2014
Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - 5:08 am:   Edit Post

Huh... small world Joey.

During my stint in Nashville (crash diet was more like it) through various other music aquaintances, I met a couple guys that worked for various branches of HJ's... Richie Owens, and Todd Wright. Richie was head of production or some kind of muckety-muck at Dobro, which Gibson had recently acquired, and IIRC Todd was one of the Bozeman guys... this was my "inside" to getting hired at Gibson. I'd have done it too, but for the insanely long hiring process, which was like six weeks or something. About the same time our band got a management deal and a series of short tours that would've knocked me out of the job anyway. Eventually, Richie hooked me up with another guy that ran a shop where we built custom road cases for everything imaginable, from TV cameras for TNN Motorsports to giant mixing boards, even a B3 organ for Shania Twain. It was steady work I enjoyed, and flexible enough that I could work when off the road, a lifesaver really. Worked for him the rest of my time there, and we're still good friends today. Never saw or heard from Richie Owens or Gibson USA again, but given all that went down over on Elm Hill Pike in years to come... whew! Talk about being happy about the road not taken.

Sorry for the derail... carry on! =)
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1982
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - 9:17 am:   Edit Post

No problem with the derail. My 15 minutes are clearly over.
hieronymous
Senior Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 1496
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - 2:26 pm:   Edit Post

It's kind of weird, not only did they take down your picture, they took down Phil Lesh?!!!
peoplechipper
Senior Member
Username: peoplechipper

Post Number: 593
Registered: 2-2009
Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 11:56 pm:   Edit Post

Surprised no one else has mentioned, but you're better looking than Phil, so you have that going for you, which is nice...Tony
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1993
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 9:50 am:   Edit Post

"Ugly but honest, that's us. Hey, there's a good title for you, 'Ugly but Honest.' A'course, we ain't all that honest, either. Maybe just 'Ugly' is good enough...." -J. Garcia
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 6035
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 10:46 am:   Edit Post

sromur ylgu

Bill, tgo
5a_quilt_top
Senior Member
Username: 5a_quilt_top

Post Number: 497
Registered: 6-2012
Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 11:06 am:   Edit Post

Mars Hotel.

Nice tangental reference for this thread.

"Keep it Weird" - P. Lesh, as posted in TXR
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 8498
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 7:33 pm:   Edit Post

I love this thread.

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