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Mark Oskin (sonicthunder)
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Username: sonicthunder

Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 11:19 am:   Edit Post

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2513018703&category=2384
Jake Strauss (jake)
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Username: jake

Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:48 pm:   Edit Post

the story's a little embellished.....sounds like some sorta big CIA thriller movie. ive never played one of those basses though, but I know lots of companies did things like that in the 80's. I have an ibanez musician guitar which actually isnt that bad but none of the japanese stuff i've played quite has the feel of the genuine article.
Joey Wilson (bigredbass)
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 61
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 9:22 pm:   Edit Post

Just a question I've always had running around in the back of my head. . . .

Back when the Japanese were making clones of so many American guitars (the "lawsuit" Ibanez guitars, etc.), why didn't they copy THESE as well:

1. The Budweiser(or Miller, PBR,etc.) Sign guitar
2. The Texas Map Guitar
3. The Gibson USA Map Guitar
4. The toilet-seat guitar
5. ANY GIBSON BASS
6. Fender Antigua Wildwood
7. The Aluminum Velenos, Kramers, Travis Beans
8. That gosh-awful, opposed double neck from that
ad for the speed-metal training method
9. Rick Nielsen's quint-neck Hamer
10. A replica smashed Townshend SG or a lighter-
fluid burnt Strat? Yeah, that's it, a Tokai
'Fine Life Happy Ladyland Trippy'! I could
make a pile of ca$h at the Vintage Show !

Just wondering . . .





Joe Schwartz (the_schwartz)
Junior
Username: the_schwartz

Post Number: 17
Registered: 1-2003
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 8:52 am:   Edit Post

Just imagine the Feds raiding a music store and busting up all their toilet-seat knock-off guitars : )
Michael Walker (rockandroller)
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Username: rockandroller

Post Number: 42
Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 2:09 pm:   Edit Post

TRIVIA: i have seen a number of japanese EB-0, EB-3 (etc) copies... and even a RIPPER copy!
Jake Strauss (jake)
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Username: jake

Post Number: 7
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 4:20 pm:   Edit Post

joey, i have no idea why they didn't copy all those but i just love how besides gibson and fender which are of course the two obvious companies to rip off, the third one that lots of them did [ibanez, fernandes, kawai, aria] was alembic which just shows you that they must rock if so many people copied them

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