| Author | Message | ||
| Mark Oskin (sonicthunder)
New Username: sonicthunder Post Number: 1 Registered: 3-2003 |
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| Jake Strauss (jake)
New Username: jake Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2003 |
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)
Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 61 Registered: 9-2002 |
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 |
Just imagine the Feds raiding a music store and busting up all their toilet-seat knock-off guitars : ) | ||
| Michael Walker (rockandroller)
Junior Username: rockandroller Post Number: 42 Registered: 11-2002 |
TRIVIA: i have seen a number of japanese EB-0, EB-3 (etc) copies... and even a RIPPER copy! | ||
| Jake Strauss (jake)
New Username: jake Post Number: 7 Registered: 3-2003 |
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 |
