Gibson To Increase Prices and Update Models For 2015

[58Lover]

Probably a threaded stud set into the body...
Goddam Henry sucks. And having seen so much correspondence from him all those years I can guarantee that crap is written by him. He is capable of written crap in the extreme.

Got my Gibsons. Any other Gibby styles I buy will be Navigator or another Edwards.

 

[access]

I heard from a very reliable "inside" source that Gibson plans on following the example recently set by fender and selling direct to consumers online, essentially cutting retailers out. I see this as less of a blow to retail shops and more of a direct attack on the online sellers like MF, GC and more.

 

[DanD]

Oh gawd. I'm sure there's a good reason someone might buy anyone of those guitars. I just can't think of any that would make me buy one.

Why drift so far from the tree that got Gibson where they are today?

I'm guessing that the Gibson game plan is to push the traditional buyer (read older and more financially secure) to the Custom Shop line of instruments. :teeth
Kaching!

 

[dbone15]

I can't get over how horrible that les paul signature is. First off who celebrates the birthday of dead people? Do you remember and commemorate them yes. I could see maybe if it was 2052 and the 100th anniversary of the les paul. So silly.

I wonder what the cash out the door prices will be for historics in 2015.

Snatch up those 14's while you still can. Unfortunately most of the awesome tops are long gone.

 

[Pat Boyack]

First off who celebrates the birthday of dead people?

Bone, there are plenty of national holidays that do and this thing called Easter......Christmas. The list is long.

But that headstock sig has got to go.

 

[Big Al]

Bone, there are plenty of national holidays that do and this thing called Easter......Christmas. The list is long.

But that headstock sig has got to go.

I think it might be only on the 15's. First the 15's 12th fret banner inlay, then this scribble thing. It looks like a company that is lost and confused. No solid direction or vision.

 

[GotTheSilver]

I heard from a very reliable "inside" source that Gibson plans on following the example recently set by fender and selling direct to consumers online, essentially cutting retailers out. I see this as less of a blow to retail shops and more of a direct attack on the online sellers like MF, GC and more.

I don't see why Gibson would "attack" one of their main distribution channels. Why would a company want to attack the people that are selling their product?

 

[EvLectric]

I'm guessing that the Gibson game plan is to push the traditional buyer (read older and more financially secure) to the Custom Shop line of instruments. :teeth
Kaching!

Absolutely. And the less financially secure to the higher profit off shore Epi's instead of the sub $1000 USA made guitars.
All the while scaling back production means he can lay some workers off.
Win win win for HJ's profit margin.

 

[Hydrogen]

Ohhhhhh! I've got to put down my mouse turn off my monitor and just have a good hard laugh to myself. This company never cease to amaze me these last few years. Zero fret brass nuts! Screwless pickguards! That signature! $3879! ahaha :laugh2: :laugh2: :ha :ha ah stop you're killing me!


Nothing minimum about that price. It's pretty bad if someone actually has the misfortune to have to pay that much but come on just make simple, fun, quality guitars at a reasonable price! $2-3k. I know it is basically the same money pile at the end, but I just bought a new Epiphone Casino. Epiphone have had to make cheap guitars for so long that they're really smacking it out of the park lately. Every one I've played plays great, feels great and the price won't kill ya. Plus they make fun vintage styled models that people actually want to play and buy! :yah

First off who celebrates the birthday of dead people? Do you remember and commemorate them yes. I could see maybe if it was 2052 and the 100th anniversary of the les paul.

Kind of off topic, but it seems a musician thing, or celebrity thing. I seem to always hear oh, today is Jimi Hendrix's 71st birthday, today is John Lennon's 73rd birthday.

 

[Tom Wittrock]

I wonder how this will affect the resale price of Les Pauls? :ganz

 

[landminelenny]

I wonder how this will affect the resale price of Les Pauls? :ganz

It'll bring more demand for second hand Gibsons all round I'd expect.

I'm putting my prices up. :rofl

 

[Xpensive Wino]

I'm putting my prices up.

Again? :spabout

 

[Uncle Gary]

Makes me glad I bought the Gibsons I own when I did. I won't be buying any more of these.

I do feel sorry for the few dealers left who will have to try to sell them.

 

[Uncle Gary]

WTF is the appeal of all this robot tuning shit? Buy a Snark for $20 and turn the knobs yourself.

I get the impression that Henry J. WANTS to be the Steve Jobs of the music industry. Either that, or he bought millions of $$$ worth of those robot tuning things and has to get rid of them one way or another.

Personally, I think he's still sulking because the world rejected his Firebird X, so this is his way of punishing all of us.

 

[DonRowe]

Now my Gibson guitars are worth more money LOL That stupid robot tuning thingamajiggy needs to go !

 

[Jackyrhode]

Haven't seen a single ES in this news. Are they skipping these models Orr is Memphis considered a separate company?

 

[Kim R]

I wonder how this will affect the resale price of Les Pauls? :ganz

Not unlike this industry:

The 1958 Chevy.... We love what we learned first, I think (the car kicks ass in a serious manner, of course).

Today's corporations are chasing today's dollars, today's buyers. It's a familiar transition, unpleasant as we might find it.

Edit: My choice of the 1958 vintage in the automobile pictured above doesn't equate to the value of it's peer, manufactured in Kalamazoo - same year. I meant it as a comparison of style, market interest, and era. IOW: Enthusiats don't embrace change, myself included.

 

[jbzoso2002]

I dont know why gibson went this way.:dang

I know Epiphone can be a bad word around here but there's
no way I would trade mine straight up for one of these contraptions!

Maby this is why the recent Epi Les Pauls are being made better and better.

Maby HJ want to use those as the low priced Les Pauls.

The only real Les Pauls Gibson makes now are the historics,
the rest are crap and they can keep em.

Jimmy

 

[Pickdropper]

To me, the bigger surprise is that they did these changes across the line and didn't introduce a handful of models to see if the changes took hold. I get the fact that they are going after a new market, but I would think that putting out traditional and modern options would give them a better appraisal of what the market really wants.

It also seems really weird that they put that funky Les Paul logo on the SG.

 

[Elmore]

The reviled Norlin era is now looking better ...