Gibson to raise prices for 2015 (Page 2 of 4)

I like the auto-tuners but certainly don't want them on every guitar. I have one of the Robot LP studios from 2012 and that's enough for me.

Personally, I don't see the appeal of many of the new 2015 guitars, and I've scratched my head at the USA range a lot in the last couple of years. They seem to in some respects drifting away from the vintage and hand-crafted bouquet that Gibson was renowned for. Now the new guitars give the essence of a mass-industrial churn-out. Having tried a couple of the 2014 models they seem more focussed on stuffing the guitars with loads of electronics as standard and not concentrating on harnessing the natural resonance of a quality-crafted guitar.

People used to ask me how the hell at my age I could have 2 Gibsons, but now I just say it's nothing special.
You play one of the 59 reissues followed by a 20xx standard and sometimes they seem completely unalike.

Musician's Friend posted up videos of the 2015 Line Up (10/1/14)

http://www.youtube.com/user/Musiciansfriend/videos

That link is of their entire video listings ... so the 2015's are recent adds and at the top ... but will move down as link gets "old".

Here is the link for just the 2015 Standard: (get to see how the pick guard snaps into the PU rings .. hmmm.)
http://youtu.be/-IQa9HFKrzQ?list=UUo3BX … 8Inb2eTxKQ

Only trying out in the shop I'm afraid. Didn't have the money to take the guitar home at the time.
Really wish I had, was a decent replica for not as much money as one would expect.

So I tried out the new gibson lp. I will never buy a new gibson again unless it is from the Custom Shop. What a inferior guitar for the $4000 price tag. You get these tuners that are automatic tuning, if one breaks guess what forget about changing with anyone else's but theirs. Oh and by the way I was told they do not offer them without this tuning feature. So if you what the standard tuners forget it. So start buying all the older Les Paul's you can find before they go up because the new ones stink My two cents
Cheers Ron

You can take out the EZ tune and replace them with Grovers or whatever on your own is what I'm told. That's really no different than replacing the stock tulip klusons for Grovers, only you could probably sell the EZ tune for some good money. If an EZ tuner was broken, I wonder how they would fix it without replacing the entire thing.

I'm on the fence to think EZ tune is a toy. I think it'd be useful to going open tuning and other variations. You can still use the pegs to tune your guitar manually... and hopefully no guitars will sound out of tune at the guitar store!

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
Ask me about my handwound Great Lakes Guitar Pickups
Since 2010, Bonamassa fans have taken advantage of my JB friend discount = my cost + shipping.

The tuners looked really cheap to me. Yeah you can buy a new guitar and change the tuners. But really no one should have to do that, it's a new guitar. Also to not have the option to buy without auto tune is just stupid. Just my two cents

Hopefully the market response will be lower sales and they'll bring back other options. I know I won't buy a guitar with that. In the same spirit, I also won't buy a car with an automatic transmission either, and my choices there are dwindling in the US. :-)

With his travel, it has to be more satisfying to hit all the local shops. When I was in CA a couple weeks ago, I hit a couple shops.

http://www.gryphonstrings.com/ was a small place, heavy focus on acoustic, and I had to stop and get a t-shirt for my son Griffin.

http://www.guitarshowcase.com had a very cool showcase room of vintage guitars