Stillwater - Mind Bender
Posted on 02/24/2018 7:23:02 AM PST by rktman
Rock n' Roll. The soundtrack to rebellion. Across the decades, the motif has held, and the mythology of the rebellious rocker striding into the political arena to shatter the establishment with some deftly played power chords still stirs the imagination.
Sadly, the new world might not be ready for the revolution, because this week, after 116 years in business, and following years of attacks, fines, and losses incurred by federal bureaucrats, Gibson, the legendary manufacturer of electric guitars, revealed that it could face bankruptcy in July.
.......the feds claimed was a violation of the Teddy Roosevelt-era “Lacey Act”, which was passed in 1900, and originally banned import of certain wildlife if the capture, killing, or export of that wildlife was prohibited by the nation of origin. In 2011, in what some writers have wisely speculated appears to have been a political move made to ensnare people like the GOP-backing Juszkiewicz, the Lacey Act was amended to include flora – alive or dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
Michelle presented Carla with a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar in 2009 - but the problem is that it may have been made from wood that was illegally obtained.
The American First Lady presented French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy with a practical - and very rock 'n' roll - gift: an acoustic Gibson guitar. Offered "as a sign of friendship', Michelle Obama gave Gibson's Legend model, to Bruni...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdTRemFvBRQ
Alex Lifeson discusses the Gibson double-neck reproduction of the one he used.
Now the time to get that 1959 Les Paul mapletop while you still can...
Someday we’ll get even with the liberal thugs...
New Gibsons are a shadow of earlier products.
They cut the quality on the electronics and the bodies and necks but still charge an arm and a leg.
I know a guy that has some knock offs from Asia and they’re actually pretty nice. Gibsons are way overpriced. I have a 1964 Epiphone riviera I bought new in 65 that was made in Kalamazoo next door to the Gibson shop. It gets to go out to local jams once in a while.
He was showing me a new Les Paul his son traded for and the pots for the volume and tone knobs he had them out because they didn't have the same quality of his older model Les Pauls and his son wanted to upgrade them. He was showing me the frequency response on the new Paul's pickups compared to the old ones and there was a very noticeable difference especially in the lower mids. They were trying to figure out what to replace the pickups with to get that same warmer sound of the older LPs.
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