Rosewood doesn’t grow here.
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“The Masoala Rain Forest is being looted of it’s irreplaceable endemic Rosewood trees. 1,000 trees a day are being ripped out from one of the worlds most bio-diverse habitats. Thousands of species are on the run and risk extinction as illegal loggers continue to strip the forest bare.
What an over reaction to making guitars. Trees on the run, 7000 trees a week ripped out.
Thats a lot of wood, Everyone in China learning to play Stairway to Heaven?
Load of BS
I go to the NAMM show every year. Gibsons are great but I’m a Stratocaster man myself.
“No charges have been filed”
And none will be.
The federal government now operates by no-knock and warrantless searches, administrative forfeitures, indefinite detention and extorted guilty pleas though years of harassment and penury through court cost fees.
It’s to stop terrorists, don’t you know?
But if the fretboards were made in India...everything would be cool...right? Clearcut as many trees as they like.
What a bunch of crap.
If I see a tree, I cut it down. “Old growth” is a pagan romantic myth. Trees grow like grass - they just do it on a time scale not suitable to human desires.
My whole town is heavily wooded, with lots of forest lands. In 1790, before the news came that there was land in Ohio that didn’t grow granite boulders and didn’t break plows, pictures show a completely bare landscape of open fields and stone walls.
That regulating the growth of these very useful plants in foreign countries is the subject of ANY activity by the government at Washington is sick, sick, sick.
1. this is from a Cali NPR station.
2. the author (Molly Peterson) is a Cali Weird Eco Freek.
Her website. Look at her family entries and look at here bio page.
http://www.mollypeterson.org/about/
Why aren’t these countries farming trees? Why does everyone (wrongly) act like trees don’t grow and get old? Today’s young trees are tomorrow’s old growth. It’s an absurdity. There is no reason why climates that grow certain prizes species of trees can’t be planting more. Some trees grow slow and there must be some planning involved, but I see no reason why there cannot be a good stock of rosewood and ebony and whatever other woods we desire.
Gibson’s latest run in had nothing to do with illegally harvested trees. The issue was that it had not been worked by Indian workers. And we all know how important Indian workers are to our government.
If you can’t afford a Gibson, go to work for the DOJ. I can only imagine how many of those have left in trunks. “Guitar Walker” I would guess most intelligent people do not see the DOJ as having integrity.
If you add up all the hectacres of rainforest that the eco-fascists claim have been cut, the Amazon has been completely cleared of all vegetation at least five times and ceased to exist in 1999.
Eco-fascists are a loathesome gang of Nazi pigs who need to be sent to extinction.
It seems to me that everyday I investigate the environment even though I am not an agency. Just a hint to the unknowing, look up what is required to become an UN recognized NGO (Non-Governmental Organization). Most of these are what we would consider highly liberal! I would suppose the EIA cited here to be the same.
They can have my Les Paul when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I tore a few beams out of a barn built in 1805 at the neighbors place back east. His ancestor had received a revolutionary war grant when they couldn't pay him at the end of the war of independence.
It doesn't sound that much different than any other geetar, hardware really affects sound too, but it sure looks and feels so nice.
As my personal protest, I finally replaced a Les Paul that was stolen in the 90s with a brand new Les Paul Custom.
My new LP is absolutely beautiful in every way, far and away the best guitar I've ever held and, thanks to the government, an instant collector's guitar.
So FUBO, but thanks for motivating me to finally buy another one of Gibson's beautiful Les Pauls! I wouldn't have done it without your jackbooted intervention!
Btt
It is interesting that the owner of Gibson guitars is a conservative fellow, registered Republican, and has NEVER made a campaign contribution to the Democrats or Obama. The other two companies are owned by Democrats who are Obama campaign contributors. These facts were in several interviews with Gibson’s CEO on various FOX news programs.
This sounds like a purely political persecution. However we all know that Mr. Holder would never do that.