New EVH - Eruption 78

newi123 · June 2018

Three versions:

$25,000
$12,500
$7878.78

Doesn`t stop me wanting one! :-)

http://www.evhgear.com/gear/guitars/eruption/

mudslide73 · June 2018

They've obviously swerved the idea of putting the Gibson logo on

A lot of money...

not_the_dj · June 2018

So he actually plays eruption on the top price one, and you get a video clip of it with all the other goodies...that's quite cool, but still an amazing amount of money (probably sold all 8 of them by now ;-) ).

dindude · June 2018

money grabbing distasteful-ness at its very best.

With a great deal of irony in that a cobbled together bitsa “fuck-you” guitar, by one of the guitar worlds true innovators, is now asking £25k for for a replica of said guitar so that you can be the most accurate copyist. I wonder what his younger self would have said.

Honestly, they must sit in board rooms dreaming how to rip off mug customers.

usedtobe · June 2018

Nah, I’m good, thanks!

DrBob · June 2018

Lame,

And I say that as a big fan of Ed

StormshadowGuitars · June 2018

I'll pass ta, but i am on the lookout for a nice Musicman EVH

stonevibe · June 2018

I would just ignore these and build my own, but then I would say that about Fender Custom Shop guitars as well. They are all churned out with a load of bollocks marketing behind them.

clarkefan · June 2018

When was that original guitar ever nicknamed "Eruption"? About 5 mins before the marketing genius announced his new scheme to the Board?

Why is there a tin of oil included, I've never heard anybody refer to it before.

If he only plays one guitar and all eight lucky owners are given the same video, how would anybody know?

richh · June 2018

Wasn't his original guitar just a parts-caster type of thing? Maybe a very good one, but still!

impmann · June 2018

Fools are easily parted from money.

prlgmnr · June 2018

You should have to produce a video of yourself playing Eruption before you're allowed to buy one.

Philly_Q · June 2018

clarkefan said:

Why is there a tin of oil included, I've never heard anybody refer to it before.

For oiling the brass nut, presumably?

I can't deny this is a cool thing but it's purely a device for extracting money out of obsessive collectors. The guitar equivalent of those super-deluxe vinyl-plus-CD-plus-Blu-ray-plus-fake-tattoos-plus-bottle-opener box set album reissues.

As a guitar it can't even claim to be immaculately crafted from premium components and the finest tonewoods, because it's not even supposed to be.

Still, I'll save copies of the pictures.

guitarmangler · June 2018

21 mowed-down (fretless wonder) jumbo fret

Now that, is a new one me.

Philly_Q · June 2018

prlgmnr said:

You should have to produce a video of yourself playing Eruption before you're allowed to buy one.

You should also have flared jeans, a stripey shirt, no trace of a beer gut and a bloody impressive head of hair.

artiebear · June 2018

Get a strat type body, a maple neck with decent frets, single bucker plate and pick up of choice, a floyd oh and some black tape. Then practise like ****. Your about there without losing alot of beer tokens and, potentially, your sanity. Having said all that, good luck to them , there will be plenty of takers .