Glastonbury driving guitar sales

NelsonP

Tame impala got me looking seriously at mascis jazzmasters. If it's good enough for them....

tony99

Iamnobody said:

clarkefan said:

Johnny Marr on the other hand was brilliant with the Killers, bloke's turning into Keef throwing all the shapes

Except you can’t polish a turd! For me The Killers lack any sort of edge whatsoever and the front man gets dangerously close to being a cabaret performer. Shite! YMMV.

Marr though is very cool.

With you on this, even with popular bands I don't listen to or am not 'into' myself I can normally get it, understand the appeal. But with The Killers I dunno. I worked one of their gigs and it was a very elaborate set that they had but, the music? jeez

jeztone2

I like the first two Killers albums, then they go off the boil big time for me. 

hollywoodrox

The only time I’ve seen anyone really good was when the Stones  were on  

Schnozz

What's C.F. Martin & Co's QC like? 

slacker

hollywoodrox said:

The only time I’ve seen anyone really good was when the Stones  were on  

IMHO they were poor due to monitoring issues. The Hyde Park revisit gig was good first ones great too.

ICBM

Schnozz said:

What's C.F. Martin & Co's QC like? 

Pretty good generally. Like all mass-producers they will occasionally let something minor slip through though.

p90fool

Glastonbury driving guitars sales, as in, there's fuck all worth watching, might as well go down the guitar shop instead?

Schnozz

ICBM said:

Schnozz said:

What's C.F. Martin & Co's QC like? 

Pretty good generally. Like all mass-producers they will occasionally let something minor slip through though.

Yeah you rarely hear bad things about them considering. Not many argue about high prices on acoustics either.

dbphoto

BBBlues said:

I think 29/25 would give you 16% sales growth. So potentially 4 more than avg?

Would they sell 25 on avg? Seems a lot. Maybe including all guitarguitar stores and online? But that’s the smallest fraction to satisfy the stat.

In 2018 GuitarGuitar sold an average of £83,676 every single day of the year (based on their accounts showing a £30,541,829 annual turnover)

How many guitars are included in that figure I have no idea, but still, that’s an impressive amount of music related gear.

darthed1981

The new Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars song might help drive guitar sales, have to admit to rather liking it...

it's just... fun...

thegummy

I might be mistaken but I think I'm possibly noticing a bit of a trend of guitars returning to pop music more and more; real instruments in general.

I think Bruno or someone similar started a set on a drum kit. Also like how the very popular Billie Eilish has her brother in the background playing the bass guitar.

It's not rock or guitar-based music but it's good to see it being used in performances so as not to be forgotten about by the youth.

darthed1981

Bruno Mars sees himself as a cross between Lenny Kravitz and Prince I think, which won't hurt his perception of guitars.  I'm not a huge fan but he clearly has been involved with some decent choons.

Bastille, again who I'm not a huge fan of, have released a strong lead song off their new album, the 1975 are intermittently very "guitary".

Guitar might be sneaking back into pop.

Let's not forget, Muse and Coldplay remain globally massive.

TINMAN82

I do wonder if we have a skewed view of this in the U.K. Whenever you see gig dvds from the likes of Iron Maiden or the Rolling Stones in South America and the like it seems guitar music is still king in these areas.

Whitecat

Seem to be lots of smaller up-and-comers that are pretty guitar-centric now compared to a few years ago when every single band in the UK was two blokes on synths and a female vocalist. To give a specific example Sam Fender just sold out several nights at Brixton Academy and he’s both popular with the young people and super guitar-front-and-centre... that kind of stuff has an impact.