Disappointingly expensive

RocknRollDave

Whoever is buying this guitar at that price needs to remember one thing:

Unless you have the chordal knowledge and the chops, NO amount of money is gonna make you sound like Nile Rodgers.

daveyh

TimmyO said:

daveyh said:

impmann said:

That is a bit silly.

But both incoming guitars are reserved so obviously somebody doesn't think so.

I assume for that price it's a full on replica with wear etc. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to pay that, fan or not, for what is indeed just a hardtail strat but there ya go.

It's had a fair gestation period this sig model - they kept sending Nile guitars, and he kept sending them back :-D 

Apparently he proved to them the reason his personal guitar sounds the way it does was the combination of neck and body weight (and no doubt some other things) by swapping necks and bodies and his own electrics between the samples they sent. The "news" about an imminent Nile signature goes back about 4 or more years - they've been working on it for a while.

I'm a Nile Rogers fanboy - rational commentary on the merits or otherwise of this guitar are largely irrelevant to my desire for it ;-) 

Indeed. I learnt Le freak in about '87 and his playing influenced mine ever since. But an exact copy of his guitar? Not in the slightest bit interested, even if I had the money. But I suppose since Get Lucky everyone's always been a Rodgers fan so the market is bigger.

Lixarto

axisus said:

I kind of feel that signature guitars only really work with 'guitar hero' types, people who really make a guitar sing. Very significant individual though Nile has been, he's not in that category. 

Yes he is - far more important than the widdly merchants - he writes songs!

fretmeister

RocknRollDave said:

Whoever is buying this guitar at that price needs to remember one thing:

Unless you have the chordal knowledge and the chops, NO amount of money is gonna make you sound like Nile Rodgers.

I've got a Fender Urge II Stuart Hamm signature bass. What's your point?

RocknRollDave

That's DEFINITELY not going to make you sound like Nile Rogers.

jd0272

Nile may spank a bass....

mellowsun

It's not meant to be played, it's for collectors isn't it?

jd0272

mellowsun;138397" said:

It's not meant to be played, it's for collectors isn't it?

Poor investment then, and nowt much to look at either.