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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Gibson really have gone from a super positive 2019 to an absolute mess. PR disaster.
I have two nice Gibsons. My friend loves a nice Thunderbird bass and owns one. We had a chat this weekend and he still can't believe they can't just reissue proper decent Gibson basses for a reasonable sum.
Gibson: "Hold my beer..."
Also would have been a cool way to wave goodbye to Henry's era and usher in the new era under JC.
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"Hiscox cases, because you never know what might happen"
Those were musical instruments, shit ones that should never have got onto the production line, but musical instruments nevertheless.
This doesn't really show that much has been learned at Gibson HQ.
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It's utterly crass to line up hundreds of perfectly functional guitars and drive over them with a tank. It seems a bit like the mentality of those grinning idiots who publish photos of themselves with animals they've just shot.
Giving away stuff that may still be on dealers walls for sale is not an option and selling stuff off cheap can devalue the brand.
Burberry destroyed over £28 million of goods last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44885983
It's just the way large brand businesses work.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I am sure the scrapyard would have separated the metal from the wood etc after the fact for more base-level recycling.
Anyway, it is crass, but it’s not as uncommon as we want to believe based on how the tax system works... I suspect this video was not meant to get out either.