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Off to time all my guitars with a stopwatch now, I'll let you know how bad they all are... Eeek!
He can be OTT at times and yes a few cringey bits - But overall a good guy
No mean player either - So he has had to become a builder, a company man/business man and a player
For any faults others can throw at him, Fender and Gibson do not have an equivalent person/role - The person who is the company - Can talk the business and the product and relate/react with his artists and customers - We are fortunate that we have such guys - But I know not all will agree with me
Anyway, altogether now:
I wanna know what smug is,
I want you to show me.
I want you to show me.
I'm not sure about smug... there's certainly a strong belief in what he does, and he probably thinks he's always right, but in other ways he comes across as quite humble and down to earth. He might have a flash car, I don't know, but he's not all silly hats and expensive leather jackets...
On the whole I quite like him. I wouldn't want to hang out with him, but I quite like him.
I think John Suhr is another guitar builder in a similar vein - and someone who I would like to hang out with.
Yeah John chips in on TGP from time to time and always seems pleasant and helpful. He helped me with a question about specs on a Tom Anderson, which seemed above and beyond the call of duty.
You have to add to this ... I think US selling is fundamentally different to British selling - not worse, just different. In the US there is more of a culture of the hard sell - they are really the country that invented mass consumer advertising, and I think they are culturally a bit thicker-skinned to hype and snake-oil. It's a game; hell it's almost expected.
There would be no PRS guitars without Paul ... so I think that automatically makes him pretty cool.
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Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
FWIIW, I am perfectly happy with the stock HFS/VB humbuckers in my elderly PRS Custom.
I think compared to Suhr, Tom Anderson et al, there's a difference because they dont claim to be reinventing anything, unlike Paul. They're less travelling snake oil salesmen and just great guitar makers who have done very well.
Also in comparison, corporate buyouts ruined Fender and Gibson and there's no chance they will ever head back to being a company like PRS. If PRS were to suffer the same level of corporate buyout, they would also end up like those companies. Those hedge funds love a buyout and asset stripping.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
If I engage with a guitarist I do so with caution incase they want to try and bamboozle me with their knowledge of every little intricacy.
Not all like that, but very many are. I’m trying my best not to turn into one myself, but I do have my moments too
As opposed to the likes of Friedman, Suhr and Anderson who are geeks, but fully acknowledge their guitars are refinements on a theme and are far less conceited. It's night and day/chalk and cheese, Paul's guitars speak for themselves as does his roster, and I can distance his products from the man, but I don't like him particularly at all. His guitars are also not as well made as Andersons and somewhere similar to Suhr. So he's not alone in quality, high level guitar output.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Blower switch, Switcheroo, and the two screw neck join are some examples.
The latter is a genius idea.
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Sell the company can be a different way of leaving funds/heritage to the family and he still works in an ambassador/advisory role