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Post subject: Remember this
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 2:04 pm
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from a few years back. The Gibson/Hendrix Strat that never was. I remember talking about it on these boards.
Looks like it was as cheap as we all thought it would be.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNRELEASED-Gi ... SwB4NWvN6m

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 2:38 pm
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A sadder sack of crap was never devised.

I'm surprised to see that listed......I thought saner heads had prevailed at Gibson and they were all destroyed.

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 2:50 pm
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I remember that - though I've tried to forget it :x :roll:

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:35 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
A sadder sack of crap was never devised


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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:48 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
... I thought saner heads had prevailed at Gibson and they were all destroyed ...

It does not say Gibson on it anywhere, though ... is that right?

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:40 pm
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"Designed in close collaboration with Janie Hendrix and Gibson engineers."

That right there tells you how good of a Strat it would have been. :(

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:43 pm
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Aside from riding somebody else's coattails to undeserved financial bliss, WTF does Janie Hendrix know......about anything?

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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:15 pm
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I dunno, I don't like Janey at all. I think she's leeching off her half brother. I gotta say though, I went to see Leon Hendrix a while back (in the dark days of my forum absence). What a disaster that gig was. I asked Leon if I could get my picture taken with him. He said, "wait till I get changed into my stage clothes". Seemed a nice bloke, truth be told.
It started off like a covers band. All local UK musos that weren't bad, nothing interstellar but not bad by any means. OK the guitarist, I'm told, plays in a Hendrix tribute band. Though I think he looks more like Lionel Ritchie. I kept expecting some blind woman to enter stage left with a potters wheel.
There was some woman that would occasionally sing lines to jog Leons memory.

After a while it went like some sort of Spiritualist Church thing. Trying to raise the ghost of Jimi. I walked out at this point. A bit upset. Hendrix was a huge part of my life for around 14 years.
So I have a cigarette and a pint, calm down and go back to the show.
A poor rendition of Isabella. Then like some pentecostal minister Leon starts on with "the spirit of brother Jimi has descended upon you now". Back out the door I go.
More cigarettes, more beer.
Go back to the stage room. The pentecostal thing is still going on in-between poorly performed songs. I think "stay calm, Leon has had his problems, ignore it. Just listen". Then he starts with Brother Jimi is speaking through him.
Out I go again.
OK this is Hendrix's little brother. He loved Leon very much. Back in, they're playing Wind Cries Mary incorrectly. And then it's all over.
I'm going back to my friends car for my lift home. Leon comes up to me says, "hey do you want that picture".
"Nah you're ok mate, I haven't got time".

Perhaps Leon should be playing a Janey/Gibson. Certainly similar quality of tributes.

It was the included Hendrix official amp in the listing that got me. It tells you all you need to know about how good the guitar is

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:57 am
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Now there's one axe that should be burned, IMHO.

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:17 am
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Pfft!

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:23 am
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how did this ever get past a board room meeting at Gibson? :roll:
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Designed in close collaboration with Janie Hendrix and Gibson engineers.

I almost spit my coffee out.

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Post subject: Re: Remember this
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:58 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
Aside from riding somebody else's coattails to undeserved financial bliss, WTF does Janie Hendrix know......about anything?

:evil:

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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:01 am
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Great story Niki. Leon should probably retire :lol: .
I almost forgot about the Gibson/Hendrix tribute guitar :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Remember this
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:12 am
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The two things that scream "CRAP GUITAR" are those horrible tuners and the cruddy amp...

There are several products with the Experience Hendrix seal of approval that are excellent--the Dunlop pedals, the unreleased or remastered recordings, and even the Experience Hendrix Tour (which I was able to attend last week in Grand Prairie, Texas)...but this was a poor attempt by both Gibson and Janie.

Maybe the backlash against this douchebaggery made her reconsider what she should put Jimi's name on....

Wasn't the Fireturd X...ahem Firebird X released around this same time? It seems ol' Henry J was in a creative slump during that period...Although the ridiculous adjustments made to the Les Paul lineup for 2015 suggest he doesn't understand the balance between tradition and innovation.

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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 1:36 pm
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Maybe Janie was going to wind the pickups herself, so they'd have that authentic Hendrix sound. I guess we'll never know. :lol:

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