Gibson Launching Digital Guitar Model

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118752,00.html

But there's a downside to this...

"NASHVILLE, Tenn. — "The defining moment will be when a certain lick in a popular song is out there, and it can't be done with anything else but a digital guitar," Juszkiewicz says. "It only takes one example to really inspire people."

Yeah, like Eddie Van Halen when he did "Eruption" 26 years ago and overnight we were blessed with 20 million shred kiddies who couldn't play but were "really inspired" enough by Eddie to play ANYWAY. Mike Varney and his wretched hellspawn "Shrapnel Records" stable of "artists." Big-haired dinks in spandex and poofy pirate shirts like Vinnie Moore who mastered the whole "deedleydeedlydeedleydeedly" 50-million-notes-per-measure-but-you-forgot-to-write-a-frigging-SONG-around-them" school of slop rock.

The digital guitar from Gibson will cost $1000-1500 more than a "regular" guitar, which means rich kids from the suburbs will be lining up to play that "special fifteen hundred dollar lick."

:puke:

"The digital guitar uses computer chips to clean up the signal — Juszkiewicz describes the new sound as traditional but "on steroids."

"It also allows the player to control the sound of each string. For example, the guitarist can have a heavy metal crunch on the low strings, medium distortion on the middle strings and a clean sound on the high strings."

"You'll be able to record all these different sounds and textures. It's unbelievable, I think," said Dave Cleveland, a Nashville session guitarist who planned to buy one of the new instruments. "It's going to revolutionize the whole recording part of guitar playing."

Somewhere tonight, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are wetting themselves.

sheesh.

Phil Manzanera from Roxy Music got into a heavy guitar synth phase at one point and was asked "when are you going back to guitars" and he replied "they're ALL guitars."

BLEH.

ok not really. but i mean c'mon! why did it have to come to this?

-LK

but thank god my Les Paul is vintage. No one gets that baby.