OK, I'm not patient enough to wait for someone to ask me ......... :P Kalamazoo Michigan USA! $350! Keep in mind the Gibby was only $500 back then. :lol: The Epi had dot inlays and the neck was not bound and it had open face pickups. It was plain. But still!!!!! I opted for the new Les Paul XR2. Try looking them up. They only made them for a couple of years.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
Back in 1982 when I bought my first Les Paul I could have bought an Epiphone SG. Do you know where it was made? Do you? Huh? Huh?
Darn it... I'm too slow... :)
I've been reading a bit about the history of Gibson and Epiphone, so I had seen this at the Epi site:
1957 Gibson's parent company, Chicago Musical Instrument, buys Epiphone for $20,000. The purpose is to acquire Epiphone's bass production equipment, but CMI makes Epiphone a division of Gibson and revives the Epiphone name on guitars. A full line of newly designed acoustics and electrics is unveiled in 1958. Epiphone production is moved into Gibson's factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1960.
I love the picture of old 'Epi' Stathopoulo - he looks straight out of Monty Python. :D
Interesting to see the price you quoted from 1982, TR. Considering how much wages, housing costs etc have changed in that 25 years, that's not all that much of a price increase on the Epi. So I guess they have been concentrating on keeping the price down.
Still got that XR2? Looks like they fetch a good sum now.
Chris
Well if the object of this thread was to give me GAS, you've certainly succeeded! Although I'd pretty much made up my mind what I wanted anyway - and that's a 2nd Squier Tele. Darth Ordinary put me on to a guitar shop in Warrington (5 miles away, 10 mins on the train) that has a couple in stock, so I'm going to go and put them through their paces this week. They have the Squier Custom Tele with P90's in two models - Black and Blonde. It'll be interesting to do a comparison between the new one which I'll acquire and the one I already have, in the same way Chris has compared the two SG's.
Then again, guitar shops are like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get!
Still haven't made my mind up between Cube 30 Amp and Vox ADT 30 amp though....
Decisions, decisions!
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Still haven't made my mind up between Cube 30 Amp and Vox ADT 30 amp though....
I love my Vox AD30VT but I've never even seen a Cube so can't make a comparison.
There is a Vox forum which shows some the members presets available:
http://www.valvetronix.net/forum/index.php
And Robert Renman has some great video clips on his site showing the Vox used with various guitars some of which are stock-standard Squiers:
And there are some good demos on Youtube.
LOL, my mind's made up now - after all this time wanting a Cube-30 - I've had the Cube-15 in the past - I tried my Squier Tele through Darth Ordinary's Vox AD30VT tonight - and I'm SOLD! Amazing range of tones and effects, I tried a lot of different settings and loved most of them. And the best part? The Vox + a footswitch is the same price as the cube!
Now all I've got to do is find a sound-hole pickup for my acoustic and I'm ready to roll!
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Sorry Chris.
My intentions with that SG pic were anything but cruel.
I was just trying to give you an example of the 'spottiness' I was refering to.
Though that is a pretty guitar, I must admit.
PAF HB's too. :twisted:
Vic - about the soundhole pup....
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Ken
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within
begins to live more simply without"
-Ernest Hemingway
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