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This is good news for Tom Murphy and good news for Gibson. I sure hope Gibson is able to seize this opportunity to "up the ante" with regard to building new guitars that rival the lauded vintage examples from 1952-1964. Note to Gibson...would you please return to sourcing and procuring your mahogany lumber from Central and South America (or at least in this hemisphere) If NASA can land and operate multiple autonomous rover vehicles on Mars, then establishing a reliable source for genuine Honduras Mahogany shouldn't be too difficult. See example below.
And I hope this organizational change serves to reinvigorate a sagging electric guitar market. The music industry is in turmoil presently with very little light at the end of the tunnel.
Sadly, the electric guitar has lost much of the enchantment, allure, enticement it once held in the 20th century. I see very few young people today who are passionate about playing guitar or any musical instrument for that matter. Kids habituated to smartphones, SnapChat, Twitter, and Instagram expect instant gratification. Many lack the discipline and wherewithal to pick up and learn a musical instrument. And what's really bizarre is many young people view RAP as a valid musical idiom and art form. The electric guitar has clearly been dethroned and usurped by the wide assortment of digital facsimiles such as synthesizers, drum machines, auto-tune, click-tracks, and Pro-Tools/computers.
Lastly, perhaps the time has come for world environmental leaders to reexamine some of the onerous and ill-founded CITES restrictions that only create volumes of paperwork, with no tangible benefits for the endangered species. :dang
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This is good news for Tom Murphy and good news for Gibson. I sure hope Gibson is able to seize this opportunity to "up the ante" with regard to building new guitars that rival the lauded vintage examples from 1952-1964. Note to Gibson...would you please return to sourcing and procuring your mahogany lumber from Central and South America (or at least in this hemisphere) If NASA can land and operate multiple autonomous rover vehicles on Mars, then establishing a reliable source for genuine Honduras Mahogany shouldn't be too difficult. See example below.
And I hope this organizational change serves to reinvigorate a sagging electric guitar market. The music industry is in turmoil presently with very little light at the end of the tunnel.
Sadly, the electric guitar has lost much of the enchantment, allure, enticement it once held in the 20th century. I see very few young people today who are passionate about playing guitar or any musical instrument for that matter. Kids habituated to smartphones, SnapChat, Twitter, and Instagram expect instant gratification. Many lack the discipline and wherewithal to pick up and learn a musical instrument. And what's really bizarre is many young people view RAP as a valid musical idiom and art form. The electric guitar has clearly been dethroned and usurped by the wide assortment of digital facsimiles such as synthesizers, drum machines, auto-tune, click-tracks, and Pro-Tools/computers.
Lastly, perhaps the time has come for world environmental leaders to reexamine some of the onerous and ill-founded CITES restrictions that only create volumes of paperwork, with no tangible benefits for the endangered species. :dang
Take some “Activated Charcoal” capsules. That’ll help with most gas and bloating..
