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03/27/2002 12:53 am
Any questions as to why PRS guitars are expensive should now be answered. WOW!


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03/27/2002 5:24 am
yea this guitar absoulutley rocks i have never seen anything so cool in mylife if i where a rich bastard i would buy it.

That is sick!!!!
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You get up for it cause you need it, otherwise you wouldn't be fuked with it.
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03/27/2002 6:25 am
Those are some sweet guitars but I can't see myself ever, ever spending that much on a guitar. Even if I was extremly rich.
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03/27/2002 3:27 pm
..wouldn't dare play it though :)

Ol' grumpy Ed's got some tasty guitars at almost sane prices which (he says) compare to PRS (?)

http://www.edromanguitars.com/compare/cmprd2dt.htm
Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..
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03/27/2002 4:11 pm
hmmms... maybe i should get out my old airbrush and start to color my guitar that way too.. it looks absolutely COOL


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03/27/2002 4:31 pm
Wonder how long it would take me to put a couple of chips, nicks, scratches and dents in that? Remember Nigel's guitar collection in "Spinal Tap", " Don't even point at it", 50K, does that include a hard case, or is that another 10k?
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03/27/2002 6:24 pm
1000 posts? 1000 posts? 1000 posts?


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03/27/2002 11:26 pm
Is that real abalone? That much material glued to the top of a guitar has to have some effect on the tone...
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03/27/2002 11:53 pm
Fossilized mastadon tusk.

Or so I heard. I think a lot of it is abolone.
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03/27/2002 11:55 pm
Originally posted by Jon Broderick
1000 posts? 1000 posts? 1000 posts?



Want to know the secret?

PS: Thanks!
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03/28/2002 2:24 am
Originally posted by Jon Broderick
1000 posts? 1000 posts? 1000 posts?
Hah! Closer to [u]1100[/u]!
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03/28/2002 2:57 am
am i the only one who thinks that guitar sucks?

c'mon, $50,000? I'd rather have Doug Irwin make me a custom 24 fretter like the one he made for jerry. and that would cost me less than 5 grand probably.
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03/28/2002 3:57 am
Well, in terms of pure inlay artistry, this guitar is incredible. The rest of the guitar is probably exceptional as well - overall build, the materials, the finish, everything. It is indeed a work of art, and who can really put a price tag on that?

Would I put out the money for it? No way.

Would I take it if somebody gave it to me? Hell yeah. But I wouldn't put it in a display case, I'd play it and the fact is it wouldn't look that good forever.

Oh well.

btw: You read PonyOne's posts, right?
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03/28/2002 7:11 am
If I knew someone who had that I'd probably risk killing them for it. No doubt about it. I still like my Beast though. It costed $500 after shipping and handling.
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03/29/2002 12:00 am
50k dollars is about 4 m kenya shillings(im kenyan,thats the connection).Now,a good meal in kenya in a place with reasonable prices,would cost,on the upper limit,like 200 bob(and that's the upper limit.you dont want to know how the distribution curve looks like).Anyway,the 4 mil feeds 20,000,not 1000,starving kids.(you know you dont take starving kids to a hilton or something).And there are a lot of nice cars under 50k.
Anyway,what is it with people and wanting to look special?How many noses you got?two?none?you were born in pluto and flew over?on yoyr wings?Thing is,the fact that you're trying to look special,different,whateva,is the proof that you're not very whateva you're trying to appear,just trying.And that's the only reason any sane(and most of the insane)person would pay 50K us dollars for a guitar.Actually it would make you different;you'd be one stupid enuff to pay 50K for guitar,jusst so you feel different.Note the word:feel different.And if this guitar is so special,limited,collectable,whateva,why are they giving info about dealers?I didn't even click that guitar.
I'll stop here,coz things of these nature tend to really tick me off;I read in the paper that a stealth bomber costs over a billion us dollars,and when you see the people the bomber is killing,and how much the billion could change these peoples lives,and the crap politicians puke,i tend to get angry.a billion is a heck of a lot of money.and dont tell me america is a large economy.
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03/30/2002 7:36 pm
that kind of money for any instrument is obscene. when i think of all the guys and girls trying to eek out a living. i love music but 50k for a guitar that will feed a lot of people. or pay for medical help for some poor soul. as i said i love music but not that much priorities must be the order of the day. rock on guys,
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03/30/2002 10:31 pm
Ponyone: brudda, der isa a revalution a commin'... a left 'anded revalution... but humour aside.. THAT'S FUGGING EXTORTION!!!! I mean, 10% extra is bearable.. but $50000!!!
both those guitars in my book as ugly... I dont like em... I'm gonna decorate my own guitar soon... how it turns out i'm not sure... I like hendrix's flying v which he decorated himself... but it's not what i'm after...
and what's with the cheesey mountain / dragon scenes in alabalone?
edit: oh, hold on... it's a collectors guitar... in that case it makes sense... I mean it's nothing to do with how it sounds but more about it's history/ asthetics etc etc... oh, but it'd be a dense man to spend that much on a guitar.. but then again hendrix's white start feteched £180,000... which to this day, i dont understand why anyone would pay so much for it... oh yeah i could... it's an investment i suppoused...

[Edited by educatedfilm on 03-30-2002 at 04:34 PM]
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03/30/2002 11:08 pm
I would sell the Jimi guitar and buy a VW Lupo and
travel around the world with it.
I could go around the globe 150 times, and then I included the purchase cost.
I think it lasts longer than the guitar does.
Or I could buy 150000 bottles of tequila and just
be very drunk every day the next 350 years or so.
Or you can combine them and drink 75000 bottles
of tequila while youre driving around the world
around 75 times.
Or you can rent a russian tank for 30000 hours
and berserk.

When you look at all the fun options you have, I dont think any of you will spend that much money on a guitar.
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03/30/2002 11:15 pm
sorry... did i read that write? 30000 hours? so you can hire a russian tank for (50000/ 30000 =) $1.67 per hour?!!!
WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
I want to go to russia... and drive over stuff in a tank...:D
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03/31/2002 5:38 am
Yeehaaw. All those who speak ill of Educatedfilm be very wary. Hey, for that much, we could rent one as a guitartricks official moderator's tank. Anyone misbehaves and BAM.
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