R.I.P. Mesa Boogie

[cozmik_cowboy]

Fender's been doing the same thing and destroying good brands, although they somehow didn't ruin Gretsch...

Guild had some tense moments, but they have escaped from Fender & fully recovered.

They own the company that made better "Gibsons" than Gibson - their biggest competitor - and they kill it off.

The company that makes better Gibsons than Gibson?  That would be Heritage.

Peter

[bigredbass]

"I'm 75 years-old and still at work every day,"

At that age (and I'll soon be 66), HOW LONG do you get to wait until you can walk away, smell the roses, and enjoy a life after one hell of a career? I can understand this from Randall Smith completely. No matter how wonderful a job is, at some point, you just want to be out from under the day to day churn and burn, I'd think especially so after FIFTY YEARS on a job.

I also was told in no uncertain terms by a serious pro guitarist who doubles as a floor manager for a big guitar store here in Nashville who'd be the first to pooh-pooh Gibson, that the Gibsons they get in these days are the best they've ever seen, by far.

I'm a former Gibson Nashville employee, and these are the 'post Henry J' days, thank goodness.  What a piece of work !

So, I hope for the best.

[StefanieJones]

I also was told in no uncertain terms by a serious pro guitarist who doubles as a floor manager for a big guitar store here in Nashville who'd be the first to pooh-pooh Gibson, that the Gibsons they get in these days are the best they've ever seen, by far.

My brother bought a new Les Paul and it had problems in the first month after buying it. One of the pots stopped working. Then they couldn't get the part for two more months.  May be a one off, but I'd think if the pots on other guitars came from the same batch there may be more guitars with the same problem. I tried to tell him not to buy new in the first place but he wanted to relive his glory days...