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PRS is more of a designer/engineer/builder and all round genius when it comes to the build of a guitar though, isn't he? He built his own and handed them to people to try. I like that approach, even if it was modernised and it was over internet reviews and a list of people sending it around the world.
Chappers can shred and play like crazy, probably more so than PRS no doubt, but PRS is absolutely way in front in terms of designing a guitar.
I don’t know the sales figures but I’d bet that Dorje isn’t near big enough to be a full time income stream.
A lot of musicians have multiple income streams these days. Sure they could teach on the side, or do production work, and many do - but you can only sell time once. If you can set up a brand selling products you can sell a lot more and why not?
But the these British Standard are spec,d by the customer in effect so no input really from Rob Chapman or anyone else in the team.
The 0.004 pence per play figure from here:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/01/spotify-pays-0-00429p-per-stream/
I know there will be other sources of income for the band, but I think you are right about it not being a full time incomce stream.
I also suspect they did rather better out of Amazon when they were top of the sales list for a few days than they ever have from Spotify...
Smith markets himself very astutely - but is a guitar maker first. Chappers may lend his name to these guitars - but he is not a guitar maker in the sense that the phrase applies to Paul Reed Smith.
This is his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/jjaffa1?ref=br_rs
He accompanied Rob on one of the factory tours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6_m6AUzxgU
Really not sure how it ended up comparing Paul Reed Smith with Chappers.
Paul has always been on a path to be a better builder and understand the process of guitar making what did they do in 1959 to make Les Pauls special, why is that 62 Strat a blinder and this one is a dead plank. I also think he felt sorry for Ted Mcarthy as he was instrumental Gibsons golden era but he was very under recognised for what he achieved.
Seriously though, I think it would be fair to say that everything Chapman and Lee Anderton do, from their public personas to every 'laddish' video is part of a carefully worked out marketing plan (probably driven by Chapman who even invented Anderton's 'The Captain' persona for him) and as 'The Goodies' once said, 'There are three type of people in the world. 'D' for dumb, 'C' for clever and 'A' for advertising men.'
https://www.facebook.com/benswanwickguitar