Gibson Slash "Jessica" Les Paul is here

Offset

timmypix said:

NCo said:

Unfortunately, the latter is encountered frequently enough that it's hard not to think of it when coming across a named guitar.

I think that either consciously or subconsciously, you've hit the nail on the head.

mrkb

Offset said:

timmypix said:

NCo said:

Unfortunately, the latter is encountered frequently enough that it's hard not to think of it when coming across a named guitar.

I think that either consciously or subconsciously, you've hit the nail on the head.

Lol, I’ll name my guitar “Bernard Manning” to keep it safe.

Musicman20

timmypix said:

NCo said:

Musicman20 said:

Yeah, I'm on the side of calling a guitar a name, (and obviously thinking it's female) is just....cringe.

Don't judge.

For people who are bilingual, or whose English isn't a native tongue, it is normal to think of a guitar as female.

Unlike English, almost 50% of the languages assign grammatical gender to nouns, some examples being languages like Spanish, French and German.

Grammatical gendering in a different language is a very different thing to middle-aged English speakers giving guitars female names and posting to the Les Paul Facebook group at 10pm with sexualised descriptions.

I don't think anyone would have a go at a French person for saying "la guitare", or at Joe Bloggs for naming the guitar he bought with his late mum's inheritance after her; hell, even Slash naming his Victoria goldtop after the woman who stole it at least ties in to the guitar's history.

However, Nigel posting "This is my new Les Paul, Roberta, I love the curves on this beauty and she'll never leave me, I love how I can treat her gentle or make her scream" will always make me cringe, gag a little  and suspect that the line between women and objects is blurred in Nigel's mind.

Unfortunately, the latter is encountered frequently enough that it's hard not to think of it when coming across a named guitar.

Hit the nail on the head.

elstoof

There’s a difference between gendered nouns in a language and actually describing an inanimate object as female 

timmypix

Anyway, we're in danger of this veering into the quarterly "does anyone else name their guitars" thread, so let's just accept that in this case, Slash did, and now Gibson want your money so you can pretend a completely different guitar is the same guitar, which they're now very good at. Maybe if you already bought Victoria you can choose which one you play Mambo No. 5 on.

I'll be interested to see if these fly off the shelves because Jessica is probably Slash's most iconic guitar behind the Derrig, or if punters are put off by paying the same as they would for the flame-top models. 

SixStringSage

For the criticisms about the female name, don't forget Slash a) has only named a small number of his guitars and b) two of them are called Pete. 

ALR

Epiphone made a signature slash LP in 1997 with the snakepit logo on it. Just get that it’ll be well cheaper