Ibanez Satriani JSART2 Doodled Guitars

A_Particular_Geetar

Any takers on these

http://www.ibanez.com/JSART2/index.html

Poor fella having to hand draw them all

Jalapeno

Pretty unique, if lacking in the prettiness.

Stevepage

For £5500 I'm out. 

Strangefan

What a bag of shit lol, they're doodles and not very good ones, done purely to get maximum cash for a generic ibanez. 
Thats not art it's pure cash generation. 

axisus

1   I'm not that keen on them
 2   I could do it myself
 3   a JS with 24 frets looks wrong

But, it's cool that he's doing them himself!

Marshall_stax

As a fan of the JS I quite like these - However I don't £5500 like them.
Surely it's cheaper to buy a standard JS, a meet and greet package and a sharpie and get the man himself to do a quick doodle for you there and then isn't it?

Sassafras

I bet JoBo's kicking himself he didn't come up with this money-spinner. 

daveyh

Strangefan said:

What a bag of shit lol, they're doodles and not very good ones, done purely to get maximum cash for a generic ibanez. 
Thats not art it's pure cash generation. 

Well it is art, whrther you like or agree is a different matter.

guitarfishbay

Strangefan said:

What a bag of shit lol, they're doodles and not very good ones, done purely to get maximum cash for a generic ibanez. 
Thats not art it's pure cash generation. 

He's been doing this style of doodling stuff for ages so it's not a new thing. Of course it is to make money, that's what all product tie ins are for.

Fair play if he sells them, he's probably got the fan base to do so. Album sales are massively down so people look at other income streams - his past 3 albums have only sold around 10,000 units in the US. Go back 4 or more and those figures were mostly 100,000+ 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani_discography

not_the_dj

His "Black Dog" one was awesome....I loved that guitar so much in the early 90s.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uxQ2UF62rZY/T23meyCqXAI/AAAAAAAABuo/daf8sLjbCPQ/s1600/8905gtr.JPG

hubobulous

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

£5500 is a lot for those ART series, but I can understand that there are those out there fancying one. A bit like the JEM DNA but not so personal....!!

Stevepage

guitarfishbay said:

Strangefan said:

What a bag of shit lol, they're doodles and not very good ones, done purely to get maximum cash for a generic ibanez. 
Thats not art it's pure cash generation. 

He's been doing this style of doodling stuff for ages so it's not a new thing. Of course it is to make money, that's what all product tie ins are for.

Fair play if he sells them, he's probably got the fan base to do so. Album sales are massively down so people look at other income streams - his past 3 albums have only sold around 10,000 units in the US. Go back 4 or more and those figures were mostly 100,000+ 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani_discography

Wow. imagine how he felt going from 100,000 down to just 10,000. It's no wonder so many bands give up or try and sell anything they can

Ravenous

Sassafras said:

I bet JoBo's kicking himself he didn't come up with this money-spinner. 

He needs to learn how to hold a pen first.

Lez325

My minion Strat is up for a mere £2,000 lol

Click for larger Image 

http://i.imgur.com/9yXWxMX.jpg

Les

guitarfishbay

hubobulous said:

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

That is a cool looking guitar. 

Bowks

I'd have no. 72, the multicolour squiggled guitar, in a heartbeat.

Bowks

hubobulous said:

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

The Black Dog replica is very cool looking!

Were they not in the £5k region when new? Maybe higher, as they were Sugi made guitars IIRC?

olafgarten

Bowks said:

hubobulous said:

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

The Black Dog replica is very cool looking!

Were they not in the £5k region when new? Maybe higher, as they were Sugi made guitars IIRC?

This actually looks decent though, the new ones look like they were drawn by a 10 year old. 

hubobulous

Bowks said:

hubobulous said:

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

The Black Dog replica is very cool looking!

Were they not in the £5k region when new? Maybe higher, as they were Sugi made guitars IIRC?

I got mine second hand so didn't pay anywhere close to that. Didn't get the certificate etc as I think they just came with the US releases and mine was from Asia. But yes, they are Sugi made and do feel a little different to the other JS models that I have and have had.

Garthy

These two halfway down the page are much better.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=193&t=498718&i=3000

Sassafras

olafgarten said:

Bowks said:

hubobulous said:

I have one of the Black Dogs and love it. A great playing guitar and along with the Chromeboy, is the one I associate most strongly with him.

This actually looks decent though, the new ones look like they were drawn by a 10 year old. 

If JS has kids they may well have been.