If you like that, you're an idiot....

Whitecat · March 2021

Tribalism innit. Been around forever, but it’s become a big problem with everything over the past decade or so - guitarists are certainly not immune and “brand loyalty” is still a big driver of sales - in some ways, it helps companies to foster that kind of blind belief.

I love making fun of products I hate but I try to never make it personal. Odds are loads of people playing the things I don’t like are being way more creative with them than I’d ever be even with the stuff I do like, and power to them.

menamestom · March 2021

randella said:

"The answer to a question no-one asked" is a phrase I've seen applied to various products down the years - the one that springs to mind most vividly is the iPad.

I said that when the ipad came out. 'A laptop with no keys, great!'

I'm currently on my third one

Anyway, I like these Acoustasonic, the Tele one could be great for my blues project.

octatonic · March 2021

Nought queer as folk.

p90fool · March 2021

You've asked a question to which nobody has the answer.

Kittyfrisk · March 2021

p90fool said:

You've asked a question to which nobody has the answer.

But which everyone will still have a go at answering

xDottore · March 2021

mrkb said:

I'm not bothered by the comments, I think the old school knitted jumper wearing acoustic lovers fear change, heres a song they can play on their old school acoustics to help overcome those feelings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZ7f2Gib9E

That is possibly the finest thing I've seen in a very long time.

Bigsby · March 2021

p90fool said:

You've asked a question to which nobody has the answer.

Which is preferable to having an answer nobody must question...

randella · March 2021

Bigsby said:

p90fool said:

You've asked a question to which nobody has the answer.

Which is preferable to having an answer nobody must question...

AKA the 'Coronavirus' section

Grampa · March 2021

Lewy said:

It doesn't seem like good natured ribbing that you might see applied to things like PRSs. There's no apparent humour or banter to it.

Strangely as a PRS owner I fail to see any apparent humour in the never ending inane dentist quips, usually from members who have never even owned a PRS, let alone lowered themselves down far enough from their high horses to actually try one.

Wish I could say I'm a dentist, but sadly I'm not and have to save extremely hard to afford even something from the SE series.

prowla · March 2021

Bigsby said:

Lewy said:

or the more subtle "That's an answer to a problem nobody has"

That, and it's common variant "...a solution to a problem that doesn't exist" is one of the non-arguments I find particularly annoying: Most things began as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Take the World Wide Web; with it's multitude of ways to create lists and tables, it was created as a method to enable scientists to share information, something they'd been happily doing since the birth of science. I wonder how many scientists sat back from thumbing through the latest peer-reviewed copy of 'What Scientist' to say, "You're wasting your time Tim, it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist".

Actually, it provided a way to access information interactively, which had not existed before.

(The concept had been envisaged many years before digital computers existed.)

SPECTRUM001 · March 2021

Some people are just...uptight.

And if they don’t understand something, feel the need to ridicule it as a solution (in the hope it will go away).

Sadly, this didn’t work in 2016 with that big question we were asked.

Roland · March 2021

Grampa said:
Strangely as a PRS owner I fail to see any apparent humour in the never ending inane dentist quips, usually from members who have never even owned a PRS, let alone lowered themselves down far enough from their high horses to actually try one.

It ranks with quips about BMW drivers. All it does is make the speaker look bigoted.

Philly_Q · March 2021

Roland said:

Grampa said:
Strangely as a PRS owner I fail to see any apparent humour in the never ending inane dentist quips, usually from members who have never even owned a PRS, let alone lowered themselves down far enough from their high horses to actually try one.

It ranks with quips about BMW drivers. All it does is make the speaker look bigoted.

It seems to me that the dentist jokes have tailed off a bit recently and there's even been an increase in PRS admiration. Mind you, I could've bought a PRS for the amount I've spent on dental treatment in the last six months.

bacchanalian · March 2021

Until I joined this forum I did not realise that my socio-economic class, my level of musicianship, how much I have gigged, my employment and my taste in decor, could all be judged by the brand of guitar I bought. Honestly, no idea.
I mentioned something like this before and was told to 'Get orf my laaand' or something like that.

With the levels of criticism and condescension in some of the threads I would not consider posting anything here about my gear or playing.

Contrapuntally speaking I have also had some great chats with members her but all by private messaging and not in the public threads.

SPECTRUM001 · March 2021

bacchanalian said:

Until I joined this forum I did not realise that my socio-economic class, my level of musicianship, how much I have gigged, my employment and my taste in decor, could all be judged by the brand of guitar I bought. Honestly, no idea.
I mentioned something like this before and was told to 'Get orf my laaand' or something like that.

With the levels of criticism and condescension in some of the threads I would not consider posting anything here about my gear or playing.

Contrapuntally speaking I have also had some great chats with members her but all by private messaging and not in the public threads.

That is such a shame.

I do very little social media, and years ago vowed not to post on forums, as they seemed to be inhabited by people scoring points (these were band forums where it seemed to be a competition as to who was the biggest fan).

But I have found tFB to be pretty easy going on the whole. I certainly have very little confidence about my abilities and knowledge - however believe that everyone (and their viewpoint) is welcome if interested in guitars - without necessarily being judged.

That’s right isn’t it ??

SlopeSoarer · March 2021

I suspect some people just don't do change well and just have a view that if it ain't one of their old classic designs it isn't a proper Fender.

I'm pretty much a traditionalist and can be guilty of failing in to that camp but I have warmed to the idea of the Acoustasonic range, not tried one yet though.

downbytheriver · March 2021

Ummm, I want one. Much more than I wanted the tele or Strat ones - a certain someone demonstrated the value of the concept to me back then but this new one is actually reeling me in...

not sure what that makes me (not sure I care either)

ICBM · March 2021

SlopeSoarer said:

I suspect some people just don't do change well and just have a view that if it ain't one of their old classic designs it isn't a proper Fender.

I'm pretty much a traditionalist and can be guilty of failing in to that camp but I have warmed to the idea of the Acoustasonic range, not tried one yet though.

That's not the problem I have with it - it's that I don't want modelled sounds and onboard distortion... I just want acoustic and electric sounds with the ability to blend them together. I also don't want the controls laid out like that with the switch in line with the knobs (one of the Tele's worst design features), and I'd prefer the bridge *not* to be a traditional shape.

I don't really like the inlaid top thing with the bare wood edges either, but I could live with it.

SlopeSoarer · March 2021

ICBM said:

SlopeSoarer said:

I suspect some people just don't do change well and just have a view that if it ain't one of their old classic designs it isn't a proper Fender.

I'm pretty much a traditionalist and can be guilty of failing in to that camp but I have warmed to the idea of the Acoustasonic range, not tried one yet though.

That's not the problem I have with it - it's that I don't want modelled sounds and onboard distortion... I just want acoustic and electric sounds with the ability to blend them together. I also don't want the controls laid out like that with the switch in line with the knobs (one of the Tele's worst design features), and I'd prefer the bridge *not* to be a traditional shape.

I don't really like the inlaid top thing with the bare wood edges either, but I could live with it.

Yeah I get that, basically it isn't for you and you have good reasoning, my comment (and perhaps I should have quoted) was a response to the OP's opener (and title).

Rowby1 · March 2021

I don’t know why but I feel the need to comment on this thread but I’m going to anyway.

Firstly the guitar in question doesn’t seem to sound that good on any of the demos I’ve seen so far. If someone wants to buy one though I’ve no problem with that.

I’ve played a fair few PRSs now, gigged one I borrowed years ago. They’re well made, I’m indifferent to their looks really, never played one yet I’ve wanted to own.

As for dentists, the singer in one of my covers bands is a dentist.....can play the guitar.....doesn’t own a PRS.

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