target market

[robelinda2]

By the time you're 30 you should be able to buy any EBMM you want

Great to hear, i turned 30 last month, cant wait to buy the BFR ive been dreaming about for ages!

PS As for young players not knowing about EBMMs, try this: Although I’ve been aware of MusicMan (and particularly the Luke model) for many years, it was actually a 15 year-old kid that got me thinking seriously about getting one! This kid knows his gear and is desperate for an AL, thanks in part to his teacher’s passion (obsession?) for ALs. Again, reputation doing its thing.

I try my best with young Lachlan!

 

[chriseb]

For what it's worth: EBMM don't need to pay for advertising... they just need people to know about this forum

I read enough on this forum (and a few other good reviews) to convince me that the jp6 was for me..... I ordered one without trying it out *Sheepish look*.
Do I regret that decision? not once...

Coming from Aus, I must say that the EBMM prices in the US are fine by me
I'll be heading back to Aus sometime next year with a 40 foot container... perhaps _another_ ebmm might accompany me

 

[pjc812]

i was just reading a post and somebody talked about how somebody didnt know ernie ball made anything other than strings. not too long ago that was me. i stumbled upon the quality of ernie ball by accident. ive seen them in stores but were always overshadowed by other guitars in my eyes. i was going to buy a prs but before i dropped that much cash i wanted to see if sonically they were better than other random guitars at the store. along the comparison i was lucky enough to pick up a jp6. anyways, it seems to me that the only people who know about music man are either middle aged or super rediculous shredders. being 22 and sucking at guitar i feel out of place.

You sound like a kid who came in our store a couple months ago and scored a JP6 CBP. I sold his brother a Sterling, and he turned this kid onto EB. Told him "you have to play this guitar before you go throw your money away on a PRS". Apparently it only took one strum to convert the guy. Unfortunately I wasn't there the day the conversion took place, but he had a different look about him the next time I saw him.

 

[GoKart_MoZart]

The cost of EBMMs has prevented me from getting one prior to now...

My kid's saxophone cost more than a BFR. And don't get me started on my other kid's jazz drum set... EBMM guitars are expensive, but reasonably priced, IMO.

 

[Astrofreq]

My kid's saxophone cost more than a BFR. And don't get me started on my other kid's jazz drum set... EBMM guitars are expensive, but reasonably priced, IMO.

Yeah, but I don't think drummers have the same urge we do to buy the same instrument in 5 different colors.

 

[DavidOfOz]

My kid's saxophone cost more than a BFR. And don't get me started on my other kid's jazz drum set... EBMM guitars are expensive, but reasonably priced, IMO.

My point exactly...BFRs cost a lot of money, but relative to other expensive things...not so bad.

Yeah, but I don't think drummers have the same urge we do to buy the same instrument in 5 different colors.

Unless the drummer's name is Simon Phillips!

 

[DavidOfOz]

PS As for young players not knowing about EBMMs, try this: Although I’ve been aware of MusicMan (and particularly the Luke model) for many years, it was actually a 15 year-old kid that got me thinking seriously about getting one! This kid knows his gear and is desperate for an AL, thanks in part to his teacher’s passion (obsession?) for ALs. Again, reputation doing its thing.

I try my best with young Lachlan!

And you've done very well...he's completely brainwashed Pro-MusicMan...which has ultimately resulted in ME being brainwashed!

PS: Rob, I got to hear Lachlan play my BFR last week, and was blown away by how far he's come with his playing in the last few months. He's going to leave me way behind before long. No doubt some small part of that is due to your excellent tuition/mentoring. (Careful...he may be listening (lurking)...we don't want to give him a big head! )

 

[robelinda2]

David i promise i dont brainwash my students on purpose!!! Though it is kinda easy when i have 3 or 4 balls in my teaching room, my slow EBMM brainwashing is subtle.

 

[Colin]

David i promise i dont brainwash my students on purpose!!! Though it is kinda easy when i have 3 or 4 balls in my teaching room, my slow EBMM brainwashing is subtle.

brainwash your heart out!

 

[fatoni]

My kid's saxophone cost more than a BFR. And don't get me started on my other kid's jazz drum set... EBMM guitars are expensive, but reasonably priced, IMO.

but see, you can afford balls after kids. i cant imagine that. my guitar cost more than my car, its the biggest investment ive ever made.

 

[Multiversal]

My roommate owns a saxophone worth nearly 12 grand. I sure am glad I play guitar.

 

[Colin]

My roommate owns a saxophone worth nearly 12 grand. I sure am glad I play guitar.

I hope he's good?

 

[Charles]

^^ That's like four BFRs.

....Whoooah......

 

[CarbonTim27]

I guess some people would call me guilty of converting some people to the EBMM world.....

A year ago or so I went up to my local music store with a couple of engineering buddies (Students at our local university) and along the way I mentioned something about the EBMM Luke that was sitting on display in the store. All three guys had never heard of that guitar maker before and kind of shunned it off as an expensive buy. Then they played it. I could have strangled the one guy who wouldn't shut up about the guitar on the way home; he even said he would sell his custom green strat (nice guitar too...man..) to buy the Luke. I'm just backing up the point that you gotta play one, but when you do your wallet is going to take a hit

 

[DavidOfOz]

David i promise i dont brainwash my students on purpose!!! Though it is kinda easy when i have 3 or 4 balls in my teaching room, my slow EBMM brainwashing is subtle.

Ah....So that's how it works. Conversion by proximity. Obviously I need to get a few more balls to spread throughout the house (ie for when non-EBMM guitar players drop in).

 

[Astrofreq]

That's why when I have a girl over, I have $100 bills laying around.

 

[glockaxis]

I assume you have them strategically placed in other areas when girls come by as well.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

I'm 21, and only learned about EBMM at 19 from watching a Rammstein concert on DVD. I got a Sub and from that point on I've talked a big game about EBMM's to every guitarist I meet. A while back the guy at a local guitarshop was showing me this tele, and he says "Great guitar, terrible setup but none of them are set up right from the factory anyway" and I told him that if they sold EBMM's he wouldn't say that ever again

 

[robelinda2]

thats one of the things that really annoys me about going to guitar shops- the set ups are SO bad on store stock. You really cant even tell how good a guitar is sometimes due to the terrible playability, it doesnt make sense to me, do they not want to sell guitars?!?!??! every time i've played a EBMM guitar at a store its miles above anything else in stock, due to fantastic factory setup!

 

[Astrofreq]

Wow. I was having this same discussion with a guy about LCD TV's. Most of them look like garbage in the store because they aren't calibrated or are are piping in regular TV reception into it. I'm only saying this because it would seem if you are trying to sell something, TV's OR guitars, you would want to present them the best way possible.