Gamechanger wins Best of Show New Product at NAMM 2011

[Big Poppa]

We are very honored and proud to have the Game Changer voted Best of Show at the NAMM show for 2011

Thanks to the Voters and Thanks to the team! Job well done.

 

[Jack FFR1846]

We knew it was the most innovative thing in years....now the rest of the world will know. Great news on a great innovation!

 

[jptortor]

Congratulations on the great achievement Sterling and co.

 

[metalmarty]

Awesome, that one is in the pocket. Congrats EBMM!

 

[Dante]

WOOT!!!
grats BP.

 

[savannah_sean]

congrats. hope it does really well.

 

[fbecir]

Congratulations !!!!

Innovation has to be encouraged !

 

[Harable]

Congratulations! - seems like a no-brainer from here...

 

[mantrarock]

Congratulations! Now I hope I can find one and try it.

Wasn't the 25th a best of show too? You guys keep building on this model and making it better and better!

 

[lumberjack]

Very cool news, BP. Congrats to you and your team.

 

[guitfiddle]

Well deserved congratulations!

 

[kneeoh]

Congrats to the EBMM family!!!

 

[Astrofreq]

Best of Show is an understatement.

 

[jakedawgwhite88]

Awesome!!!

 

[bazxkr]

Congrats to everyone at EBMM...super team effort. At least now the world will have to start taking notice of what we already know. You don't get artists the calibre of SM,SL,JP etc raving about a new innovation without there being substance in the product. These guys have seen it all before and are not impressed easily, so for them to take this onbaord the GC had to be impressive.. The guitar world should have seen that as a strong hint that something special was about.

I sincerely hope this becomes a major success for EBMM and justifies the large initial development outlay to help them carry on the the progression and innovation the company is famous for.

Wish I could have been at NAMM to witness the 'birth'

Cheers
Baz

 

[dibart77]

Awesome! But also not so unexpected...

NAMM shows for many years have been the same old stuff rehashed or people trying to replace an amazing vintage tube amp with modeling crap. FINALLY someone has used technology not to emulate or replace with something "easier", but to really push what's good about the old into a new direction. That's the difference. There is NOTHING "wrong" with analog magnetic pickups; what's wrong is the limitations of wiring. The IDEA of making something infinitely re-wirable is something many of us have "dreamed about" for years (particularly when trying to get the soldering iron in there without burning the insulation on the other wire), but the technology to make it a reality has been the stumbling point. BP and EBMM have figured out how to harness the technology in a practical way to solve the issue.

What's brilliant to me is that one would have expected one of the "big guys" who sell 8 million guitars a year to have the resources and financial fortitude to pull this off first. It's even sweeter when a smaller company (relative to F, G, and I) like EBMM pulls this off before all of the others -- because it shows how much MORE dedication and forward thinking is happening at EBMM. Leaders pushing boundaries instead of followers churning out LP copies or trying to figure out how to skimp a little more to make $1 more profit out of a guitar.

Now the big trick is going to be how to prevent all of the "followers" and copycats at NAMM 2012 -- you know, in the next booth over they'll be announcing the "ChangeGamer", and the next booth after that it'll be the "GameMorph", etc.

As knuckleheads, it is OUR JOB to make sure everyone we know is up to speed on the GameChanger and knows that EBMM are the pioneers. And, of course, up to the patent attorneys to enforce it!

It's days like this that I am most proud to be a knucklehead. Congrats to BP and the EBMM crew. I wish I could have been there this year to share in the envelope pushing!

-Jeff

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[Ricman]

That's fantastic news. I feel very privileged to have watched it unfold on this forum. Thank you for sharing in the way you do Big Poppa, and many congratulations to everyone at Ernie Ball Musicman.

 

[dwntwn]

Outstanding!!!! Congrats!

 

[robelinda2]

Congrats Bp and crew! If it didnt win you'd have to ask many questions indeed. Cant wait to try one out some time in my life!

 

[Big Poppa]

Thanks we are very well protected on the patent front..I spent a fortune and as you know there was not much I could really say about it due to the status of the patent.

I also cannot tell you how many hours the team worked to get the Gamechanger and the new jp11 and all the colors. I know some got impatient but now hoepfully you can see that we were swamped.