A Metal EBMM Guitar Should be MADE??

[bkrumme]

Spiky guitars, BAH! I had my time with them. Played B.C. Rich before Bernie Sr. died. Then I played Ibby, Jackson, ESP, etc. Then realized I was playing them for the image and not the function...and found EBMM.

Spiky guitars are cool looking. They attract all sorts of attention. But those pointy things don't make you sound better. That's all in your hands, people.

 

[Dante]

right back to the beginning...

 

[Lukesilo]

I too came to EBMM for function over fashion. I will admit I am an avid metal head and have been for many many years but I also strive to be a well rounded musician so I love my SIlo because I can play metal on it and calm it down and play other styles as well. I was afraid of pigeon wholing myself into the metal world and that Iw ould be a one sided guitar player so I am exploring many styles now.

You take bands like Darkest Hour and The Black Dahlia Murder and they will look like the biggest dorks and book worms in the world but they will melt your face off and I love it!!!

 

[bkrumme]

right back to the beginning...

That's the problem with a subject like metal. No one agrees on anything. It's fine if you guys don't agree with me. I can take it.

The original post was unfair in the first place. No offense to Dean but he opened up a big can of worms.

Define metal? You can't. Like all genres of popular music it is organic; changing all the time. There are a million opinions on it...and they all seem to be different.

 

[Big Poppa]

it wasnt unfair people are getting too worked up....(dante?) relax its just another genre and lifestyle....Metal Marty I get the metal part and the part of younger people being in an obscure click thinking that they are being different only to find out its the same.

 

[Lukesilo]

Yeah this is interesting. It goes from a metal EBMM guitar to discussing what metal really is. Haha I love days like this on a forum!

 

[bkrumme]

Maybe unfair was a bad choice of words. And I did detract from the original subject...so why don't we get back to the orignal question?

should there be a guitar from EBMM specifically geared toward metal?

 

[Lukesilo]

My vote is no.

 

[patpark]

i haven't read the entire thread so if i am repeating sorry. if EBMM is going to do a "metal" guitar, it should be something that happens naturally and organically. Anytime you force creativity, it comes out sterile and not so good. Work with a few players outside of the forum, figure out materials and specs that those guys like develop it slowly and naturally. It has to make business sense and it has to have a market. Can I ever see pointy guitars from EBMM? I hope not.

Not looking to fight. I fight enough with my wife. actually she does all the fighting and I just take it.

 

[dannymusic]

my vote is NO.

EBMM has it's niche and plenty of vatiants of it. And, PERSONALLY, I like the choices from the Ball family.

 

[Dante]

Maybe unfair was a bad choice of words. And I did detract from the original subject...so why don't we get back to the orignal question?

should there be a guitar from EBMM specifically geared toward metal?

My vote is no.

now, that's more like it.

BP: i just get ****ed if have to say the same thing 5 times in the same thread. i'd say "spiky metal EBMM?" and someone else would say "JP plenty metal", i'd say "JP metal, not spiky", someone else says "JP plenty metal".
and i got agravated when people just repeated themselves, cuz then I go and do the same.

ALSO: people have attacked metal directly. have attacked each other directly. and that's not disagreeing with what metal is. it's taking your own ****ing opinion and trying to make it pass as law.

if you don't like weird axes, say it. don't try and make others share your opinion by saying "metal is A B or C. spiky guitars are for X Y Z deaming adjectives."

i love you all, but me and you, we are nowhere near the same, and until the last 8 or so posts, i have felt attacked for liking spiky guitars.

and i'm trying not to get worked up but failing miserably.

 

[Lukesilo]

Im not attacking at all because I love metal and Ill sing it loud and proud. Just think EBMM isnt a metal guitar company. SO if by chance u took offense to what I said at all well i didnt intend it.

 

[Dante]

no, u didn't offend me. it got a bit hairy when you said it started sounding all the same with lots of gain and that you could do metal with an AL , but in general it's just the fatigue from people saying the guitar doesn't matter much and that you can make metal with just about anything.
of course you can get all experimental about it and play master of puppets on an AL. and you can play country with humbuckers these days.

but dean asked about a METAL guitar, not about guitars that CAN do metal. and from thereon it went down hill because of the people who either think EBMM already has 5 metal guitars or people who don't like metal.

i spend hours each day with a guitar on my lap, 99% of the time with distortion set to kill. i know EXACTLY when a sound isn't working. people ask me what's wrong with the mix when distorted guitars are involved. if it didn't matter, there wouldn't be a profitable aftermarket pickup industry and there wouldn't be as many options as there are out there. at the very core, we like being able to choose.

and a little secret, i just bought a seven string JP7, 15 minutes ago. still have to get it, but i bought it. i'd bitch a hell of alot less if i could drop EMGs in it, but it's not that simple. it requires routing. and as far as i know, you can't attach active pickups to the piezzo circuit. i've emailed CS twice asking about JPs and EMGs and got no answer, but because i actually manage with the dimarzios, i've decided to let it go, maybe D-Activator Xs or Warpigs in the future. but to me, if you include mods, then the Y2D is more of a metal guitar than the JP will ever be.

i'm so metal fatigued....

EDIT: i think this has been my last post on the matter for the coming days. this horse has been kicked out of hell and back.

 

[leftyguitarblue]

In 1986, I was 14 and heard Master of Puppets and it changed my life. I'm 37 and I still listen to metal, old and new, everyone from Maiden to Lamb of God to Metallica, Opeth, and Dimmu Borgir and I still get crap for it; "grow up, that's kids music, you should listen to smooth jazz" or some other nonsense. People don't take it serious or just laugh it off. Arguments in this thread just perpetuate it. I belive that there is no good music or bad music, it just depends on what moves you or inspires you. Well, except for the Black Eyed Peas, that's a musical abomination to mankind.

I know that none of that has to do with a metal guitar, I'm just responding to the other topic that came up.

Oh and I don't listen to country music, but I respect it. Except for that cowboy hat crap. Guys it's not the wild west and Halloween is only in October. Take a page from Albert Lee's book; he don't need no stinking hat!

 

[Lukesilo]

Well, except for the Black Eyed Peas, that's a musical abomination to mankind.

This totally made my night. Long live metal and guitars that can play metal on them!!! Long live EBMM also of course!

 

[mesavox]

Ok.. this thread is hilarious. LOL

Is this maybe what you're thinking Deano? LOL

 

[Dante]

is it a Ketrucci, or is it the Petrelly?

 

[73h Nils]

I'd call it hideous

This is one massive thread O_O

 

[mesavox]

Oh boy... I'm loosing it... LOL

 

[Dante]

lol, a bfr no less.