Benji Madden Signature Guitar

[punk6667]

yes, i clickes on every link.
but i mean this guitar:

http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM04/Content/Ernie_Ball/PR/Benji-Madden-Signature.html

how much does this cost?

 

[beej]

The Musician's Friend link has the white one for $999. Also saw one on eBay (different colour tho) for the same price.

 

[jongitarz]

On a related note, PRS is going to introduce the Billy Martin model at the NAMM Show. Another company following our lead.

 

[phatduckk]

On a related note, PRS is going to introduce the Billy Martin model at the NAMM Show. Another company following our lead.

who? Google says that's a baseball player ....
I think they endorse the dude from Creed too

.... EDIT: ok .. my bad. its the other dude from GC.

 

[jongitarz]

He is the other guitar player in Good Charlotte. So now PRS has 4 sig models. Tremonti(Creed/ Alter bridge) Santana, Billy Martin and they will introduce the Dave navarro model at NAMM also, it's really just a Custom 24 with some tweeks.

 

[phatduckk]

well on some sort of related note ...

i tried to play my prs since i got my jp-6 so i could post an a vs. b kindof thing but i honestly played about 6 notes and picked the jp up again. the jp is a great guitar

 

[zyx345]

well on some sort of related note ...

i tried to play my prs since i got my jp-6 so i could post an a vs. b kindof thing but i honestly played about 6 notes and picked the jp up again. the jp is a great guitar

Had a similar experience w. PRS. I was so impressed with the build quality & sound of my JP6 that I sold my PRS Custom 22. It was a good guitar but I just didn't play it as much after I got the JP6.

 

[Lew]

well on some sort of related note ...

i tried to play my prs since i got my jp-6 so i could post an a vs. b kindof thing but i honestly played about 6 notes and picked the jp up again. the jp is a great guitar

lol

 

[Raz]

Actually I don't see anything wrong with EB's move to create a sig model for Benji, afterall the kids love Good Charlotte and at least EB is providing a guitar that will start these youngins on the right foot, err, finger I should say...if I started off with an EBMM, who knows where I would be today, yeah in the dog house with about 1000 EBMM's

 

[phatduckk]

Had a similar experience w. PRS. I was so impressed with the build quality & sound of my JP6 that I sold my PRS Custom 22. It was a good guitar but I just didn't play it as much after I got the JP6.

it was like veja vous (however u spell it). when i got my prs i couldnt stand my les paul anymore ...

i definately do like my jp more but the prs is a great guitar too. i really dont know if its fair to compare a prs and a JP. i dont think the guitars are "trying to do the same thing" ... i think theyre different beasts.

i think les paul vs prs is more of a fair comparison. i havent played too many esp guitars but id almost think that the jp is more comprable to those than a prs. i think theyre close price-wise too.

EB should snag some of the esp endorsee's ... I vote for the guys from Strung Out, they're rediculously good. id love to see what kind of sig those guys would come up with ... id buy one in a second (... and now im just dreaming about)

 

[mcvinyl]

Ok Here's my 2c worth.

First being from Aus phone Carol at CMC music in Sydney. They are the importers of EB stuff here in Aus. They'll be able to tell you if any shops ordered any and who they are.

As a side point I went to visit these guys on the weekend - wow EBMM nirvana Axis', Bongo's MMMMM. I was in heaven!!!

As for the Benji Madden issue think about it how many kids know of Morse, Lee, Petrucci or Luke? I guess you'd have to say none or very few.

How many of them know of Madden? Probably heaps. Just like hearing Clapton in '86 made me want to play guitar, so some kid is sitting at home watching MTV and seeing a Good Charlotte vid and thinking "I want to learn to play guitar"

Get them in the door using their heroes EBMM sig guitar. Then if they stick to it and progress they'll discover the other guys (might I be so bold as to say some REAL guitar players) just like we did, and when they want to update their guitars hopefully their EBMM experience will make them stick with the company.

At the end of the day EBMM is a boutique guitar maker but they also have to sell guitars and make money and the best way to do that is get kids interested and hope they'll show some loyalty.

Look at F**der & Gibbo both with sig models for the guy from Blink 182 and P*S with the Tremonti - Guitar heroes - me thinks not!

Each to their own I say.

Well there's my daily rant.

Simon

 

[slukather]

how much does the guitar cost?

To get back on topic, in Australian dollars, l'm not sure, l haven't seen one in a guitar store. My Luke cost me $3500, brand new, l've seen a Petrucci that was $3800 marked down to $3200,so you could probably pick one up in a shop for $3500, brand new, maybe cheaper, but thats only a guess.

As you can tell Benji doesn't stand on the same pedestal as the likes of Petrucci, Luke, Morse etc around here.

Scott.

 

[old_metal_head]

Benji who?

Before I even knew who Benji Madden was I bought one of the EB signature guitars.

I thought he was some young virtuoso I didn't know about. I know better now.

I was looking for an instrument that had:
* maple neck
* hard-tail bridge
* single pickup
* S-type body
* hot Dimarzio pickup

I wanted to try a Wayne monster but no one around here stocks them.

A local music store had a EB Madden, I played it, liked it, bought it, love it.

Still don't care about Benji Madden.

 

[ripley]

ya ...

i just dont get "it". "it " being the following: so ebmm endorses super good, virtuoso-esque, guitarists like jp morse and luke. what i dont get is the huge "gap" in the 2 groups of endorsees. example: Luke rocks but i bet if you walk into a guitar center and mention his name most people wont know who he is (especially the younger people) ... then there's Benji, who i consider the polar opposite; he's not a virtuoso and his band has reached "boy band" sort of status - where your fanbase is young and almost "temporary". that leaves a huge gap. im assuming guitar companies endorse artists in order for their company to get some exposure - hence more customers. with that in mind wouldnt it "make more sense" to endorse more popular guitarists? ... a guitarist who most people can recognize (my generic exampe is Slash), can play well, and who's fans dont outgrow their band when they turn 18.

DEAD ON. I've played one and it's a quality instrument... but why bother? the neck didn't feel particulary special, and the finish was a bit weird. get a Sil. I guess it financially bennifits MM to make a signature model for the 15 to 20 year old crowd. I have an 11 year old nephew and I asked him who his favorite guitarist was: the answer was some "whoever it is that plays for CKY." (that was a shock) he didn't know who Dream Theater was, but he did know who benji madden was. he's 10... yikes. I can't imagine that this model is much more than commercial popcorn in the product line, but I'd still rather have it than any given thing that Ibanez makes.

 

[phatduckk]

DEAD ON. I've played one and it's a quality instrument... but why bother? the neck didn't feel particulary special, and the finish was a bit weird. get a Sil. I guess it financially bennifits MM to make a signature model for the 15 to 20 year old crowd. I have an 11 year old nephew and I asked him who his favorite guitarist was: the answer was some "whoever it is that plays for CKY." (that was a shock) he didn't know who Dream Theater was, but he did know who benji madden was. he's 10... yikes. I can't imagine that this model is much more than commercial popcorn in the product line, but I'd still rather have it than any given thing that Ibanez makes.

but my question is: how many young kids have $1,000? my best guess is that beji's endorsement with ebmm gets the brand name into peoples' minds and gets some "kids" to buy SUBs. the other dude in his band has an endorsment with prs ... but its an SE model and costs $499-ish ... also ive seen Mike Dirnt's (Green Day bassist) sig bass on sale for about $550.

again ... im not bashing benji's band, skills or him as a person; and im sure his sig is a great guitar. i just dont get it. i think ive read that hes always played EBs ... so maybe thats one of the reasons.

 

[MingusBASS]

I don't have much to add about Benji or his guitar but I love the green color his guitar comes in. I wish it was avalible on the other instruments. I belive that's the only one that isn't textured.

Andrew

 

[Silhouette]

I really don't get this guitar. I think that it is great that BM has become endorsed by Musicman and Ernie Ball because it shows how broad MM's horizons are and also, because of Good Charlotte's popularity I guess more people will be exposed to the great EBMM guitars.

Bu anyway back to the guitar. BM had the chance to design this awesome guitar and all he does to his, his very own custom Musicman, is take a Silhouette (which to be fair is a great guitar), remove one of two pickups leaving it with the basic single humbucker. I realise this may be great for pop rock stuff but surely, when your designing a guitar you go full out.

Being endorsed by Musicman would be a dream come true to me and it is a bit of a shame seeing someone not making use of the opportunity. I've seen pictures of the production and preparation of the John Petrucci and Steve Morse guitars, and they spent countless hours working away with specialists deisgning these incredible axes, and then BM's custom seems like a botch job EBMM. If I had the opportunity I would be giving it the Spinal Tap treatment (well maybe not) adding the best humbucker here and there, working for hours for the best place for my tone and volume knobs etc. It seems a real shame for BM to create what looks to me like a fairly basic model. As I said before, for punk etc. the single hum is probably great, but surely wouldn't you want to design a guitar for home use etc, so you can sit down and shred using a variety of mechanisms carefully designed and specced for you.

Anyway the point I was delivering is that I feel BM wasted a good opportunity to create a real decent Musicman guitar. Buy a Silhouette instead.

 

[jongitarz]

Maybe that's all Benji wanted in a guitar. If you guys don't like it, fine. Don't buy it, but don't come around here second guessing the company. Go out and sell 6 million albums and get your own signature guitar.

 

[jimmyp]

Maybe that's all Benji wanted in a guitar. If you guys don't like it, fine. Don't buy it, but don't come around here second guessing the company. Go out and sell 6 million albums and get your own signature guitar.

Far be it from me to compare EVH and Benji Madden, but no-one seemed to mind when EVH was using a single pickup guitar - he made some half decent music with one pickup (going for the understatement there). Although not one of my fave players, a signature guitar is just that - exactly what the artist needs- so the BM sig is justified

 

[Silhouette]

Maybe that's all Benji wanted in a <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=31&k=guitar" onmouseover="window.status='guitar'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">guitar</a>. If you guys don't like it, fine. Don't buy it, but don't come around here second guessing the company. Go out and sell 6 million albums and get your own signature guitar.

I think this has been another case in which I have gone over the top in what I am saying and sounded harsher than was meant. I just saw this thread and decided to comment on it (it's my personnal opinion). Before the BM sig became available I felt that the MM stock was flawless. The message I was trying to say is, if you are lucky enough to make that break, sell all those records etc. then you have the opportunity to have a custom Musicman made for you (which to be fair is a special guitar manufacturer), you would go over the top and go for all the good stuff, so you can play both the Good Charlotte stuff, and then work on some other stuff using the other options he could've selected outside of that band. I'm aware that the build quality etc is perfect on the model, keeping up to usual EBMM standards, I am just a lil' shocked that BM didn't go full out and do up a brilliant guitar. Add another Hum, have the selection and then it makes the guitar that extra bit more versitile.
In no way was I trying to second guess the company. It is more so of a suprise of the choice of specs.