Three down, millions more to go...

[surrealforreal]

I have been to a music shop twice in the last 4 days, both times bringing a Fender lovin' friend. Myself being a recent EBMM convert I pushed the brand on these unsuspecting players.
One, after trying an Axis SS switched ASAP, buying it that day. Today was victim #2. I told him to try the 20th Anniversay Silo and I guaranteed him he would switch devotions. He played it for 5 minutes and for the first time in his life, admitted I was right. He's buying it as soon as he unloads his Strats.
Now these are two people with 20+ years of playing experience and including myself (22 years playing) that makes EBMM three for three on first time converts in the last week alone. I've already sold one of my four Fenders and have someone looking at my old Jackson today. The rest will soon follow and my music room will look like an EBMM warehouse in no time at all.

Three for three on two decade-plus Strat guys...can any other brand do this? I doubt it. And this being done while every store I go to has the EBMM's way up high in the back corner of the store. Is Fender behind this? Hmmm...

So I call upon all EBMM lovers to act against this travesty. Go to your neighborhood music store and switch it all around. Move the EBMM's up front at eye-level and see what happens.
As Karl Marx once said "EBMM players of the world, unite!!!"

 

[Spudmurphy]

Halelulia!!
I wish I had seen the light years ago brother.

 

[fogman]

good job!

 

[robelinda2]

i think most of us wish we'd gotten onto these fine guitars earlier, you young people here are very lucky to discover them early.

 

[mike boardman]

Hi... this is my first post over here. I've been lurking around for a while and this is a great forum...anyway...

I was brought into the Musicman fold via the Petrucci 6, and later 7 string models. I was, and still am, amazed by the quality of the instruments for the price they sell for.

I am a definite convert and perhaps the only thing that stops me changing my other guitars for MM models is the lack of exposure here in the UK. What I can say is I've never played a 'bad' MM guitar... how many other companies could you say that for?

Anyway.... the proto piccies and specs of the new JP model look good enough for me to delay my Suhr order until I can compare them both in the flesh so I guess I am truly converted.

 

[TimSz]

My conversion to the fold.

I got rid of my last F****r product last month, and am an EBMM guy through and through. I actually go on weekly visits to the local guitar stores to see what new EBMM products have arrived.

Today was a doozie. At one store they got in an Albert Lee, a JP6 and a Silhouette. To say the least, my friend and I had a hayday trying them all out. I shouldn't have played them, firstly because I am left handed and playing them pside down is silly and secondly because it has rekindled my want for a left handed JP6.

I believe my next goal is to play my friends JP7 as soon as it comes in. I think I've tried every EBMM that is still currently in production and have not found one I don't like. They all have their certain feels and jives to them.

I also decided that I am going to save up six thousand dollars to fly myself down to SLO and chain myself to Big Poppa's parking stall sign in protest for a left handed JP6. The rest of the six thousand dollars minus the flight will be to bribe him as well. Eighteen minutes in the hot California sun will probably kill me, or at least throw my body into such a tizzy that the pity alone will make my dream come true! Damn the Canadian weather for not training me to deal with extreme heat!!! I can imagine the stench eminating from my unconscious body after twenty three minutes in the sun will melt the yellow lines off the pavement, and if by that point those involved aren't shutting down production for the day to make me a lefty; then it was all for naught and I expect a patriot's burial.

Ahh the ridiculous poetic aspect of this is making me dizzy.

 

[surrealforreal]

^^^ I am also a lefty. I learned to play both ways when I started in the early 80's, when there were not as many LH guitars out there. I found a big advantage being a lefty and playing right handed. The fret fingers were faster and more precise while the picking hand was the same. I still play both ways for fun...

 

[Astrofreq]

Yeah, in my old band I got both the other guitarist and the bass player to buy music mans. They LOVED them. Two others I know want them, but haven't quite come around.

Once you actually hold the guitar, you are converted. They just FEEL so nice, without even playing it.

 

[TimSz]

How I failed at life.

In retrospect, it may have been a far more intelligent option to fight my natural urge to play left handed. I said to myself "this is goingto hurt down the road, I just know it." Oh, how smart and right I was back then. Where did my fleeting intelligence and sense of logic go to?

Now being 100% through-and-through left handed, I look like a morphodite when trying to play right handed. I can barely attempt a E chord. I like that I can play a right handed guitar upside down better than a lot of people I know. It's a silly and goofy party trick to take the local guitar and flip it and play songs.

Just to show how Jimi I'm turning, I have officially gone down a half step for my playing. It just makes sense to me, and my fingers seem so much more comfortable with that half step difference. Next thing I imagine myself doing is buying a right handed JP6 and converting in to a left handed instrument. The only foreseeable problem I've anticipated with this is that the stupid upper horn will not give me very good access to the hifgher frets. That is not a good thing. DAMN IT!

 

[NorM]

Steve Morse is left handed too!

 

[eliot323]

Hey Jimi
I didn't realise that "fcuker" made guitars...(use your imagination)

And is this thread about guitars?

 

[TimSz]

Fcukers.

My imagination gets me nowhere but in trouble. I'll just let you know that now.

Is this thread about guitars? Of course it is! That's all us bums ever talk about here. If it doesn't somehow relate to guitars and the hyping of EBMM guitars then chances are it goes away rather quickly.

I believe this thread started off with people turning from other brands to EBMM. It has somehow spun off course and ended up with me bashing left handed people and in the process bashing myself. Silly how that happens.

Hawhawhawhaw.

 

[Elmer Imperial]

Preach on, brotha! A buddy who plays bass (but I don't hold that against him ) has been shopping for new gear over the last few weeks and I've been telling him to go play an EBMM bass every time I see him. I ran into him yesterday and he said, "I went and played a Stingray last night. I bought it on the spot, it completely blew the others outta the water."

Another EBMM true believer! Can I get an "AMEN!"?

 

[surrealforreal]

Preach on, brotha! A buddy who plays bass (but I don't hold that against him ) has been shopping for new gear over the last few weeks and I've been telling him to go play an EBMM bass every time I see him. I ran into him yesterday and he said, "I went and played a Stingray last night. I bought it on the spot, it completely blew the others outta the water."

Another EBMM true believer! Can I get an "AMEN!"?

Does anyone know anyone who tried an EBMM and did not like it? My brother came over last night because he wanted to buy my old Jackson before I sold it elsewhere. He picked up my EBMM and said "Wow"...needless to say he left without the Jackson and is buying a EBMM ASAP. And I have a Sub 1, the cheapest EBMM out there. Wait until he gets the 20th anniversary Silo in his hands.

Here's the kicker, I'm selling my American F****rs and I feel guilty. I'm letting someone leave with a F****r and I'm not telling him to try an EBMM...oh well.

 

[TimSz]

Sneaky Pete!

The day after you've sold it, call him and tell him about your EBMMs. It's a total sneaky pete thing to do, but it'll alleviate some of the burden of not telling him and selling him a F****r. He may curse you for years to come after playing an EBMM, but it's better you get someone to buy it rather than use it as a javelin!

...

Well, that's neither here nor there... F****r Javelin!