LOL ...nice "cheeky" response from the tour guide. I wonder if that's the standard fare they dole out at staff meetings as "spontaneous wit" to bolster the company's inherent superiority
I, too, went on that tour in Memphis ...cool plant. But the "guide" was more like a shill of a "company man" who knew little more outside his seemingly-memorized script. His "shtick" went over polished with what I gather to be the non-players (or fans) in the group, but for a few who asked some "better" questions, he deflected like a candidate behind in the poles.
Perhaps I am reading too much into this (it's the slow morning with my cup o joe talkin here
), but that attitude they (or that guy, anyway) have toward Fender et.al. is very much the same claptrap I heard for years from Martin and Marty fanboys toward Taylor; that was in the 80s ...need I comment further? Fast forward to today, where Fender is, IMHO at least, putting out some seriously good guitars, nothing "breakthrough" but just well-made guitars with genuine QC from their Squier line up to the Standard American series. Gibson? I find their current QC utterly hit and miss, with some deplorable "quality" examples, particularly in the $1-2k pricerange; inexcusable, IMHO ...particularly when a "cheap" Fender sports cleaner fretwork than a Gib costing 2x (or more!) as much.
Full disclosure: I love my Gibsons (electrics) ...great guitars that I've had for many many moons and hope never to part with them. But what passes off as "QC" this last several years that I've been paying attention from Gibson is
not commensurate to the prices they demand. Contrast this with Fender who I think has been knocking it our of the park in terms of QC and ready-to-play off the shelf, and ths for several years now.
Like I said, it's my lazy morning and coffee speaking at the keyboard. Feel free to ignore my miscellaneous ramblings and enjoy the day! Oh yeah, I forgot: go Taylor!
Edward
