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question con… le balck pearl et le White pearl ne sont plus produits par MM ???

Hello,
Please excuse me in advance if some of this thread comes off as abrupt or condesending. It is not my intention. There are thousands of registered members here and about 50 regulars. Thanks for the regulars, and I wish some of the lurkers would join the fun. I did! One thing that delayed me joining was some of the posts continually beat a dead horse, and if some of the people would stop and think about some of these issues with a small dose of common sense the reasoning on our part might make a little more sense.

Lets start with sparkle. We got into sparkle because Dweezil Zappa wanted an Albert Lee in a baby blue sparkle with an 80's baby blue mirror pick guard. We then made a pink sparkle for Lisa Loeb, and then a gold sparlke for Blues Sarasceno. It was our big push at that winters namm show. Guitar Centers buyer went wild for them but NOBODY else did foriegn or domestic. I wished I listened to my good friend Paul Reed Smith when I showed him to them . He said "WOW, these are fantastic sparkles, Let me know if they work cause I couldn't give them away when I tried them. We blew our wad at the NAMM show and the Guitar Center buyer was replaced, I had to write a big check to Guitar Center to clear the sparkles out so they could buy good selling stuff. Do you think that we don't make sparkles to punish a few forumites? No we don't make them because the general public doesn't want them and we lost our ass when we did make them. I hope that puts this one to bed.

There are over 34,000 ways you can buy a Music Man Instrument! That in itself is crazy and Harvard consultants would say we are out of our minds. Each time we add a color it adds HUNDREDS of extra models or build codes. Each year we reluctantly have to discontinue colors to add newer more popular and current colors. When we look at what we discontinue we look at the fewest ordered not the most popular with the forum. If Blue Dawn was a big seller I would be happy to paint them all day long.

From where I sit over 34,000 choices and you guys are still are not satisfied.

I'll give you a story. When we did the EVH we had a bunch of colors and there was a beautiful dark green one. I knew from past history that green guitars don't sell. It didn't sell, we discontinued it and were inundated with requests for dark green EVH's.
I said we will re release it, but green guitars don't sell and the guys clamoring for them won't be reaching for the wallet when they are available again. They were re-released and nobody bought them! Name a sucessful green guitar. Don't say sea foam because Fender had a hard time giving them away in the old days. the Envy Green LE sold a fraction of the previous radience Red. The Buttercream is dusting both of them.

I got to go and squeeze a nice ruby red desert grapefruit and lace it heavily with some Ketel One. Have a nice weekend and I will try to respond to the forum LE if I get time.

Thanks for your support!

Big Poppa

At the moment all of my old guitars (Plaid guitars, Yamaha Samick, Ibanez ) are all on the "Hard Rock Cafe" walls somewhere in the world. (I don't even know where). At the moment the only guitars I am actually playing are the "Ernie Ball" guitars.

My main guitar is an Ernie Ball music man gold sparkle "Albert Lee" which was build for me by a gentleman name Dudley Gimble at the Ernie Ball shop. In my opinion the Ernie Ball is the best quality guitar and Bass that are made today for new guitars and that is why I have been playing them. My guitar is an alder body with 1/2 inch maple top. I had them put a maple-top on it for more cut, more punch closer to a Les Paul. I have a maple neck which is very large (I have always had big necks on my guitars) I use 2 Seymour Duncan humbuckers pick ups in it. They change from guitar to guitar, I use everything like if they have tremolo in them, I will use my own model Trembucker in it. But they range from Seth lovers to custom customs.

As far as strings I use Ernie Balls 10's slinkys.I have been friends with Sterling Ball for a long time. I actually met him at a NAMM show about many many years ago.

About 4 or 5 years ago he said just let me make you a guitar, I'll make you the best guitar you've ever had. He made good on his promise and that is the one I play today

It's really hard to get other artists to play another guys signature guitar. The Silohouette bass is a great example. When I was working with EVH he had a danelectro six string bass that was a little suspect. I said let us make you one. So Dudley made him one actually made out of masonite but with a normal maple top in the evh shape . It was used a lot on several VH records. When I told Keith Richards tech about it he said Keith would love a better six string bass, bought would not consider playing one shaped like Eddies, Since Keith was using the Silhoutte almost exclusively, we made the bass that you can buy now.

It is really better to have an artist play an existing model. It is easier to get other Pro's to play it and music stores only have so many spots on the wall. Our strategy on the signature guitar is not as a marketing tool, but a pairing of our company and few select world class players to try to move the guitar forward inch by inch

une petite question
vous savez si on peut chager une piece cassé d'un floyd de silouette flod(evidement) sans changé le floyd en entier?
Et sinon il sont long a envoyer ce genre de truc chez musicman?