RIP Ed Roman

MikeM

A sad passing, every technically minded guitarist has probably been given some cheer by the man's ramblings though..

G-Man

Wow that's weird I was on his site just on sunday night. I know that a lot of people didn't like him because he was making knock off B.C Rich's (although I think he had some kind of license to do it) and selling them off as custom shop models (according to a few forums anyway) Bummer though, looks like he was in the game for a long time.

flatfourfan

Real sad......I liked his articles that he used to write about mom and pop stores vs the megastores.

Love him or hate him, he was good at what he did.

Attila

flatfourfan wrote
Love him or hate him, he was good at what he did.

Ditto !!!

Gearhead

Fact or fiction?

AlanRatcliffe

Gearhead wrote Fact or fiction?

Typical Ed rant - a bit of fact, a bit of fiction and lots of slagging off other brands (usually the ones who have sued him for faking their guitars).

GaryMac

I met him at his store in Lost Wages (Las Vegas) when he was still in "The Biggest Guitar Store in the World" a couple of years ago.
I still have some picks and a t-shirt that proclaim that so it must have been true.
He didnt look healthy even then!!!!

Lots and lots and lots of guitars in the store, a great deal of crap as well it must be said.
It was a huge hanger of a place in the middle of Las Vegas, therefore in the desert.

I always wondered what the humidity was in that place with the temperature outside in the 40's and the air conditioners blasting to keep it cool.
Definately not the ideal climate for guitars I would have thought.

I think the term "he was a one of a kind" definately applied to Ed.

Rest in Peace Ed, everyone deserves some dignity when they pass over, lets hope your detractors give you some.

GaryMac

flatfourfan

ahhh the ghostbuilder post, I read this about 5 years ago for the first time.

I think that there is some truth to it....

Malkav

flatfourfan wrote Love him or hate him, he was good at what he did.

Not really, everyone I've ever spoken to who's tried one of his guitars has never had a particularly favourable review of them. Maybe if you were looking for a bit of a laugh he was good at what he did, in fact in some cases I think he has some valid ideas, but his generally appalling attitude and tendency to slag off all other guitar builders far out shadowed any valid arguments he raised.

flatfourfan wrote ahhh the ghostbuilder post, I read this about 5 years ago for the first time.

I think that there is some truth to it....

Well it is true that Ibanez and Japanese Fender primarily came from the Fujigen Gakki factory, this has never been a secret, in fact it's common knowledge as with most of these brands. It's just outsourcing and it's what most large production companies do. In fact Ibanez don't own their own factories, Hoshino Gakki (their parent company) only produces Tama and the only factory they truly "own" is this one, Ibanez simply gets designed and prototyped by their R&D team and then once a design is finalised it goes into production at a factory equipped to handle it.

Bob-Dubery

Chad Adam Browne wrote
flatfourfan wrote Love him or hate him, he was good at what he did.
Not really, everyone I've ever spoken to who's tried one of his guitars has never had a particularly favourable review of them. Maybe if you were looking for a bit of a laugh he was good at what he did, in fact in some cases I think he has some valid ideas, but his generally appalling attitude and tendency to slag off all other guitar builders far out shadowed any valid arguments he raised.

It seemed to me that he wasn't a case of having principles or opinions and airing them noisily and not caring who get annoyed. It seemed to me that it was always a case of expedience. If Ed was getting a good deal on Gibsons then he'd wax nasty about other brands. Until the got a good deal from Fender at which point Gibson would suddenly end up in the dog box - that kind of thing.

singemonkey

And re our South African tendency to "not speak ill of the dead," - that's a principle that's dangerous and allows us to fail to learn some lessons, in extreme cases. We can be sympathetic to families and the inherent humanity of those who were once living while at the same time not overlooking bad ideas or behaviour.

GaryMac

And re our South African tendency to "not speak ill of the dead," - that's a principle that's dangerous and allows us to fail to learn some lessons, in extreme cases. We can be sympathetic to families and the inherent humanity of those who were once living while at the same time not overlooking bad ideas or behaviour.

I have no problem with that, what I said was

everyone deserves some dignity when they pass over, lets hope your detractors give you some

and if you have read some of the posts regarding his passing on other guitar forums it would seem that he was a combination of Adolf Hitler, Gengis Khan, Paul Pot, Saddam Hussein, Kim Yung Il, Momhar Gaddafi, Osama Bin Laden, Satan, The Antichrist, Napoleon, Hannibal Lecter etc. etc. And a lot of the comments were from people that had never met or had dealings with the guy!!!!!

The guy was a guitar salesman.

Possibly a "dodgy" guitar salesman, but I have come across a number of salesmen in other fields who were, shall we say, less than generous with the truth!!
Caveat Emptor.

Does this measn that my Ed Roman T-Shirt and picks are now collectors items and worth money?

GaryMac

Gearhead

You forgot Stalin, Mussolini and Idi Amin, to name a few...

GaryMac

Julius Malema, Bryce Lawrence.............................................................

GaryMac

Bob-Dubery

GaryMac wrote
And re our South African tendency to "not speak ill of the dead," - that's a principle that's dangerous and allows us to fail to learn some lessons, in extreme cases. We can be sympathetic to families and the inherent humanity of those who were once living while at the same time not overlooking bad ideas or behaviour.
I have no problem with that, what I said was
everyone deserves some dignity when they pass over, lets hope your detractors give you some
and if you have read some of the posts regarding his passing on other guitar forums it would seem that he was a combination of Adolf Hitler, Gengis Khan, Paul Pot, Saddam Hussein, Kim Yung Il, Momhar Gaddafi, Osama Bin Laden, Satan, The Antichrist, Napoleon, Hannibal Lecter etc. etc.

But that's not happening here, so we don't need to make it an issue here.

GaryMac

The Crocs speak words of wisdom!!!!!!

But come on Bob you have to admit Bryce Lawrence was a good one................................................

GaryMac

Bob-Dubery

GaryMac wrote The Crocs speak words of wisdom!!!!!!

But come on Bob you have to admit Bryce Lawrence was a good one................................................

Isn't he something to do with one of those games where a ball gets kicked around? That's not a big ping on my radar ?