The worst guitar innovations of...All Time!

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Since the 1950’s, when the electric guitar started to hit it’s golden era, technology has advanced nearly every single facet of our lives. Cars can drive themselves, telephones triangulate our exact location while capturing pictures of our favorite moments and we’ve managed to successfully shoot rockets carrying people into space.

The guitar, however, rests in a part of our culture that seems absolutely allergic to change. Technological advancements are often ridiculed as tone stealing, heritage robbing, new-fangled gimmicks that do nothing but make players yearn for terms like “Classic”, “Original”, “Traditional”, and “Vintage”. Not to mention throwback era “50s” and “60s” models which line out everything we, as riffing aficionados, seem to want in today’s guitar

https://azmusicpro.com/news/2018/4/15/the-worst-guitar-innovations-of-all-time

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My personal No 1. is the Gibson Robo tuners...the one thing that guitarists did actually agree on. I've had the 'pleasure' to peek inside one, cheaply made rubbish! And they were being sued by Tronical for ripping off their tech. Heish...

No2. has to be...The re-imagining of the Gibson Flying V... http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2018/Custom/Modern-Flying-V.aspx

$4.499! Not sure it's possible to make a cheaper looking thing and charge more. I think the word "Fugly" was invented expressly for this monstrosity ?

The problem with Gibson (and to a lesser extent, Fender) is simple to sum up in one word.

Tokai