Why I Would Rather Gouge My Own Eyes Out Than Play An Ibanez

Hollowaxis · 2009-11-14T23:33:05+00:00

Hmmmm. After much consideration & many years of playing (Mostly Fenders), I've come a simple conclusion. I will never, by my own free will or choice, choose to play a guitar made by Ibanez. For a few reasons.... Build quality. Having seen many many RG model electrics I just think they seem inferior? And the two buckers one single coil 'versatility' these things claim seems like a 'Stuff more bits in to fool people' philosophy. As for their high end models. One word. Ugly. And as for who plays them. Weeeelll, that brings me to the Main gripe I have with these things. Image. Image. Ibanez as a brand overall just speaks to me of 'heavy metal' wankery and overblown cock-rock guitarists. When I picture Ibanez I picture uncreative, speed obsessed, non-musical 'bands' making bland & uninteresting noise. (not good noise as one would find being thoughfully constructed by the likes of Sonic Youth, Battles, Mogwai or Slint) but rather terrible noise as you might hear from those mighty twats Vai & Satriani. I picture that self obsessed wanking when I picture Ibanez and it just puts me off. I might consider an entry level semi hollow like one of the Jet Kings as a spare guitar for kicks, but i guess if I really was that way inclined I would just do an epiphone casino or dot. I dunno man. Fenders for me. Some Gibsons, maybe a Rickenbacker. But no no Ibanez. ?

TomCat

I thinks this thread returned from 2112....... ? ?

RobK

aubs1 wrote
Brentcgp wrote
I'm sure this was suppose to be about why the fellow dislikes Ibanez guitars?

TomCat wrote Hear Hear.....Well said Brent....
Hahahahah....right on Brent, I am also quite confused about where this topic has gone......thought the original thread should have died long ago, and a new topic started..... ?

Maybe we're missing something????

Vai and Satriani were mentioned.

Bob-Dubery

Jaen-Pierre Dowling wrote Thanks a lot Bob, I'll definitely be checking them out, and sorry if I've raised my opinions in a insulting manner! ?

I don't think you did. And don't get hung about age too much. Some 50 year old guys are more childish than the average teen ager. If you didn't mention your age I'd have had a hard time guessing it, and I wouldn't have worried too much about it anyway. What you have to say and how you say it is more important on a forum than how old you are.

If you are not allergic to words like "bluegrass" then you might check out Hop, Skip and Wobble by Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer and Russ Barenberg. It's not THAT bluegrassy a record anyways. Barenberg is one of the name guitarists in so-called "newgrass" and a very fine acoustic player. Meyer is a classically trained bass player who also has an affinity for Americana - and is a monster. Douglas is one of the kings, some would say THE KING, of lap steel. I've heard him playing everything from Irish folk tunes to be-bop.

Jaen-Pierre-Dowling

This is the cool part of being on this forum - my deviation from the metal fraternity has lead me to discover the likes of mister Govan, and now I've come to hear of a few other guys to check out as well, hopefully resulting in even more musical growth in the years to come, all thanks to you guys! ?

Guess any-/everything can be a learning experience though! ?

TomCat

One is never too old to learn something new......I believe one should learn at least one new thing every day.....

MIKA-the-better-one

lalala, ibanez ibanez ibanez, lallalla,

Bob-Dubery

Jaen-Pierre Dowling wrote Thanks a lot Bob, I'll definitely be checking them out, and sorry if I've raised my opinions in a insulting manner! ?

Great thing of me forgot! You might want to check out Jeff Lang - fab bluesy acoustic and slide player. Fairly monstrous.

Should be some of his stuff on YouTube.

singemonkey

Woohoo! Brandfight! ?

Check out these shredder guitars built by Ibanez: ?

Nothing says metal and shred like lipstick pickups:

And those spikey, non-traditional looks:

When I really wanna go all Yngwie Malmsteen, I reach for my hollowbody:

Ah. Ta heck with Ibanez. Give me a trusty Les Paul anyday:

Bob-Dubery

MIKA the better one wrote lalala, ibanez ibanez ibanez, lallalla,

It's just a brand of guitar. I take some interest in gear and brands, but what's way more important is the player and what he produces with the gear.

I also think that when you hear a really good player, the player has a lot more to do with the sound than the gear does.

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote Woohoo! Brandfight! ?

Check out these shredder guitars built by Ibanez: ?

That first one isn't a guitar, it's a Swiss Army knife. You can't fool me. I can see the bottle opener, the can opener and the tooth pick. In fact this particular model also packs some dental floss. How cool is that?

singemonkey

The Iceman. Made famous by KISS. I can easily imagine them using it to open 6 foot beer bottles.

Jack-Flash-Jr

X-rated Bob wrote
Jaen-Pierre Dowling wrote Thanks a lot Bob, I'll definitely be checking them out, and sorry if I've raised my opinions in a insulting manner! ?
Great thing of me forgot! You might want to check out Jeff Lang - fab bluesy acoustic and slide player. Fairly monstrous.

Should be some of his stuff on YouTube.

In the mold of Kelly Joe Phelps? Net too slow for clips but his beard from wiki page is COOL 8)

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X-rated Bob wrote
MIKA the better one wrote lalala, ibanez ibanez ibanez, lallalla,
It's just a brand of guitar. I take some interest in gear and brands, but what's way more important is the player and what he produces with the gear.

I also think that when you hear a really good player, the player has a lot more to do with the sound than the gear does.

+1000

X-rated Bob wrote
singemonkey wrote Woohoo! Brandfight! ?

Check out these shredder guitars built by Ibanez: ?
That first one isn't a guitar, it's a Swiss Army knife. You can't fool me. I can see the bottle opener, the can opener and the tooth pick. In fact this particular model also packs some dental floss. How cool is that?

hahahaha ?

Thanks for the pics of the Ibanezs' singemonkey...
So much for the arguments above on how 'they look'... never generalise

Jaen-Pierre-Dowling

I found Singermonkey's sarcasm very refreshing after such a hectic discussion haha, hi5 for that! ?

singemonkey

Yeah. Generalisations.

"I hate Gibsons. Why can't they make a solid-body guitar? Who plays those dorky F-hole guitars anymore? Get with the 21st century Gibson, and put out a solid-body! Also, can't those dumbasses at Gibson put humbuckers on some of their guitars so we can rock out?

Also Rickenbacker. Why would a company make only 12-string guitars? Don't you just hate that?"

There's probably a less kind word than 'generalisation' that could be applied.

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Squonk

Cant we get back to the eye gouge. ?
I need some horror to brighten up my day ?

singemonkey

Metal!

Ok. I'll stop. Damn. I have GAS now.

Keira-WitherKay

wow ok thats one beautiful guitar.... love the colours...... anyway who gives a f@#k whats on the headstock if it 'floats your boat"

aja

Squonk wrote Cant we get back to the eye gouge. ?
I need some horror to brighten up my day ?

Squonk

Jeez AJA

This makes eye gouging come alive, I wonder if the original poster of this thread would rather just have the Ibanez than do this ?

Ouch

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