Gibson's BIGGEST Flop Of A Guitar!

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[hazor]

The sales for the Explorer and V may have been lacking when they came out initially, but they were way ahead of their time: they were made for the style and type of Rock N Roll of the 70’s/80’s and beyond.
That guitar sounds amazing, IMO. I love both the Explorer and V shapes - thank God they didn’t stop producing them altogether

[bldallas]

That’s such a cool guitar! Still can’t believe they came up with that shape, way back in the 50s.

[joermnyc]

Everyone things “metal” with an Explorer, but The Edge used his on the early U2 albums, in the documentary “It Might Get Loud” he talks about how they were recording and the engineer was like, “That’s great, can we try it with a different guitar?” And he was like, “This is the only guitar I own!”

[PIlotrcm]

Also, the original Ibanez copy that came out in the mid 70s, the 2459 “Destroyer” was the definitive sound of early Van Halen.

[SilveradoMKII]

I love the explorer. It's one of the reasons why I play guitar. If I didn't see Hetfield playing one of his ESP explorer's, I would not have wanted to play guitar. The shape is super comfortable, they look cool, they all sound great. I own 5 atm, and I'll probably be buying another 5 over the next 5 years. lol

[joeyskar]

I still think there's a Moderne out there somewhere. My old friend Dave who worked in the Kalamazoo factory in the 60's told me they used the body of one to balance a sander which is insane. It's probably in an attic, in a storage room, or in someone's collection as they laugh it up at everyone wondering what the hell happened to the Moderne. There has to be at least one.

[PIlotrcm]

One of my favorites. Got an Epiphone version. Polished the frets, adjusted the truss rod, set the action and intonation. Plays great!
I’m thinking about upgrading the pickups to burstbuckers. The stock bridge pup is good but a little too high output for me.

[moonshine_messiah]

The Explorer is a pure Metal Machine to me. James Hetfield is to blame for that, I’m sure 🤘😂

[FastRedPonyCar]

I just got the red Lizzy Hale firebird/Explorer to demo for my channel and I'm absolutely in love with it. I've gigged a couple times with reissue korina explorers and always really liked their comfort and their sound/ergonomics but the headstock hard angles the strings pass through either result in not the best time with tuning or requires extra beveling on the nut facing the tuners. That firebird headstock fixes it with straight through strings and I honestly really like the way that looks on the explorer body.

[sixslinger]

I played an Explorer all through the 80s, still have it too. I beat the shit out of it gigging and it it shows but the front still looks pretty good. It was a true work horse. the thing weighs about 14-15 lbs though!

[Islandsoundzz]

Your tone is always on point, can you share your signal chain details for your videos?

[straightshowtunelove]

If anyone has an explorer that they don't want because its a "flop", please send it to me. I'll love and care for it, and play it daily. "I will love him and pet him and call him George".

[honkytonkinson]

The guitars with the edges were too edgy for the 1950s!

It always blows my mind that the Stratocaster was a hit but all the ideas that Gibson imagined, except for the Les Paul, failed!

You’d think with all the crazy car tail fins from the late 50s that the Gibson models from the same time would have blown Fender out of the water!

[cullentheirishman]

I bought my 2012 explorer used about 2 years ago and I love it. It became my c# "sabbath tuning" guitar. As soon as I saw it I fell in love. it was white but was starting to yellow and had dings and paint chips all over it 😍

[MenChooseSlavesObey]

The white pick guard is to much contrast, while the black compliments the guitar perfectly.

[SebastianLindqvist]

I've never been that into Explorers although they are cool, but I was shocked by how good it felt in my hands when I tried one for the first time!

[nickky]

Favorite explorer player is Rick Nielsen, but first caught my in 1976 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, KISS, Paul Stanley playing a white Explorer performing "I Want You"

[TheAtariCreep]

#2 on the list of "the one that got away" was an original designer series no Kahler Explorer. It's got a vibe all its own. LOVED mine. Congrats man, great choice.

[grbguitar]

Congrats on the new Explorer. Sounds amazing. Seeing Lynyrd Skynyrds Allen Collins and Rickey Medlocke play The Explorer are lifelong Memories.

[Gratefulman]

It was just bad timing for the explorer and V. Way ahead of their time. My buddy played an explorer in our High school garage band. That was 1980. Good enough for Def Leppard and it was good enough for us! 🎶