New Gibson Money Grabs... What Are They Thinking? | Who Got One of Dumble's Last Amps? | Guitar News

In this video, Wes gives us the week in guitar news! He finds funny and interesting stories relating to guitar players! This week he shows us Gibson's bizarre and expensive attempt to bring us a new model guitar, plus, Gibson's new motorcycle partnership. We find out who got one of the last amps made by Alexander Dumble and show you a new guitar just hitting the market.
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[frankiecalabro]

Great vid!!!! Too bad Rich is not at the head of Gibson …what guitars we would have, the quality would be off the charts!

[vayabroder]

Love this; news and enjoyable banter between you two. Marketing is out of bounds nowadays. You are so right; hard to find new nice US made archtops; Gibson and even Heritage seem to not make them anymore. The Veilette sounded too tinny; no bottom; a nice archtop sounds like a piano, especially in the right hands! Nowadays it’s all about gear and not enough about learning to play the darn things!

[surfgod]

Kind of 😎 cool... Ted also worked with Johnny Smith on his model... brilliant individual...

[TheRmoroni]

And how does a gibson/triumph collaboration make any kind of sense?

[TheRmoroni]

wow that looks like something a kid made in woodshop

[whimpypatrol]

Possibly some of the best archtop builders ever worked for Gibson at the Kalamazoo factory forever nameless.

[MrBruneaux]

Rich, have you ever played a Ken Parker Archtop? I am sniffing into Archtop making and to me Ken Parker is the "scientist" among Archtop makers. I would like to hear your opinion on his guitars.

[Bobbyjoeloverod]

A plank, or solid body guitar is worth $400. tops.

[TN-D]

$5K??? Should have left those plans in the drawer.

[whimpypatrol]

The only thing potentially going on at Gibson is that they bought Two Rock which I suspect, finally 2 years ago, voiced a tube amp (the Two Rock Filmore) for a hollowbody electric. You would think that was the reason Gibson bought Two Rock, but probably not. After all, it's been maybe 55 years since a commercial tube amp design may have been voiced for a Gibson hollowbody archtop. Tube amp designers don't seem to voice amps for anything but solidbodies -- LPs, Strats and Teles. You have to go back 55 years to some of Leo Fender's amp designs to get anywhere near Kenny Burrell's midnight blue studio jazz tone. But the Idea that Two Rock possibly designed an amp suitable for most of Gibson's classic (electric) archtops was probably not the reason or even something Gibson even noticed. Sad.

[whimpypatrol]

"Ducktail" was what the 50's rockabilly style man's haircut was called (I think).

[conradgittins]

There is a reason that thing didn't get made back then. The Triumph thing doesn't do it for me either in spite of loving motorcycles. I think I'll be building my next hollow body guitar...

[damonlove]

@01:22
Guy from Gibson: 'It looks cool it has those 2 unique cut aways'
Rich: Doesn't that look like a duck?
Me:
I love how Rich tell it how it is.

Here's Gibson again going back to the past, slapping their Gibson logo and charging us like it's 4022.
Gibson, guitars of the past for tomorrow's prices. lol

[chrisreynolds]

Those pickholders on the bike, are about as useful as an ashtray.

[whimpypatrol]

The Dumble #102 clones for a jazzy es335 tone is possibly the best kept secret in the jazz guitar world. Howard Dumble voiced his amp #102 he built for Robben Ford to have a clean setting for jazz with Gibson semihollowbodies (and maybe full hollowbodies), but that was just one amp. Fuchs captured some of Dumble's #102 jazz tone qualities in his Clean Machine amp, but I've only heard it with solid bodies. And I've heard someone get a great jazz tone with a semihollow through a Bludotone Ojai amp (coupled with a loop-a-lator) which I suspect is somewhat of a Dumble #102 clone. Of course these Dumblesqe es335ish jazz tones from the 1970's (I think) and later clones is hotter and louder than the classic 50's and 60's jazz guitar tones. But they are not the high gain jazz fusion tone (I dislke) that some other of Howard Dumble amps are famous for.

[LetzBeaFranque]

"People hear with their eyes." Isn't that from the book of Proverbs?😉

[whimpypatrol]

You would think Slash to have known about dumble and amp lore.

[gtrmusic]

Top far right on your 2:12 does this mean you're taking "unemployment insurance"

[JackTheSkunk]

Spot on...distortion can make the greatest guitar in the world sound like garbage.

[petersmart]

They are just trying to re invent the "wheel"