Am I the only one that's mildly annoyed by the Youtube videos on the Chris Stapleton...

[Noodling Guitars]

...like all these mid-Youtubers that try to get a few clicks over the fact that it's priced at $5k... gimme a break

It's a made in the US guitar at the Gibson Montana factory - Epiphone's done that since they relaunched the Made in USA line with the Frontier and the Texan, both of which are not signature models and priced at the $3k-$4k - which is priced just like all other Gibson acoustics. Ever look at the price tag of .. I dunno.. say Dave Mustaine's Songwriter? That's well over $4k. Orianthi's is what.. like $6k...

I mean why are they treating like their minds are being blown by the price - it's almost like they've never heard of the Made in US Casinos either - which is basically the price of a Gibson ES-335.

 

[Raiyn]

...like all these mid-Youtubers that try to get a few clicks over the fact that it's priced at $5k... gimme a break

It's a made in the US guitar at the Gibson Montana factory - Epiphone's done that since they relaunched the Made in USA line with the Frontier and the Texan, both of which are not signature models and priced at the $3k-$4k - which is priced just like all other Gibson acoustics. Ever look at the price tag of .. I dunno.. say Dave Mustaine's Songwriter? That's well over $4k. Orianthi's is what.. like $6k...

I mean why are they treating like their minds are being blown by the price - it's almost like they've never heard of the Made in US Casinos either - which is basically the price of a Gibson ES-335.

Possibly.

I'm not a modern country guy, anything much past Shania and Garth and you'll get a blank stare. Most of my interest in the genre is from the era of Hank Sr. to the Man in Black so I had to look up who the guy was in the first place.

I'm also NOT an acoustic guy. Too many social situations with some d-bag farting through Wonderwall and DMB in the background.

I see your point though. It's a US made guitar, a signature model no less. The problem is that the industry has conditioned consumers to view Epiphone as inferior to the almighty G. They see Epi and it's viewed as an import or foreign - even AFTER You tell them where it's made. "They cut corners somewhere" is the bias.

Fact is you could slap a Gibbon label on it and it'll ship all day.

 

[soulman969]

The problem is that the industry is conditioned consumers to view Epiphone as inferior to the almighty G. They see Epi and it's seen as an import or foreign - even AFTER You tell them where it's made. "They cut corners somewhere" is the bias.

Yup. Most have no idea of Epiphone's history and that for decades they were chosen over Gibson models by many performers. But of course they'd need to spend some time edumucatin' themselves first which many a far too lazy to do. They can find YouTube but not Wikipedia.

 

[Raiyn]

Internet facts: Epiphone = Po people's guitar

Reality: Epiphone = $5K U.S. made sig for a guy I'm unfamiliar* with.

*Not a dig, just not my preferred era of his genre as explained above.

 

[Noodling Guitars]

I'm more surprised that a lot of these channels don't mention the fact that Casinos are well over $3k, and that Frontiers and Texans (well in the $3-4k area) exist. Either that or they purposely omit these facts in order to make their "OMG it's a $5k Epi" message