Saw this truism on facebook earlier :)

skullfunkerry · September 2023

Kilgore · September 2023

You get great tone from those 1950's phones. It's all down to the bakelite.

Chalky · September 2023

Can't beat a 175

roberty · September 2023

Winny_Pooh · September 2023

I'd say a Telecaster or D28 is better suited there.

Jazz boxes are Niche'

Sporky · September 2023

roberty said:

Funny looking telephone.

stickyfiddle · September 2023

A 1950 model definitely didn’t have humbuckers and a tunomatic…

axisus · September 2023

It's amusing, but it doesn't actually work though does it. No one has redefined the function of a guitar, so your basic guitar doesn't need to change. Modern mobiles have entirely different functions to early phones, as well as talking to people from a distance of course. Also, there has actually been a fair deal of guitar changes and innovations over the years, even if the early designs are still popular.

Still, one can look at it and smile at the sentiment.

thecolourbox · September 2023

I'd like to see one based on the violin instead

axisus · September 2023

thecolourbox said:

I'd like to see one based on the violin instead

There you go

randella · September 2023

roberty said:

Nothing against the Kemper at all, but looking at it always reminds me of Talkie Toaster from the early Red Dwarf episodes.

ICBM · September 2023

skullfunkerry said:

Sadly incorrect. The ES-175 was discontinued in around 2017.

Cranky · September 2023

Thing is, there are more modern guitars out there. So it’s only kinda true.

Tannin · September 2023

Cranky said:

Thing is, there are more modern guitars out there. So it’s only kinda true.

Yes. and none of them from Gibson.

Unless you count the SG as "modern". Or lump in weird little short-run rarities. Fender pretty much the same. They are like those bands which had a couple of hit singles in 1965 and are still playing exactly the same old songs in exactly the same old way, and encoring with their one big hit even though they played it twice already. Admittedly, they are doing the modern walking-frame shuffle instead of the traditional duck walk, so that's something.

CavemanGrogg · September 2023

Shit, I used to have that brick of a Motorola mobile phone from the 80's, I got the bloody thing when it was new to the market - late 80's, though mine was black. That phone alone tripled the weight of my school bag it was that bloody heavy, and bulky too, was really not either pocket friendly, nor guitar case friendly.

Though I disagree with the OP's image, there have been many many changes made to the 175 since it was first introduced in the 50's, for a start, the Gibson logo has changed, then there's the hardware, and finally the shape of the guitar - yes this one can be subtle but not when you compare one from the 50's to one from the 2000's.

Kilgore · September 2023

CavemanGrogg said:

Shit, I used to have that brick of a Motorola mobile phone from the 80's, I got the bloody thing when it was new to the market - late 80's, though mine was black. That phone alone tripled the weight of my school bag it was that bloody heavy, and bulky too, was really not either pocket friendly, nor guitar case friendly.

Erm, I've got to ask. Who did you talk to on it?

crosstownvamp · September 2023

More important where's the trim phone?

Image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7ef9e9_44297a51b27f45ea89a6ab5086c3dd18~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_480,h_320,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/7ef9e9_44297a51b27f45ea89a6ab5086c3dd18~mv2.jpg

CavemanGrogg · September 2023

Kilgore said:

CavemanGrogg said:

Shit, I used to have that brick of a Motorola mobile phone from the 80's, I got the bloody thing when it was new to the market - late 80's, though mine was black. That phone alone tripled the weight of my school bag it was that bloody heavy, and bulky too, was really not either pocket friendly, nor guitar case friendly.

Erm, I've got to ask. Who did you talk to on it?

Parents, friends, teachers, everybody in my year at school had one, in fact every student I went to school with at the time when the Motorola brick phone was available had one. It was actually far far cheaper to run a mobile phone in Asia in the 80's than it was in the UK in the 90's and early 2000's

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories

In this Discussion

Become a Subscriber!

Saw this truism on facebook earlier :)

Comments