Knock-Offs, Rip-Offs, and Just Plain UGLY!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:58 am

Rob, it's cardesnr99. It was my original e-mail address in 1996, when I actually was a car designer.

Now I can't spell it.

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:13 am

curmudgeon by day....

incidentally, i'm 'red' due to my unswerving allegiance to a certain football club.

and not due to any severe left wing political leanings.

in case you were wondering, comrades.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:24 am

I'm surprised that the moderators haven't been in touch. After all, it is a 'Gretsch' forum, not a 'gross' one.

Maybe they are getting just as big a kick out of it as the members and can't stop laughing long enough to contact him.

He has the hide of a rhinoceros, does mvp....... and the brain of a gnat!

Red is good, Rob! My allegiance is such that I'm forever blowing bubbles.....

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:34 am

Eeh... now a little mouse has landed on the ladder and felt so bad... turned to something like R in the end...
Mmm... Brian is a lot of fun, in fact - and something tells me he's just kiddin':
"...anyways these guitars I have been building are strictly fun and why not do it, maybe someday I will be better at this if I continue..."
Looks like a "spam" or a "flashmob" - personally, i doubt he's serious about his work...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:49 am

Sure he's good for lots of laughs, Sheena, but I have no doubt that he's serious. More's the pity.......

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:07 am

Well... wait and see... Brian "MPV"'s portrait done by his biggest fan...

BTW, how old's the guy?

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:19 am

Don't know, Sheena. I suspect he's fairly young - Paul may be able to impart......

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:51 pm

Well... here's some guitar designer... with a new project...

Nice guy, no doubt...
(uncensored version also available but i won't post it here...)

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:02 pm

L I V
E R P
O O L

Liverpool FC!

That a jackass, Sheena?

I get the impression that mvp is in his late 20s. I dunno, just a vibe; a mix of know-too-little masquerading as know-too-much, toss in a dash of illiteracy/innumeracy, and crown with a frothy dollop of ignorant arrogance.

Decaf, please...

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:30 pm

Well, that's how Mousie sees him...

and mind that "red" is kind of synonymous to "lunatic" in Russian...
Late 20s... damn... personally, i like to hope he's about a decade younger than me... or two decades... or three... oh wait... in this case, he's not born yet!

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:41 pm

hell no not liverpool! Shouldn't get into this as I've made some good friends on this site and this is a sure fire way to lose some! let's just say I was upset when Georgie Best died.

I'd love to meet mvp...how much do you think he spent on the parts for that 'guitar' anyway?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:20 pm

Just winding you up, Rob, and apparently it worked...

Georgie was quite The Lad in his day wasn't he, tho?

I'd estimate he spent about $700 in parts and another $100 in wood. The Cadillac tailpiece is about $200.00 used, alone.

Everything's top-of-the-line except the rest.

Or something like that.

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:34 pm

clockwork rob more like...

i've just had a thought - what if he'd called himself <ahem> ''mvp.rickenbacker''?

sweet mercy

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:43 pm

AAArrrrgggghhhhhhhh....

I'll bet the CEO of FMC has no idea what he's missing by not posting on gretschpages.com...

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:22 am

Good news: looks like "mpv"'s projects were removed from the Gretsch forum... at least, i didn't manage to find them, or perhaps i was lucky enough to miss them this time.
Bad news (probably "bad" only for me): i admit i was wrong when i tried to "defend" this... guy, even if jokingly. And i'm sorry about it.