GREED?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:05 pm

I was in a local Denver GC store today and they had one of those $25,000 custom shop VH striped guitars ... I must say in person it looked like **** ... I saw the real one in Cleveland at the RR hall of fame a few weeks ago and it looked cool ... but the $25,000 replica looked like a $250 knock-off ...

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:43 am

I'v gotta say...I was at my local GC a few days ago where they had one of these $25,000 EVH replica guitars on display. It was rotating in a glass case. Of course $25,000 is giant hunk o' coin and I couldn't personally see blowing it on one, but...that thing is too cool. I stood in front of it and looked it over for probably five minutes. A heck of a lot of thought and work had to go into something like that. I have never seen the real EVH Frankenstein guitar close-up but if somebody would have told me that that was it, I would have believed them. Very realistic. Maybe not $25,000 worth, but I thought it was really well-done and interesting to look at.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:11 am

Jeff, I used to do museum displays (built the coral reef at the Shedd Aquarium--it's fiberglass; did you know that?), and we had a saying that you could put a turd in a glass case and people would stop and admire it.

I call it "case halo".

Imagine that thing sitting on a stand in the middle of a sales floor. It would get 1/10 the attention, and then only by die hard EVH fans. It's the sizzle they're selling, not the steak.

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:13 am

LOL!

I'm sure I get afflicted with "case halo" from time to time, but I doubt that a glass case would make a turd any more visually appealing to me.

But carve it into the form of Paris Hilton, and NOW you've got something to admire!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:19 am

"Paris Hilton" and "admire" in the same sentence?

Now we're getting into areas of really bad taste, my friend!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:23 am

What's wrong with Hilton hotel in Paris?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:42 am

Nothing. But the thought of making a maquette of it from merde is a bit offputting.

Oh, Damien Hirst, where are you?