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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 ...

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.

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.

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!

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

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

What's wrong with Hilton hotel in Paris?

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

Oh, Damien Hirst, where are you?