That guitar's not metal enough...

Team J Crafter · #1 08-30-2006, 12:16 AM

Check this crap out.

I'm at practice and a few friends of the band stop in. We go on about our business since our schedule is tight in September with a nice(!) show, cd cover work and pics, 2 solid weeks of recording(12hr/days) and another mastering and straight into production first week in October. Anyway, one of them asked me what guitar I'm using for the up & coming show. I reply, "My Ibanez's, the puzzle for the main and 20061 for back-up or reverse depending on my mood."...... moments later they both hit me with.....

"They're not metal enough. Why don't you play your metal guitars?"

What? How naieve(sp?) is that statement? At that point I told them to shove their two-fisted-horns up their collective a**es. Do people really think this way?

newbieguitarmaker · #2 08-30-2006, 12:20 AM

ibanez are like the best guitars for almost any style, all of these guys are just stuck up metal heads that think only like b.c. riches are metal guitars, at least thats how it is at my school.

bonehead189 · #3 08-30-2006, 12:24 AM

Yeah, a few friends have said the same thing to me. They thought a Fender Strat with Seymour Duncan Cool Rails and Hot Rails would not sound metal...........................until I blasted them away with some metal riffage! hahaha, Ibanez is the creator of the metal guitar!

bonehead189 · #4 08-30-2006, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by newbieguitarmaker

stuck up metal heads that think only like b.c. riches are metal guitars, at least thats how it is at my school.

It's that way at my school too.

vette6600 · #5 08-30-2006, 12:36 AM

maybe they have the idea of a typical "metal guitar" being black. its not a big deal really

mi2tom · #6 08-30-2006, 12:40 AM

Some here says BC rich is a metal guitar

MilkshakeFiend · #7 08-30-2006, 08:01 AM

Eh, I get told all the time that my J-custom is a wussy guitar. Usually by people who have a squire strat/BC Rich Warlock and who have been playing less than 6 months.

My HM Strat is quite 'metal'; (well, I guess it should be, being a Heavy METAL Strat) it's black and has EMGs (SA/SA/60 to be precise) and a Kahler non-recessed trem. I'm sure I'll get told it's not metal quite soon when I finish doing the sparkle green tiger finish on it.

I say just let the playing speak for itself.

~M

TongueShredder · #8 08-30-2006, 08:24 AM

Probably they came to this conclusion because the shape of your Ibanez puzzle guitar was not ROCK enuff because it didnt look anything like a Warlock or a Flying V perhaps. Sometimes these people really puzzled you.......

katrina · #9 08-30-2006, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TongueShredder

Probably they came to this conclusion because the shape of your Ibanez puzzle guitar was not ROCK enuff because it didnt look anything like a Warlock or a Flying V perhaps. Sometimes these people really puzzled you.......

Wow... Your new nickname is MoP..
Master of the Puns....

~ Katrina

newbieguitarmaker · #10 08-30-2006, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Mylo

Eh, I get told all the time that my J-custom is a wussy guitar. Usually by people who have a squire strat/BC Rich Warlock and who have been playing less than 6 months.

My HM Strat is quite 'metal'; (well, I guess it should be, being a Heavy METAL Strat) it's black and has EMGs (SA/SA/60 to be precise) and a Kahler non-recessed trem. I'm sure I'll get told it's not metal quite soon when I finish doing the sparkle green tiger finish on it.

I say just let the playing speak for itself.

~M

wow calling a j-custom wussy is like calling chuck norris a ***** lol

TongueShredder · #11 08-30-2006, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by katrina

Wow... Your new nickname is MoP..
Master of the Puns....

~ Katrina

LOL.. Thanks Katrina...You did get it.

7 Dying Trees · #12 08-30-2006, 09:17 AM

Metal is in the fingers and the soul. In fact, if an ibanez isn't metal, then a strat certainly isn't, and I wouldn't criticise trevor pires' (obituary) choice of guitar a few years back, which was, incidentally, a strat.

Not to mention the list of ibanez players that do metal. It's quite extensive.

newbieguitarmaker · #13 08-30-2006, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by 7 Dying Trees

Metal is in the fingers and the soul. In fact, if an ibanez isn't metal, then a strat certainly isn't, and I wouldn't criticise trevor pires' (obituary) choice of guitar a few years back, which was, incidentally, a strat.

Not to mention the list of ibanez players that do metal. It's quite extensive.

yeah, all the people that believe only certain types of guitars are "metal" they probably dont know much about guitar or they're just dumb because like you said its in the fingers and the soul

bammbamm · #14 08-30-2006, 10:08 AM

I'll trade you that non-metallic puzzle crap for my OH SO Metal RG-550 Black with rosewood neck (very dark rosewood, with very metal 6100 dunlop fretwires)
That would make you MUCH cooler than that goofy guitar you're using now.
I'd be happy to help you with your quest to be 'none more black' \\m// Keep the torch burning!

supermau · #15 08-30-2006, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by 7 Dying Trees

Metal is in the fingers and the soul. In fact, if an ibanez isn't metal, then a strat certainly isn't, and I wouldn't criticise trevor pires' (obituary) choice of guitar a few years back, which was, incidentally, a strat.

Not to mention the list of ibanez players that do metal. It's quite extensive.

Indeed. I could make my cheesy little Danelectro 56U2 a "metal" guitar if I played it that way. I guess those dudes are more concerned with looks.