[humpy]

Who does he think he is? Gene Simmons???? I love EVH's playing & music... but what kind of human is he?

 

[metalguy]

I love Eddies playing. Single reason I started playing guitar, however after seeing his ****show at NAMM 2003 I felt kinda betrayed...

Id post a link if I knew how..

 

[Dutchie]

I spoke to Kramer guitars and they looked up my serial numbers and pods number (?)

They said that I am in possession of a 5150 prototype that was never sold. They said that The guitar and it's case were back up guitars for music video or concert or some kind of photoshoot, but were never made to be sold.

I can't understand why Kramer would make a back up which is basically an exact replica of Eds 5150 for a concert or a film clip, and why would Ed want in anyway???. The stripes are basically verbatim. And if there did do it, why would they put a birdseye maple neck on it? The original is hard maple.

The neck plate doesn't mean ****. I've got a Kramer stamped C5150 plate for my 5150 guitar. $15 from the 'bay. You can get Clapton's, SRV's, Gilmour's, Malmsteen's etc.

$4000 US... I think this is the exact reason ELVH has lawyers working for him. It's got nothing to do with him making money. It's to stop innocent people loosing theirs.

 

[mike570]

what's next...r we gonna have to pay him royalties everytime we play a EVH riff?

Sshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Don't give Ed any ideas, bro!

 

[Hikey Mikey]

I'm no lawyer but I would think that, even tho he trademarked the paintjob, the trademark would pertain to things made after the trademark took effect. . . .

Yeah, I'm missing something here. Is the basic issue that EVH didn't make this guitar or make any money off of it?

Peace

Mike

 

[AlaskaBat]

Yeah, I'm missing something here. Is the basic issue that EVH didn't make this guitar or make any money off of it?

Peace

Mike

That's it!

 

[GuitarGuru]

It's still hard to believe that this goes on. Must be nice to be a rich jerk because if I tried to copyright a bunch of stripes, I'd get laughed at. By the way, how does do this guy still do it at http://www.meanstreetguitars.com

 

[SonicProvocateur]

From Mean Street's website:

"I mainly started Mean Street because there are still fans that want a guitar in the style of their guitar hero...and not too many fans want to, or can for that matter, pay over $2k for a guitar...much less 25k for the Fender Frankenstrat replica! ...and now $3000 plus for the new Wolfgang!

So that brings us to Mean Street Guitars, one person, one guitar shop, trying to provide a few EVH fans with a great sounding, great playing guitar that resembles their "Guitar God" hero.

If this should offend any intellectual property rights, then the individual in question should rethink their market strategy and provide an affordable graphic guitar that the "true" fans can afford, not just the collectors!

Sincerely,

Mitchel Floyd"

i.e. he pretty much told Eddie to suck it.

lol there is also a "Pending Lawsuit" banner to the side.

 

[AlaskaBat]

That pending lawsuit banner has been there for several years, and still no lawsuit.

 

[ibz_SA]

I like this lets beat on eddie thread his the biggest egotistical nob jockey known to earth, i cannot stand him. I listened to an interview that he gave to a radio station were he was beating on randy rhoads saying the guy cant play etc and that he is only playing the sort of music because he did. Honestly the day EVH dies is the day the world becomes a better place.

A bit harsh i know but still its how one person on the internet feels

 

[elcid]

I get what the Mean Street guy is doing, but it's pretty weak to start a company with the sole intention of copying someone else's ideas and work.
EVH and Fender/EBMM/ and Peavey all put a lot of time and money into designing those guitars and for some guy to just decided he's going to copy their work and undercut them isn't cool. This guy deserves to be sued. If not for making EVH clones, no one would care what this guy is selling.

 

[ibz_SA]

Your logic is flawed, with your logic used does that mean erine should be sued for making jem "copies"?

 

[elcid]

No. This guys bread and butter is everything EVH put his name on, Kramers, Wolfgangs specific EVH guitars, that he doesn't have the copyright too. Ernie makes parts that people use to make guitars, his business isn't based solely on ripping off other peoples work.

 

[Dutchie]

I like this lets beat on eddie thread his the biggest egotistical nob jockey known to earth, i cannot stand him. I listened to an interview that he gave to a radio station were he was beating on randy rhoads saying the guy cant play etc and that he is only playing the sort of music because he did. Honestly the day EVH dies is the day the world becomes a better place.

A bit harsh i know but still its how one person on the internet feels

Wow... you're a nice guy. Jerk

BTW, He never said RR could play. I've got that interview here somewhere. Maybe you should listen to it again, and Eddie was right about the other thing. Even RR himself said it.

 

[jimistephen]

If it's a true Kramer Frankenstein guitar, even a prototype that was never meant to be sold, Eddie doesn't have a leg to stand on. He licensed Kramer to us the pattern for the guitars and assuming that this is legit, then this young man has every right to sell it, it is his guitar.

on a side note, I also think that Eddie is a complete tool. He's just pushing his name and the paint on everything to get more money (a wah wah, really Eddie?). Never was a big fan of his music either. I tend to like people's music more based on their attitude, it weird I know, but I just do. Paul Gilbert, great guy, very humble, love his music. KISS, personally great guys, not quite as humble(KISS every thing, and I do thing Gene would sell his own mother if he could tattoo KISS on her.) but they know that it's all because of the fans that they are where they are. Van Halen, complete tools, totally over rated, and now just want nothing but more money.

He might be acting like Gene Simmons, but he is no Gene simmons.

 

[GuitarGuru]

I get what the Mean Street guy is doing, but it's pretty weak to start a company with the sole intention of copying someone else's ideas and work.
EVH and Fender/EBMM/ and Peavey all put a lot of time and money into designing those guitars and for some guy to just decided he's going to copy their work and undercut them isn't cool. This guy deserves to be sued. If not for making EVH clones, no one would care what this guy is selling.

If he's still doing it, I find it hard to believe that they would spend the money to go after one person. They would have to show a loss. One guitar isn't enough to go to court over.

 

[mike570]

Honestly the day EVH dies is the day the world becomes a better place.

A bit harsh i know but still its how one person on the internet feels

Oh, I don't know if I'd go THAT far! Honestly, Ed is a huge reason I started playing and Ed, from back in the day, remains a huge influence.
He's just not the same guy anymore. He's all about the merch now! KISS, as horridly self-promoting and merchandise-peddling as they are... they still produced an album recently; arguably a good one. I wouldn't have problems with Ed being a merch peddler if VH had released an actual studio album in the last 12 years.
And honestly some of his products are actually pretty good. I love the EVH pickup and the EVH MXR Phase 90 sounds cool, even though I don't own one. Some of the EVH products are good, even if they are a tad overpriced.
All the same I wouldn't wish death on anyone... even Jack White.

 

[mike570]

And technically, a company like Ibanez can slam down hard on the cottage industries that make clone Jem bodies and such. It just looks like they haven't dropped the hammer as hard as EVH guitars. Whether that's good or bad is another conversation, but at the end of the day it's their intellectual property and they, like Ed, can protect it as they see fit. The big problem is when you start hitting your fans with lawsuits and cease and desists, they tend to stop being your fans.

 

[elcid]

If he's still doing it, I find it hard to believe that they would spend the money to go after one person. They would have to show a loss. One guitar isn't enough to go to court over.

The thing is, it isn't one guitar it looks like it's a whole business the guy set up. Whether they go after him or not is a different story, but I think EVH would be completely justified in this case. Going after a single fan who made a guitar for his own personal use who gets sick of the guitar and wants to sell it is one thing, but mass producing someone else's intellectual property for a profit is something else.

 

[Mungojerrie]

That 5150 clone looks awesome. Now that is a very tempting alternative...