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The Worst Sales Pitch Ever
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2023
- Baxter and Jonathan talk about the funny sales pitches that you hear at guitar shops.
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"I have 2 extra fingers"
"check out this Ibanez..."
It’s the salesman who lives in my head that scares me most
This is one of the few can't-miss go-to channels for guitar stuff on a daily basis. I can't understand why you guys don't have 10x the subs. Sooo many people missing out on the Baxter/Jonathan daily-fun-wagon-train. Keep it up!
Wow, thank you!
Every video is a classic
I went into this local shop to check out a Dr Z amp that had been listed online for over a month. As I was playing it, they STAGED a call from "someone in North Carolina" that was trying to buy it RIGHT NOW, for full price, and I had 2 minutes to decide if I wanted to buy it. It took me a minute to realize they were playing me, and I definitely haven't been back.
That's a lame tactic.... they use that in car dealers and homes during the crazy market
Love it! Casino won a price from Casino! Don’t forget to call yourself @casino guitars
A Fender is the best Fender you can get. The story about the guy with one finger and the Ovation made me bust out laughing at work
Love this!! My favorite salesperson comment while I was paying for something said “why are you buying that??”
A dumb guitar sales pitch actually got me one of my favorite guitars I own lol
I was 17 and It was just after I graduated high school and we were in Spokane Washington and I was at GC and I found a black and white Gibson Explorer hanging on the wall and I thought it was the coolest guitar and I loved how it played, plus the images of James Hetfield and Skwisgaar from deathklok kicking ass on explorers really made me love it, so when I graduated my parents said I could either pick a trip to Mexico or a New guitar, of course I wanted a new guitar lol, but when my parents came into GC and seen what I picked my Mom hated it but my dad loved it lol, so my mom was really trying to get me to not buy it or pick something else or really think about it ect (my mind was made up due to the fact I already had a les Paul studio that I worked 2 jobs to buy so I wanted something really different lol) the sales dude at GC pulled my dad aside and told him "hey man that's pretty much the best guitar ever made, man" and when my dad relayed this information my mom finally folded lol, and to this day I still use it as a stage guitar and have no regrets lol
I don't have a stupid sales pitch to share because I'm a middle aged woman and I'm apparently invisible when I go to guitar shops. I can wander around for half and hour and not talk to anyone
Maybe they think you are the Mom of the kid playing Stairway to Heaven. :-)
I do remember going to GC and seeing a woman being ignored by employees. I ended up helping her. It was bad.
Weird. I was just hearing from some friends how it seems if you are a somewhat attractive female who can play even just 10 songs reasonably competently you can gain 100 times more followers on social media than one more old white guy who plays much more expertly. It's just a matter of market saturation and following the money. Humans are funny animals.
Oh yeah, been there, seen that, put the salesprick straight, in a car showroom. My ex. was looking to buy a new car. The salesprick walked up to me and started spewing the BS about the car's performance and how it was faster than 'Car X'. I actually worked in motorsport, at the time, explained why the car we arrived in (mine) was significantly faster, then pointed him in her direction and told him, she was the one buying, she's paying cash, and she's not interested in how fast it isn't.
I haven’t seen another woman in a guitar shop in years. I have to namedrop my $$$ gear just to be taken seriously but I guess it beats aggressive sales. Sometimes I’ve just left
"Yeah, this guitar has some real quality control and playability issues but, hey, it's still a Gibson."
I used a Silverton tube amp my parents bought me in 1961 for years. When it came time for a big boy amp, I jumped into the deep end and bought a new Fender super reverb in 1968. I still have it. It was clearly more than I needed at the time but turned out to be a great choice in the long run. As for a sales pitch, the salesman tried to sell me a Bandmaster amp. My dad said, there's no way I'm going to help you carry one of those around. Smart choice in the end.
I've heard the "Heritage is more Gibson than Gibson" line a couple times.
I can see this one. A lot of people don’t even know Heritage guitars exist. I can see explaining to someone how they are made in the old Gibson Factory and started by former gibson employees can lead to that assumption. I personally do believe that Heritages do have some of that vintage gibson magic that new Gibsons lack.
I actually agree with this one. The last time I played one it was far superior to a Gibson in pretty much every way.
@@HannahGuitars that's good to know! I wish they made a double cut style guitar, but maybe one day I'll get that urge to own an LS style guitar and I'll be sure to play a bunch of theirs
Back in the early 1990s a friend was looking to buy his first tube amp. Well the salesman sold him a solid state Fender amp, and told him that the large caps in the back of the amp were tubes.
That's disgusting.
My guitar journey was reignited in part because of an Esteban guitar. I was invited to join a band (for my vocals) by a friend from church.
Our vocals were great together. Following our first rehearsal, my friend asked if I ever played guitar. I told him I had played when I was a kid and a little bit as a teen, but nothing more than bedroom stuff. I was in my late 40s at the time.
He brought out an Esteban acoustic/electric (a "special" birthday gift from his sister), told me to take it home & practice the chords from the signature song, having written them down, along with an inpromptu CD cut of the song & return the following week ready to play.
I told him he was expecting too much. He said he likes our vocals but he doesn't want a vocalist who doesn't play an instrument. The pressure was on.
For the whole week I practiced. The high action & heavy gauged strings blistered and bled my fingertips.
The following week I played what I could of the song, laying off the parts that were above my rudimentary skills. It was terrible, but my friend said "not bad", keep practicing.
Four months later, having rediscovered a lot of joy in playing guitar in that Esteban, we played our first concert at a men's fellowship. I had bought a pre-owned Squier Bullet Strat and also a Crate amp from eBay for that first concert. For the songs I knew well, I would volume up a bit and for those I did not, I volumed down.
I played that Esteban for a good year or so until I obtained a Seagull acoustic of my own...
Many songs were written by my friend and I on that Esteban. He still has it, having worn a hole just below the pickguard since then.
So yes indeed, those Estebans hold a place in my heart.
...as far as guitar sales pitches, y'all pretty much covered them, especially the "its as good as or better than a _ _ _ _ _ _ _" and driving their lie home with "That is why we carry these instead" with the kind of enthusiasm of John Candy trying to sell his Casio watch in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" lol!!
I admire your determination. You really did that the hard way. & kind of hate to break it to you but - Esteban's are pieces of 💩.
@@csnide6702 Thanks man. Oh make no mistake. The Esteban is everything you would expect from an infomercial guitar, and even less. Made that Squier feel and play like a Custom Shop lol!!!
@@DavidHBurkart 😁
My worst sales pitch experience is brought to you by none other than.......Guitar Center! Fender Jag hanging high on the wall. I approach a salesman and politely ask if he could get it down for me. Salesman looks me over and says "No". The end. Just wow.
This episode is awesome. Thanks for the continued laughter.
Missing a finger sorry to hear that did you see our Harmonica selection
I ate three cupcakes during this interview!
RIP Tom Verlaine
Two guys just talkin shop about guitars, and easily one of the most entertaining channels. Love it keep up the great content guys
"Boss Katana amps are the absolute best amps available on the market." -Guitar Center
Dude missing a finger would prob sell them a Tony Iommi SG.
G&L enters the chat....🤔
Yes it does, but I do not think they realize that they ventured in to the arena.
Thanks for the Estabon shout out. I had one years ago ... Great sounding guitar .
Your honesty is so fresh .its the best humor cause its true.
We went to my local shop, and I didn't realize my wife was wearing a Sweetwater shirt. Much shit was talked.
Off topic story: my parents were visiting Isreal etc, and they wanted to swim in the Jordan River. Dad looked at mama and realized his wife was in a huge crowd of Jews and Muslims wearing a shirt with a big ass pig on the front. I think it is even funnier than the time she blew out her knee and fell on Henry VIII. Well his grave anyway.
😂 As a Muslim guy from London, your wife sounds hilarious. 👏🏽👍🏽
My favorite sales pitch was when I was at a store working a deal. The deal was not working so the sales person said “I did all this and your not gonna buy anything?” He spent the last half an hour with me and five other customers working it. No worries I said I won’t waste your time again. I didn’t know I had to buy a guitar every time I went in.
I mean, as someone who works in a service industry... It's pretty frustrating when you spend 30+ minutes with a customer, pulling shit down off of walls, handing them different things, giving them the whole rundown of everything you offer, and they just decide not to buy anything at the last minute. Like... I could've been working with a customer who was actually here for business. You wasted his time. Of course he was mildly annoyed with you.
30 minutes of work is not worth $1000 or more for a guitar purchase, sorry. Plus your employer pays you for that 30 minutes regardless so quit complaining that a customer isnt making your boss richer out of obligation.
Love the channel! Binging over the last month has intensified my excitement for guitar. Thanks!
I was wondering if you guys had thoughts on the Japanese made Aerodyne specials that came out last year.
A few years back I bought a Martin DRS2 acoustic at a lacal guitar store. The sales guy said "Great Ill go downstairs and get the case." 10 full minutes later, he came back with a case. It was too small for the Martin and obviously not a match. A bit 'put out' that he had to go back downstairs again. off he goes. This time the case was right, but there was a large gouge out of one side. When I pointed this out he replied" Does it really matter?" I told him "Well yes...900 quids worth of matter!" Off he thumps huffilly and tried again. No luck this time either, case didnt fit. Obviously, very annoyed, he came up with the line,
"What do I have to do to get you to walk out of the store with this guitar!"
( Thats a whole new comments line right there!) I kept calm though and replied "Get me the right case for this guitar.." So off he stomps, comes back up the stairs heavy of breath,with a Shiney new Martin case, It fits, its spotless, He says "Happy? I reply "Ecstatic...!" we have a sale. I leave the shop with may DRS 2 in a case for a D18/D28. Very nice it is too"
"We ain't one-at-a-timin here, we mass guitar buyin."
The 15 sh!+ bombs at the beginning caught me off guard this morning lol
When i was a kid back in the mid to late 70's, nobody in my area sold Marshall. Every amp I bought for a few years I bought because a sales guy told me it sounded just like a Marshall. At 20, I finally just bought my first Marshall and still use mostly Marshall to this day.
I met one salesperson who was insisting that Les Pauls were the optimal guitars for metal. While standing 20 feet away from a section of Schecters.
Joathan, thank you for bringing up Variax. Mine cured my GAS (for the most part). I do feel like I need a second one eventually as a spare (probably one w/ a trem).
I have the magic power of invincibiliy in a guitar shop. I can defeat any salesman.
"Sorry, I'm left handed.......... and I already have a Mexican Strat in black"......
Esteban is the Chuck Norris of Guitar Infomercials
More like the Van Dam. Chuck is an extremely competent martial arts instructor.
YESSSS!!
No, more like pee wee herman! Lol
@@AnAxetoGrind no he isn’t lmao
those are the WORST guitars EVER.....
HEY!!! I wanna see that BATTLESHIP! You're leavin me hangin!!!
‘I have the same one at home, it’s the only one I play”
When i was 12 in 1986...I went to the music store with my father to buy my first electric guitar...Told the salesman that i was a fan of Hendrix and Gilmour and wanted a Fender Stratocaster...He told us the Strat was good for nothing and i would be better off with a Ibanez guitar...I ended up with a Pink Ibanez Proline 1440...which i hate...Couple years later i got my Strat...
Well in his defense, it WAS 1986....
😅🤣😂
If he knew what he was talking about, he would have sold you a pointy BC Rich. LOL
My favorite Guitar Center stupid memory involved a 10 foot guitar cord with a lifetime warranty that had crapped out. When I went to replace it, the cashier said: “Oh, these cords never go bad.” I just looked at him and opted to keep my mouth shut. I’ve never been back to that Guitar Center.
The big brands refusing to work with small stores is the number one reason small shops in small towns are all but gone.
Monster Guitar Cables tech selling uni-directional cables , superior sound quality over omni directional cables, the copper was wrapped to allow signal to flow faster when you plugged the correct end into the guitar and the other end into your amp.
Years ago I went into a guitar center and the sales person let me check out a bass that I was looking at, and it was way out of tune and I didn’t bother to tune it and just started plucking random notes and in a pure “suck up” move he says “aw man that sounds jazzy,can I get you to take this home with you today “😄
You guys are hilarious!😂
I find the PRS split is somewhere between a P90 and a Strat single coil sound. It is neither, but is its own unique sound. My first guitar ended up being horrible to play and when I got my first decent guitar my playing definitely improved.
Worst I've heard was at a local GC. Teenager looking at a Les Paul Jr. and the salesman told him "it has single-coil humbucking pickups!" I was in my 20's and kindof a snot so I stepped over and said 'There's no such animal." The look that salesman gave me...
At 5:05, about Ovation acoustics... true, they just won't sit on your lap unless you clamp it to your body with your picking arm and pull it toward you with your fretting hand, while also trying to play with at least some amount of sensitivity. My bass player had one he got for recording and because he thought it would be good to "learn" guitar on and it had a pickup. I tried to make music with it but that went nowhere. Who the hell thought this was a good idea? A plywood top epoxied to a big slippery plastic salad bowl.
Used to call them popcorn bowl guitars. After the top splits and fall off you can eat popcorn out of it
@@zeusapollo8688 Or put it out back for a dog dish. But it was a gimmick and people bought a lot of 'em. I never had the heart to tell my buddy his guitar sucked.
The Swiss army knife section was a funny part. I'm harkened back to an excellent player and friend who bought a Seymour Duncan "Convertible" amp. It really was a Swiss army amp and the different plug in modules really did sound very much like a Marshall, Boogie, Fender, etc (this was way before "amp modeling").....Problem was it only worked on half of our gigs. He carried a Fender (Super reverb 10"?) amp as a backup. Great sounding amp though :). As primarily an audio guy, I'm a huge fan of tube amps over solid state (the one glaring drawback is to get some output stage overdrive tones, the stage volume can become untenable). OTOH If a great pedal/modeling setup can get you 95% of your desired tone and the rest of the band/audience doesn't have to suffer a stupid high stage volume, it's a good tradeoff. Cheers
I think you covered them all. Did sign government paper work that is effective for 100 years. Great and funny episode.
That’s a lot of great advice guys.
“Les Pauls are panty droppers”. 30 years ago I overheard line put to a college kid in a small shop in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.
When I got my first Strat, it was better than I was. It made me play better. That's a fact. I suffered some serious imposter syndrome the first 4 or 5 months I had it and was determined to deserve it.
When I worked as GC I refused to sell the credit card and the “no interest” nonsense.
I dress like a 90s grungy punk usually. Any time I walk into a GC or a guitar store outside my area, people leave me alone because they assume I am broke. Its fantastic actually, I hate being told a sales pitch.
I’m also a welding contractor who runs my own custom car shop, I have money, and I pay cash every time. I buy high end because I grew up really poor as a kid and never has a chance to buy nice gear. I LOVE the look on peoples faces at guitar stores when I buy something, they always legitimately look astonished and beyond shocked. I can’t get away with that at my 2 local music stores, I know them all by name😂 but they also let me browse and know I’m kinda have social anxiety, they respect my boundary’s and
Let me play/plug into whatever I want because they know, if I feel the vibe or fall in love, I’m a good buyer.
Support your local music stores!!!❤❤❤
I was about 24 (in the 80's) and had cash in my pocket to buy a guitar. I had my eye on this sweet ES175 but couldn't get the sales guys attention. I became clear he was avoiding me, so I gave up being nice and interrupted him to ask about the guitar. He looked me dead in the eye and said "I don't believe you are serious about buying a guitar". WTF? So I left and bought the Country Gentleman that I still play today.
I heard a guy at a certain shop on Capital Blvd tell a lady she needed to buy a $2000 Martin for her husband (who was apparently a novice) because “it’s a Martin! This will be worth more in a few years than what you pay for it now.” This was in the 2000s so it was way before the used guitar craziness of the past few years.
Great one!
I had this one pulled on me a few years back at GC: " Let's see how this guitar looks on you " , followed by what color looked best on me and then having different sales people come in and give their opinions. So, I left there ,went next door to Sam Ash and bought the Les Paul that I felt looked best on me LOL, but true
LOL. I've had salesgirls do that to me when buying glasses (spectacles) - trying to get me to spend more. I always replied, 'It doesn't matter how I look. I can't see me from here.'
Salesmen try to massage your ego. Saleswomen try to make you think 'you have a shot'.
Casino Guitars - Baxter and Jonathan - I am interested in the comment you made about the minimum quality Fender guitar being an American Professional. A little preamble for your readers benefit. I've asked sales people the main difference between the higher end MIA Fenders and low end like Squiers. their response was mostly upgraded electronics and hardware. I own 2 Squier standard Strats and 3 MIA Strats. I've upgraded the Squiers (MIA electronics and hardware, Seymour Duncans and Wilkenson bridge, bone nut, locking tuners) and they both sound better than my Fenders. I've even taken my Squiers to GC and played them against the best MIA they had in the store. Mine sounded better. The main reason I bought Squiers strats to begin with was the modern "C" neck felt perfect for MY hand. I've played gibsons, jackson, ibanez, epiphone, squier and fenders - different models from each company. It turns out that for me, strats are the only guitar for me. Good bye Gibson Les Paul, SG, etc. My experience after experimenting for several years is the strat is the most comfortable, ergonomic, best sounding most versatile guitar. Leo Fender hit it out of the park. for the benefit of readers, I urge you experiment as I have. Also, are you a tinkerer (upgrade with after market parts) or do you not want to change anything? Also, will you ever sell the guitar? resale value is better on high end. My Squiers will get me nothing $ regardless of upgrades. I'm keeping my Squiers til I die.
Trying out a Les Paul for my first time the employee I generally go to hands it to me (I forget what exact one). I sit and before the weight is fully on my leg the shop owner comes by and while passing me he points across the room and says "the cheap stuff's over there". I looked at my guy, hung the thing back up and left. I later found out that the 'owner' ran the 'drums and low-end guitar' portion while another dude owned the 'high end guitar and piano' bit of the store and Sir Shouldn'ttalktocustomers was just trying to guide my cash to his wallet. Baaaaad sales pitch.
You Just torched
Mitchell!!!😂🤣🤣😂
Little known fact outside of the GC world: Mitchell guitars are named after the gentlemen who actually started GC, Wayne Mitchell. What a way to crap all over the founder after you finagled ownership of the company from his widow after Wayne’s passing. Injury, meet insult. 🙄🤦♂️
Haha, the missing finger story was hilarious.
Loved your missing finger story (sorry for the misled owner). I wonder what Django Reinhardt Played? For sure NOT an Ovation. FWIW I think Ovation guitars are mostly pretty good sounding guitars. I've put many, many Ovations through a console (Roy Clark, Glenn Campbell and thousands of others can't be wrong ;)) Although they sounded great, they weren't the only reason for the great performance :). Thanks for the chuckle.
6:13 LOL We were at GC Saturday (where I finally got to play an American Vintage II stratocaster!) and my chick was in the acoustic room with this big black shiny guitar in her lap and she goes "This is a really pretty guitar. It's probably crap isn't it...."
I looked at the peg head... Esteban. 😂😂😂
Personally,,, and keep in mind I am a fender fan-boy , but after the mad oversaturated CZcams/internet/everywhere push when the came out I will never ever play an acoustasonic jazzcaster(they did almost the same push for the other models too) . That sales pitch just really got on my nerves.
That's a real thing. I forget what it's called, but when you see something advertised so many times it causes you to actually hate and/or avoid it.
That is what happened to me with PRS
@@jamesburge1983 I can see that completely, they're kinda doing it now in real time with the PRS David grissom SE model
I always research extensively before I buy, except for the amp I needed for my Gretsch 2420t. The pickups are so low in power that I could only have the volumes at 100%, or it wouldn't work. So, I went straight to GC to get something that would work. All I knew was I didn't want to spend a fortune, and I didn't want tubes because I'm bound to drop it. He pointed me towards two that were definitely sensitive enough to work with low output pickups and weren't too much more than a practice amp. Being Gretsch is produced by Fender, I went with the Mustang LT25. The great part about that is that it's programmable and very loud. Maybe too loud for my small living room, but perfect for if or when I play publicly.
Oh I’ve got a Mustang LT25 too! Love those things, so versatile!
Just got a Fender Pro II Telecaster Deluxe. It’s the nicest Fender that I have ever owned.
Honestly, I'm curious about the Mitchell hate. I own an LP Mitchell with coil tap p'ups and I absolutely love that thing. I put it through the ringer constantly and it gets the job done every time. I mean, like what you like, but I have had a great experience with mine and I own Jacksons and Fenders as well.
I think if I were missing a finger I would play the one which allowed me to strum with the hand missing a finger... Funny vid guys.
What exactly did you say around the 35 second mark? Some of us might do WHAT in our own mouths? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Most guitar sales folks I've run into have horrible pitches. Cheers Casino!
The opposite-
Coolest Lady - “I’m in love with the Taylor Big Baby…should I just get that?” (she’s playing a Cort)
GC Sales Guy - “You really shouldn’t impulse buy…and we’re closing in 20.”
Why this fired me up? I had teed this sale up for an easy slam dunk. Over the last half hour, her and I had been having fun checking out guitars to suit her voice…and when the Big Baby in Walnut came up, she lit up! That was her dream guitar and within her finances. Just didn’t think she deserved a Taylor yet. I knew if she took that home, she was gonna be up till 5am playing it. Then this jerk off murders the buzz we had going. PS I didn’t work there…we just hit it off
The GTX is not confusing. Read the manual. It tells you what every button does. Then just use the Fender Tone app to modify the settings/effects. Get the GTX 100 or the 50 with the foot switch. The 100 includes the foot switch.
Love it!
One finger Ovation player - whooooooo! Jonathan made a great point, develop a relationship with a reputable local shop. My local guys are knowledgeable and have a good reputation. That’s why I keep coming back.
The one guy that truly tried to pitch me something, I wish I had listened to. At the time I wasn't a big Strat/Tele guy so I was having none of it. It wasn't Fender he was pushing but early 90's G&L USA. I'm still not much of a S type guy, but I wish I had picked up the T style now.
The Fingertones is s great name for a band.
My thought was you were going to talk about being sharp or flat and that actually applies.
I have no problem financing things through Sweetwater, because they always have promos to pay it off with no interest. But you're right, I definitely don't want to be making monthly payments on a whole pile of guitars.
Tone is in the fingers. I bet Jeff Beck could make a Cheap Squier through a line 6 spider sound great. To a great extent great music performances come from your fingers, the gear gets you across the rest of the way. I'm buying pedals to expand my sonic paintbrush. I wont play any better but the sounds may excite me and get me to try something new. At the least I may keep myself entertained with a looper.
I had an Ovation Preacher electric and the neck was thick. I'm guessing it was the same neck they put on their acoustics. Not a good choice if you're missing a finger. GC just wanted to onload that Ovation.
When are you guys going to have a little jam session video?
My favourite is the one about Heritage Guitars being made in the same factory Gibsons used to be made in, by the same people.
Oh yeah? 40 years after Gibson moved out, there are still people who were there 40 years ago? Very unlikely. There definitely aren't any who were there in the 50s, 60s & 70s.
Add to that, that the company (Heritage) has been sold twice since then.
Vela? Love those
The Taylor TZ7 and TZ5 can cover almost all the sounds you need close enough except the some solid body sounds.
My god, that sherwood green custom shop strat on the wall....You said you guys offer financing, lol?
I loooove financing. I find that between the 3 major chains, if I keep the total around $100 a month, it's effortless to pay off, and it also keeps my buying under control. If I'm at $100, I don't buy anything else until something's paid off. It's perfect.
Bro, I agree with the celebrity endorsed guitars for the most part....however, A celebrity guitar that is AMAZING is for real the EOB Stratocaster. If you wanna sound like radiohead.....you want that guitar. A strat with a humbucker in bridge and a sustainer in neck pickup......you can do some amazing ambient music and synthy music, it really does do something different. And it really does kinda give you every tone you'd ever want with the mini 59 in the neck and the single in middle and a sustainer. But it does sound like a fender with the sustainer off, cuz it is a fender like you said, not a gibson. the mini 59 can only go so far.
My local shop does not carry fenders. He got weird and vague, just like you guys did, when I asked why. Maybe that's worth a discussion sometime.
Bmw m5 is probably what you drove. M series is kinda the custom shop of bmw’s… I’ve got one and my wife has an x5m. Swing by sometime and take them for a spin.
Jack's of all trades is what they said about the Taylor 814. Thankfully I didn't swallow that pill.
Worst pitch: It'll put a nice hole in the wall.
Missing a finger, get that Ovation!? Lmao
Esteban is awesome.
A lot good and sound advice. Buy it low, try it, and give it home or send it packing.
You are absolutely correct tone is in the gear you buy but music is in the fingers. A great musician with a crappy guitar can make you cry. A weekend musician, golf laying oral surgeon playing a 20,000$ handmade guitar can make you cry in pain.
Combining two topics, I'm surprised the guy didn't say, "You're missing a finger? Jerry Garcia was missing a finger too. He played ...." FWIW, I have an Esteban electric.
"That PRS looks good on you"
Gotta say I sold my Fenders and got a Music Man St Vincent Goldie and it is unbelievable how much more playable it is. You are 100% correct on PRS splits , but actually I think they sound shrill and awful. Lastly, I’m chopping off my right middle finger so I can play more like Jerry.
when i was still new to electric guitar i was at the local GC and i had a legitimate question... "so whats the difference between the rosewood and the maple fretboards?". yeah, the answer i got was not exactly what you're thinking. the sales guy says to me "well the maple is going to be more mellow sounding, and the rosewood is generally going to be faster". i have actually heard that line from more than one sales person at that establishment.
I think it's just the opposite... Maple neck I have is almost TOO fast.