merello Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) [url="http://www.deanguitars.com/entwistle.php"]Visit My Website[/url] Edited April 11, 2011 by merello Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbass Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 That USA Entwistle Spider looks smashing - I hope it plays as good as it looks though as I'd hate to see the lord's name used in vain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Blergh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Spotted these the other week. I don't get it. Boo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 [quote name='AndyTravis' post='1196213' date='Apr 11 2011, 09:06 PM']Spotted these the other week. I don't get it. Boo.[/quote] Nothing compares to this monstrosity: The GIBSON Jimi Hendrix signature model It seems his family will put his name on anything. There's a Jimi Hendrix vodka brand for gods sake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 We've seen these before: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=118032&hl=dean"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=118032&hl=dean[/url] I think it's ok for them to license the shape but calling them a signature model is a bit off. Why do we need an Entwhistle signature anyway? He played about a million basses! Like Waldo said, just some people making a few bob off grandad's name. If they didn't do it now then Entwhistle's great great grandkids would do it years down the line, the money is there to be made. It's amazing the amount of "signature" equipment that has sprung up years (decades even) after the artists' death. I have a Jimi Hendrix strap (bought cheap cos i needed a strap), my mate has a Hendrix signature Digitech pedal (it's cr@p). I don't think he'd touch either if he were around today! Same story with these Deans i reckon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorne Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 A friend of mine showed me these ages ago, asking my opinion of them, I went a bit mental, and told him Dean might just as well bring out a Micheal Jackson/Elvis Presley/Jimi Hendrix and whoever else is deceased and never touched a Dean model..........And I'm not even a fan of Mr Entwhistle Same thing with Dean's Dimebag BASS signature model, when the hell was he a bassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) I just wish the dean logo was toned down - It's really dated looking. Particularly in Red, why didn't they go for Gold on the webs and inlays, and use the more modern script logo you see on the edge basses? Also, the headstock they use on the Fenderbirds (as per the hillsboro?!? Sig basses) Is really fecking ugly. For the Hendrix 'Gibson' we saw the press release before the idea was eventually scrapped, we pissed our sides for about a month. Edited April 11, 2011 by AndyTravis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 [quote name='Lorne' post='1196240' date='Apr 11 2011, 09:31 PM']Same thing with Dean's Dimebag BASS signature model, when the hell was he a bassist [/quote] To be fair he did have 15" drivers as part of his rig! Incidentally Dimebag didn't use half the Dean/Randall stuff he endorsed when he was alive. The Warhead and the distortion pedal aren't part of his sound but he stuck his name on them. Same deal with his signature strings i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 MB1. WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Good luck to John's family who are making money off these, but anyone who buys ones of these for the Entwhistle name is a fuggin' idiot. Unless they are nice basses which fill a requirement. I can see bass players in low budget Who tribute acts falling over themselves to get one of each model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Whoa!!! METAL DUDE, like chicks and flames and sh*t, awesome! [url="http://www.deanguitars.com/home.php"]http://www.deanguitars.com/home.php[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy_Marsh Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) [quote name='steve-soar' post='1196323' date='Apr 11 2011, 10:34 PM']Whoa!!! METAL DUDE, like chicks and flames and sh*t, awesome! [url="http://www.deanguitars.com/home.php"]http://www.deanguitars.com/home.php[/url][/quote] Teh Metulz! \m/ No offence, but I find nearly all the Dean stuff a bit lame. Edited April 11, 2011 by Randy_Marsh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sime17 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 [quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='1196366' date='Apr 11 2011, 11:14 PM'] Teh Metulz! \m/ No offence, but I find nearly all the Dean stuff a bit lame.[/quote] Tho I agree, I find it mildly ironic that your avatar looks like Jeff Berlin On the international irony scale that's Alannis-Morrissette, fairly low and exponentially less severe than a Morrissey. The subtle similarity of those names is more ironic, for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHUFC BASS Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 This is the only pic I can find of an actual model in the flesh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy_Marsh Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 [quote name='sime17' post='1196387' date='Apr 11 2011, 11:46 PM']Tho I agree, I find it mildly ironic that your avatar looks like Jeff Berlin On the international irony scale that's Alannis-Morrissette, fairly low and exponentially less severe than a Morrissey. The subtle similarity of those names is more ironic, for instance.[/quote] The international irony scale. I like that. I don't think I'll ever be able to look at my Avatar again without thinking of Jeff Berlin Much like looking at the Fedex logo and not being able to see the "hidden" arrow. I May have to find a different picture of Randy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethox Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 He NEVER played a Dean - total money making exercise, and I don't think they'll make that much either. He didn't actually play [i]that[/i] many over a near 40 year career... Fender Precision Fender Jazz (these till '71) Gibson Thunderbird Fenderbird (these till '75) Alembic Series I Alembic Exploiter/Spyder (these till '85) Warwick Buzzard Warwick Buzzard with Modulus graphite neck (these till '96) Status Buzzard 1 and 2 (these until his death in 2002) However, he owned hundreds! BTW, no 'H' in Entwistle!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorne Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 See, told you I wasn't a fan, I couldn't even spell his name I still knew he never played one and Alembic SHOULD be going mental over this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 [quote name='Lorne' post='1196983' date='Apr 12 2011, 04:22 PM']See, told you I wasn't a fan, I couldn't even spell his name I still knew he never played one and[b] Alembic SHOULD be going mental over this[/b][/quote] You'd imagine that a large company like Dean will have taken the appropriate advice over the designs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethox Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 [quote name='Lorne' post='1196983' date='Apr 12 2011, 04:22 PM']See, told you I wasn't a fan, I couldn't even spell his name I still knew he never played one and Alembic SHOULD be going mental over this[/quote] Well they aren't happy judging by certain comments, but seeing as though John's Alembic had a Gibson shaped body - they can't really say anything. Other than the cobwebs and the note inlay markers, there is little else to set John's Exploiter apart and they were probably John's design mods anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 (edited) [quote name='garethox' post='1196968' date='Apr 12 2011, 04:10 PM']He NEVER played a Dean - total money making exercise, and I don't think they'll make that much either. He didn't actually play [i]that[/i] many over a near 40 year career... Fender Precision Fender Jazz (these till '71) Gibson Thunderbird Fenderbird (these till '75) Alembic Series I Alembic Exploiter/Spyder (these till '85) Warwick Buzzard Warwick Buzzard with Modulus graphite neck (these till '96) Status Buzzard 1 and 2 (these until his death in 2002) However, he owned hundreds! BTW, no 'H' in Entwistle!!!! [/quote] Also played an Epiphone Rivoli and Rick 4001 and 8 string live (and possibly others, like his 4005s?) .... Edited April 13, 2011 by 4000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 [quote name='garethox' post='1196993' date='Apr 12 2011, 04:27 PM']Well they aren't happy judging by certain comments, but seeing as though John's Alembic had a Gibson shaped body - they can't really say anything. Other than the cobwebs and the note inlay markers, there is little else to set John's Exploiter apart and they were probably John's design mods anyway...[/quote] Hence the name [i]Exploiter[/i] I believe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 [quote name='MB1' post='1196290' date='Apr 11 2011, 10:05 PM']MB1. WTF? [/quote] LOL. FFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 According to the label in my M&S underpants I'm a medium, so I've just held a seance and Keith Moon has just told me that John is not happy about his new nickname up there "Spinning Johnny" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorne Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 [quote name='Waldo' post='1196988' date='Apr 12 2011, 04:24 PM']You'd imagine that a large company like Dean will have taken the appropriate advice over the designs [/quote] Like B.C.Rich did when they decided to threaten to sue the designer of the Bich for building his own logo'd Bich guitars, he was an outside contractor when he designed the Bich and was paid royalties until he left BCR for them using the Bich, fast forward about 20 years, a new company buy BCR and threaten to sue him, he can now build 100 of these things a year, he can't call them Bich though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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