DanTravis62
Moderator
If i could find a mark III for around 1500 bucks i'd send the paypal right this second
If they stay around 2k, meh
If i could find a mark III for around 1500 bucks i'd send the paypal right this second
If they stay around 2k, meh
Simon Dorn
Well-known member
Unless they come with an inbuilt Coffee-Maker i'll pass.
angelspade
RT Kimg
I kind of agree here as well. I'm pretty sure they are in the business of "grabbing money"...hence the word BUSINESS. At the end of the day, the market is governed almost purely by simple supply / demand economic principles. Any Gibson executive that visits the gear forums (like ours) and watched us cork drool over all the "original" different Mark Series amps and the elusive "Master of Puppets" tone would say "Mmmm...there's enough guys out there that will pay fairly inflated prices if we reissue a few of these...easily". It's guys like us that create the hype vacume for these products. That's how you "grab" money within a free market economy.
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hirah5150
Member
I can probably get 99% there with my black dot 3 and a boost.
RaceU4her
Well-known member
That seems kind of like a money grab I can’t get behind, maybe I missed it but I don’t rememeber Kirk playing a black custom for any real length of time, nor anyone saying I need a Hammett black custom. People have at least been asking for a iic+ for a while now
simonfrewler
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Not being an ass....
Just helping with context.
Just helping with context.
glpg80
Well-known member
Another 1989 reissue LPC with the same nylon nut as a studio but a $10,000 price tag? ?
RaceU4her
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It seems like a bit of damned if they do damned if they don’t kind of thing, every new mark that comes out the first question is always how close to a iic+ is it, which the answer always seems to be not very, then they make one that by most seem to say it’s legit and it gets kinda scoffed at it. I guess I can see how releasing another amp right after the initial run isn’t really the best look, but that’s what businesses do
RaceU4her
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Ah, thank you. I figured he must have used it for a certain song or something like he does many others, a black custom just dosent scream “Hammett” to me though. It seems pushing it to make a sig guitar around an intro if that is all he used it for
simonfrewler
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Totally agree.... everyone knows he is an esp guy ...the only lp I remember...is the esp. With the Floyd.
TheGreatGreen
Well-known member
Kirk's black LPC is the guitar that made me want a black Custom.
No way in hell I'd buy some official KH signature black LPC of course but damn that's a great looking guitar. Plus if you really wanted a guitar like that, buy a regular one and just take the damn pickguard off.
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SonVolt
Well-known member
I can't find that guitar on Gibson's website? I see a 1989 KH Custom but there's no Gold covered EMGS.
cardinal
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I think this is the right mindset.
It seems kinda like a dick move for Mesa to artificially limit supply and jack up the margin for a C++, but Mesa still makes the normal C+, JP2C, and the VII. They all do the Mark thing and will sound great at a more reasonable price. (And of course there are all the used Marks out there).
CrystalSky
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Who would even buy a guitar affiliated with Kirk? Normal people would avoid it at all costs ?
RaceU4her
Well-known member
Between all the videos, books and magazines of them I had back in the day, I’m not sure how I never really noticed that thing
simonfrewler
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Not gonna lie ...as a 10 yr old .....I wanted one of these.
Not anymore.
CrystalSky
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I wanted an ESP MX220 as my first guitar ?
SonVolt
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I spent half my life lusting after ESPs. Now that I'm an old fart and can afford them they look like cartoons & feel like toys.
simonfrewler
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anomaly
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I remember Kirk's black LPC, he used it a bit on the black album right? And probably that tour.