What the .......

I´m a guitarplayer, no doubt about that. I do me best to play all kind of different tunes. to get that very special sound that i can hear in my head every now and then.  Writing a new song always mean that I know before the last word is written, last note is on paper how I want the song to sound recorded.

In hope to get the right sound I use one of me guitar´s (got a small collection by now) Each guitar has it´s own very special sound and feel.

All of us wisit´s musicshop, testing different guitar´s with dreamy eyes. "Whooow what a great sound I can get with a guitar like this!" 

Suddenly something happens that I did´nt notice before. Wisited a musicshop in Gothenburg and there on the wall was no less then three Gibson J-200!!! That´s what I call a western guitar with the Every Bros in mind. What really made me curious was that those three Gibson J-200s hade totaly different pricetags! All of them according to spec´s made in USA. Prices started with the blond one at 19000,oo skr (2100,oo euro),  next one at 3000,oo euro and the most expensive at no less the 5800,oo euro.

30 minutes later I play´d em all three, now with questions in me mind. Alright the two sunburst guitars did look better and more expense, but what about the sound? I would say they was close to the same for all three guitars. And a bit funny was the fact that just a look on each guitar I thought that the midpriced J-200 was the most expensive!

Maybe one day a guitarplayer show´s up with the 2100,oo euro Gibson J-200 and tell me it´s the 5800,oo guitar. who am I to doubt that. Problem as far as I can see is that guitarproducers make the same guitar with small differeces in hope to sell more.  Here you could buy an original Gibson J-200 for 2100,oo euro or 5800! Still it´s a J-200. the same goes for many other producers like Fender where you can buy a Strat for everything from 150,oo euro´s to 3000,oo euro´s.

I would call this a big problem as well as all those guitars made in Asia by the same producers in order to have a product that is much cheaper for all of us player´s.