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col5150
03-01-2006, 03:31 PM
found this epiphone on ebay hmmm doesnt this pattern look familiar?
jslav06
03-01-2006, 03:43 PM
Sobe?

I love that stuff
BITEYOASS
03-01-2006, 03:46 PM
definite copyright infringement, and it's very rare that you see me defending EVH! :D
BITEYOASS
03-01-2006, 03:47 PM
Originally posted by jslav06
Sobe?

I love that stuff

Not as good as MONSTER energy drink! That stuff is liquid crack! :D
SNIPER
03-01-2006, 07:01 PM
are you fucking kidding me? Thats a shity home job.
rustoffa
03-01-2006, 08:11 PM
Not trashing, not flashing. I just think this 'ell get better feedback (no pun intended) in Gear Street.

BTW, have you ever tried to get an LP jr. tone out of an Epiphone?

I haven't either.

Blech, Blargh, Patooey.
col5150
03-02-2006, 03:07 AM
aint no home job, heres the link http://www.sobebev.com/gear/collect.asp

for $250 im tempted although its like a bottom of the range epiphone so chances are it would sound like shite

only good epiphone i ever owned was the slash siganature lp, man i wish i still had that
Don Corleone
03-05-2006, 11:13 AM
Originally posted by BITEYOASS
definite copyright infringement, and it's very rare that you see me defending EVH! :D

Except it's not. Ed's copyright only covers 3 patterns

Red Black and White Striped
Yellow and Black
Black and White

After that (in theory) you're free to use whatever colour scheme you like. In actuality Ed would most likely cry foul and try to stop it.
jhale667
03-05-2006, 03:28 PM
...and didn't Ed get the idea from the way kids stripped their bicycles back in the 70s in the 1st place, anyways? Seems like I read that somewhere... And though I'm not a copyright lawyer, can't he only copyright his three EXACT stripe-patterns? Otherwise, how did companies get away with non-identical versions of those color schemes all these years? :confused:
thedoude
03-05-2006, 03:32 PM
I saw that same guitar on eBay... thought the same thing.
jslav06
03-05-2006, 04:21 PM
SOBE yourself.
GAR
03-06-2006, 01:46 AM
In county jail once I dropped the sobe.

Never do that again..
DeadOrAlive
03-07-2006, 01:06 AM
Kind of an awesome looking guitar, I didn't know the green would stand out so much. Wonder how it plays
Don Corleone
03-18-2006, 08:16 AM
Originally posted by jhale667
...and didn't Ed get the idea from the way kids stripped their bicycles back in the 70s in the 1st place, anyways?

There's a few stories on how he got the idea. The most recent one is that Ed got the idea off Dave, who got the idea from seeing a picture of the Clash (the bass played stripped his Rick).
dvogel1570
03-23-2006, 08:44 AM
I got a home job for a lot less than $250. No wait, that was a hum...
Seshmeister
03-23-2006, 10:36 AM
Originally posted by Don Corleone
There's a few stories on how he got the idea. The most recent one is that Ed got the idea off Dave, who got the idea from seeing a picture of the Clash (the bass played stripped his Rick).

That's what Dave said on the radio recently.
Don Corleone
03-23-2006, 02:41 PM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
That's what Dave said on the radio recently.

Got it in one. When you compare pics at the time of EVH and The Clash, it is believable that could be were the idea came from.

Also if I remember right there was also another band playing the club circuit the same time as Van Halen who also started stripping there guitars. I don't know the name of this band, but I'm 90% sure their guitarish had stripped his Les Paul.
Steve Savicki
03-23-2006, 05:08 PM
Originally posted by BITEYOASS
Not as good as MONSTER energy drink! That stuff is liquid crack! :D
Is there garlic in that?