Charlie Vegas
Junior Member
How FMIC can be so brilliant with their handling of Gretsch and have their heads so far up their collective asses with Guild is beyond me. Sorry but another NAMM has come and gone and still no electrics. What the f***! I couldn’t give a god damn about some Chinese made GADs or Tacoma’s masquerading as Guilds. I want to see the electrics.
The small but mighty Guild has been reduced to nothing more then a name for some marking weenie. I don’t know if Donnie Wade is still in charge, but whoever is needs get off their duff. During the tenure of Bill Acton they were making some good electrics, but I also don’t remember much of an FMIC marking campaign promoting them. It was this lack of marketing that doomed sales of Guild and DeArmond electrics.
The initial purchase of Guild could’ve been a good thing. That gave FMIC two things they didn’t have, a recognizable name in archtops and acoustics. But closing the Guild factory was their death sentence. And if closing the factory was their death sentence, the FMIC deal with Gretsch was their executioner. Well, at least it was for the electrics. Gretsch has much more name recognition with endorsement deals with Setzer and such so who needs Guild archtops? Right? WRONG! Maybe if they treated Guild like Mike Lewis treats Gretsch good things could happen. Let’s start with vintage correct guitars. A complete line of hollow body electrics with DeArmond 200’s (not 2000’s or 2K’s) and re-introduced Franz pickups.
I know I’m preaching to the choir but maybe, just maybe, someone at FMIC reads what we write. Mike Lewis frequently looks-in at gretschpages.com and takes their comments seriously. So come on Donnie or whoever’s in charge, you want to sell some guitars, give us something worth buying!
OK, I’m gonna take a valium and a nap now.
The small but mighty Guild has been reduced to nothing more then a name for some marking weenie. I don’t know if Donnie Wade is still in charge, but whoever is needs get off their duff. During the tenure of Bill Acton they were making some good electrics, but I also don’t remember much of an FMIC marking campaign promoting them. It was this lack of marketing that doomed sales of Guild and DeArmond electrics.
The initial purchase of Guild could’ve been a good thing. That gave FMIC two things they didn’t have, a recognizable name in archtops and acoustics. But closing the Guild factory was their death sentence. And if closing the factory was their death sentence, the FMIC deal with Gretsch was their executioner. Well, at least it was for the electrics. Gretsch has much more name recognition with endorsement deals with Setzer and such so who needs Guild archtops? Right? WRONG! Maybe if they treated Guild like Mike Lewis treats Gretsch good things could happen. Let’s start with vintage correct guitars. A complete line of hollow body electrics with DeArmond 200’s (not 2000’s or 2K’s) and re-introduced Franz pickups.
I know I’m preaching to the choir but maybe, just maybe, someone at FMIC reads what we write. Mike Lewis frequently looks-in at gretschpages.com and takes their comments seriously. So come on Donnie or whoever’s in charge, you want to sell some guitars, give us something worth buying!
OK, I’m gonna take a valium and a nap now.