Here is maybe Gibson running over a heap ton of Firebird X's. They were awful guitars but they could have donated them to a school or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHhKRqdtGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHhKRqdtGs
WTF?
WTF was that all about?!
Soon to be listed by GC as “good condition”.
I can't improve on these comments. Someone took the time to line all those up just to crush them? So it's an "authentic" crushing of guitars?
What a waste...
walrus
Something's going on there.
I can't believe Gibson themselves would do this to perfectly viable product.
If charitable donation wasn't viable then I'm sure they'd be right up MIRC's alley just like all the Guilds Fender liquidated through 'em.
Either way they at least cut their losses.
They are either counterfeits or seized guitars as a few commenters on the video suspected.
If they were seized for illegal wood, they can't legally be put into circulation even as donations, and the government isn't in the parting-out business.
If they were counterfeits there's probably a similar issue at work protecting the copyright holder's interests.
Whoever posted it to Youtube's obviously trolling by not revealing the context.
Or maybe they just think the shock value's worthy enough regardless of context.
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I saw a reply by the OP (to YouTube) that he didn’t know what was going on.Something's going on there.
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Whoever posted it to Youtube's obviously trolling by not revealing the context.
Or maybe they just think the shock value's worthy enough regardless of context.
Yah, thanks!I saw a reply by the OP (to YouTube) that he didn’t know what was going on.
Of course, it’d be nice to know where they got the video in the first place.
Nobody and I mean nobody would counterfeit a Firebird X. They were the laughing stock when they were released.