THEY WENT BANKRUPT…
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Guitars of the Day! Relish Guitars were, in a lot of days, ahead of their time. And now, just like Parker Fly before them, they're out of business. It's a sad day for the guitar players.
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Everyone thought they were cool until they looked at the sticker price.
Right???
@@beautague9163 as a said too they weren’t that innovative. A shop near in Atlanta has some ampeg ones on consignment no one will buy.
It’s amazing what you can buy after selling just one of your kidneys
@@Beast_Hublike a kidney shaped guitar, for instance.
You could change the pickups or for the same price have all the guitars with all that configurations
If you can afford a Relish, you can buy a few guitars with whatever pickup combinations you want.
Yeah but not a few high end guitars with whatever pickups you want. They were like 2-3k. So that’s a grand per guitar which is like epiphone and Mexican fender level. Though I doubt those things actually had the same quality as a normal 3k dollar guitar.
Ya and in a concert setting it’s going to be faster to take of one guitar n put on another than it’s going to be to pop the back off your relish and change the pick ups
And body types and accessories. Swapping pickup is only the beginning. Things like bridge type, scale length, string gauge and body types make having different guitars worth it. My set neck and heavier Les Paul resonates differently than my lighter Tele. They've both have different uses.
@@MisterRorschach90
Plus 6 high end pick ups included: from DiMarcio, Seymour Duncan, P-90 etc. included - for $2999.
Hot swappable pick ups seems so pointless when the big players want vintage and the gigging musicians want reliability. These were for bedroom musicians that wanted to play with Lego. But couldn't afford them.
I don’t remember who said this but I remember a quote “Everybody loves talking about crazy, but nobody buys crazy”.
I remember some guy at a slave auction said that to me. I was just a young fella. Gosh, it was so long ago, seems like a lifetime…
Exhibit A: Tesla Cybertruck
I've heard something similar about women, everybody wants to bed the crazy one, but nobody wants to marry her.
Tell that to Paul Wall and Johnny Dang
@@JPGtampaExcept they dont really buy Tesla, they buy Elon
Parker Guitars were in business for 23+ years, I believe that is a little longer than Relish. Never played a Relish but Parkers are AMAZING including mine.
I love my Nitefly
OMG guys you ain't kidding. I had a Nitefly. Lost it when my poor wife died but I just left a comment how great that guitar was ( or is 😢) and I miss that blue baby. (My wife too don't get me wrong) but that was the best guitar I ever owned and I have owned several in my day.
@@scottdaugherty8065 very sorry to hear about your wife, but my nightfly is probably my favorite guitar out of many, I keep hearing about the glued on frets on the carbon coated neck coming off, never happened
@@gwshark07 Oh yeah? I never had that problem. Well at least while I owned it. And thanks for saying about the wife. Passed in 2015, I really took it hard so I'm just now getting my life back. I have a LTD which is my prof pic. It's a M-100 FM. I bought it used. Someone who didn't either know how to play are take care of it but it's all I can afford. It plays I guess. I've lost everything I had so it sucks but also a part of life. But the Parker guitars are great, hopefully I will own another one day. PEACE bro. ✌️
@@scottdaugherty8065 so sorry for your losses
I thought they were really cool guitars, but then saw the $4k CAD price tag, and honestly, I'm not the least bit surprised they've gone under.
Same, after seeing the video for the first time, I had 6k in my bank and I was like, yeah I can drop like 1500 on a guitar. Then I saw the price and realized that more than HALF of all my money would be gone and so I just closed my laptop. I have a feeling it went like that for quite a bunch of people.
Priced themselves off the market 🤷
Their business model was wrong and out of touch. The basic concept was good and could still become a hit if someone makes the designs (price) suit the correct business model.
Guitars made to doctors and lawyers, imagine the average broken musician doing night gigs expending 4k on a guitar. Even Gibson went bankrupt
when a mostly normal, 6 string guitar approaches the price point of a Chapman Stick it's getting a bit silly regardless of quality. Maybe if it were custom made, but if not a guitar really has to be pushing boundaries to justify the cost.
Dude, I was literally in their store in Switzerland when I was on vacation in like May. It was just really awkward in there, it was completely silent. And the sales dude just sat and stared at me while I was playing the entire time which only was like two minutes.
I’m picturing ‘Gil’ from the simpsons working there hoping on a sale 😂
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LMFAO, YESSSSSS!
Lol what was he supposed to do sing or join in playing?
@@timhitt9541well yeah lol, or suggest the best pick-up for that type of music or at least offer something that people can tell others about, otherwise you may as well buy online without any assistance.
You didn't happen to be playing Stairway to Heaven by any chance, did you? This would explain a lot.
Really wanted one, just far too expensive.
I own a 1995 Parker fly. Its still one of my favourite guitars to play.
Joni liked them
That is funily 😂
Funily??
I used to work at Sweetwater doing their 55 point inspection. The problem with these guitars was that they did not play well. My squire Jazz Master has a much more comfortable neck than any of the relish guitars that I worked on. If they played as smooth as an LTD or Schecter guitar I absolutely would have bought one even with the price being so high because they really do have cool features. Unfortunately, the feel on them was so bad that I would not buy one even if it was under $500.
What exactly was bad about the neck? Too chunky, too thin?
We stan Sweetwater and their inspectors.
@@zacharykim295 I tried a few models at our local guitar store. The neck is on the chunkier/thicker side. The board is a bit "wide".
Very uncomfortable if you have small hands.
It looks really flat. I like it.
If they were actually produced in Switzerland that was always going to cause a price problem.
Any labour costs in Switzerland are going to be astronomical.
Its not that bad. I live and work there but we still get customers even though there are companies that can do it cheaper too
Dude parker fly guitars are so amazing. I really hope they can resume production one of these days kind of like how Hamer did. Yes they’re pretty expensive but goddamn they’re well built
Nah, US Music tanked the brand after trying to turn it into a budget brand. They still hold the name but they want nothing to do with them - they aren’t a market they want to take on.
Hamer was more like US PRS when Jol Danzig ran it. I could be wrong, but I think in 1974 when they started they were the first of the bo-teek high end guitar companies.
Once Fender took over they were more like Squier.
The price was WAAAAAAAY too high! Although they probably had the best feature of easily switching out components! That was really cool. Unfortunately, their high price was their demise. Also I think these will be scalped, so get ‘em while you can. This is gonna be one of those guitars that will fetch for enormous prices like a 50’s gold top LP.
Les Paul brand - makes me think of the legend and early pioneer of the electric guitar
Relish - like on a hotdog?
@@AugrillsLoads of legendary players used les pauls, who used a relish guitar?
Doubtful les pauls are highly regarded as one of the best if not the best guitars on the market PRS might be there but relish is to small not enough people know of them now you take an Annapolis prs or a pre 1985 flag ship prs and that will most likely fetch those prices but not until the man himself has passed on once paul dies PRS guitars will be worth an absolute fuckin fortune especially those hes personally signed just my 2 cents
....er, maybe, if they weren't so ugly.
@@jasondorsey7110
Clarence “Hot Dog” Jefferson did on the seminal ska jump blues exotica instrumental album he put out just before the pandemic in 2020.
If that’s too deep cut there is also Stank Reynolds of Roll Tide the hottest band in Alabama to never be allowed into Florida.
That’s two more than you knew before so there you go.
Rip,heard about them and always thought the idea was cool,never got one,and I never can now :(
Now would be the time to get one if you wanted them. Probably selling for what they’re actually worth instead of3x that
What do you mean? They didn't send out the order to destroy every last unit.
@@Augrills No, the price would skyrocket seeing as the guitars are now limited edition by default.
@@krashd why disagree with me when google shows I’m right? You can buy a relish brand new off musician’s friend for 1k, that’s half price. You can get secondhand ones for 400-600. That’s a third of their retail price 2 years ago. They may be worth something one day, but Relish went bankrupt for a reason. And their custom hardware will no longer be supported. So people think they stink
Ampeg did a similar thing with the Dan Armstrong Acrylic guitars. They were great sounding, heavy, and did not sell well.
@@parallax3d true. I saw one on consignment near me for $2100 with the pickups and case.
I would love to have one. The copies supposedly don’t stay in tune.
@trentfranks4507 there is one on reverb for *7200!!*
The basses are super popular now
I didn't realize Parker Fly was short-lived. Seemed those guitars were everywhere in the 90's; a lot of folks were playing them.
Parker was around for 23 years, Relish for about 13. Time is relative.
Parker lasted 23 years.
There are highly successful musicians who've never swapped a pickup, and probably couldn't tell you what pickups are inside their favorite guitar.
They totally misunderstood the average guitar buyer. I don't own 20 guitars because of the unique tonal properties of each. I just like buying guitars.
That!
This. I've been playing guitar for 15 years, and I bought my first "new" guitar this year. I like buying projects that have stories, and I like making them my own.
Spot on 😂
I'm playing guitar for forty years and I still suck ... yet I still get more and very different kinds of them 😂
relish lasted for 10 years ... I guess they were somewhat successful...
Personally i like to buy fairly basic good sounding guitars and turn them into art projects lol
It’s literally only something a studio would need. So there’s no reason for them to make their own randomly shaped guitars that people didn’t ask for or want. They should’ve licensed the technology out to other manufacturers or even just made a special adapter kit that could be used on certain guitars. With or without modification. I think a studio would be interested in the idea of a fender, Gibson, music man, gretsch, etc with that technology. Quickly swap pickups between sessions or songs, or even during songs. Make money from selling the technology and adapters for guitars and pickups.
Make all pickups manufacturers adopt EMG's solderless connectors and you're kind of in between these and the pain in the ass that is conventional pickups swapping. Without going bankrupt yourself...
Don't need to "make" em do it, just put connectors on yourself or pay someone locally to do it. 5 pin micro JST.
I think the hardest sell for me was twofold: the body shape, and the scale length
The body shape looks awful to me. I want a beauty when I spend that amount of money.
Man, you nerd out so hard. Thank for breaking down the specs. Gives new appreciation to the thing. Video very well produced as well. Rock on 🤘
haha, everyone's nerdy about something. Guitars are my "nerd out" weakness, and I'm grateful for people like you that love nerding out with me 🤘
Daaamn no way i hope someone makes a teardown video so we can get insight to how they made it since theyre no longer a thing
I didn't even know Parker guitars went out of business lol. I remember playing one at the guitar Center in high school or just after high school so late '90s early 2000s
It was bought out and the buyer buried it. This crap guitar company that went bankrupt is nothing like Parker guitars lol
I owned a Parker guitar. It was the best guitar I ever owned and I wish I had it back. I've owned many guitars thru out my approx 30 professional musician years and I can really say Parker is the best in my opinion. You could get a fat rich les paul sound to a fender strat and acoustic all in one guitar. It also had the stereo capability to plug on guitar cable into the guitar into two separate amps. I didn't use it much for I also plugged into Marshall stacks and strung them along but people just didn't know what Parker truly was as a guitar or maybe didn't like the shape but I still wanna own again.
Add another line out to your guitar. Make one.
I always thought they'd be a fantastic studio guitar, but I feel hotswappable pick-ups was always gonna be a tough sell to consumers.
Im sure a lot of players would have liked to have supported them but you can only buy so many guitars...(I know there's never enough guitars to buy), but I hope everyone at Relish resurface or find something else.
Parker Guitars was in business for 23 years before closing. Relish was in business for 11 years. The Parker is still one of my favorites to play and the carbon fiber build is extremely stable. It has DiMarzio's with Piezo's under the bridge and has both mono and stereo output. The guitar is well-balanced and weighs slightly over five pounds. The Relish is a really interesting design also but I love to play the Parker more than the Relish. Personal preference, but it is a lot of fun to play.
These were absolute hipster conversation starter guitars. Had one for a month and it was not worth the price tag. The craftsmanship was precise as it should be for the almost 4K USD I spent on it, but at the end of the day I just felt it was annoying swapping a pickup or two out when I can just reach on my rack for another guitar that’s tuned to what I want and sounds the way I want.
Less kit to travel with I guess.
Anything with a gimmick is an unlikely long term investment. Not entirely surprised, they weren’t all that pretty, far too expensive and a gimmick
Sad. I had the Parker fly classic. Great guitar. $2700 in 1997. Ouch.
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$3k? Line 6 already did the Variax. Practical, easy to use on the fly, and the whole rig is cheaper than one of these things.
Yup, I’ll stick to my $10 soldering iron and 20 minutes of time wiring in the pickups.
@@trentfranks4507 or just a parametric eq!
The Variax could change tones on the fly with no pickups, it was playing a whole different ballgame
I remember Parker Guitars. I was fortunate to play a Parker Fly once. Very light guitar and easily playable.
Parker Fly's are still amazing playing guitars.
I had the idea of swappable pickups via battery contacts idea loong ago. probably in the 90s I think. But... it's hard to think any standard guitar would convert to it because it would be hard to do w/o changing the guitar quite a bit. But it would be cool to have one JUST to try out pickups to see which ones you think you like.
Its unfortunate. But most guitar players/collectors obviously just want LP's, Strats and tele's and cannot appreciate much else.
the possibility to change pickups on the fly is an amazing one I wish I had on any guitar. It makes trying out pickups and distinguish their differences much more practical than having to solder everything
As with anything, it’s difficult to break into an established market, no matter how innovative the product is.
Especially when you try to do it starting out on the high end. Take the car company KIA. I have never been a fan of their automobiles but I have an appreciation for how they started. When they first came out they had two cars. Neither of them were anything special but they were somewhat decent cars. However, they were relatively cheap and it gave many people, who couldn't previously, the opportunity to own a new car. They ended up selling really well. And as time progressed, they began adding new models with better features and now they are a successful company with automobiles that are far better than what they began with. I'm still not a fan of KIA but I can respect their method of breaking into the American car market.
@@jackblack9208 it’s also helped them having a top designer. But yeah, I tried out one or two models and, at the risk of sounding chauvinistic, they felt like women’s cars. Something to drop the kids off at school, or do the shopping. The extremely soft clutch probably has something to do with it.
Where were we? Ah, yes, guitars… 😂
@@jimmcdougall9973 true this thread is about guitars. But you brought up the point about the difficulty of trying to break into an established market. So I give an example of a company that did just that. The fact that it's a company that is unrelated to music is irrelevant. It doesn't change the fact that they broke into an established market, one that is far more difficult to break into in my opinion, and was successful. The matter of the designer is irrelevant as well. As obviously the the designer of the guitar in question wasn't a run of the mill guitar designer. My whole point is that it's better to start at the low end and build up than to try to start at the high end. Starting at the low end gives you the possibility of a larger pool of customers due to the lower price. and you can work up from there. Trying to come out on the high end severely limits the customer pool because not as many people can afford the product. Not to mention that you're unknown and people have no idea of the quality of your product so your asking people to gamble a lot of money on a product that could be good or not. Now if it was a situation where your production force was small say just you and you were using common tools that were relatively inexpensive as well as was making your products in small runs or building to order, you would have a better chance because your overhead is much less. However, to start out using costly methods of production and materials is a recipe for disaster because you have invested so much to produce something that you have to sell a lot of just to break even. And in an uncertain market with an unknown product that's a huge gamble.
Parker's were around for a minute, and Ken Parker went into super high end guitars. They play AMAZINGLY, but I always hated the horn when sitting down to play.
I think innovation is generally more accepted among bass players than guitarists.
I honestly agree with you guitarists are very picky while most bassists are like "Cool a new feature"
Cause people can actually hear us
It’s a shame. I understand making small batches of guitars but they were extreme prices with very very out there shapes/tech. I almost wonder if they could’ve adjusted their model in retro fitting their pickup style and tech into existing guitars similar to Evertune with custom cavities and backplates. The technology is incredible for studio use but never really needed for hobby players or live musicians so having people add it to recording guitars they already love would’ve been a great feature over 3.5k for a great but unknown new guitar.
I think I'll just spend $20 on a soldering iron instead...
I got an Ibanez scratch and dent at GC and put pantera pickups in it that I got off reverb
So much went wrong here. I'm frankly impressed they lasted this long. 1 no one swaps electronics enough to need them to be plug and play - no one. 2 Unless you're a high demand world class luthier, you HAVE to have a $700 - $1200 counterpart to your $4k guitars. 3 with literally everything going to modulation, almost no one needs this kind of instrument.
The tech that didn't render Fender obsolete.
I've got a Corvette red KAPA COBRA USA bilt circa 1965 Strat knock-off that is straight, wonderful to play, and insomuch as it will never be a Deified Iconic collectible; it's fun to own, play, and MODIFY without feeling like you're ruining it.
People try to reinvent the electric guitar when the telecaster is literally perfect
*Les Paul
@@kohai-kun9261 hahahahahahahahajahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Neither are perfect.
@@ServantofErrawhat’s perfect about them is that they are imperfect - all the best things in life are flawed.
@@Tiptronics no.
In he last year or so, We had just become a US service center for brackets and pickup installation with them, it’s unfortunate for sure
Musicians are pretty irrational, so when given the choice between a 3000 dollar high end modern instrument or a 60+ year old guitar made of some random tree at the same price they will always choose the wood option because.... Warmth.... And emotion... Or something 😅
There's not really much innovation unless people just refuse to learn the basic skill of soldering. I think the idea is neat, but it's just too gimmicky. Think about how often you actually change out pickups. Plus any $3k+ guitar I buy should already have insane pickups I don't want to swap out. If you have $3k+ guitars stop wasting your money on pickups and get one of the only things that actually matters, speakers for your cabinet. Then learn how to solder them in and your tone journey can finally begin
@@SlyRyFry I’ve changed pickups twice in 20 years of playing guitar lol
@@SlyRyFry I'm going to say something that is going to be hated but there's no good reason to ever pay this kind of money on a guitar to start with.
A modern mid range guitar (sub a thousand) wil outperform any legacy guitar on a technical level (noise / manufacturing precision / overall material quality).
The guitar itself contributes very little to the sound anyways. I've seen shootouts with different kinds of wood, different body shapes, hollow vs solid. It doesn't matter. Even pick ups barely matter.
What this company didn't seem to understand is that what people buy is a story and a brand. Not an actual increase in instrument quality.
I take it that you aren’t a musician, or atleast a guitarist. Wood does directly affect how a guitar sounds and plays.
@GremlinZ420 Not electric guitars. Acoustics sure, but there's no evidence that it makes a discernable difference when you're getting the sound through a pickup and a speaker or emulated speaker. Check out Jim Lill on youtube he has some great videos debunking most of those old head myths
It's sad to see a good thing fail to exist just because there's not enough demand. I guess it would if it was a personal side-business or a larger business with a special series, which could make these and other niche products at any level of demand.
If they weren’t ugly AF, they may have had a chance. Any guitar that looks like a Les Paul had a baby a with melted tulip, is never going to bought by the masses
Well, the looks are a matter of taste. I kind of like the looks of the Relish guitars. Their features are just nonsensical for me. And the price tag makes it a clear "thanks, but no, thanks".
Had the opportunity to mess with one when it came used to my Guitar Center. Neat piece for sure.
Sad that guitarists just don’t seem to like any forward thinking innovation! Insisting that old relics can’t be improved upon.
Forward-thinking isn’t the issue, money is.
A few years ago, I bought a Relish Mary with 2 extra sets of pickups on a Black Friday sale at a price that had to be cost or below. The fit & finish and the playability are superb. The neck is wide and flat with a satiny finish. I am not picky about neck shapes so it feels just fine to me. It sounds like an ES335. The way I looked at it is with the swappable pickups I got many different versions of the Gibson ES335 or other USA made semi-hollow for the price of one.
They made an import version that went for around $1000 I think. And towards the end sold some Swiss-made versions for about $2000 US that were simplified compared to the earlier versions and had some pretty cool wood. If they had started there maybe they would still be around?
Aluminum isn’t a great toan-wood according to my buddy Luther who basically works at my local axe shoppe. Give me that swampy ash instead
This was never your bluesy edge of breakup guitar.
@@130mMer5boc I always play blues and I’m always on the edge of breakup, that’s what rock and roll will do to ya 😤😎
@@rushman2112I'm edging rn
Thinking that "tonewoods" matter in an electric guitar is almost as ridiculous, as the unnecessary and expensive gimmicks this failing guitar brand was built on.
@@LRM12o8 it doesn't make much difference which wood you use, but aluminium will produce a noticeably brighter tone (not by an absurd amount though)
I love my Electra MPC guitar. I use 2 overdrive modules and it's like a pre amp built right in
Bought it new in mid 70's and it's still delivering.
Aw man. These were so cool. I liked that they were doing something different. I wish I would have bought one. The interchangeable hot swap pickups idea was amazing.
I love the idea of modular guitars with swappable parts, but they never catch on. Still waiting for the Boaz 1 modular guitar to go into production.
Too bad. I wanted one for a long time, but the price was just too high. Not really worth buying now, imo, since you can’t get custom pickups for it without them making the special pickup chassis.
The pickup swapping tech has been bought up by Cream T Guitars here in UK, and rebranded Guitar X. I have 2 of the cheaper Indonesian made Trinity models and a whole bunch of pickups .
They are a really useful too for pickup comparison, but then I am a guitar tech.
I have one of the Made in Indonesia guitars that was sold off for very little. The Cream T pickup sets I bought for it cost more than the guitar! Great fun swapping out the different pickups while recording. It takes about 5 seconds. You don’t even have to unplug from the amp.
I have a Trinity. I’m really happy with it. The price was a bit high but the workmanship and quality is second to none.
People, myself included would rather have many guitars, than one guitar they can modify.
very nice. If you do a follow up, could you include some examples of the sounds they produce?
They are located in my hometown and suddenly they were taking more and more guitars out of their shop window till it now got replaced with a clothing store.
Rest in peace, Relish guitars
Had an idea in the 80's for a "sliding pickup" system that let you adjust where the pickups were on the fly, but just an idea.
What people would really find useful is an axefx or helix level amp modeler built into the guitar and a nice color touchscreen display to access it.
Sorry to see them go. I see the usefulness of swapping pickups. The price is a lot for many, but for this design, it is nice! Maybe they will return with lessons learned
What’s crazy is that this is the first time I’ve heard of them. And they look sick 🤘
Still rocking my Parker P44 from 2006 to this day! (Alongside a stranberg from last year)
I love the comment (and chuckle) at the end: "Ready for more strat and tele clones at NAMM"
I remember the ad that had me BEG my folks for a Parker Fly in Guitar World.....Dave Navarro had just hopped on the RHCP lineup and I wanted that freaking guit! I never got it, ended up buying a used Epi LP, 26 yrs later still got it!
Sorry to hear this, they are very cool!
That's unfortunate. Would have loved to get my hands on one.
Makes me wonder if a company could develop hot swappable pickups that would fit a classic humbucker hole. Would look like the plastic frame around a humbucker, except you'd be able to swap between single coils, P90s and humbuckers at any time.
Oh no. I knew something was going in when their pickups section went offline for months but man. I do own a Relish. Great guitar.
That's a good point about the pickups. Nobody's gonna swap them on stage or in a studio for that matter. they'll just pick up a different guitar for a different tone.
Wow that’s too bad. Those are really beautiful guitars!!
That completely sucks, whatever guitars that were left in circulation are gonna sky rocket in price
I bet im not alone, but I really wanted one of these when I seen them..I mean I still kind of do, its the closest thing we've had to a "one size fits all" guitar for a home studio. But that price tag always felt way too steep. Im sure if they cheaped out on a few resources/features, & primarily just focused on the swappable pickups. It probably couldve been a reasonable price - & in turn - a hot seller.
They used to have their shop in the next building over. Each morning as i went to buy bread in the bakery i used to ogle those guitars in the windows knowing i could never own them. Then this october i noticed the store was being emptied and later a friend tells me they went bankrupt. Now there's a lingerie store instead
Sex sells
The relish guitars were a great concept, the problem is mainly that at the pricepoint it becomes too niche, it would’ve been great to see a joint venture with a bigger company who could produce it at lower cost and higher quantity, it could’ve been something.
Damn, I really liked the idea! Would have loved to try one at some point.
Hopefully the designers can get a spot in a major guitar company and filter in somr much needed innovation, tempered by the knowledge from the big boys of how to sell volume
Rule nr 1: have a product that fills a need, definitely when setting premium prices. I always wondered who would buy this. I’m more interested in guitars that eliminate annoying things like maintenance, such as carbon bodies and steel fretboards and/or improve string changes & tuning. Never cared much about changing pickups, leave alone flipping them on the fly.
Ha.. as I was watching this I was thinking of Parker Fly and then you mentioned them. I have one actually. The weight and piezo were cool. Need to replace the pups to get any tone out of it though.
Remember, the guitar market is mostly on retrograde orbit or backwards evolution; the older the guitars are, the higher the demand. That's why there's a market for relic guitars even though they're not really vintage. This sci Fi futuristic guitar stuff is just a niche market at least for now.
It's not always about finding mainstream success. There are many niche guitar builders who have been in business for decades.
As someone who used to be involved in music and live shows 20+years ago, I remember thinking Parker guitars were gonna be the next big thing, cos everyone had one over night, and they were super expensive, I remember they released 2 “less expensive” models that were $999 I think, and then I sorta fell out of the music scene and live audio, but Parker’s sound Uhmazing, they are good quality guitars so im surprised they didn’t get bought out by a bigger company to keep them going, did people stop buying them?
aww, i planned to buy one when i had the money, actually kinda sad because i think they were really cool, not just for the pickup switching
i absolutely love their design and sound
These are honestly perfect for testing pickups, in terms of debunking or establishing facts around them, and decrease the magical thinking surrounding the electric guitar.
Knew nothing about this bit even playing in bands where I always used hight output high distortion pickups I would have totally taken advantage of this feature. More so just at home. But pretty cool innovation to be able to hot swap pickups.
TIL Parker is gone. Best playing guitar I’ve ever tried. Felt incredible.
Id have loved to get my hands on one.
I have one. The blue and white one. It is an excellent guitar that plays incredibly well. I don't get why they went out of business
Nearly thirty years later I still love my 1996 Parker Fly Classic.
You can swap pickup ? Okay, that's kinda cool.. But I'm might be too lazy to do that 😂
I wish someone would make a guitar with all the best parts of Parker, Relish and Maverick guitars.
The guitar you want but impossible to get.
PEAVAY they had in the back a section.
You could put any 3 of those many sound effects distortion ,echo ECT and mix many ways.
I wish i never sold my parker fly deluxe. It was not a perfect guitar, but i liked playing it and adored the scale and playability of the neck.
Wow I didn't know Parker went out!