{"id":691,"date":"2009-03-01T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=691"},"modified":"2009-03-01T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:52:18","slug":"gibson-grabber-iifail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Grabber II&#8230;fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Gibson Grabber bass? No? Chances are if you do, it&#8217;s because it showed up in one of the <em>Guitar Hero<\/em> games as an unlockable bass. Design-wise, it&#8217;s pretty clearly a response to the Music Man Stingray (visually) and the dominant, no-frills Fender Precision (electronically). Slightly ugly, somewhat superfluous, and no competitive threat, it was only made for two years before slinking back into the shadows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/gibsongrabberII.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gibson.com\/Products\/Electric-Guitars\/Bass\/Gibson-USA\/Grabber-Bass.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gibson decided to reissue it<\/a> in a limited edition of 350 pieces and jack the price up to $3000. I understand it&#8217;s a very limited run and the pricing reflects that, but&#8230;well, I suppose the marketing team had to find a way to turn &#8220;this bass was a flop&#8221; into &#8220;a classic, well-kept secret.&#8221; Still, at this price and with this little collectible flash (black and black? That&#8217;s the best you could come up with? Even the originals were a distinctive natural), I think the Grabber II is destined for the same fate as the original Grabber: Semi-obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>Better to make it a production model for Epiphone and let the next generation call this ugly duckling their own, I think. Then again, if they like it, they&#8217;re just going buy an <a href=\"http:\/\/completed.shop.ebay.com\/items\/__gibson-grabber_W0QQLHQ5fCompleteZ1QQ_dmptZGuitarQ5fAccessoriesQQ_flnZ1QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em283?MA2ShowItems&amp;_rdc=1&amp;guest=1\" target=\"_blank\">original for $800<\/a>, tops. So&#8230;Gibson fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Gibson Grabber bass? No? Chances are if you do, it&#8217;s because it showed up in one of the Guitar Hero games as an unlockable bass. Design-wise, it&#8217;s pretty clearly a response to the Music Man Stingray (visually) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}