Tribute Guitar an “Honor”
October 6, 2010
The surprise announcement that the Gibson Guitar Company will honor Mel Gibson with a line of Mel Gibson Tribute guitars is rocking the industry (see Gibson Guitars Honors Mel Gibson).
On-line music stores have been forced off-line, their servers crashed by the high volume of requests and demand. The Gibson Guitar Company was also apparently caught off-guard, overwhelmed with advanced orders of the Gibson-Gibson, while guitar forums lit up like a Texas State execution on the Fourth of July.
Many questions surrounding the Mel Gibson Tribute Guitar need to be addressed. Namely, are these new guitars made from the wood saved from Mel’s movie The Passion? Specifically, the crucifixes.
Some insiders have suggested they are indeed.
A Jewish sound engineer who worked on the film but asked not to be identified, explained that once production finished and the sets were torn down, the crosses were disassembled separately and set aside, marked for “future use”.
“Those crucifixes were primarily hollow-bodies. They were manufactured to sound good. The actors were jamming all day up there between takes. It sounds funny but they never wanted to be brought down. Even on the hottest days of filming. I’m telling you that’s how good the sound from that wood was!”
It should be noted that Gibson Guitars is an industry leader in promoting the use of sustainable wood in the use of making its guitars. As we can see, this tradition proudly continues.
As funny as it might sound, the most popular Gibson-Gibson Tribute Guitar just might be the line made for Jews, or as the tag suggests: “For those who started every war but still want to rock”.
Seems that the guitar’s jet-black design compliments the Jewish traditional all black clash-with-nothing Jewish Orthodox Chassidic garb.
P.S. the Gibson Tribute Guitar works wonders for Jewish out reach!
