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Originally posted by hottoddy
Found this today:
http://rockandrollconfidential.com/news/index.php
So-called ?Guitar legend? Esteban was stripped of his legendary status this week when it was discovered that he is an entirely fictional character created specifically to sell pressboard guitars in infomercials.
Allan Holdsworth, guitar legend and president of ?Real Guitar Legends For Truth? released a statement on Monday calling for the immediate cessation of all applications of the appellation ?Guitar legend? to the television character known as ?Esteban?. According to the statement, ?Esteban is a fictional character created by L.A. session guitarist Dan Fernaueu for the express purpose of marketing a cheap, poorly constructed guitar-like instrument on the Home Shopping Channel.?
The scandal intensified when the Recording Academy revealed that claims that ?Esteban? had won ?several Grammys? were false.
These charges come on the heels of last month?s statement from the Musical Instrument Manufacturers Association that the ?Esteban? guitar could not, in fact, be classified as an actual guitar due to the fact that it is constructed out of reclaimed materials such as discarded telephone directories and medical waste. The MIMA demanded that the instrument be classified as a toy.
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Well...I received my guitar three or four days ago. It gives every appearance of being well constructed...I guess time will be the test of that. It has a good tone to it (not a really great tone but a good tone)...but a better set of strings will improve the tone. The amp and controls on it and the controls on the guitar are satisfactory. The strings are not high up off the neck. All and all I am very satisfied with it initially. If it holds up over time...it will have been a good buy. I am currently only playing about 15 to thirty minutes per day as I do not want to really tear my fingers up while building up calluses.
A toy it is not...it is a good beginners guitar...providing it holds up...which it may not. BTW...I suspect...that it may be the guitar "Esteban" is actually playing on the commercial...and not a more expensive one...as the tone sounds about the same.