Gibson and Epiphone Forums are just marketing tools. Anybody wishing to truthfully discuss guitars are turned away. I became interested in guitars and blues last August. During the past few months, I have been researching to build a small collection of guitars, that will hopefully help me enjoy my hobby over the coming years. To help me in my research, I signed up for two guitar forums.
The Epiphone and Gibson forums. I am currently banned from the Gibson and Epiphone forums….for 55 years. My crime was writing 3 posts pointing out that the suspension of a fellow forum member was, in my opinion unjust. The person who was suspended is a professional Luthier and Guitar technician. He raised the issue of quality control, and his perception of falling quality and quality control, since production of Epiphone guitars was transferred from Korea to China.
It is apparent that the freedom to express ones honest opinion about Epiphone products is not tolerated on their forum. The same applies to Epiphone’s parent company Gibson, who have the same policy on the Gibson forum. It is plainly evident that the function of the forum, is purely to facilitate sales, not in anyway to encourage honest discussion about guitars in general and Epiphone guitars in particular.
This led me to design a guitar forum here on my website, where freedom of speech on such matters is encouraged.
So I have set up
and helped my friend set up
Guitar Doctor Forum is open registration
However Free Speech Guitar Club is invitation only if you wish to be considered for membership just e-mail me at pertier@pertier.com and explain why you wish to join the “Free Speech Guitar Club”.
