cosmicevan wrote:At the risk of getting into more arguments about this, I'll entertain this with a reply.harpies wrote:Pedal are meant to be played, not collected. The exclusivity club is crap.
Ofcourse pedals are meant to be played, and that's what I do with all of the pedals in my collection. Anything I collect that has a use, I use it for that. I don't collect varying colors of things (though I have fell victim to buying different covers of a magazine for a favorite band or what not), I get what I want and I hold it to enjoy and use when I want. When I was younger and collected baseball cards, those had no use other than to collect. Comics, however, I would read (and no I wasn't super careful with them, I'd enjoy them, but save them and trade etc). I never bought bourbon to just look at, I drank it. It's a lot more fun sharing that stuff with your friends when each pour didn't cost you $100+ and people are really appreciative of you sharing something that would cost them $100+ for an ounce. Maybe you are not someone who has a pedal in your possession that is not on your board? But I am as are a significant number of musicians. I love playing and exploring new things and making different combinations and getting a chance to try out everything, but when something exclusive comes around, it's buy it now or hold your peace.
If you have a problem with exclusivity, then you have a problem with everyone who bought a Bliss Factory and every company who pulls this nonsense. All 1000 pedals sold based on the fact that it was supposed to be exclusive. Sometimes it isn't about being in the exclusivity club as much as being able to try something out in general. I tried out the Bliss Factory and I thought it was a pretty cool pedal...not $450 cool, but cool none-the-less. If it was in fact limited to 1000, I'd be more inclined to hang onto it, but after playing through it, I have better fuzzes that will stay on my board and won't tie up that kind of money in a pedal that I won't use all the time unless there is something really special about it. If you don't understand, that's fine...it's my disfunction, not yours...but it's these companies that make it to be as such and I feel the anger is misguided when it is aimed at the buyers (even those looking to make money off of it - we all knew it would happen based on the marketing campaign). At the end of the day no one NEEDS a pedal, let alone a Bliss Factory, to be creative. It's sad that so many people had to come out and cry saying that they can't be creative unless they got a Bliss Factory and wah they missed out on the "exclusive club". Just like I had to put on my big boy pants and accept that hey I've been swindled...so should all the people who snoozed and losed on the pedal. If anyone got to their computer at the onsale date/time, it was a layup to get the pedal. I think of all the Pladask and Drolo and etc releases that I've had ripped from my cart mid checkout when it was less than a minute after on-sale time and this was nothing like that. Those situations are always oh well, I missed out...time to move on, cause I won't pay the scalpers and frankly, those pedals can be inspiring but none of them are needed to be creative or make music.
If chase bliss REALLY was anti all of this, they'd do more gen loss or ayahuasca in a different color to squash those scalpers...but I wouldn't hold your breath. Also, the bliss factory still is limited and exclusive as the next batch won't happen any time in the immediate future. I just take issue with a company exploiting the limited market to sell a product and then almost immediately after selling out, they pull back the reason why it sold out so fast. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who bought the pedal and claims that they didn't buy the pedal because it was limited. Even those who waited 20/30 mins to watch the demos all acted within that hour and pretty made an impulse purchase...because if we all waited, we'd save on shipping and taxes.
If you want to think I'm the scum of the world because I have the collector bug and wanted a chance at trying a Bliss Factory, then oh well, I'm the scum of the world.
Not stirring the pot people but are you forgetting that most of the limited run stuff is usually collaborations with other pedal builders(I.E. Gen Loss/Cooper Fx and Bliss Factory/Zvex, Ayahuasca/?) with exceptions being Mood/Dark World
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