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My beef with them is that I own a '66 Epiphone Riviera. Epiphone's to me were always their own line and and quality wise were right up there with anything Gibson made. But then around 1970, Gibson took the Epiphone name and used it for cheap off shore guitars. Now days no one really cares or remembers, but I don't think Gibson should call these guitars "Epiphone's." Call 'em Orville's or Henry's or Hoot's or anything, but not Epiphone UNLESS, they're accurate reproductions of Riviera's, Sheriton's, Whilshire's, or any other true Epiphone. There were never real Epiphone Les Paul (or Firebird, or SG or Dot) guitars. Of course that'll never happen. The past thirty years of marketing trumps the previous 50 years of Epiphone history.
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