the shop at bulatan commercial center.. just yesterday another gibby sole..the young dude who bought it was so happy he got an awesome hard to believe deal...too bad i couldnt warn him..the shop owners there staring at me cos i asked a lot of quesitons on the fender last time

a faker seen on tv today.. in tv3's MHI.. wtf

well, the fakes are even on the media, so how are we suppose to put and end to it?

what was the fake?

Is it saberkas commerical area, pasar malam area? Doesnt know that area got music shop leyh~ waha, the seller stare at u ka, adui, Could it be the jamm studio there start to sell guitar too? Dynamic jamm studio? i couldnt remember correctly

We need to do a live telecast of Hujan playing fake guitars and then burning it ala Hendrix..

hujan guitarist use fake guitar as well??

No..of course they don't
They have more than enough money to get real ones..
What I mean is that we need a famous artist to promote that fake guitars are bad..otherwise it is not going to be heard
After that all the Hujan fanboys don't want to buy fakes

we the musicians should do an advertisement about it... something like the stop smoking campaign and stop music piracy etc

malaysia making money of counterfeits in the black market,memang they won't say anything la =.=

That's a mighty good stage gimmick la bro, will have to make a note of that hehehehe.

damn...sacrilege putting hujan and hendrix in the same sentence...errr...
we need to burn hujan on stage, and then have hendrix pour more lighter fluid over them...

I like your style .............

But so far for now...ts a lot of guitar quite same, we don't know how to realize it which is real/fake, even went to the instrument shop ask the staff...they also not understand at all.

Most small time music shops, they themselves dont even know it's fake. the salesman the cashier. And those who knows, they won't even wanna tell you its fake. they can stare you in the eye and say this is ORIGINAL fender. Oh come on !!!........pfffft. Pathetic.

But any guitarist worth his salt should be able to tell by pricing and observation of the instrument whether its ori or fake.

IMHO, really, there are 2 markets here: Original market, and Fake market. The ppl in the original market know their musical tools, know what they want, and are willing to pay for it. Fake market is filled with ppl (kids, I'd like to think) who just want to be seen wielding something outrageously expensive that is obviously and ridiculously beyond their means - oft times painfully so.

Its not like a pirated DVD, where u get roughly similar experience watching ori "Avatar" vs fake "Avatar" DVD. A fake instrument will always be a fake instrument, and its inferiority will always remain.

Personally I don't see the issue. I don't think the instrument market will detriment considerably for it. The reason I'm so disenchanted with this whole thing is that enforcement of IP in MY isn't all that good - u can get away with a lot of things. And indoctrination - in this case telling/showing/asking ppl not to buy fake guitars - doesn't work. Especially in MY. Ask me how I know.

Its a pain, but u can live with.

ahh fakers.. they're all guitar god wannabe..

depends.sometimes there are people who are memang pro main,
and when want to buy just dunno how to buy.
there are 3 types of guitarists i think ;
memang mati case total noob,
people who can play but just know how to play,nothing else other than that,
people who can play and actually know their axes quite well.

honestly, i'd rather have a noob guitarist showing off his brand new fake fender than a real one. it hurts me to see such an incompetent player playing such a well built guitar...

still, seasoned players occasionally can't tell the difference between a fake and an original. for me, i can't tell the difference between a fake and real fender, maybe i could feel and hear the difference.

basicly, a noob guitarist playing a REAL fender is either rich or stupid for being conned.