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LPs were discontinued due to slow sales. Probably everyone associated with it tried to distance their involvement. 'Burn the history' so they couldn't be tied to it...
It's surprising Gibson is treating the ledger as if purposefully stolen.
The most likely scenario is some rock star in the seventies wanted confirmation of the guitar they just traded from another rock star and called up their artist relations buddy who went over to the grungy files, bringing the ledger from the moldy storage pits to read easier while on the phone with the rock star. After getting them that information they lazily left it on their desk since it's a long walk back to the damp spider cave they kept such records. When that person left the company from fire/move/retirement all their remainder office documents were binned by the next cubical inhabitant or two chipping away at decluttering.
Nothing insidious or heist-film-worthy, just plain old land-fill data loss.
When do you think the first calls came in to Gibson seeking information about authenticating or restoring a guitar from those years? They must get a thousand calls a day now, but when would those have begun to trickle in? Which ledger would have been the most popular to find the answers in? It probably sat on that person's desk for years to take random call requests and then the move lost it.
But naw, it's more interesting to suspect someone stole it.
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LPs were discontinued due to slow sales. Probably everyone associated with it tried to distance their involvement. 'Burn the history' so they couldn't be tied to it...
It's surprising Gibson is treating the ledger as if purposefully stolen.
The most likely scenario is some rock star in the seventies wanted confirmation of the guitar they just traded from another rock star and called up their artist relations buddy who went over to the grungy files, bringing the ledger from the moldy storage pits to read easier while on the phone with the rock star. After getting them that information they lazily left it on their desk since it's a long walk back to the damp spider cave they kept such records. When that person left the company from fire/move/retirement all their remainder office documents were binned by the next cubical inhabitant or two chipping away at decluttering.
Nothing insidious or heist-film-worthy, just plain old land-fill data loss.
When do you think the first calls came in to Gibson seeking information about authenticating or restoring a guitar from those years? They must get a thousand calls a day now, but when would those have begun to trickle in? Which ledger would have been the most popular to find the answers in? It probably sat on that person's desk for years to take random call requests and then the move lost it.
But naw, it's more interesting to suspect someone stole it.
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