Talk:Dean Guitars

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 * I notice that a rationale has now been added. Andrewa 15:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Advert tag removed
Since this was tagged as an advert there's been a lot of edit activity, and I don't think the tag is relevant any more.

There's still a lot of room for improvement, but there's no way the company would release anything like the current article as advertising! Andrewa 15:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Removal of list of designers and users
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a directory of lists (unless if this is a list article, which is not). I removed the holy long lists of designers and users as they become too excessively listy and contained non-notable users and designers. To editors, please create textual contents and improve this article to become the best encyclopaedia article about dean guitars. Dekisugi (talk) 12:13, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

This Article's a stub
This article is a stub and anyone with cited knowledge about Dean guitars should add to and expand this article.--Peace out (talk) 22:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

really needs overhaul
Could someone who's a credible editor (as opposed to a Dean fanboy) please at least fix those recent references?? Looks like that was done by the poorly-trained monkeys. Weeb Dingle (talk) 23:29, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

what about The Collapse Years??
The "history" transitions smoothly from 1996 to 2015. This overlooks that it was pretty much DEAD for a few years in the 1990s, and overlooks interim ownership by Tropical Music.

That gap really calls to question whether Dean Guitars' "popularity surged" as asserted in the article, particularly as Zelinsky himself felt their big two-humbucker guitars were losing ground steadily to the "superstrat" fad.

The current Dean Guitars has piggybacked itself onto the death of "Dimebag Darrell" Abbot. They currently offer like 42 (!!) Dimebag signature models. Of their 17 "artist signature" lines, fully five wave the "Dimebag" flag (the only artist with more than one series to his name). Weeb Dingle (talk) 00:37, 12 March 2017 (UTC)


 * This article also seems to imply that the company was not famous until after Zelinsky sold it. But that's clearly not true. They were pretty big in the 80s. DavidRavenMoon (talk) 01:24, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Remove or rewrite this section
I am echoing the previous talk section entry and agree that the following should be removed or rewritten:

"The company was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1976 by Dean Zelinsky, but came to prominence under Elliott Rubinson in 1997 after his company, Armadillo Enterprises, purchased the Dean trade name.[1]"

Dean Guitars were well known at end of the 70s. They were used by huge commercial bands particularly the Cars. The guitar brand featured heavily with more aggressive styles and was probably much more popular and well known in the 1980s.

I write this because I have no idea what prominence means here. Sales figures over previous years? Which years? Did the current company actually sell more guitars after 1997? In what time period?

This is a poorly written sentence bereft of any useful information. Moreover the history of the brand name is being ignored if prominence refers to either sales or subjective popularity.