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Off the beaten (guitar) path
Johnny C:
A few other forum members have accounts but don't post because it is a forum that basically requires months of lurking prior to joining.
I wish I had a weird guitar. I just have an Epiphone.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Chad K. on 18 Oct 2007, 13:36 ---
--- Quote ---That path is beaten for a reason, mu'fukka.
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I disagree, I think it's a matter of exposure. There have certainly been individual bands who broke the mold - i.e. the Police with Ibanez Musician series guitars and basses, or Joy Division with Haymans, or even the White Stripes with old Airlines. I think most people, however, go standard Fender or Gibson, because most people see standard Fender or Gibson.
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It's very true that a lot of people go for the brands because of exposure. However the majority of guitarists who are famous for playing guitar are not idiots, or at least are smart enough to know what guitars they like and don't like and a great deal of them still play Gibson and Fender. Honestly I think that the Les Paul and the Strat, under any of their various configurations, are just about the most classic and yet versatile guitars ever made. I'd include the Tele there, but because that's my guitar of choice - I have a Standard and a '72 Custom Reissue - I thought that might be colouring my opinion, although I think it's the first ever electric solid body or something like that?
Chad K.:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 19 Oct 2007, 12:51 ---
--- Quote from: Chad K. on 18 Oct 2007, 13:36 ---
--- Quote ---That path is beaten for a reason, mu'fukka.
--- End quote ---
I disagree, I think it's a matter of exposure. There have certainly been individual bands who broke the mold - i.e. the Police with Ibanez Musician series guitars and basses, or Joy Division with Haymans, or even the White Stripes with old Airlines. I think most people, however, go standard Fender or Gibson, because most people see standard Fender or Gibson.
--- End quote ---
It's very true that a lot of people go for the brands because of exposure. However the majority of guitarists who are famous for playing guitar are not idiots, or at least are smart enough to know what guitars they like and don't like and a great deal of them still play Gibson and Fender. Honestly I think that the Les Paul and the Strat, under any of their various configurations, are just about the most classic and yet versatile guitars ever made. I'd include the Tele there, but because that's my guitar of choice - I have a Standard and a '72 Custom Reissue - I thought that might be colouring my opinion, although I think it's the first ever electric solid body or something like that?
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I agree, you're certainly not an idiot for using a different style of guitar- and I would never bregrudge a musician for a guitar preference. Everybody likes what they like for making a racket; it's a matter of personal choice not right v. wrong. That said, teles are awesome. They are not, however, the first solidbody electric guitar. Rumour has it that honor goes to Mr. Les Paul, who got so fed up with feedback issues caused by a hollowbody that he ripped the pickups off and attached them along with a neck and bridge to a plank of wood thereafter nicknamed "the log". That was sometime in the 40's. In the late 40's Gibson and Fender both started manufacturing solid body electrics- Gibson had the Les Paul, and Fender had the broadcatser, which later became the esquire, which became the tele.
Thrillho:
I tell you what, if one day I can buy an Esquire, I would have sex with it every night.
ImRonBurgundy?:
Wouldn't that ruin the electronics?
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