the question that can't be answered
Overheard very late last night-
Me: You know, I don't know why I keep fighting it, I should just admit that I am a Gibson man and quit struggling with the Fender guitars, I've played humbucker guitars since forever, why do I keep resisting it?
The Missus: Oh my god, I can't believe we're having this conversation, yet again.
posted by Case at 2:53 PM
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I remeber those comments last night too, though I thought The Missus' reply was in response to something about curm...
An amazing woman is The Missus.
Case, I can't believe you are still going back and fourth on this... That poor Les Paul of yours...
Yes, Fenders have their sound/style, BUT nothing sounds better then a LP, being stroked/strummed into life, with a pair of loving fingers caressing those strings..... Man now I have to go find some tunes.. dang it
Wait let me add to this, unless of course your talking about the vintage Gretsch that Setzer plays.... Then we are talking some serious sounds.... I LOVE that guitar. NOW I can go find my music
Oh yeah, I am still fighting with this. I had yesterday off from work, spent half the day reading Fender websites looking for a clue. Broke out a Clapton DVD. Fussed with the sound. Moved the mic around. Fussed some more. Zeroed out the mixing board to start over. Hated it. Trying again.
The thing is, the Les Paul is like butter. It's easy to play, and easy to make sound good. The strat with those single coil pickups, it's tricky. For the kind of stuff we play, the LP makes much more sense. So of course, I have to go the other way.
I'll be trying to dial it in again when I get home later, before we play at the Beach Bum. If I have the Les Paul on, you'll know I threw in the towel :)
(I actually have an old 56 Gretch that's been retired, it's quite beat up. I'll see if I can find a picture of it, it's a cool guitar)
I have to confess I am sort of a guitar snob... I do actually like Gibsons the best, and I adore the sound of a nice hollow body. But a good Fender Strat, Texas Pickups, hmmm very sexy ass, hard rockin, SRV sort of sound.
I think that you got a mental block on the Fender. Mabe you should put a blind fold on and force your self to play it. Have Mac hold the other one hostage until you get over it!..
Some one once told me that playing a guitar is just like stroking a woman, each one is differant, you just have to know how they like it.---::HUGS::--Iso
I am a huge guitar snob myself. I like 'em made in the US, no fancy active pickups or onboard wiring, no lock nut floating whammy bars, just gimme some wood and wire. Same for effects, I don't go for much signal processing, just a fuzz pedal and occasionally the wah wah. I use just a dash of reverb and delay for the SL shows, it was kind of flat before that.
If I could only have one guitar for the rest of my life, it'd be the Les Paul. I've always leaned that way, in fact my first halfway good guitar was an Aria copy of a Les Paul. I played a Hamer Special for a number of years, which is also basically a Gibson configuration. When I think of rock and roll, the kind I most enjoy, it's almost always a Gibson that's laying the mustard.
Having said that...
I can't quit obsessing over the Strat. I'm probably just trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole, but I can't leave it alone. When it's right, the Strat can go from a clear tone to the sound of metal shearing, and all that changes is how hard I am hitting it. The LP doesn't have that same range, the phaser setting doesn't go below stun. Plus, in the mental image established when I was a tot, the Strat symbolized an electric guitar. There's something a little more staid and traditional about a Les Paul. The Strat is about science fiction, it's about Corvettes. It's an Electric Guitar. In an age where technolocial marvels are commonplace, those two words still give me goosebumps. A guitar that you plug in, what a fantastic idea.
PS my next guitar will be a semi-hollowbody, I am lusting after this Epiphone Sheraton II in a bad way-
http://www.leadguitars.fr/images/epiphone-sheraton-2-vs.jpg
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