• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: HOLLOW BODY VERSUS SOLID BODY

I have so many guitars, and 1 hollow body: an old Epiphone Sheraton, with a fantastic sound, if you keep a longer distance, because of the feed back.
So
- If you have a hollow body, is it better to plug it in an acoustic amp? Or an electric amp, still thinking about the fabulous, but underestimated ALVIN LEE & 10 years after on a 335 Gibson?
- Which guitar is the best a solid body or a hollow body, it is not so easy to make a conclusion, knowing that guys like BB King, Chuck Berry, could play a damned good heavy rock song AND use it to play jazz, so my opinion is that you can do more with a hollow body, than with a solid body, as told: blues, rock, jazz, ballads, pop (see also the sixties) and used by great names and groups, Beatles, Byrds, Jazz legends, Blues legends like BB
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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: HOLLOW BODY VERSUS SOLID BODY

If you're playing high-gain there's not much in it. Rush's lead guitarist used to play PRS now it's mainly a Gibson 335 I think but the band's sound has changed not at all. I think the answer is in variety of sounds a good hollow body can do jazz, country, blues, rockabilly - it can't give a thin garagepunk or surf band sound. A solid body can do jazz (just), with coil tap it might manage a telecaster country sound but not the fat Gretsch tone that rockabilly wants.

British Indie bands like hollow bodies, I saw alot at Glastonbury this year. The rock acts had alot more up front in-yer-face sound but the indie acts had a far more sophisticated grasp of feedback, Cherry Ghost's guitarist could really control a storm of hazey growling.

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