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

Topic: CHOICES CONCERNING ELECTRIC GUITARS

I deleted the other topic, because it was more a statement.
But here is the topic I wrote: I (re)discovered my Fender Telecaster.
I want to know if there are "chordians" who have similar experiences. You like a guitar so much, and it becomes your favourite guitar.
Well it happened to me, 11 years ago. I had the opportunity to buy a brandnew Gibson Les Paul Studio, in beautiful black and gold ware: attracted by the looks!!!!! The guitar was not longer available here on the market, because of a few scratches, so I paid less than 250$, and the Studio was at that time the "cheapest" les paul.
PROBLEM: Everytime I played a song, the guitar needed to be tuned, a real pain in the a**, and no more joy in playing a song.
So: Are there fellow chordians, having a similar problem? I was attracted to the guitar because of the looks, and I had my very first electric guitar: A GIBSON. Even in the store, a thing like this can happen.
I went to a music store, saw a PRS guitar, in 1997, while almost nobody here in Europe, except some professional musicians, knew the existence of that brand. I get 3x more for my Gibson than I paid it. Since that moment: I am a PRS addict. And here all discussions are open: what is your BRAND, the GUITAR YOU KILL FOR?and WHY.
In my case: the sound, versatility, always in tune and beautiful. But I also rediscovered a guitar, a Telecaster California Beach reissue 1952 and painted in the colours of cars, here green. The sound is amazing, if you see the simplicity of this guitar, and the sound you get. The times that you could choose between a Fender Stratocaster and a Telecaster are long gone, you find these guitars now in all categories, from cheap to expensive, if I would make a movie about the guitars we see today, the title would be LOST (but this is already taken)
What is your opinion on this topic.
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  • From: Frederick, MD
  • Registered: 2006-12-28
  • Posts: 851

Re: CHOICES CONCERNING ELECTRIC GUITARS

Honestly, I never saw a difference in any guitars until I got my Agile.
It sounds so much deeper than any other guitar I've tried/played.
All the stratocaster makes and knock-offs sound alike to me for some reason.
The Gibsons all sound alike to me.

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

Re: CHOICES CONCERNING ELECTRIC GUITARS

Well Detman101, I don't know the brand.
I wanted also to know if it is normal to, if you know brands, you have choises. Big Brands make big $$$. I visited in 2003, Nashville, and Memphis. You can't visit the Nashville plant, but you can have a tour in the "hollowbody section" in Memphis.
When I saw the precision, making a guitar, like BB's King LUCILLE, I really was overwelmed, they always speak about "a factory" in one way yes. But I saw the love for the hollow bodies, and they just make a guitar, using a machine to cut wood, they are really concentrated while winding an placing the humbuckers. Most amazing thing: the guitar goes in a special "PAINT ROOM", just as they do when you had an accident, because the cars are also treated that way.
- Every guitar maker (it is not a luthier in fact) receive a Gibson every year, if their evaluation was good: absenteism due to an illnes, coming too late, well no Gibson.
- All the guitars are played by very good players and they play almost everything: jazz, blues, rock & roll, and after "testing" it by playing 30% of these guitars are destroyed. Why don't they put them on the market, half the price, maybe with a name like Gibson 2.
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[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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