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02-12-2006, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Landisville, PA | | | so... I'm buying a guitar...
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A Epiphone Firebird to be exact. Does anybody have one or know someone who does? What do you think of it? I just have a fetish for that shape I guess... 
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02-12-2006, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: under a palm tree sippin pepsi | | | the strings are to thin. its all in what YOU like. enjoy your new toy.
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02-12-2006, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Duncan, Okla. | | I agree w/ Mike, it's all about what you like. Johnny Winter used to just tear up a Gibson model, I don't know how much your into blues or how before your time he is. I play a couple of his songs on Guitar. You should check him out if you haven't.
If your looking for a popularity contest, Les Paul and SG are going to win. I have a Les Paul (Gibson), the SG is like driving a truck to me.
My main 2 are PRS's.
Get what makes you happy. I never asked for an opinion before I got my Guitars. As a matter of fact, I brought home one of my PRS's and my friend said he liked my mexican Strat better. I felt like hitting him over the head w/ the mexican Strat. 
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02-12-2006, 08:02 PM
| | Artfully lost | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: North Carolina | | | I'd recommend either an Epiphone Les Paul, Explorer, or V.
That shape is explorer-ish. But I've heard it's garbage.
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02-12-2006, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Theonestarchild That shape is explorer-ish. But I've heard it's garbage. | The actual guitar is garbage? or the shape? I have already played it at guitar center so I know what I think of it. Well obviously I liked it because I'm going to buy it.
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02-12-2006, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Spokane, Washington | | | i have a friend whose been playing guitar since he was about 5 (disturbing image), he has a 60's reissue strat, he's played countless #'s of strats and he favors the firebird above most of them. he thinks theyre great, i dont play guitar so i wouldnt really know.
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02-12-2006, 10:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA | | | Reminds me a lot of the SG Customs. But with the Firebird shape.
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02-12-2006, 11:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: florence , mississippi | | | I don't like em. The look is alright , but I couldn't get my hands towards the upper part of the neck without hitting the back of the guitar, kinda like on an acoustic. Plus I looked goofy with one. I'll stick with Les Pauls and Telecasters
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02-13-2006, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by FretlessFreak Reminds me a lot of the SG Customs. But with the Firebird shape. | Thats what I thought when I first saw it. I guess it like a series that Epiphone is doing. I think it looks cool.
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02-13-2006, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by AxtoOx Johnny Winter used to just tear up a Gibson model | My cousin has a '72 (I think) Firebird signed by Johnny Winter. |
02-13-2006, 06:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Racine, Wisconsin | | | IMO Strats and Jacksons are the most comfortable guitars to play. Les Pauls sound great but the string spacing on Gibson guitars is akward compared to a strat. SGs sound greatand are suprisingly light but unbalanced.......neck dive. |
02-13-2006, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: 6.02 x 10^23 microns away | | Never liked those guitars. Feels like someone TRYING to be metal but not really understanding what metal is. I would go for some version of the Les Paul in the same price range. I still think they are the best guitar design ever made. Yeah, it's a little heavy, but I like heavy guitars. Makes me remember that I'm playing. 
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02-13-2006, 10:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | I like it. Never really played one, though. I do like explorers a lot, too/
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02-13-2006, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Germany | | | I've found that Epiphone's guitars tend to have rather crappy tuners, have they improved a bit by now? |
02-13-2006, 03:03 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | Very cool. I like that. |
02-13-2006, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: atlanta, georgia [satellites] | | | just out of curiosity, what does one go for? |
02-13-2006, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Cameron Feels like someone TRYING to be metal but not really understanding what metal is. | Woah Nelly! I'm far from metal. I am not metal and I am not trying to be. If that was aimed at me. Quote: |
Originally Posted by davetakis just out of curiosity, what does one go for? | its 499 on musicians friend and I'm pretty sure thats what I saw at guitar center.
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02-14-2006, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Queens, N.Y.(Near JFK Airport) | | I've always liked the look of Firebirds, be they reversed, or non-reverse.
I'd say go for it. 
Here are some reviews from Harmony-Central, but as always take cum grano salis.  http://www.harmony-central.com/Guita...ird_VII-1.html
BTW, if you get a chance, check out the Tribute line by G&L.
I bought one last October, and I can't say enough good things about it.
Now if I'd just sit my butt down and play it a little more! 
Good luck with it.
Mike
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02-14-2006, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Jewels Here are some reviews from Harmony-Central, but as always take cum grano salis. | Whats that mean?
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02-14-2006, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Thunderbird91 Whats that mean? | Cum grano salis = With a grain of salt. (Don't believe everything you read)
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