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What Guitars are your Guitarist using?
- Thread starter MAJOR METAL
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Maverick Blues said:
o yeah, the other day the guitarist with the strat copy broke the input jack while he was playing the pacifica.
i think he got it second hand for about 80 pounds
One is using a Jackson Flying V and one is using a Epiphone Les Paul with a Seymour Duncan bridge pickup.
Our guitar player shows up with a '74 Gibson Les Paul, mid-90s American Fender Strat and a 2001 PRS McCarty. Good stuff.
(covering various bands here....)
Robert: two 60's Fender Stratocasters, Fender CS Relic Nocaster, a few PRS customs, a few modern Fenders
Paul: '77 Gibson Les Paul, 80's Jackson Soloist
Dave: beat up old Fender Telecaster
Jack: a few PRSes, a few Ibanezes
different Dave: modern reissue Fender Stratocasters
Mike: modern Fender Stratocaster
Irvin: Hamer Strat-like thing
Billy: Vintique Telecasters, Fender Tele, Fender Strat
Chico: 70's Fender Stratocaster
Robert: two 60's Fender Stratocasters, Fender CS Relic Nocaster, a few PRS customs, a few modern Fenders
Paul: '77 Gibson Les Paul, 80's Jackson Soloist
Dave: beat up old Fender Telecaster
Jack: a few PRSes, a few Ibanezes
different Dave: modern reissue Fender Stratocasters
Mike: modern Fender Stratocaster
Irvin: Hamer Strat-like thing
Billy: Vintique Telecasters, Fender Tele, Fender Strat
Chico: 70's Fender Stratocaster
Fender 1957 CS Strat-Heavy relic.
Fender 1967 Tele.
1968 Les Paul Standard-Gold Top-P-90's.
PRS Mc Cartny Private Stock.
Fender 1967 Tele.
1968 Les Paul Standard-Gold Top-P-90's.
PRS Mc Cartny Private Stock.
Nothing like resurrecting a 10 year old thread but it's still a viable topic.
Most guitarists I work with are afflicted with the same condition as found in many bassists; G.A.S.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
While the Fender Strat seems to be the "go to" guitar for most songs, they each own and bring multiple
guitars i.e. Gibson, Gretch and various other Fender models. It's been years since I worked with any players with pointy guitars.
Most guitarists I work with are afflicted with the same condition as found in many bassists; G.A.S.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
While the Fender Strat seems to be the "go to" guitar for most songs, they each own and bring multiple
guitars i.e. Gibson, Gretch and various other Fender models. It's been years since I worked with any players with pointy guitars.
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The guitar player in my sorta/kinda/but not really band got a Mexican Tele a while back, loved it, saw an American tele on sale and bought it, returned the Mexican, realized he preferred the Mexican, returned the American, and rebought the same Mexican.
Guitar 1- lead singer, uses a Takamine with sky high action. If you pass him something with low action he gets a confused look on his face. He loves his guitar and has had it for decades. It's right for him and he makes it sound great. Lead guitar player has a couple of Ibanez, an extremely cool custom build that looks, plays and sounds incredible........but he also has a tele from the 60's. It was his first good guitar....its roadworn, faded and has serious mojo. We do a lot of country and he always plays it on those numbers. I make sure to compliment him and remind him I love listening to that sweet tele every time he plays it.
The guy I work with most regularly (i.e., on a weekly basis) rotates between three: A sunburst Fender Stratocaster from the late 60s or early 70s, a pearl-white Fender something-or-other that looks like a Strat but with only a single pickup, a humbucker in the bridge position (I'm guessing it's from the mid-90s), and a fairly new tobacco-burst EVH Wolfgang Special.
Another guy I work with switches between a sunburst Fender Stratocaster and a black Les Paul Custom, both from the early 70s.
A guy I used to work with a lot has a sweet collection including a Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman, a Les Paul Standard, a Rickenbacker 360/12, and a Tom Anderson era Schecter Telecaster clone with a solid rosewood neck and body...similar to the guitar Pete Townsend used in the 80s.
Yet another guy I used to work a lot with, who I just recently did a gig with after a long respite, has a Gretsch 6120, a Gibson Les Paul with P90s from the late 50s or early 60s (!), a whole mess of acoustic guitars, and a couple of the Rick Kelly Bowery Pine Telecasters.
And another guy who now that I think of it I haven't worked with in a while has a blonde mid-80s Fender Telecaster Elite, a white Charvel/Jackson something-or-other, and a FrankenStrat made with a Schecter Tele neck, a homemade ash body, homemade purpleheart pickguard, EMG Strat pickups, and a Kahler whammy bridge.
Rob has so many it depends what mood he's in....
Gibson Les Pauls
MIM Strats
Some sort of Charvel
Squier Strats
Hondo.... Strats or Explorers
Gibson Flying V
Dean Flying V
Or, he'll use my BC Rich Warlock.
Gibson Les Pauls
MIM Strats
Some sort of Charvel
Squier Strats
Hondo.... Strats or Explorers
Gibson Flying V
Dean Flying V
Or, he'll use my BC Rich Warlock.
He has tried many different types for a couple of weeks but has always returned to his Tele. He upgraded his acoustic to a Taylor a few years ago. Our frontman has a Baby Taylor and has been trying a Parkwood H4 recently
I switch between playing hand percussion and bass with three different acoustic guitarists in separate projects.
Terry has two 1967 Martin D-35s that he bought new, a six string and a twelve string. He still gigs regularly with the six string. The twelve string Martin is a bit fragile these days, so he has been using a Washburn twelve string lately.
Bob has a beautiful Taylor 814, but it never leaves the house. He gigs mostly with a cheap Ibanez acoustic.
Paul H. uses a Martin single cutaway acoustic , I'm not sure of the model.
I play drums in a classic rock and soul cover band.
Paul L. my brother, is the lead guitarist. He uses a mix of American Standard, American Deluxe and American Select Stratocasters, American Standard Telecasters, and a MIM Roland Rady Stratocaster.
Randy, the rhythm guitarist uses several different American Standard Stratocasters and Telecasters.
Terry has two 1967 Martin D-35s that he bought new, a six string and a twelve string. He still gigs regularly with the six string. The twelve string Martin is a bit fragile these days, so he has been using a Washburn twelve string lately.
Bob has a beautiful Taylor 814, but it never leaves the house. He gigs mostly with a cheap Ibanez acoustic.
Paul H. uses a Martin single cutaway acoustic , I'm not sure of the model.
I play drums in a classic rock and soul cover band.
Paul L. my brother, is the lead guitarist. He uses a mix of American Standard, American Deluxe and American Select Stratocasters, American Standard Telecasters, and a MIM Roland Rady Stratocaster.
Randy, the rhythm guitarist uses several different American Standard Stratocasters and Telecasters.
Wow. This is some serious thread necromancy here. I still have that Strat. I wish I still had that Hamer. I also have a MIM Tele that I've modded to within an inch of its life and an Epiphone Dot that has Seymour Duncan P-Rails and Triple Shots. I've got a Hamer that's the same model as the previous one that I was talked into selling. This one isn't as good. I've never really bonded with it. So it hasn't been modded out.
The band I play in now is a trio. The guitarist has a couple of Carvins, a Strat, a G&L Commanche, and a Tele-like guitar.
Sounds like gas is worse when it is the six string variety....... Me owning three basses seems insignificant while reading this thread!
Ummmm...It's debatable. I have a Lakland 55-02d, a couple of Fender Jazzes (one fretted, one fretless), a Spector NS2a, an NS Designs WAV4 electric upright bass, and a Chapman Stick. That last one probably counts as much on the guitar side as the bass. For guitar: I have the Strat, Tele, Dot, Hamer, and a pair of Taylor acoustic/electrics: one 12-string, one six. But I'm a GAS omnivore. I've also got an Alesis QS8.1 synth, a piano, a seven piece PDP drumkit with Zildjian A and A-Custom cymbals, a mandolin, and a didgeridoo.
So...worse than bass GAS? I dunno.
But I was considering building another Strat as a project. Maybe I need to build another bass, right afterward. You know. For balance.
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