Let's have out with it: the Stratocaster is seriously over-exposed

singemonkey · 2012-10-08T20:52:07+00:00

So I've been doing a bunch of gigs in the better part of the last 2 years. All have been in the Western Cape, so maybe things are different elsewhere. That incredibly well known guitar, the Les Paul, I've seen played by precisely four other gigging musicians besides me: Our Reinhard and Nick, the player in a band called Barre Code, and one time by a guy called John Paine (a nice old early '80s Standard with EMGs that he needs to change out ?). Telecasters... Kevin Floyd... not sure who else. I've seen pics of Manfred playing his wonderful home-made number in CT. Maybe one other person. Our EZ has started gigging so that's one more Les Paul and one more Tele. I've seen a handful of Ibanez. One 335. And everywhere, as ubiquitous as a bass drum or a microphone stand... the Fender Stratocaster. Every colour. Every pickup combination. Running through every kind of amp. Every kind of effects board. Played by kids and those who get pensioners rates at the movies. Band after band. Everywhere. Stratocasters. Stretching to infinity like they're trapped between mirrors. We talk about a lot of different guitars here. But statistically speaking, there is the Stratocaster... and a few outliers.

chris77

guidothepimmp wrote Funny how I can't stand a strat with a pick guard, yet give me 1 minus the bath tub rout and pick guard and I think they're sexy..

Besides .. If strats were as great as everyone says surely eddie van halen would have played a stock standard strat in his infamous jump video?! 8)

If Eddie van Halen was as great as everyone says surely he would have played a stock standard strat in his infamous jump video ? ?

guidothepimmp

chris77 wrote
guidothepimmp wrote Funny how I can't stand a strat with a pick guard, yet give me 1 minus the bath tub rout and pick guard and I think they're sexy..

Besides .. If strats were as great as everyone says surely eddie van halen would have played a stock standard strat in his infamous jump video?! 8)
If Eddie van Halen was as great as everyone says surely he would have played a stock standard strat in his infamous jump video ? ?

Now you've gone and dunnit

Wait till Ollie reads this ?

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