flatfourfan wrote:
Chad Adam Browne wrote:
I personally don't see RGs as metal guitars but whatever...
more info?...........interested in peoples opinions.
Well RGs are generally really versatile and easy to play, and though the look more serious and precise than a strat they don't have quite as angular and pointy a look as something like a Jackson or ESP. To me they're more like the go to guitar for the musical chameleon, someone who wants to push the boundaries of their playing regardless of genre, lots of metal players have picked up on them sure but that's just cause they're really well made serious playing instruments and to be honest on average most metal requires a level of precision in playing that sure an RG does lend itself to but I wouldn't call it exclusively metal as seems to be implied.
Take for instance the RG2228, I own one and play everything from Jazz to Metal on it and tons of stuff I don't even know how to label, it's just a great guitar with tons of range. So sure you could make like Meshuggah and do this on one:
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Or you could use it to create music that is totally on the other side of the music spectrum like this:
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I don't think that the big 8 string guitar sounds or looks out of place in either of these applications ?
I think that metal players are quick to adopt something new as they tend to be a lot more open minded than the players that other genres tend to breed and because RGs are just good guitars they quickly found a home among them, but when I look at an RG I just don't see it as some BrOOtalZ guitar, I see it more like a samurai sword, an efficient instrument with perfect balance, beautifully crafted to give it's user the finest edge with a sense of otherworldly beauty that comes from knowing what it can do in the right hands and respecting that potential for musical lethality within it.
