aubs1
I would agree with all the guys who say that the Strat is an incredibly versatile guitar......however, all three the above have a distinct "character". I have and love 'em all, but if I had to chose, seriously, just one, it would have to be a Strat, (is'nt that what this is about).....for reasons already mentioned before.
singemonkey wrote
............ A Strat can be humble or flashy. A Tele pretty much always looks humble, and it's up to the player to make it look cool.
Well put, Singe........
giggsy
My 2c... never liked the strat shape. Maybe its cos most of the cheap and nasties tend to be strat copies. Was also thinking the other day that not many of 'my' bands play strats - from what I can recall, Rivers Cuomo from Weezer sometimes plays one and Graham Coxon from Blur uses a strat occasionally. But the only band I really like where they use a strat almost exclusively is Biffy Clyro.
vic
MIKA the better one wrote
So what have you??? Some people are Stratocaster people, some are Telecaster people, and some are Les Paul poeple........
Why so? Who influenced those decisions? or what influenced them?
I am a without a doubt a stratocaster guy, it just seems to feel right, ile play a tele or other guitars and then think they are great, but then i levitate back to a strat, and just realise it is the best for me..... I think tis the neck....
Also jimi hendrix, makes a strat sound amazing on the montery DVD and from then on i wanted that sort of sound.....
Well...when you're in the States there will be plenty to choose from at relatively cheap prices ?
MIKA-the-better-one
My fiance made a very nasty deal with me saying for every amplifier or guitar or pedal i by she can by the equivalent in shoes :-\
So i may have to limit myself, or keep a warehouse in which my real guitar collection remains unknwn to her.....
Really though I would like one good strat (which i have), one good jazzmaster (which i am getting), and a les paul (i have no bracket comment for this)
And amplifiers, 3 will do.....
telecasters, as cool as they look ( and i think they look coool) they never do it sound wise for me I dont know why............
singemonkey
MIKA the better one wrote
My fiance made a very nasty deal with me saying for every amplifier or guitar or pedal i by she can by the equivalent in shoes :-\
Haha! Good for her.
dee
None of the above. I'm secretly a closet Axis/Wolfgang fan...
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A Strat. And, as backup, a Strat. At a push, if I could find nothing else, maybe a Strat.
singemonkey
Stratisfear wrote
A Strat. And, as backup, a Strat. At a push, if I could find nothing else, maybe a Strat.
I'm sure if someone really twisted your arm, or it was an endorsement deal, that you could be convinced to play
... a Strat.
Reinhard
LP's for me. If Clapton can't even make a strat sound good, who am I to try ?
I have his Hyde Park DVD, and when he straps on his 335 he sounds incredible. My favourite tones of his were the 335, SG, LP days into a Marshall.
Wizard
dee wrote
None of the above. I'm secretly a closet Axis/Wolfgang fan...
Those necks are nice ...
nicovlogg
I would recommend having, or at least trying, all 3. Never thought a telecaster would be for me, started off on an LP - but in the band situation that I currently find myself, the cutting power of the bridge and the sweetness of the middle setting are golden. Biggest problem is the irresistible urge to play country licks when you find yourself with a tele. ?
Gearhead
? Strat AND Tele AND LP. Period.
nicovlogg
Gearhead wrote
? Strat AND Tele AND LP. Period.
AND Gretsch AND SuperStrat AND Danelectro AND PRS AND :?
raithza
http://www.guitarnoize.com/blog/comments/fender-announce-new-blacktop-series
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?series=Blacktop%84%A2§ion=guitars&page=comparison
Somehow I can't imagine Gibson making a S-S-S LP.... Best of both worlds? Fender caving in to superior design? Or have these been around for ages and I'm just daft?
Some of them even have a tuneomatic (wait, *adjust*omatic) bridge...
makepeace
i always used to hate strats, maybe for superficial reasons (possibly based on how prolific they are in music). but that all changed after i REALLY listened to hendrix. now i think they're great!
i've always liked tele's, especially the semihollow thinlines, amazing. i have yet to play one, as with a les paul. at the moment i really detest LPs, though that might change.. sometime. some forgotten choices in this thread seem to be 335s and jazzmasters? really love those..
Skywalker
None of the above. I'm secretly a closet Axis/Wolfgang fan
Yeah!! Those Wolfgangs are schaweet. EVH's old Musicman/Axis was ausum aswell ?
I ended up picking up a kief little maple fretboard Squier standard strat the other day. Was a steal with an SKB case AND a Boss CH1 chorus pedal. I will be modding this baby very soon. 8)
Aldertguitarist
My nashville tele gives me the best of both worlds - versatility of a strat (strat pickup between tele pups) and the bite of the tele.
Fender all the way!
Never been a LP man. Don't like the feel of it, and they weigh a ton!! ?
Bob-Dubery
What's a tele? What's a strat? What's a Les Paul? You get at least three different types of PUPs on Les Pauls, and, over the years, at least two different styles of bridge. Different woods, different components.... It gets worse with Fenders. People will play an instrument with a humbucker in the back and call it a "Strat", which is clear heresy in my books, but it happens often enough to blur the definitions.
What look like fixed, definite definitions turn out to have pretty blurred borders.
My knee jerk reaction is to claim that the sounds that have attracted me mostly turn out to come from single-coil pickup instruments, but there's too many exceptions to that rule. Clapton for one.... to me he doesn't sound half as interesting with a fender as he did with a Gibson with humbuckers. And I'm not just talking the last 10 years or so - he started concentrating on Fenders in the 70's. It may be to do with changes within him, but to me the stuff he did early on in his career with Cream and John Mayall (IE on Gibsons) sounds in every way more interesting than anything else he's done. Beck is another.... he's did a lot with Les Pauls and, for a while at least, with a bastard instrument, a telecaster fitted with PAFs (and, presumably, a non-standard or modified bridge). Peter Green used Gibsons a lot in his glory days. Mick Ronson kicked up a splendid sounding racket on the early Bowie albums and used a Les Paul to do so.
I recently bought a Strat copy. Partly because I like Strats because I think they are one of the most aesthetically pleasing things ever created by man (though the 1978 Lotus F1 car runs the Strat very close), but mostly because I got it at a good price. I'd been thinking about an electric as a less noisy practice instrument, and I must confess that my thoughts had been heading in the direction of a Tokai 335 clone (though that would probably have been too noisy) or one of those Les Paul clones with the P90s. (there's another thing - is a Les Paul with P90s a "Les Paul"? Because it's certainly a different beast than a Les Paul with PAFs).
Jimmy Page used a Tele a lot in the studio, and a Danelectro. On the road he used Les Pauls, but they had trick wiring so weren't standard. Peter Green got a great tone out of a Les Paul but we now know that that was wired in a weird, non-standard way. I love Stephen Stills's playing, but a lot of the time I couldn't tell you what he's playing (I've seen pictures of him with just about everything EXCEPT a Les Paul, most often with some kind of Gretsch). I'm currently enjoying (and then some) Buddy Miller's playing on the new Robert Plant album, and AFAIK he's not playing Tele, Strat or Les Paul (or even a Fender or a Gibson). I love Gilmour's "Strat" tone but doesn't he have active pickups and pre-amps and all sorts of stuff?
There's too many exceptions to these rules. My fuses pop. Shut up and listen to the music.
Squonk
Some good points Bob.
Speaking of Gilmour, a good DVD to study is 'Remember that Night'.
Gilmour plays Strat, Gibson LP and a Gretsch (Duo Jet possibly??) and the tonal variations are minimal.
IMO Gilmour gets the best tone on the Gretsch, real warm tones and with his bending, complete goosebump city! I think Gilmours fingers have a lot of tone in them.
He also does some good Lap Steel and slide playing, and not a bad Saxophone Solo to boot.
link to some of the Guitars Gilmour plays, quite interesting also touches on the pickups he uses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilmour
shaundtsl
My experience is this, I have been playing an epiphone LP standard now for about 6 years as my main guitar. Recently I bought a strat (Squier affinity) which I refinished and put in a dimarzio super distortion humbucker in. For a few weeks after I refinished it, I only played that one. Then, last week I decided to pay some more attention to the LP again, chucked some new strings on and started jamming... I found myself going back to the strat again after about an hour as I just didnt feel comfortable playing the LP anymore and I didnt like the sound compared to the strat.
Both the guitars are pretty budget range although the LP is worth quite a bit more than the strat, but the strat wins handsdown as far as I am concerned.
If it wasnt for the sentimental value I have with the LP I would actually sell it to try and fund a MIM strat.
Thats my experience and 2c worth.... I think I am a strat guy.
