GuildedCage
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I must admit that I like Strats and tele's. The sparkling cleans of a strat and the ergonomics are great. A tele is so simple and versatile, and the neck pickup is a sound I can't get sick of. When I started playing all my friends had strats and I was loyal to my S-70! Gibsons don't appeal to me though. They are iconic and LP's are beautiful, thick and powerful sounding, but I never felt the need to get one, certainly not after getting my first S-300.People were really blown away by the Beano album, that guitar through the Bluesbreaker Combo, the sheer ferocity of it.
It would be interesting to redo it with an S-100 through same amp, but the Les Paul hits very hard. A Strat can do alll kinds of warbly things and eventually virtually everyone went to them, but a Les Paul can put so much power in your notes, there's hardly another guitar like it, in its day.
I think Santana played the typical Townshend SG of the time at Woodstock, an SG Special with P90's, again an archetypal tone, Leslie West, others. Then he went to the Les Paul, then Yamaha SG2000 (Eat that Gibson ;]), then prototype PRS that he didn't believe PRS could possibly build, it had to be God ;]
Jimi revived flagging Stratocaster sales like no other. As far as his guitar guitars go, the least hyped, and the one I like the most, the Acoustic Black Widow.
That meme is a prefect representation of the guitar world. There's two guitars. Les Pauls, and Strats.
I wouldn't want either one of those guitars.
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