Fender or Gibson?

[red devil]

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'Turned out nice again - Fenders are for benders...'

[Brendan]

Listen you lot, we all know that Sunday afternoon Texas Two Steps can only truly rock the church hall if played on Ibanezezezes with flames, lightening bolts, skulls and naked lady inlays on the neck. You may want some pickups in there too I suppose.

Oh and the Floyd Rose.

And the solid state amp and the digital multi-effects pedal.

And leather trousers. (these are especially important)

[Jeremy]

mlteenie Wrote:

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> Don't think Fenders are right with 'buckers.

Exactly... which is why you shouldn't use them for rock. You need humbuckers for the dirt.

[Brendan]

Balls. Telecasters with a humbuckers as the bridge pick-up work very well for heavy stuff.

In fact Scott Ian recorded all of Sound of White Noise on one.

And stop drawing me into this conversation dam you. Guitars are way too much fun to be taken seriously.

[Annasfield]

Keef Wrote:

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> Annasfield Wrote:

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> I can do, but I am self taught, so probably don't

> do everything by the book, and may teach you bad

> habits.

Thats okay, I have plenty of my own anyway. Used to play piano - had lessons for 5 years and never learnt how to read music. Imagine I'd be the same with most muscial instruments.

[mlteenie]

Tsk, tsk.... don't know where to start.....

what was OK for Jimi and Jeff is OK for me. Nuff said. Getting bored now. May slip into my leathers, tho'. Should liven me up.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Rory, Ritchie, Eric, Jeff, Dave, Andy, Jimmy, Jimi, Alvin, Duane.

10 of the best....

[MrBen]

Design wise : the Stratocaster - a real design classic of the last century up there with the Spitfire, beautiful curves, and variety of sound in the 5 way single coils.

Sound wise: There can't be one winner - it's horses for courses isn't it? The Les Paul rule's for warm fuzzy rock and the Strat for funk, soul and as it was used by my all time west side Chicago heroes: Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Magic Sam it wins for me. I do love Slash too - a real original and brilliant player, he'll never change his Les Paul.

I have two Strat's (a US vintage reissue Fender and a Tokai) but if I can afford it one day I'd love to invest in an old Gibson 335....

[Ted Max]

Les Paul dead. 94.

[Jah Lush]

He was still playing right up until he died. A brilliant guitar player and inventor. RIP.

[Keef]

*Takes off Slash style top hat, and bows head*

[Andystar]

RIP Les Paul!!!

a true innnovater ( he also invented multi tracking too )

[HAL9000]

Just heard - very sad news.

In the 70s I worked with the multi-track / multi-head tape recorders he invented - the man was a genius.

Lester William Polsfuss: aka Les Paul

[Visceral]

Respect to LP!

Didn't Hendrix prove that Fenders played upside down sounded better than Gibsons no matter which way up you have them!

Play a Fender the right way up and you have none of the disadvantges of the upside down Fender plus all the versatility of the right way up Fender...excellent, the switch works logically and for us right handers it's a real advantage.

Play a Gibson upside down then the anti gravity device no longer works and it becomes heavier than the sack of Sh** it is!

Flying V - Gibsons' way of solving the upsidedowness problem.. Ha!

Leo's been waiting for LP, let them sort it out!

[Keef]

becomes heavier than the sack of Sh** it is!

Er, okay.

[Kingy]

my car has a fender but no gibson - my electrics are fender my acoustics are gibson - learn to play a tele and end up on the telly learn to play a les paul and end up with a bad back - SG - you're having a giraffe

[Keef]

I like the feel of SGs. Les Pauls are very heavy!

[Jah Lush]

Les Pauls are certainly heavy but the heaviest guitar I ever played was a double cut away Dan Armstrong with a sliding pick-up. I think the body was made of solid oak or mahogany about two inches thick. A great sound but it weighed a ton. It was once owned by Mick Ronson and David Bowie used it for the guitar riff on Rebel Rebel.

[Keef]

There is a documentory on Les Paul on BBC4 tonight, at 10 if anyone is interested.

[Jah Lush]

Thanks for the heads up Keef. I shall be watching.