Grateful_Ed
Student Of The Blues
Thanks Lloyd, I ordered the 2 cassette set!
Did you order the ones with the accordion quartet backing group?Thanks Lloyd, I ordered the 2 cassette set!
You read correctly, but for me it is not the tone (at least not alone) I am chasing. It is more about feeling. My SG simply doesn´t feel "right". The Les Paul I had the chance to play felt a lot better. Being a beginner I will not invest in an expensive guitar, but the LP I checked yesterday is in a reasonable price range. Fortunately I don´t have to think twice about every penny I spend as long as I don´t exaggerate. On the other hand, time is very limited. Not only the years I still got, but also the minutes I can free up every day for hobbies. So I´d like to spend this little time to have as much fun as possible, and playing a nice, well balanced and good sounding guitar or riding a better-than-average bike is more fun than fighting with shortcomings I can avoid.Did I read correctly, you started playing this year? If that is the case I would not sell or trade a guitar just yet chasing tone. I would take the guitar money you have and take lessons from a good teacher along with being here.
Then again, if I read wrong and you are not a new player, please ignore me. Of course you are free to do so as a new player also
You read correctly, but for me it is not the tone (at least not alone) I am chasing. It is more about feeling. My SG simply doesn´t feel "right". The Les Paul I had the chance to play felt a lot better. Being a beginner I will not invest in an expensive guitar, but the LP I checked yesterday is in a reasonable price range. Fortunately I don´t have to think twice about every penny I spend as long as I don´t exaggerate. On the other hand, time is very limited. Not only the years I still got, but also the minutes I can free up every day for hobbies. So I´d like to spend this little time to have as much fun as possible, and playing a nice, well balanced and good sounding guitar or riding a better-than-average bike is more fun than fighting with shortcomings I can avoid.
As for lessons - limited time kind of makes taking regular lessons impossible. I can do the online stuff whenever the opportunity comes up, and half an hour each day is easy to sort out (on most days at least). Every now and then I meet a guy who is checking my progress and points out problems or weaknesses I have to work on.
Les Pauls are great for playing the blues. Get one. A strat with a humbucker will not sound like a shorter scale Les Paul. Sell off the SG if you need to, (to keep the peace) or keep it if you can.
That´s exactly the one except the colour - the one I had a look at is vintage cherry sunburst. It´s now at a guitar shop to get the faulty switch fixed (seems like a shot of deoxid couldn´t do the job). Have to wait about three weeks and suppress my GAS....https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ENLPHBNH. I have considering an Epi LP Standard Plustop Pro. I tried one out at local music store and it felt and sounded pretty good.
If I were a much better player AND had a lot of money for free use, I´d go for a Gibson, but even the cheapest Gibson I could get here cost three times as much as the Epi, and we are talking about Studio Tribute series and not Classics or Standards......if you want the LP sound, nothing will beat the Gibson...that being said, the Epi's come very close......I believe I've played the model you are looking at and it was very, very sweet......
to be honest, I never had a closer look at teles, I don´t know why but I´ve always been more attracted by humbucker equipped guitars. Might have to test one ...BUT if I had to choose just ONE guitar to cover everything, it would be my POS tele...but that's another story...
I'm with you, I'm pretty sure I've only gotten rid of one guitar since I started this stuff back in 1994 and that was an Ibanez S540FMT with a Floyd Rose bridge that I never played and knew I was never going to play. But it did look great.I am in the keep 'em all camp. I don't own a SG but I have several "Les Paul" types.
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And I don't know why either. I probably have just about as bad of case of GAS as anybody on the planet. I spend why too much type shopping when I should be practicing. I am right now deciding between a couple different PRS guitars and, of course, using all the canned rationalization cliches. "This one is going to give me a lot of versatility.", etc.to be honest, I never had a closer look at teles, I don´t know why but I´ve always been more attracted by humbucker equipped guitars. Might have to test one ...
And yet.......I can't develop any GAS for a Tele. Would someone please tell me why this is?