litfan - 2008-11-03 07:31
hi lit --
'how might it sound'
I had a standard deluxe, way back in 1981. Paid £350 for it. You couldn`t give les pauls away at that time. Now, they have gone through the roof. I bet this sounds mean.
would some great old pros like mark knopfler and eric clapton --hit the BIN button ?
Maybe ira. I`d rather see townshend playing it. He had a 3 pick up deluxe, in the 70`s.
those where the great days of gibson guitars got to love them
nice rich ! i have a les paul custom left handed !
this one looks nice , the les pauls are about as heavy as guitars get in weight.
Always thought the les paul looked great with a Bigsby
I used to have something called a Burns Wild dog (below) which i sold for beer money when i was 23
Not too keen on those bigsbies cris. i have a les paul classic gold top, but, since my illness, i have lost the ability to play.
its pretty cool. i am more into the sound of sgs tho. i recently over the last several months had to sell off all the studio guitars and most of the effects i had in the studio. i will never have a music studio again where i am responsible for supplying guitar players with instruments to record with.
i kept some of the cooler effects that i can use for my own music. nope i dont play guitars but if i did i would prolly want that townsend lp. i recently got to check out the lp robot the self tunning guitar. what a crazy beast that was. very cool but not my thing.
my favorite guitars are usually really crappy ones the guys have spent time customizing.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by agentorange:
Always thought the les paul looked great with a Bigsby
yep niel youngs battered bigsby outfitted guitar is pretty awessome.
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Originally posted by redbenjoe:
would some great old pros like mark knopfler and eric clapton --hit the BIN button ?
i doubt it man. they would most likely want something cleaner sounding. dosent knopfler play a hollow body mostly now. clapton was a strat man if i remember correctly but hey i am a synth guy.
strats are way thinner i think anyways. i mean the sound of a les paul is pretty awesome. i think the fact it is made from such a big chunk of wood and has a set kneck is part of its magic.
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Originally posted by redbenjoe:
hi lit --
'how might it sound'
it would sound like pete townsend.
hahaha i mean you wouldnt even have to play you would just turn the volume knob and who songs would start to play.
not really. that guitar would for sure be hot sounding. i am thinking it would sound pretty fuzzy in a big power chord kinda way
it has some inverted phase thing going on to with the pickups. so yeah it would sound like pete townsends guitar as long as you had a stack of fifty marshall cabs behind you. just make sure to check for the blood tricking out of your ear a hour after playing it.
Good Off-topic, Clapton played a Lp as well as a Strat.
LP is heavy, so i have an SG 1971 same as Augus, and i couldn' make it sound anything like him. So i gave up and have it hotted up with V70 Ibanez pickups (from the 70's proline series.) the original are pack away.
What people forget is that Jack Bruce was the man, without him Cream would have been just an other 60,s UK band.
He's absolutely beautiful voice powered the band on. Clapton gets all the credit, but he was in my opinion a boring middle class English blues player. Look at Hendricks, the flare, colour the charm.
It is of course the amp that make the sound and it depends on what valves your running (if you use a valve amp) 12ax7,s(<also called ECC83) &EL34's Kt66 KT88. Marshall mainly use the EL34, a load of bands sound like Marshall, that's why i buried my25/50 years ago and have my amps made a friend, a retired post man. (you never know what these retired postmen get up to. (probably don't wanta!))
He uses old transformers, these play a big part to.
6V6 valves (opps i forgot Tubes, for over the pond) EL 84 tubes , backed up by 12ax7's.
As i am a valve collector i chop and change the tubes. Mainly stick to old Mullards, but i must confess
i am using 2 new Russian 12ax7 in one of the amps at the mo. I have a 3watt 6watt and a 15 watt plus a couple of others and the 15 is as loud as the Marshall.
My 10 year old son just got his first electric guitar. He's been learnig on an acoustic for a few years now, so hopefully it's no flash in the pan. The little 10W practice-amp that came with it has "over-drive" & sounds great. Power chords all the way
...it's our retirement plan: he becomes a rock star & we bum money off him.
Got to be a better bet than anything else right now...
O the dream "& we bum money off him." or her or them...............alas............we woke up,
grab our paint brushes and drag ourselves off to paint the Daughters flat.
My first book will be "The Daughters Flat"
How to survive it.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by billpc55:
i am with you on hendrix man i mean hendrix was just a amazing human being.
my favorite guitar player hands down or hands behind the head. yeah guitar amps really do have a huge ammount of tonal variations. depending on what tubes and electronics go into them.
i heard a funny tale about david gilmour well a couple of them.
one he once borrowed his nieghbours guitar and took the better part of five years to return it.
the other classic is how he toured the fender plant and they showed him all kinds of really amazing guitars. letting him take his time to play all kinds of stuff. he set up this huge day long visit where he was treated like royalty.
anyways when he left he took i think a dozen guitars.
ehem
all of them were cheap really cheap squires.
i think that is one of the best tales of guitar lore.
Lindsey buckingham is my main man.No plectrum, just his nails. Amazing.
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Originally posted by Penge:
O the dream "& we bum money off him." or her or them...............alas............we woke up,
grab our paint brushes and drag ourselves off to paint the Daughters flat.
My first book will be "The Daughters Flat"
How to survive it.
well that's cheered me up no end...
