Poll For DU Guitar Players

My first Poll...

What is your favorite Electric Guitar Brand?

You can ad the model too!

I simply worship the sound of an SG or a Les Paul plugged through a Marshall amp. There is no greater sound in the entire spectrum of sound.

That being said, I play a Fender Telecaster and a Guild custom built model with EMG pickups. The latter is my guitar from my metal days but it has such a warm sound and tone that it still serves a lot of my purposes.

I have a 1979 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty.

Owned dozens, always come back to my first and best guitar...

I would so kill for an SG. I don't even really play guitar (I'm a bassist) but if I could have any electric 6 string, it would definitely be an SG. I'm not that crazy about the SG bases though.

of my 1902 Washburn parlor guitar.
I vote for the Les Paul Jr.

I love and own several, each for different reasons...the tele for the twangy sound...the strat for the string noise and deeper tones...the Les Paul for the short scale...I would love to own a PRS because the strings are set just a bit more apart for chord melodies....got a Guild X170..love that for the Bigsby pull.

I almost never come across anyone who owns or plays a Guild. My father knew the owner of Guild at one point and that's how i got my first acoustic guitar and my electric guitar.

but had some financial problems and sold it after he died..took a few lessons from him too..he lived not far from me and used to frequent the same guitar store...what a guy!

I'd love to own another 7 string..since I do chord melodies, they are great for moving bass lines....a guy here in Fullerton owns a really cool Jose Uribe 10 string classical...the more strings the better.

BTW, the x-170 is a pretty guitar..mine is blonde with gold trim.

:loveya:

A woman who knows what a Bigsby is?

:loveya::loveya::loveya:

But it's a solid maple oldie..breaks my back to gig with it.

I really like the P-90's. Great blues sound.

I had a 1956 LP TV Yellow Special with the Black P-90's. Sounded great thru my Marshall 1/2 stack. Sold it a few years ago to a local collector. I gigged with it a few times, but then got scared when people started admiring it way too intensely. Even had Les Paul himself autograph it!

Bought it back in about 1980 from a junkie in Chicago for $100.00

The above posts are yet more proof that P-90's RULE THE UNIVERSE!

Repent or be smoked!

:bounce:
dbt

I love it: fat tone, smooth neck, stays in tune...can't go wrong with a Strat.

n/t

I love and use the hell outta my Strat, but if I could only save one, I'd grab my Les Paul.
I voted Gibson.

I used to favor SG's, for the longest time.

Now I just can't seem to put down my Tele. It's just so expressive. And the bends sound better on a guitar with a little longer scale.

I'd really like to get a souped up Tele, two humbuckers, separate tone and volume for each pick-up. That would be sweet.

:-)

A buddy of mine bought a Mexican-made reissue of that model. Twin humbuckers, twin controls - the whole works.

If you are willing to buy a Mexican-made one, they can be had for a good price. My friend's SG was stolen, and he bought the Fender with the insurance check and pocketed the rest.

...kinda made you wanna smoke a cig when you played it!

Good enough for George and Roger. Good enough for me. Not that I could actually afford one, though.

great tone & necks but they were impossible to keep in tune for any length of time. The new ones are much better. Danelectro is making a great electric 12 for a bout 1/3 the price of a rick. that's what I'm playing mostly these days.

Getting rid of my early 1980's USA Fender Bullet H2. Twin humbuckers with coil taps. That thing made incredible sounds, and was very versatile. It was sold in the great hobby purge of 1998 though. I haven't gone back to music since.

:evilfrown:

I sold my 1956 Les Paul Special on ebay.

Needed the cash. Got lots. Still miss it.

love the twang

nothing chimes like a Ric

Rick 330 JetGlo

Rick 360/12 Turq

I play on my Dean electric.... Yamaha acoustic... both are very fine instruments indeed.

Ovation acoustic/electric.

Big wet guitar dream....
Ovation 12 string acoustic/electric

I know I know, but...I was always a tele kind of guy. I had a strat and could never keep that vol control up. I kept hitting it and turning my guitar down during gigs and it pissed me off. Must have been my style of playing.
Currently I have about 12 guitars or so, and I just got an Epiphone SheritonII, and I am in love. It sounds great, plays great and it was well worth the money. I also bought the Ephiphone EJ200E jumbo acoustic/electric..and love it also. Although I prefer my Epiphone EJ200, but it isn't electric.
I also have an ESP Tele from the early 80's which has gotten me thru many many gigs. It was before ESP went big, and they made a line of Fender teles, strats and precision basses. I installed a hotrail pickup on it, and it became my pal. The serial number is 0000086.
But I am an Epiphone junkie now.

:kick:

Ain't nothing like it in the world.

Epiphone Di Sorrento...
Yum, my favorite electric.
I use a '70s Epi amp with it, sounds great.
My favorite acoustic is my
72 jumbo blonde, also an Epiphone with
a Baggs pickup installed. Play it through a Centaur
acoustic amp, best acoustic amp ever made.

Dojn't know about the rest of you,
but my music is the only thing keeping
me sane these days.
"If music be the food of love, Play ON!"
(Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: William Shakespeare)

PLAY ON!
BHN

Epiphone Di Sorrento...
Yum, my favorite electric.
I use a '70s Epi amp with it, sounds great.
My favorite acoustic is my
72 jumbo blonde, also an Epiphone with
a Baggs pickup installed. Play it through a Centaur
acoustic amp, best acoustic amp ever made.

Dojn't know about the rest of you,
but my music is the only thing keeping
me sane these days.
"If music be the food of love, Play ON!"
(Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: William Shakespeare)

PLAY ON!
BHN

Epiphone Di Sorrento...
Yum, my favorite electric.
I use a '70s Epi amp with it, sounds great.
My favorite acoustic is my
72 jumbo blonde, also an Epiphone with
a Baggs pickup installed. Play it through a Centaur
acoustic amp, best acoustic amp ever made.

Dojn't know about the rest of you,
but my music is the only thing keeping
me sane these days.
"If music be the food of love, Play ON!"
(Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: William Shakespeare)

PLAY ON!
BHN

Epiphone Di Sorrento...
Yum, my favorite electric.
I use a '70s Epi amp with it, sounds great.
My favorite acoustic is my
72 jumbo blonde, also an Epiphone with
a Baggs pickup installed. Play it through a Centaur
acoustic amp, best acoustic amp ever made.

Dojn't know about the rest of you,
but my music is the only thing keeping
me sane these days.
"If music be the food of love, Play ON!"
(Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: William Shakespeare)

PLAY ON!
BHN

Must be an echo in here-
turn down the reverb...
"This one goes to ELEVEN!"

:)

now i'm down to my strat and an acoustic, with a cheap bass for emergencies.

i've modified it to pretty much capture any sound that isn't mass-dependent. i just got to the point where i never played anything but my strat so i got rid of everything else. wish i had kept the USA made custom ibanez flametop though, that was a sweet shred machine..



wish it was in color so you could see the refinish i did on it.. it's only a 92 but everyone always asks me how old it is..

There simply is no better bang-for-the-buck value.

I'm thinking of getting a SX-50 or possibly an SX-100.

(Ever notice how guitar players always say "getting" instead of "buying", like there's bartering usually involved.)

They are the heavyweight title holder in giving the people what they want in the 'most for the money' category.

God bless 'em, the little rascals.

Night Fly! If I can ever find a GREAT deal on one I'll grab it in a heartbeat!

Brian Setzer, is that you?

I have never owned one, but I covet them, a nice late 50's fat rockabilly guitar!

an 85 (I think) Gibson Invader
and a 89 Ibanez RG750

Which is my favorite? They all have certain qualities so its hard to say.
The Ibanez is fast, The Les Paul has a great fat sound and is comfortable to play and it is by far the coolest looking, the Invader has a nice round tone and is much lighter than the Les Paul.

I think I'll say they are all my favorite.

93' Les Paul Standard

98' Fender Lone Star Stratocaster

and my personal favorite, a 62' reissue Stratocaster that I got just last year

I also have a Fender American Jazz Bass for my "other" band. The Gibson's are nice, but nothing beats a good strat.

I have been drumming for 9 years and got that down flat. My girlfriend plays guitar and will not play with me... so she gave me her guitar so I could learn and eventually buy the shit to layer songs. (this was a year ago, so I've been playing that long).

Before that though I played in several bands and BY FAR the best guitar I've ever seen was a white Les Paul epicaster my friend Dan had. The action was so fine you could play the note if your blew on the fret. That was a damn nice guitar. Come to think of it, I've never seen anything bad that had Les Paul written on it... I know the are pricey though (but drums cost a shitload, so I don't consider that really 'pricey').

Played a green 330, I think it was, through a Vox AD60VT a while back at a music store and went immediately to Strawberry Fields. Had to be forcibly removed from the premises!

:loveya:
dbt