I love fighting with my fender....

[guitar dog]

Hi all,

I really feel stupid saying this , but here it goes: "I love fighting with my fender strat." There that wasn't so bad.... Where is this coming from you ask? Well, today I decided to pull out the les paul from the closet. I polished it up and restrung it with EB 10's and it just played and sounded wonderful. It was so smooth and sustaining. Great right? Yeah...nothing like a les paul....Except...I don't quite know how to say it...I missed the fight that is in my fender strats. The strat is not as easy to play for me, so I find myself really digging in more. As a result, I find myself much more in tune with what I'm playing on it and I feel that I put more passion into my playing because of it. Does this make sense? Am I crazy? Is there a psych doc in the house? Or, does anyone else find this to be true as well?

Cheers!

[kmcguitars]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

Your not crazy You just have Fender Fingers !!! Les Paul's
play like butter. Where a Strat puts up a bit of a fight. When
I play a Gibby I have to make ajustments, Or I tend to over play.
It Changes my phrasing for better or worst?? My playing style
Seems to gravitate toward Fender's. People who know me say
I sound better playing a Squire Strat than I do playing a LP Custom??
GO FIGURE ? ha ha

[Blue Calx]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

That's why I love fender guitars! They're like a rugged pair of jeans!

[guitar dog]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

Thanks guys....whew...at least I'm not the only one. lol...

[Budweiser]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

"The Strat is like a workhorse, you don't have to baby it," Lofgren
says. "You can be gentle and subtle and when you're leaning into
it a bit too hard, it doesn't cave early on you. It pushes back a bit. No
other guitar I've played allows that."

..that's an excerpt from this article: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/...sters.50th.ap/

[guitar dog]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

No truer words have spoken.

[jmv]

Re: I love fighting with my fender....

I agree with the having to fight it thing.... however, i find that i love my les paul more than any strat i've played... but strats are super too, i just seem to change my playing style... i get more SRVish, really digging in to everything, putting power behind everything. I don't really think about it, it just happens.