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OPINIONS wanted. I recently got into experimenting with Blues and figure there must be better axes for this than my two superstrats. Teles? Strats? Semi-hollows? Thanks in advance.
Diocletian
BrandNewGlossologist
Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa seem to do okay with a Les Paul.
Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa seem to do okay with a Les Paul.
ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
When I think blues I think Stratocaster and ES-335
When I think blues I think Stratocaster and ES-335
phil_104
Cheesesteakologist
Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
Man, you can play the blues on any guitar, caus if you feel blue, you will sound like it. I have seen people play the blues on an SG, strats, tele, semi hollow.
I have to admit though, I kinda feel wrong playing it on my PRS, but it sounds good.
Man, you can play the blues on any guitar, caus if you feel blue, you will sound like it. I have seen people play the blues on an SG, strats, tele, semi hollow.
I have to admit though, I kinda feel wrong playing it on my PRS, but it sounds good.
Diocletian
BrandNewGlossologist
Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
Yeah actually, I don't know why people think superstrats are only for 80's hair metal.
Good pickups and they can do anything. And since many of them have versatile pickup configs like HSH they can do much more than a Les Paul/SG type.
Yeah actually, I don't know why people think superstrats are only for 80's hair metal.
Good pickups and they can do anything. And since many of them have versatile pickup configs like HSH they can do much more than a Les Paul/SG type.
Nagarajah725
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
get a Gretsch
get a Gretsch
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Stevo 42
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
Just for the record, I do not play 80s hair metal on my superstrats or on anything else. I have always liked the looks and feel of teles but have never owned one. Perhaps now might be the time. The guy that has inspired me the most to play the blues is Taj Mahal. I know he played a lot of acoustic. Anybody know what electrics he played when he played electric?
And thanks again for the responses.
Just for the record, I do not play 80s hair metal on my superstrats or on anything else. I have always liked the looks and feel of teles but have never owned one. Perhaps now might be the time. The guy that has inspired me the most to play the blues is Taj Mahal. I know he played a lot of acoustic. Anybody know what electrics he played when he played electric?
And thanks again for the responses.
C-Martin
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
+1 first thing that comes to mind when i think of blues is the strat or pretty much any fender.. then the ES is a classic too
like many said, you can play the blues on any guitar and a super strat with HSS config should work great for that
+1 first thing that comes to mind when i think of blues is the strat or pretty much any fender.. then the ES is a classic too
like many said, you can play the blues on any guitar and a super strat with HSS config should work great for that
drew_half_empty
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Diocletian
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Aceman
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
There is no such thing as a blues guitar.
But there are certain guitars associated closely with the sound!
IMO:
#1 Strat
#2 335
#3 Tele
#4 everything else
If I were buting ONE guitar to play EVERYTHING the rest of my life, including blues, it would be either a Les Paul Custom, or a Jackson Soloist.
There is no such thing as a blues guitar.
But there are certain guitars associated closely with the sound!
IMO:
#1 Strat
#2 335
#3 Tele
#4 everything else
If I were buting ONE guitar to play EVERYTHING the rest of my life, including blues, it would be either a Les Paul Custom, or a Jackson Soloist.
Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
On the early stuff, Jesse Ed Davis played a Tele with Taj, and Ry Cooder played his old Strat. I've seen Taj with an ES150, among other things.
It kinda depends on what sort of blues you want to play; there's a big difference between doing 40's-50's Chicago stuff with a harp (archtops, P90's) and Albert King or the West Side players (Buddy, Otis, Luther, Sam, etc; Strats, 335's, assorted Gibsons). The California players in the 50's is where you seem to see the most Fenders (Pee Wee Crayton got one of the first custom color Strats). BTW, BB played a Gretsch Country Club for awhile...
On the early stuff, Jesse Ed Davis played a Tele with Taj, and Ry Cooder played his old Strat. I've seen Taj with an ES150, among other things.
It kinda depends on what sort of blues you want to play; there's a big difference between doing 40's-50's Chicago stuff with a harp (archtops, P90's) and Albert King or the West Side players (Buddy, Otis, Luther, Sam, etc; Strats, 335's, assorted Gibsons). The California players in the 50's is where you seem to see the most Fenders (Pee Wee Crayton got one of the first custom color Strats). BTW, BB played a Gretsch Country Club for awhile...
Christopher Caruana
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
les paul
ES-335
strat
tele
les paul
ES-335
strat
tele
PFDarkside
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
Blues is like Punk, you can play it on anything.
Albert King, one of the greatest blues guitarists anywhere (without him, there's no Eric Clapton, SRV, etc.) played on an upsidedown strung Flying V in some whacked out tuning that nobody really knows what it is. BB King has had a ton of "Lucielles", and they weren't all ES-3**'s either. I'm pretty sure one was a Strat.
The biggest key is a guitar that you are ultimately comfortable and familiar with so that it becomes absolutely transparent between your mind, your fingers and your music.
Blues is like Punk, you can play it on anything.
Albert King, one of the greatest blues guitarists anywhere (without him, there's no Eric Clapton, SRV, etc.) played on an upsidedown strung Flying V in some whacked out tuning that nobody really knows what it is. BB King has had a ton of "Lucielles", and they weren't all ES-3**'s either. I'm pretty sure one was a Strat.
The biggest key is a guitar that you are ultimately comfortable and familiar with so that it becomes absolutely transparent between your mind, your fingers and your music.
Gunny47
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Re: Best Guitar to Play the Blues?
IMO the quintessential sound of the blues is semi-hollow Gibsons through Fender amps. However, there are a million times and places (probably even more often than not) that I grab the strat for blues and do the Stevie Ray thang with my AC Booster. Depends on what you are looking for, totally different tones.
IMO the quintessential sound of the blues is semi-hollow Gibsons through Fender amps. However, there are a million times and places (probably even more often than not) that I grab the strat for blues and do the Stevie Ray thang with my AC Booster. Depends on what you are looking for, totally different tones.
