Better for the Blues?

[Jeffrec]

Re: Better for the Blues?

playing blues has nothing to do with that guitar you got. you gotta feel it and pour it out. fenders can sound great, so can gibsons, so can beat up old harmonys.

My feelings exactly, Jeremy. A good blues player can sound great on just about anything.

 

[Jeffrec]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I voted Les Paul because regardless of musical genre I just prefer playing a Les Paul to playing a Strat.

We've been over the pros and cons of these iconic guitars once or twice before and I fully appreciate the arguments in favour of the Strat...

It's not that I don't like Strats. It's just that I love my Les Pauls :flowers1:

I'm with you 100% :14:

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Strat or Les Paul? Hell, you don't even need four strings . . .

 

[Moonsorrow]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Is a Ford or a Honda better for getting from one place to another?

Yes they will both get you there but how well you get there is another thing! You can have a nice ride or a crappy one!!

 

[Varg]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I voted Les Paul because regardless of musical genre I just prefer playing a Les Paul to playing a Strat.

It's not that I don't like Strats. It's just that I love my Les Pauls :flowers1:

+1 and +1 again! :friday:

 

[blueman335]

Re: Better for the Blues?

My feelings exactly, Jeremy. A good blues player can sound great on just about anything.

Absolutely! A great player can do amazing things on an entry-level guitar, and a crappy player with a $5,000 guitar still sounds like crap. But...most of the blues guitarists you hear live or on CD, local or national, aren't particularly great players. Therein lies the problem. Some are tremendous, some are okay, some mediocre, and others...well

For some of them, it's a question of how they can do the least amount of damage to a song with their instrument.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Better for the Blues?

most of the blues guitarists you hear live or on CD, local or national, aren't particularly great players.

oh... brother, i know all about it. i play one of them on stage two to four times a week

 

[phil_104]

Re: Better for the Blues?

At the end of the day though, the real question is : can both of those sound cooler than a good ES-335 into a nice clean amp for blues?

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Better for the Blues?

hard to say which is Mo betta.. I like blues played on both.. I preferred Gary Moores LP work.. for me, I can play on my Lp, but I like a strat on pos 2. I do think I like the fight of the strat better for blues and also think I can get into a blues frame of mind better playing my cheaper strat, vs my pricier LP. Im sure thats a mental thing, but blues comes from within. so....

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Is a Ford or a Honda better for getting from one place to another?

Ford. The rust you leave on the road will make for a softer ride on the way back.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I'm taking the Rob option on this. I've played lots of cheesy white-boy blooze, and I can make it sound good or bad on just about anything. One of my favorite blues guitars was an Ibanez RG550 with DiMarzio Breeds. Another is an Epi LP with Burstbuckers. A Flying V with hot ceramics is another. To paraphrase blueman335: Tone is in the fingers, and metal is in the nutsack, but blues is in the pituitary gland. (Or was it the lymph nodes?)

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Better for the Blues?

The beauty of this thread is there is nothing that can be added to it that has not already been stated quite rightly.

 

[Crane]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I did not vote !

I had my cursor over the Fender, then over the Gibson, the Fender, the Gibson,,,

I can't !

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Robert Cray on the other hand, usually sounds atrociously tinny and has some of the clumsiest fingers around.

far out - tough crowd to play to!

 

[Kam]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I like them both in blue, really. I really like a darker blue Strat, especially with a white or creme pickguard. And, of course, Sonic and Daphne Blue are some of the all-time classics. Blue bursts on Pauls are pretty sexy but it's hard to beat those classic sun/tobacco/amber bursts, so they always look a little too flashy/out of place to me.

I'm gonna have to give this one to Fender, I think.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Better for the Blues?

At the end of the day though, the real question is : can both of those sound cooler than a good ES-335 into a nice clean amp for blues?

Or...a 335 thru a Marshall stack, ala Clapton in the late Cream days.

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Jackson! all the way! Hey!

I kid, I kid....


Blues is in your heart and in your fingers..... you can make any guitar sound sad if you feel that way....

I don't personally have that special blues touch yet.... those guys are on another level from where my fingers and heart play. I respect and admire a good blues player....

I voted Les Pauls because I don't like Fender anything....

 

[blueman335]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I voted Les Pauls because I don't like Fender anything....

Careful, or you'll get a nasty post from Wah Wah.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Better for the Blues?

Or...a 335 thru a Marshall stack, ala Clapton in the late Cream days.

Or me in my kitchen.

 

[IanBallard]

Re: Better for the Blues?

I'd vote Strat, but with a humbucker in the bridge. HSS or HS to get "all the tones". Maybe a Les Paul with a P-90 in the neck comes in second.