Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
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Re: Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
I never really liked them.
I never really liked them.
TattooedCarrot
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When I was young it was all about Charvels, pointy headstocks, Floyds, and deep cutaway superstrat bodies with neon colored or graphic paint jobs. Now it's all about hardtails and wood, Les Pauls, traditional looking strats, semi-hollows.
When I was young it was all about Charvels, pointy headstocks, Floyds, and deep cutaway superstrat bodies with neon colored or graphic paint jobs. Now it's all about hardtails and wood, Les Pauls, traditional looking strats, semi-hollows.
Hot _Grits
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Yeah, pretty much. I was never into Vs and explorers, but I was into the whole metal superstrat thing, and nowadays those guitars only hold nostalgia value. I like all the typical vintage type stuff: strats, teles, gibsons, PRS etc...
That said, I just bought one of these:
Yeah, pretty much. I was never into Vs and explorers, but I was into the whole metal superstrat thing, and nowadays those guitars only hold nostalgia value. I like all the typical vintage type stuff: strats, teles, gibsons, PRS etc...
That said, I just bought one of these:
TwilightOdyssey
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Nope.
Nope.
XSSIVE
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:32: :32: :32: :32: that rocks! i've been trying to track down a regular floyd equipped top routed for pickguard strat body in that color for so damn long with no luck. i have a pic of one i saved on my computer and it just screams my name...i have to find one! sweet guitar grits!
-Mike
Hot _Grits said:That said, I just bought one of these:
:32: :32: :32: :32: that rocks! i've been trying to track down a regular floyd equipped top routed for pickguard strat body in that color for so damn long with no luck. i have a pic of one i saved on my computer and it just screams my name...i have to find one! sweet guitar grits!
-Mike
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Im only 17 and im a fan of both camps.
And just to remind you, I dont have BC Rich guitars by choice, their quality was the best for the price. Considering I got an $700 platium pro for $200, brand new from the factory.
Im only 17 and im a fan of both camps
.And just to remind you, I dont have BC Rich guitars by choice, their quality was the best for the price. Considering I got an $700 platium pro for $200, brand new from the factory.
Gearjoneser
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Re: Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
I posted a similar thread over a month ago......Is there a cutoff age for odd shaped guitars? https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=40289&highlight=cutoff+odd\
I think the concensus is that 'you personally must have a look that fits with the look of
the guitar you strap onto your body.....regardless of anything else.
My personal opinion is "what do you want people's first reaction to be, when you walk out with a guitar strapped on?" Do I want to walk out and have guitarists and audience members say "cool music, and his guitar looks cool" or do I want to walk out and have 40 people think to themselves "holy fukkin moly, this dork thinks he's cool with a Jackson King V painted with skulls n crossbones!" Call me a conservative snob, but I'd rather be the first guy. LOL
I posted a similar thread over a month ago......Is there a cutoff age for odd shaped guitars? https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=40289&highlight=cutoff+odd\
I think the concensus is that 'you personally must have a look that fits with the look of
the guitar you strap onto your body.....regardless of anything else.
My personal opinion is "what do you want people's first reaction to be, when you walk out with a guitar strapped on?" Do I want to walk out and have guitarists and audience members say "cool music, and his guitar looks cool" or do I want to walk out and have 40 people think to themselves "holy fukkin moly, this dork thinks he's cool with a Jackson King V painted with skulls n crossbones!" Call me a conservative snob, but I'd rather be the first guy. LOL
Time Stood Still
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I love my pointed V's, BC Rich's, and ESP's & always find time for my Strats but have grown out of Ibanez's a long time ago. Why? I don't know, I just didn't like them anymore. Now I'm more picky and choose by wood and quality and where and how it's made. Maybe this is why we're into different guitars now.(?)
I love my pointed V's, BC Rich's, and ESP's & always find time for my Strats but have grown out of Ibanez's a long time ago. Why? I don't know, I just didn't like them anymore. Now I'm more picky and choose by wood and quality and where and how it's made. Maybe this is why we're into different guitars now.(?)
JB_From_Hell
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The older I get, the more concerned with playability I become, and that has brought me to the pointy 80's guitars (Charvel & Kramer). They look badass, and play better than anything made before or after.
The older I get, the more concerned with playability I become, and that has brought me to the pointy 80's guitars (Charvel & Kramer). They look badass, and play better than anything made before or after.
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H8Red442
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I still love my shaped guitars. Dream guitar is and has been for a long time a BC Rich Bich. I love the shape of the Mockingbird as well. I also like Vs. I hate actualy Strats, super strats are ok but kinda bland. I hate Teles more. Never liked Exlporers and SGs are almost as ugly as Teles. I like Les Pauls but didn't always. I also go more for woods and how they're made. I used to be all about Ibanez because I thought they were good guitars. After owning 5 and all of them sucking I looked elsewhere. I landed on Jackson's doorstep and was a fan for a long time. Now however give me my Mahogany American BC Riches and My Les Pauls. But I'd surely trade out my Les Pauls for more American Riches anyday.
I still love my shaped guitars. Dream guitar is and has been for a long time a BC Rich Bich. I love the shape of the Mockingbird as well. I also like Vs. I hate actualy Strats, super strats are ok but kinda bland. I hate Teles more. Never liked Exlporers and SGs are almost as ugly as Teles. I like Les Pauls but didn't always. I also go more for woods and how they're made. I used to be all about Ibanez because I thought they were good guitars. After owning 5 and all of them sucking I looked elsewhere. I landed on Jackson's doorstep and was a fan for a long time. Now however give me my Mahogany American BC Riches and My Les Pauls. But I'd surely trade out my Les Pauls for more American Riches anyday.
Hot _Grits
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Personally, I love the idea of walking onstage with a ridiculous guitar. But then again, I don't play in a rock band. I know there are certain local bars where my PRS would be considered a faux pas if I was in a rock band and gigged with it, which I think is pretty funny. Still, got the fashion angle covered with the Keef tele custom.
Funnily enough, there are a couple of local dub/reggae bands where the guitarists use shred sticks: one uses a jem and the other a George lynch kamikaze!
Gearjoneser said:
Personally, I love the idea of walking onstage with a ridiculous guitar. But then again, I don't play in a rock band. I know there are certain local bars where my PRS would be considered a faux pas if I was in a rock band and gigged with it, which I think is pretty funny. Still, got the fashion angle covered with the Keef tele custom.
Funnily enough, there are a couple of local dub/reggae bands where the guitarists use shred sticks: one uses a jem and the other a George lynch kamikaze!
wixedmords
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Re: Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
I can't shake the playability, the feel of a Jackson. To me that is what playing guitar is all about.
JB_From_Hell said:
I can't shake the playability, the feel of a Jackson. To me that is what playing guitar is all about.
Re: Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
I owned a real POS Epi V back in the mid-eighties ... after all, Bob Mould played a V (Ibanez Rockit Roll), and if a V was good enough for him ...
I got rid of that thing about 18 months later. Since them, my guitars have been fairly traditional.
...but I still want a V.
I owned a real POS Epi V back in the mid-eighties ... after all, Bob Mould played a V (Ibanez Rockit Roll), and if a V was good enough for him ...
I got rid of that thing about 18 months later. Since them, my guitars have been fairly traditional.
...but I still want a V.
Jeff Seal
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....I'm 38, have 5 Ibanez Destroyer II's, 1989 Gibson Explorer and a 1956 LP Junior (in the "onstage" category) and have no intentions of "retiring" any of them.....if there is an "older mentality" that dictates what guitar I play or when I quit using 100w Marshall's......I will be happy to admit it when it happens....
But for now, my '83 DII plays better than just about anything else I've found....the '56 LP comes real close!
I fail to believe the whole "older you get" theory about anything....except that I am actually getting older!
...fwiw
Jeff Seal
....I'm 38, have 5 Ibanez Destroyer II's, 1989 Gibson Explorer and a 1956 LP Junior (in the "onstage" category) and have no intentions of "retiring" any of them.....if there is an "older mentality" that dictates what guitar I play or when I quit using 100w Marshall's......I will be happy to admit it when it happens....
But for now, my '83 DII plays better than just about anything else I've found....the '56 LP comes real close!
I fail to believe the whole "older you get" theory about anything....except that I am actually getting older!
...fwiw
Jeff Seal
IcedEarth112
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no it obviously doesnt happen with everyone, some people yeah, but look at loads of players like in judas priest and what not, theyre like really old and play V's, so no it doesnt always happen
Seraphial said:
no it obviously doesnt happen with everyone, some people yeah, but look at loads of players like in judas priest and what not, theyre like really old and play V's, so no it doesnt always happen
Breaking the law
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From left to right, 54 and 56 years old.
'Nuff said.
From left to right, 54 and 56 years old.
'Nuff said.
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krankguitarist
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Re: Is it the older you get, you're less inclined to pointy axes?
eh, I dunno. I tend to like the more "Traditional" shapes a bit more, strat, tele, LP, whatever. But...that said, I've got two ibanez destroyers that I'm restoring and a gibson V. Though those are more "classic" radical shapes.
Never liked BC rich though. At least not their import stuff. The more modernistic stuff just doesnt hold my attention.
eh, I dunno. I tend to like the more "Traditional" shapes a bit more, strat, tele, LP, whatever. But...that said, I've got two ibanez destroyers that I'm restoring and a gibson V. Though those are more "classic" radical shapes.
Never liked BC rich though. At least not their import stuff. The more modernistic stuff just doesnt hold my attention.
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