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Post subject: Guitar combination for a band?
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:55 pm
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I was just thinking, does anyone here feel that it's awesome having a les paul or an SG for rhythm, and having the strat on lead guitar, or having the strat on rhythm and the les paul or SG on lead?

I am not partial to the latter because the les paul has a heavy sound, and it would make a nice chunky base for the lead man (strat-ist) to work on. The strat is more of a high pitched bright instrument, therefore making it shine on high notes in solos. But that's just my paradigm...

The other one might have basis for its reasoning similar to this: The les paul or SG have humbuckers, which means they are louder in addition to their mahogany bodies, and strats are a bit quieter (for those of us without single coil humbucking hot dimarzios (Nikininja :) ) ) and therfore should be rhythm guitarists.

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I don't really care what instruments they are playing as long as they play something I can listen to :D

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:48 pm
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With the pickup combinations and mods available . . . it matters less what type of guitar is being employed. The pickup config and type of pickups employed are more important. But yes a chunky double hummer on rythm and a howling overwound bridge pickup on lead is awesome.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:19 pm
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Or a an LP being played on slide with a strat on lead is very, very nice...

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:11 am
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It's depending. What kind of band is it? If it's more on a thinner sounding go with the strat for solos. If it's a heavier rockish kind of band use the les paul for solos.


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:10 am
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Once heard Fleetwood Mac with P. Green on his Les Paul and D. Kirwan on a Telecaster and the combination sounded very nice indeed.


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jeffo46 wrote:
IMO, it really doesn't matter just as long as it sounds good and you're enjoying it!




Cheers to that.


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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:04 pm
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bowlfreshener wrote:
I don't really care what instruments they are playing as long as they play something I can listen to :D


As long as I don't plug my friggin' ears like I did when I heard this band at one of the Megadeth concerts I went to... :lol: :P :lol: Give the singer a freakin' Tylonol! :lol: :P :lol: 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AcG0glVu4

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:06 pm
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well, i'm the opposite the first guy.
my friend has a Les Paul and i have the strat. he's lead, i'm rhythm.

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:56 pm
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When I think of multi-guitarist/guitar bands, the original Lynyrd Skynrd lineup always comes to mind. They sounded great! But I think they played mostly Gibsons, though.


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Back when, if I was playing something that just absolutely had to sound "country," I'd use my Mustang. And if it just couldn't sound like anything other than hard rock, I'd use my LP clone. But for anything in between, it didn't matter much -- in fact, I'd switch off from night to night just to add interest to the tunes.

The rhythm guitarist always used his real LP and we had him play a pretty much consistent sound and style. But the bass player also switched around between his Hagstrom, a cheap (very trebly) Japanese no-name and a Fender P-bass.

So I suppose that it is "easier" to hit a sound if you use the guitar that's become associated with that sound. But it can make songs a lot more interesting if you deliberately don't and explore sounds.


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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:26 am
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The original Allman Bros. - Duane and Dickie both played LPs and their styles created enough of a contrast.


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I think it can sometimes sound cool to have a thin, clean, funky type rhythm going on the bridge pickup of whatever kind of guitar, and the lead line played on the neck pickup with plenty of rolled off woman tone and maybe a touch of crunch.

That's a kind of role reversal of sorts.

Really, you just need rhythm and lead to be distinguishably different than one another. Like StratmanSteve says, Duane and Dicky often both played Les Pauls, but Dicky says he tended to use the neck pickup, Duane the bridge. Contrasting sounds.

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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:33 pm
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That's a good combo, and Pearl Jam uses that a lot, in different orders.

Me? I hate to play with another guitar player. I'm so used to being able to arrange a song for one good guitar player that another player just gets in the way. I also hate the ego thing to deal with and have no interest "working things out" with another guitar player.

That's just me though. I can come up with very cool things for just me to fill two guitar parts, something a keyboard, and sometimes a sax line - all with just me playing. I don't agree with "the more the merrier" in a band for me. I prefer to have the LEAST amount of competent people possibly to do the gigs. Cleaner sound, less ambient "noise" to fill the song with BS, and much more interesting for me.


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I'm thinkin' in Aerosmith Joe Perry plays lead with a LesPaul
and Brad Whitford plays rhythm on a Strat

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