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Post subject: Re: Best punk-ish guitar?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:12 pm
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CheezerRox wrote:
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What punk are you playing that a mustang, or a jag don't sustain long enough?

not a mean spirit question, but back in my days playing punk, sustain wasn't really a concern. and even in new pseudo punk I hear(pop punk is very different from what we called punk rock,) I don't really hear anything that needs killer sustain. if we had an idea of what kind of tones you want, we could maybe help you better.

FWIW when we played punk, i used my Ibanez, which was a super-strat heavy metal kind of guitar, but you really couldn't beat it's snarl.Pun rock has never really required anything even near top level guitars. Don't get me wrong you see Tele's and LP's and such, but I think a loud dirty amp screams punk, more than any one kind of guitar.


Well, it's not that they don't have enough sustain for the kind of PUNK I wanna play, it's just that punk isn't the only thing I play. I just edited my first post to include more ideas of what I play. Punk rock is just what I play the most, but not by TOO too much.

And thank, you're post was very helpful. :)
I think after looking at your list you would be pretty happy a Strat or a Tele. I am almost tempted to tell you to lean more toward a tele.

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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:25 pm
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Soooo many punk bands use Deluxe Tele's. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Emery, The Spill Canvas, We The Kings... etc. Go for it, I say.

Of course, take a test drive first.

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Post subject: Re: Best punk-ish guitar?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:32 am
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CheezerRox wrote:
Okay, I've been having guitar option problems lately. I'm a pretty diverse guitarist (Note: I didn't say SKILLED, I said DIVERSE :lol:) but I'm mainly in punk rock-ish stuff. I was thinking about getting a Mustang or a Jaguar but I knew they had terrible sustain, and the last thing I have is money for a pedal to add some sustain. I've also had my eyes on certain Strats and Les Pauls and SGs and others, and i thought I'd go to a guitar community to ask. I would've gone to the SamAsh/Guitar Center strip mall area, but it's too far away from here.

Thanks for any and all help everyone.

EDIT: To help out, some other styles I play are doom/alternative/sludge/heavy metal, alternative rock, psychedelia, folk, hard rock, blues, jazz fusion, rock and roll, grunge (real grunge, not Nevermind and Ten fake grunge), hardcore/skate/ska/garage punk rock, ska/reggae, garage/indie rock, avant-garde/experimental, funky stuff, et cetera.

Some bands I would consider my/my band's style to would be NIRVANA, the Beatles, Mudhoney, Blue Cheer, The Offspring, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Melvins, the Foo Fighters, the Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, earlier Metallica, Megadeth, 1993/1994-and on Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, STP, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Cream, et cetera.

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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:29 am
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Steve jones's setup for nevermind the b------- was a les paul into a fender twin with a second track recorded an octave lower for the marching stormtrooper sound of tracks like holiday in the sun and anarchy in the uk.

Thats a pretty definitive sound.

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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:32 am
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Any guitar can be a punk guitar. Its the player that makes the music, the instrument is just the platform. The whole point of punk is/was that there are no rules...However, PUNK has just become a fashion show over the past 20 years or so where people think you have to have a certain look or buy your clothes from a certain stores in order to be punk...PUNK is not a fashion show. Music is not a fashion show. Play punk music on whatever instrument you can get your hands on...if you look at real punk footage from the 70s and 80s, you will see that they use just about any instrument possible...

One major aspect of punk is DIY, Do It Yourself...make up your own rules...play whatever music you want on whatever instrument you enjoy the most or sounds the best....

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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:09 pm
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mac67 wrote:
Soooo many punk bands use Deluxe Tele's. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Emery, The Spill Canvas, We The Kings... etc. Go for it, I say.

Of course, take a test drive first.


I don't know, those bands are more popp-ish bands than punk. Not bashing, just my opinion. Thanks for taking the time and energy to post.


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bowlfreshener wrote:
Any guitar can be a punk guitar. Its the player that makes the music, the instrument is just the platform. The whole point of punk is/was that there are no rules...However, PUNK has just become a fashion show over the past 20 years or so where people think you have to have a certain look or buy your clothes from a certain stores in order to be punk...PUNK is not a fashion show. Music is not a fashion show. Play punk music on whatever instrument you can get your hands on...if you look at real punk footage from the 70s and 80s, you will see that they use just about any instrument possible...

One major aspect of punk is DIY, Do It Yourself...make up your own rules...play whatever music you want on whatever instrument you enjoy the most or sounds the best....


Honestly, this post has been the most helpful so far.


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