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Post subject: Best guitar for Johnny Marr style playing?
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:15 pm
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Hey guys,
What would you say is the best guitar for rhythm guitar ala Johnny Marr?
I'm leaning towards a Jag, Mustang, or a Jazzmaster... Any other suggestions?
Also, dosen't have to be Fender... I'm open minded :D
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As much as I don't like The Smiths (its Morrissey), I have the ultimate respect for Johnny as a guitar player in all his projects.

I saw Johnny Marr and the Healers a few years back and he played an SG almost all night. Other than that, he played a Tele and a strat. I've seen some clips of him from The Smiths days where he was playing a Rickenbacker 360

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i have also seen him playing a Les Paul Custom...

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Last time I saw him with Modest Mouse, he played a white Jaguar for most of the show, but also a Rickenbacker, Tele, and a 355.

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I love The Smiths and Johnny Marrs playing just slays me.I can get a pretty good approximation of the How Soon Is Now sound by using my Tele with both pups on and running it through my Blues Jr. I don't know what he used on the original but the Tele comes very very close.

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Marr used an 85 Les Paul Standard on How Soon Is Now

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Bought for Meat Is Murder tour, also used on How Soon Is Now?. The Les Paul I used on the second Smiths album is the one I've still got now, the cherry one. I put a retro-fit Bigsby on it. I also put on Seymour Duncans and a coil tap.

I was looking for a harder sound for the Meat Is Murder album, and I tried a few different guitars before coming around to the Les Paul. There are a lot of traditional rock cliches associated with this make of guitar, so I had to work past that. This was used to write Nowhere Fast, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore and I Want The One I Can't Have. I used it to record The Headmaster Ritual.

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My favorite Smiths songs are those really jangly ones, so I'd recommend Fenders (your pick of flavour, Strat, Tele, JM...) and Rickenbackers. I know he uses hollow-bodies and SGs from time to time but the Smiths tone is mainly single-coils.
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