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Post subject: Whats the reason for a Strat and Les Paul beeing the ....
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:13 pm
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The best complement for eachother? Well atleast thats what i hear mostly...


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:12 am
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They're not. They're just the two most common solid-body guitars, and the ones people want to own. "You have to have one of each" is a collector's little white lie.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:06 am
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Yeth, the sound is quite different from the two.
But then the sound from a Telecaster and a Stratocaster is quite different too :)
Or a vintage Broadcaster :)

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:12 am
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Or a Gretsch and a Les Paul Jr. Or an SG and an ES-175. Or, in my case, a hollow mahogany Strat with EMGs and a wraptail PRS with P-90s.

Seriously, there's no standard issue complement of guitars: for sure not among the inventive players (just look at the crazy avriety of things that the greats play). The only people I hear that "gotta have a Strat and a Les Paul" thing from are bar band duffers who think they're "nailing" the "tone" of a bunch of classic rock records.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:31 pm
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I don't think you need a Les Paul and a Stratocaster, but it is handy to have at least one single coil and one humbucking guitar just for the tonal variations. I also think it's handy to have a hollowbody of some sort. But that's just me. Everyone has their own needs.

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:04 pm
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I've had an E.Clapton strat for about three years now and I recently purchased a Les Paul Classic.
I've been playing for nearly forty years and own several different type of manufactures, and even one National steel guitar.
They're both great guitars in my opinion, different but both excellent examples of how a guitar should be.
To me, it's the fit of the guitar mostly that's important. They both have their own unique sound but if I play the Gibson for an hour or more, the body starts to feel like it's cutting into my mid-section especially if I'm sitting down.
The Stratocaster is shaped or maybe designed to be more comfortable, at least for me it is.
I love them both, but if I had to choose only one, then the Les Paul would have to go!
You almost have to find a guitar that fits you, sort of like a motorcyle I guess.


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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:39 am
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They work as a combination because they are so different sounding from one another, yet each can give a serious Rock performance in either the lead or rhythm role. One of the biggest mistakes that guitar bands make is having two (or more) guitars which sound nearly identical. This causes a lot of confusion to the listener and makes for an uneven sound, because the two guitar sounds fade into each other at times and then become distinct from one another. It's harder to tell just what is going on when two very similar sounding guitars are playing together.

OTOH, when a Strat and a Les Paul play together in the same band there is always a distinction of sound between the two guitars. Each part stays in its own sonic space.


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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:21 pm
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Of course I love my American STD MIA Strat, but, nevertheless the fact I got my old 1981 Suzuki Les Paul Custom with Seymour Duncan PickUps, my (other) beloved ones are my Rickenbacker 1997 and my Rickenbacker 360/12.
As somebody else told you, it's not exact that the only guitars are LPs and Strats: both of them are excellent solid body guitars, but there are plenty of wonderful guitars out there (including Tele's, Jaguars, Jazzmasters if we are talking 'bout Fender), and you must check as much as possible to select your own 'best one'.
... and prevent GAS! :wink:


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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:41 am
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I cant stand the way a lp plays, they just feel wrong to me, dont get me wrong, i own a gibson es 175 and love it, but a lp just doesnt go it for me, now with that being said, it has it uses, that is why i put a sdpearly gates in the bridge of my strat, i get strat tones and lp tone out of my strat. I works good for me that way.


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