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Les Paul Or Telecaster
Gibson Les Paul 26%  26%  [ 22 ]
Fender Telecaster 74%  74%  [ 62 ]
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:09 am
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Les Pauls (and Gibson guitars in general) are okay but I prefer Fender. My first love is Strats but my Tele gets played almost as much. I think a better VS would be Tele vs SG since they are both solidbody guitars


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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:33 am
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i agree with the apples & oranges comment ... these 2 (les paul's and telecaster's) are VERY different guitars -- and that is why i own & play BOTH ... i definitely play the tele MORE and prefer it due to my "anti-conformist" personality and style, so i love the tele's feel, a clarity & cleanness that almost hurts, the ability to cut thru any mix, and that amazing single coil sound for rhythm ... but if i want sustain that lasts into next week, big/fat chords & crunch, a thick mellowness like honey then there is NO replacement for an LP ... on that subject, if i could afford it, i'd get an ES-335 and sell the LP (but i can't) ... plus the smaller form factor of the LP is pretty hard to beat too, which is also why i love my tele -- they make a great, full-rounded PAIR in my opinion ...


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Les Paul's are good for everything from blues to heavy metal. Hate it when people say you have to play metal with an Ibanez, or you have to play blues with a strat! So many stupid people out there! It's what you like, not what they like! :evil: [/i]


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What a question to ask at a Fender Forum! I wonder how the responses would differ at the Gibson Forum...


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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:37 pm
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Ok, just like everybody else, different animals, personal taste, different sounds fit different styles and genres, yadda yadda yadda...saying some different things here, can ANYBODY deny that a Les Paul, visually, is a work of freakin' art?! It's a hard guitar to look at and NOT want to just pick up and go to town on...like someone said earlier, the looks of a tele are an aquired taste for many, I'd imagine...

Hows about that marketing thing mentioned earlier, though? Gibson kinda scratched a nerve with me...a few years ago all my favorite local guitar stores sold Gibson. I even bought a BEAUTIFUL Les Paul from one of them...then about a year later, they each started dropping Gibson...apparently, the company started making it VERY hard for stores not willing to place huge orders of guitars they might/might not be able to move. The end result? There is only ONE independant store in the Washington, DC area that sells Gibson anymore, and I haven't been there in a while so I don't know for sure if they even do or not. So what happens shortly after Gibson's gone from the independants? The super stores and online warehousers that still sell Gibson starts hiking the prices a bit...HMM...so now to get a Gibson Les Paul with a carved top, I'm basically going to start out paying a thousand dollars with virtually no competition to keep the price down, unless I want to order sight-unseen online, which I'm not a fan of with guitars...FENDER, ON THE OTHER HAND, isn't afraid to put their name on a telecaster regardless of where its made (except squire), and you can get a FENDER TELECASTER that sounds good from about $400 up to thousands. If THAT isn't being a guitar company for real people, I don't know what is...
That being said, I obviously prefer the telecaster even over my les paul, musically its just because the tele sound hits my soul better, and I just got a new es 339 that I'm completely in love with....eh, never said I WASN'T a hypocrite. :oops: :oops:


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well to me... when it boils down to gibson or fender, i prefer sg's for gibson and the tele for the fenders. i have a tele myself, used to despise the things, but it all depends on what you're playing. i love playing blues so both the sg and tele perfom great. tele = more twang, sg = stong bottom end.
that's what i can come up with.


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Since this IS a Tele Forum I'll bet Fender comes out ahead :D

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My personal playing preferences put my Strat 1st, my SG 2nd, and a tie for 3rd with my Tele and LP. But it's a silly question too beginning with which tele and which LP? There are so many different versions of each the question is meaningless. To confuse things even more, the studio version of "Stairway" is played on a tele but Page preferred and LP and later the 1275 for live performances. So even Jimmy Page couldn't figure out which was better. They're both good guitars.


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TELECASTER.......les paul is heavy and horrible and BLUR *and more expensive*......tele is small and quick and gd value......LOVE IT :D


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ClaudeyBoy wrote:
TELECASTER.......les paul is heavy and horrible and BLUR *and more expensive*......tele is small and quick and gd value......LOVE IT :D


FWIW my 2005 Am Deluxe Tele is about 1.5 pounds HEAVIER than my 2006 LP Studio. (and I paid more for the tele too!)


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This is like the Ford vs Chevy thing. My take on this is that comparing a Les Paul to a Stratocaster or Telecaster is not possible. Two completely different animals that sound completely different. I personally have all three plus a couple of acoustics and use different guitars on different songs. Example:

1. Rocky Mountain Way, Funk #49(Joe Walsh) = Stratocaster
2. Best of my Love, I Can't Tell You Why (Eagles) = Telecaster
3. Rock n Roll, Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) = Les Paul
4. Ventura Highway, Tin Man (America) = Ovation Electric/Acoustic

I can't play all those songs on one guitar at a gig, because not just one of those guitars will do all those songs justice. Different styles different instruments. One example is watching the Eagles play live. They use a variety of Fenders and Gibsons on almost every song. I used to think that bands did that only because they could afford to. Not so, to get the overall sound to fit the song, you need to use the right instrument. That makes the Fender vs Gibson thing pretty absurd.


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:29 am
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for me its the telecaster, but it depends on what kind of music your playing :)


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i can't decide for you.


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Thanks for your opinions!!


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Along the "Ford vs Chevy" line ... I more likened this question to whether I prefer my Escape or the MG I used to have. They're both vehicles, but I'd just love to see someone get two bass cabs, a head and a couple of basses in an MG. On the other hand, I'd probably take the MG if I were going to the club as a non-performer.

Winter driving conditions: the Escape every time. (Even here in SoCal, the freeways get very slick after the first couple of rainstorms.) Trip to the beach on a warm sunny day: MG. Driving my parents around: Escape. Taking a potential new employee I really want to recruit out to lunch: MG.

Toss up activities like going to the drug store, going over to a friend's house, etc. ... whichever one's behind the other one. So an LP and a Tele are both guitars but they don't much resemble each other after that. And yep, it's also possible to get one to sound a lot like the other if you really want to ... but I prefer to go with the natural feel and design.


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