I was in a long conversation with my mate yesterday and we spend a good amount of time reflecting that we are as guilty as the next guitarist of buying 50+ year old design guitars and that for a lot of guitarists Fender/Gibson/ and the various variants on those guitars form the largest part of the volume of guitars sold around the world. And for all this time nobody has really broken that stranglehold yes a few different shapes have come and gone like fads Steinberg Klein, BC Rich.
So is it the power of the big companies marketing
Is it they keep putting their guitars in the hands of our heroes
Are we that weak minded we only want what our young heroes played.
I know there are people here who go their own way but just interested why we are largely the equivalent of a Vintage motorcycle club.
Comments
But like most people I tend to stick with Les Paul Tele Strat variants and even when i had no money and was young I had a black les paul copy then later a cheap strat copy hmm.
The initial op also said
So is it the power of the big companies marketing
Is it they keep putting their guitars in the hands of our heroes
Do you believe that the likes of JoBO only play such guitars because they are led down that direction by a sponsor/manufacture ? - In fact when EC chose a LP for the Beano album, such guitars were about as un-trendy as possible, so EC chose it because he liked what he could do with it - Only one example, but the same principle covers most of our hero's selection of guitars that have been purchased to do a job
Thus, if the master’s career pinnacle involved a Les Paul, a wah pedal and a modified Marshall Major, that is what the suggestible student is going to purchase.
Feedback
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I’m almost exclusively playing my fretless these days and it’s far from ordinary at all..
You can be as progressive as you want with any classic instrument, you don't HAVE to use it to emulate Lynyrd Skynyrd or Bad Company.