Les Paul vs Strat

Danny1969

I think this is the coolest guitar in music full stop. Forget the type of music and whether you like classic rock. This is an instrument customised by someone who didn't give a f#ck about how it looked, as long as it stayed in tune and sounded good. 



Oh and it's essentially a Strat

crunchman

I've owned 3 Les Pauls over the years, plus some Les Paul copies and a PRS Singlecut - all gone.  I still own 2 Strats.

I love Les Pauls, but there is something about them that doesn't really work for me.  I do like Gibson semis though.  My 335 might be the best guitar I've played.

OilCityPickups

Actual, both the Les Paul and the Strat are to a certain extent, later copies of the real cool granddaddy of solid guitars. built by Paul Bigsby. This predates the Telecaster, Stratocaster and Les Paul ... all of which took style cues from it ... headstock look familiar? 

Danielsguitars

I'll take these 2 over a LP and a Strat or anything else tbh

Switch625

Iron Maiden anyone?

randella

Danny1969 said:

I think this is the coolest guitar in music full stop. Forget the type of music and whether you like classic rock. This is an instrument customised by someone who didn't give a f#ck about how it looked, as long as it stayed in tune and sounded good. 



Oh and it's essentially a Strat

I visited this exhibition with my dad, fantastic day out that was (I also have pretty much the same photo in my collection).

I'll agree that it's one of the coolest guitars - I certainly spent a *long* time looking at it from every angle I could. If you'd have turned around from that spot, you'd have seen a bunch of other cool guitars, mind. A '60 Les Paul given to Paul Kossoff by Eric Clapton, one of Jimmy Page's bursts was there too - a '59 I think. Clapton's 'Blackie' Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'No. 1.' Honestly it was like Aladdin's Cave and that was just the Strat/Les Paul content.

One of the best bits was Van Halen-themed again though - they had his stage rig set up, complete with master/slaved Marshalls and the infamous Variac. Utterly fascinating but, at the same time, so completely Heath Robinson that you'd have had to pay me a decent sum of money to plug a guitar into it

randella

Back to the OP, go buy a Strat. Job's a carrot

rossi

you are all looking at the same instrument .Its just a guitar with some 40's electrics .

ICBM

Switch625 said:

Iron Maiden anyone?

OK, I was wrong. Les Pauls are cooler.











(Actually I don’t really mind Iron Maiden, although I’m not a fan of the music.)

57Deluxe

Offset

randella said:

Back to the OP, go buy a Strat. Job's a carrot

Where was the exhibition???

randella

Offset said:

randella said:

Back to the OP, go buy a Strat. Job's a carrot

Where was the exhibition???

Museum of Modern Art, New York City. It was a coincidence, we were there for my dad's birthday and he wanted to see the museum anyway. Imagine a pair of guitar players finding this by accident! One of the museum staff was asking if we'd enjoyed our visit, we got to talking a bit, and he said that if we were interested in guitars we might want to head downstairs. 

Offset

randella said:

Offset said:

randella said:

Back to the OP, go buy a Strat. Job's a carrot

Where was the exhibition???

Museum of Modern Art, New York City. It was a coincidence, we were there for my dad's birthday and he wanted to see the museum anyway. Imagine a pair of guitar players finding this by accident! One of the museum staff was asking if we'd enjoyed our visit, we got to talking a bit, and he said that if we were interested in guitars we might want to head downstairs. 

BUGGER IT!!!  We were in NYC last December and walked past MOMO!  Damn... :-(

carlos

I'm pretty sure Les Paul wins. It's heavier, and weight categories exist for a reason. 

Sporky

ICBM said:

OK, I was wrong. Les Pauls are cooler.

Each and every picture makes me think the other guitar is the less uncool one. 

snowblind

Switch625 said:

Iron Maiden anyone?

Not if I can avoid it.

Philly_Q

carlos said:

I'm pretty sure Les Paul wins. It's heavier, and weight categories exist for a reason. 

A good big 'un will always beat a good little 'un?

timmypix

Switch625 said:

Iron Maiden anyone?

Good point!



  

Creed_Clicks

No photo of Neil Young in this thread...

TeleMaster

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SlopeSoarer said:

Why are most of the pictures used for reference of old/dead guitarists?

Because there aren't many cool ones around these days :-)

Gary Clarke Jr, Her, Kingfish, Jack White, John Mayer, Tim Henson, Sophie Lloyd, Marcus King... Loads of cool guitarists about!