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Mr Evil
I think there are some trade offs - one negative is ... you can't really, absolutely, unequivocally NAIL the Roy Buchanan 1st album sound on a top loader.
BUT one can try and capture Roy's *musicality* and achieve something good and valid.
Roy had a great ear and a great discriminate range of influences - to me, that was the essence of his style and is the reason I've been listening to him for 30 years.
Of course Roy's style palette was expressed and defined on our beloved Telecaster, but to emulate his style isn't going to be prohibited by the string angle on your Tele.
Musicality, technique and note choice is the bottom line, not striking a note and scrutinizing it like a wine connoisseur. Despite the importance of a guitars voice and tonal capabilities - obsessing on those details would be a distraction that would keep me from concentrating on what strengths a particular guitar does possess and in turn, exploiting those unique attributes.
I think any debate about top loaders vs string through bodies, can be fun and interesting, and I certainly enjoyed reading every single post on this thread - But to me, it's really splitting hairs and not addressing the real heart of things.
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