The most Controversial, Provocative, Volatile, or Just All-Around Touchy Discussion Topics in the Guitar World?

[msalama]

How nitro is always superior to poly, or vice versa.

 

[msalama]

Just because your CBS Fender is

Your CBS guitar can't be good, because it's CBS.

 

[oatsoda]

Is that lemon oil actually lemon oil or just lemon scented mineral oil?

 

[lowatter]

Are crop circles man made or alien in nature?

 

[brookdalebill]

Pink Floyd member feud.

 

[omahaaudio]

Fender vs Gibson, Beatles vs Stones, Tubes vs Solid State...

Grateful Dead vs Good Musicians?

 

[notmyusualuserid]

Finishes that can breathe.

Itz importent for dead trees to breathe.

Improves the toanz

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

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[notmyusualuserid]

The Dead.

Been very quiet lately...

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Grateful Dead vs Good Musicians?

A.k.a.: Could Garcia play guitar?

 

[blowtorch]

whatever i happen to post, apparently

 

[dougstrum]

Single coil vs humbucker

 

[northernguitar]

Your Gibson neck will snap if you look at it wrong.

 

[NC E30]

3 pages in and no-one has mentioned MIM vs MIA, or my Squier is better than your custom shop, or Stratocasters are better than Telecasters, or your Fender Telecaster is now a partscaster because you put on a bone nut and changed the pick guard.

 

[dougbgt6]

Digital vs analogue?

 

[gitold]

Wimans who play gitar.

 

[1stpitch]

capacitor material

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Fender vs Gibson, Beatles vs Stones, Tubes vs Solid State...

There are some topics that almost always seem to end in a pile-on, no matter how it starts. Those are a few that I can think of off hand.

Without actually going into pile-on level details (this is an EQ test ), what are the big ones... anything related to the guitar world?

And, in your humble opinion, why is it such a touchy subject?

Varies hugely by generation .

One of the absolute greatest things that you might not initially realize if you overhear a bunch of millennials talk music, is that there is virtually no chance of anyone even mentioning Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Styx, Vanilla Fudge , other crap band, additional s****y group, etc…

I mean, not even to say “oh, you know who else sucks that my dad listens to ?”

And then they rattle off those names plus a couple more D-listers.

Not
Even
On
Their
Radar

Thank you millennials !

 

[Fiesta Red]

Just because your CBS Fender is old doesn’t mean it’s a good guitar.

And “I know this is a CBS, but this is the only one of that entire era that sounds good.”

Your CBS guitar can't be good, because it's CBS.

Except Thinline Telecasters, late Blackface amps, early/drip edge Silverface amps, Telecaster Customs and/or Deluxes…

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What’s that? A *REALLY* dirty movie?

 

[telleutelleme]

Rock & Roll HOF.