Teletubbie
Tele-Meister
Slight adjustment if I may...
MY Squiers are better than YOUR Custom Shop guitars.
Unpopular Opinions about Guitars
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MY Squiers are better than YOUR Custom Shop guitars.
Happy Enchilada
Friend of Leo's
“Guitars are like typewriters. It’s technology, it’s not something to be admired or worshipped. Like, oh, a washing machine or something. It does the job. You start seeing people putting them on walls as decorations and it’s just… it’s like putting a vacuum cleaner there. That’s really bizarre for me. They’re okay; they all sound the same, it’s the brutal truth.”— Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead
Bruxist
Poster Extraordinaire
So was I. But it’s an unpopular view.
Before or after yellowing of the clear coat?
it is possible to diddle, twiddle, noodle, and piddle your way along with the guitar for years and never make much progress, due to never actually practicing.
i am a witness to this.
i am a witness to this.
SixStringSlinger
Poster Extraordinaire
Esquires (and other single-pickup guitars) do have an effect on your playing that is, at best, difficult to get from another guitar, not because of some consequence of the guitar's having a single pickup (I'm agnostic about this, and more or less skeptical about our being able to hear any real effect, if it does exist), but because having "no way out" forces the player's mind into dealing with being "stuck" on the one pickup in new and creative ways, which is unlikely to happen on a multi-pickup guitar no matter how sincerely the player resolves to remain on a single pickup.
You also cannot logic your way out of this fact, because the fact itself is not entirely logical.
You also cannot logic your way out of this fact, because the fact itself is not entirely logical.
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
Is that actual inflation? What’s a used mexi tele going for these days?
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
I’m inclined to doubt that - how many tele players ever use their neck pickup? That thing sounds awful.
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
You could probably eq yourself close, but a huge part of the banjo sound is the drone string.
SixStringSlinger
Poster Extraordinaire
I have to disagree with what you say and what it implies, but regardless of that, the middle position is still very popular.
...there's a whole lot of pedals that are "eq yourself" pedals, but still - no banjo pedal! Embrace the tragedy!
For about €800 in our neck of the woods, although you can usually haggle that down somewhat. Get a good one for €500 though, and you got yourself a steal. And yes, I do realize they tend to be cheaper Stateside.
KelvinS1965
Tele-Afflicted
I use it more than the bridge as I find that awful sometimes, depending on the amp or any pedals used.
Second unpopular opinion: Buying lots of guitars to 'inspire' or otherwise improve your playing doesn't help. Focusing on a single guitar might though; a bit 'anti-guitar forum' though I guess since they're mostly about buying more gear...
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
A new guitar can jump start you but it gets into diminishing returns pretty fast.
TF from MN
Tele-Meister
If you don't play through a tube amp, your music is not worthy.
The vintage guys are the best at marketing.Oh, I thought it was $5,400. Uh, so the difference between a $150 guitar and a $600 guitar is also marketing then, too. I think I get the logic now after all these years. Yeah, "Marketing". Thanks for clearing things up!
Wait a minute.....Do the vintage guys know of this?
"Oh my God! The heavenly experience of playing this '55 Tele with the sticky nitro neck and the microphonic pickups and weird wiring scheme and dark neck pickup and way out of spec capacitor! It smells like a barroom in heaven!"
d barham
Tele-Afflicted
I feel the same way about Taylor acoustics.
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
I’m going to add to that and say that i tend to write different riffs on my sg than my jaguar.
Moserites are all butt-ugly, with skinny necks, weird tremolos, and noisy pickups.
