You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

[Aceman]

I was sitting downstairs just noodlin'

Amp - Roland Jazz/Chorus 7/8/4 bmt, some verb.
Pup - 79T-top neck vol-6, tone ~4

And it was just sounding great! Just ripping some scales and little melodies!

I've played
Heavy Metal - Scorps/Priest/Maiden
Really Heavy Metal - Metallica/Megadeth
Pop Metal - Ratt/Poison
Classic Rock - Clapton/Zepp/REO
Pop - U2/Billy Idol/Call/Cure/Police
Blues - Stevie Ray/Gibbons/BB
and more...

It was better fro some things than others; but nothing skunked. Just a **** fine plank-o-wood!

[That90'sGuy]

Some would say that about Strats too!

[NUNOSLASH]

I cant play standing up, with the guitar hanging up in the normal position (belly) the solo of the song ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE on a LP

Those high notes are really hard to hit properly

[SonofaMitch]

meh, I have no problems with mine and my LP sounds awsome as well!!

~Mitch~

[Virtual Kevorkian]

can't play 24th fret bends or any divebombs .

[Mephis]

I would say the same about my rickenbacker but I'd have flocks of people telling me I'm wrong without even knowing what's done to it.

[callous_frigid_chill]

You can play anything on any guitar.

[Stratovarious]

You can play anything on any guitar.

bang

[Hot _Grits]

I was sitting downstairs just noodlin'

Amp - Roland Jazz/Chorus 7/8/4 bmt, some verb.
Pup - 79T-top neck vol-6, tone ~4

And it was just sounding great! Just ripping some scales and little melodies!

I've played
Heavy Metal - Scorps/Priest/Maiden
Really Heavy Metal - Metallica/Megadeth
Pop Metal - Ratt/Poison
Classic Rock - Clapton/Zepp/REO
Pop - U2/Billy Idol/Call/Cure/Police
Blues - Stevie Ray/Gibbons/BB
and more...

It was better fro some things than others; but nothing skunked. Just a **** fine plank-o-wood!

Dude! wow! that's, like, ALL MUSIC EVER!

-But there is truth in what you speak. LPs make perfectly good soul, reggae, funk, afrobeat and Jazz/fusion guitars.

[Aceman]

I just don't see a strat as bein g as totally flexible....There was just something about them that tuned me into a few styles more than many others. But I just don't feel that on the Lester...

[Pete Galati]

Tele players will tell you they can play anything on a Tele too!

They're all great guitars, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses.

I just finished doing a magnet flip on my new Duncan '59, that I'm putting in my '82 Les Paul. I love out of phase humbuckers in Les Pauls. Kind of pesty! That paper tape didn't want me getting at the spliced leads, and I had to make sure they were out of my way so I could push the magnet out of there.

What was kind of handy was that the end of the magnet was already marked for polarity. And I appreciate the bobbins not being marked "Seymour Duncan" on the '59s.

But yeah, Les Pauls are good. One of my favorite guitars.

Pete

[Empty Pockets]

I think one of the key reasons the electric guitar has become so popular in modern music is largely due to it's diversity. An electric guitar can be made into any shape using almost any material and can be used to make almost any sound. It can be clean and pretty, loud and obnoxious or anything in between, and with today's modeling amplifiers and MIDI units it's even easier for an electric guitar to do the work of a full band all by itself.

Sure is a fine instrument, that electric guitar is. I can't think of an instrument that is more symbolic, more revolutionary, and more efficient. Some would argue that electric synthesizer keyboards will replace them but...I just don't see it happening. No set of keys lets me channel my soul into sound the way 6 strings, an electric current and an amplifier does.

[daemon barbeque]

Hey Ace ,do you have recording equipment?I would like to hear you playing..mmm... Vai's bad horsie?

[SoCalSteve]

While I like to break out the G&L for the Blackmore/Trower/Hendrix stuff, I really get more of a kick out of playing that stuff on my LP. Everything just sounds fatter and just plain better to me on the LP. Luv the thang!

[C-Martin]

can't play 24th fret bends or any divebombs .

+1

dont realy care for 24 fret stuff but a guitar needs to have a bar to be able to play "everything" imo.. my main axe is a strat mostly because of that, i absolutely love my les paul for its sound and feel and vibe and all taht but i always feel im missing something when im playing it, my hand by reflex tries to reach for something that doesnt exist lol wich is why i consider it more of a "back up" guitar.. tho it certainly does a few things better than my strat

[Wattage]

I hear what you're saying but I think that tends to happen with whatever guitar you happen to bond too.

[tone?]

You can play freaking anything on anything if you can play freakin everything!

Give a harpsichord to Little Richard and he'll rock it!


Not an easy thing to do if you ask me. lol

[The Golden Boy]

I looked at disco as being strictly Strat realm.

Karl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was done on a '59 LP.

[Pastor of Muppets]

I looked at disco as being strictly Strat realm.

Karl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was done on a '59 LP.

True...and I understand that much of Tchaikovsky's early work was written and indeed performed on a battered '56 Gold Top he found at a boot sale in rural Iowa.

[Hot _Grits]

I looked at disco as being strictly Strat realm.

Karl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was done on a '59 LP.

If there's any one guitar that defines the 70s commercial funk/disco era, its a 335 on the middle pickup setting.