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    Default You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    I was sitting downstairs just noodlin'

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

    I've played
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    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!

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    Some would say that about Strats too!
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    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

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

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

    ~Mitch~

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

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

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    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.
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    You can play anything on any guitar.
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    Quote Originally Posted by callous_frigid_chill View Post
    You can play anything on any guitar.
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    what the hell ever happened to rock & roll being loud & brash & pinning you to the wall behind you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aceman View Post
    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.
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    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...

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

    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.

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    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.
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

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

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    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virtual Kevorkian View Post
    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
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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

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

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    Default Re: You can play freakin' anything on an LP!

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

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    I looked at disco as being strictly Strat realm.

    Karl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" was done on a '59 LP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Golden Boy View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Golden Boy View Post
    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.
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    ...but then again, I'm so deaf I can't even hear myself fart.

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