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I have owned only 3 electrics and these days, I rarely play electric.
With that disclaimer, my first electric was an ES175 with a single pickup in the fingerboard position. About 20 years later, I bought an Epiphone Emperor (Very similar to the Joe Pass model). Neither of these guitars were anything like a Strat but I couldn't justify keeping either one since I was playing mostly acoustic. My son and his wife gave me a Tele clone which is now my only electric. I've never been drawn to a Strat.
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But I'm philosophically a pluralist in pretty much every aspect of life, so it would be hypocritical of me to assume we should all like the same things in guitars. For the life of me, I don't GET the appeal of a lot of guitars, but I figure playing hum buckers is a victimless crime, and as long as people aren't hurting anyone else, they should be free to abuse themselves in whatever ways they want to... But they really need to wear a mask, because I really don't want to be infected by THOSE germs... -Ray
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It's been argued for centuries, well maybe not centuries,,...
that if you have a Les Paul Standard, and a good old Strat, you got it all covered and don't really need anything else. Seriously!!! Pffft! What kind of crazy talk is that? So many guitars, so little time.. |
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I own a lot of electrics and not a single strat in the bunch. The closest is my Reverend Jetstream 390. Or maybe my tele.
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Should every electric guitarist own a Stratocaster?
Yes, and by the same token every electric guitarist should also own a Les Paul, ES semi, Gretsch hollowbody, and full-size (16/17/18") jazzbox - the basic lexicon of electric guitar tones...
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I guess my username says it all. I don't dislike Strats. But the biggest problem I have with Strats is I keep hitting the volume control with my right hand. And for me three pickups is one too many; I have enough trouble choosing between two.
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Nope... every player should have what THEY want, not some "preordained" choice...
For myself, I have NEVER been able to "get next to" a Stratocaster. This, depsite being raised in and around Fullerton, California, in the 50's and 60's... the very first electric guitars I ever played were Strats, too... those "old ones" that everybody oohs and ahs about, but were, in reality, terrible electric guitars that would not stay in tune to save your life and that picked up every radio station you did not want! Something about the height of the strings from the body and those 3 pickups; I always get my fingernails caught up in them or hit them with my pick when I'm strumming/playing single note stuff. I'm fairly certain that, were I to play one a lot I would grow accustomed to the pickup placement... but, no... I love several of the iconic Strat tones (notably, position 2 and 4 w/ a 5 way switch, what we used to have to "****" the 3 way switch in between and hope it stayed there!)... but my Gibson ES-345 gets a pretty good single coil sound, and w/ both pickups single coil, it approximates that tone I love about Strats.
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I think if you have a electric guitar collection you need to include a Strat and a Les Paul. If you don't have an assortment of guitars I think you only need a Strat if you like the scale length and the tone. I have Strats and Les Pauls and much prefer the Les Paul for both the scale length and tone.
So, no, I don't consider a Strat a 'must have guitar'. |
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Yes. And these days I am convinced I also absolutely positively indubitably need a Gretsch hollowbody.
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I didn't think that I did...
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LOL... I'm not sure if I'm more disturbed by the humbuckers or the fact that they're mounted in a strat-like object that was routed for single coil pickups. It's a frightening image on SO many levels!
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More HERE. Bob
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