New Baby

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:54 pm

Ash, I hadn't heard that before - but it does make some sense.

At Friday's gig I was looking at my Strat on its stand on the stage during a break and with the silver logo, I couldn't see the word 'Fender'. My '72 has it right out in heavy black. Never understood why they'd change that!

Post by Bg » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:20 pm

the curse of the Strat :

Buddy Holly - dead
Hendrix - dead
SRV - dead
Clapton - may as well be, never had decent tone after switching from his LP
Greeny - gets rid of his LP suffers mental breakdown now plays strats, might as well be dead.
Gilmour - needs 3 racks of effects to get his 'tone'

Say no more....

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:24 pm

bluesgeek wrote:the curse of the Strat :

Buddy Holly - dead
Hendrix - dead
SRV - dead
Clapton - may as well be, never had decent tone after switching from his LP
Greeny - gets rid of his LP suffers mental breakdown now plays strats, might as well be dead.
Gilmour - needs 3 racks of effects to get his 'tone'

Say no more....

Leo Fender...dead

Post by Bg » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:31 pm

and Les Paul.... alive

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:22 pm

so having a fender is a good shot at dying early..?

as another example.. look at kurt cobain, designed his own and ended up shooting himself for that..

Post by Bg » Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:02 pm

its a shame Tom Delonge switched to Gibson really...

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:34 pm

so it's a downward trend for us gibson owners...

fender junkies must be pleased!

ash · Post by **ash** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:28 pm

bluesgeek wrote:and Les Paul.... alive

More alive than you'd think, too. A friend of mine who lives in the US met LP himself last year at a gig. The dirty old bugger proceeded to hit on his hot blonde 27 yo girlfriend

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:47 am

But Les Paul is just like any other 'artist' model, surely? Just because they couldn't find anyone else to endorse their product ...LOL - J/K.

I mean Gibson is not just producing its Les Paul models, neither is Fender just producing its Jimi models.

As a matter of interest, who was the founder of Gibson? I know they've been making guitars for a long time - much longer than Fender for instance, but I know little about their history that far back.

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:46 am

Orville Gibson.

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:48 am

That's the bugger - I had heard of him after all... didn't he claim to fly the first plane -> after Pearce?

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:19 am

that I don't know. Him and THe Martin Brothers all started around the same time.

Post by Bg » Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:40 am

DrRog wrote:But Les Paul is just like any other 'artist' model, surely?

A bit like the Tom DeLonge strat? Only the 'Les Paul' model has been around for a bit longer....

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:17 am

> Tom DeLonge strat

LOL - at first I thought - 'that's a real abortion', then I thought more about it and it does make sense - 1 pup, 1 volume - all you'd ever really need. Although for my tastes, I'd have the pup further forward, as I hardly ever use my bridge pup anyway.

Post by Bg » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:19 am

so the pup should be on rails then.... so you can slide it where you want it.