For me , the “look” of certain guitars makes me want to pick them up. I’m highly attracted to a certain level of flame on a neck: not too much but just a little. And if it has a Floyd Rose you damn right I’m picking it up.
I agree RJ. I see pretty much ANY Les Paul or Tele and I just want to pick it up and play. So many of my heroes play those two (Zakk Wylde and Jerry Cantrell, And then John 5 and Prince respectively). Doesn’t have to be Gibson or Fender but just a good single cut with a thick neck. Love your channel too by the way brother!
@@agnessofiacastrocarvalho774maple has a natural look to it with light and dark streaks that sometimes makes it look like a dancing flame. Leo Fender saw this as a flaw, but now it’s thought of as a luxury look. I think it’s beautiful the way the colours of the wood dance in different light :)
It's all about the "vibe". As a guitar builder I've made a white explorer to write thrash metal, a worn-out looking Les Paul type body for doom/stoner rock and a teal blue strat style with coil splitting for other genres. I wouldn't feel inspired to write low tuned Meshuggah type riffs on a telecaster as an example. Aesthetics are very important.
I thought jazzmaster were weird and then one day I saw one that just for whatever reason looked cool to me. I played it and realized jazzmaster/jaguar styles are the most comfortable guitar for me and now I’m hooked on offsets haha.
PRS has always had it's place in my head as the Linkin Park/Breaking Benjamin brand. The late 90s/early 00s models have a kind of mojo that earlier and later models lack. It's definitely all mental, but still.
For me I tend to play in the classical position so Flying V, and Strats work best for me vs a Les Paul. But I do believe that the guitar should inspire you to play and make you WANT to pick it up and play IMO 🤘🔥🔥🤘
I hated the look of Telecasters. Only old men and cowboys played them. Then I played one and well...now I have 2 and they are my main guitar. Good point to try new things or looks. Sometimes you love what you least expected to.
I think that's everyone's story with teles, me included. Yeah, they're great for country, but they have a certain nastiness to them when you crank up the gain.
@@AndiKravljacaI’ve hit middle age too early I guess, chronologically speaking, but yeah, that’s a pretty good way to put it. One day you realize you actually like Teles, usually around the same day you realize your back hurts and you’re getting a bit annoyed with the dagnabbed whippersnappers of the younger generations. It’s kind of mind-boggling how much Leo got right on his very first try.
Me too! But there is something about Teles that says you’ve matured, are non-nonsense, and want to be low-key but taken seriously. Teles taking a beating and look more distinguished with age and they have the cohones to play any kind of music. What can I say my favorite. Has everything you need and nothin’ you don’t.
I didn’t start playing guitar until I turned 48 which was a few years ago. I began to notice a trend that I really liked both telecasters specifically and white guitars generally but didn’t really put my finger on it. Then one day watching purple rain it hit me. we had just gotten cable and therefore MTV back when I was in high school and prince playing a T style guitar and then the all white guitar from Apollonia made it all become crystal clear.
For me, there were a few factors. I was REALLY into The Wiggles when I was a little kid, that really inspired me to be a musician- they played strat style guitars. While I ended up gravitating towards the drums in 4th grade and played drums since, most guitarists I’d see in bands would play a strat. My brother would rent his saxophone from a local music lessons center, and they had a whole bunch of black, red and blue strats hanging on a rack on the wall- the light blue in particular caught my eye. Many years later, at age 21 when I bought my electric guitar, I was intimidated by so many options but ended up going for a Tidepool Blue player stratocaster as it reminded me of the time before I was a musician. And it ended up feeling perfect!!
I learned this lesson after buying my dream guitar in a color I didn’t love because it was crazy cheap. I snagged it, because it was a kinda rare guitar (an early 2010’s EVH Wolfgang special with stainless frets and the flat top) and because I found it for a stupid cheap price, I opted for a finish that wasn’t my favorite (I wanted the flat black, but went with a tobacco burst). As a result, I never deeply bonded with the guitar, even though it was exactly what I wanted otherwise. In contrast, I now aesthetically have one of my #1 dream guitars, as well as spec wise: a jazzmaster with a Floyd rose (SBS brand, covered humbuckers with coil splitting, a 60’s Fender-looking satin blue finish reliced, aftermarket pearloid block inlay decals, and original Jazzmaster knobs). For me, I love bridging the world of that beautiful, classy 60’s offset Fender look, yet can actually stay in tune with super modern specs, can get heavy/high output or stay mellow and beautiful with the volume knob, and that also connects to my roots in 80’s alternative music. I love that guitar to death. Now that I’ve set it up really well, I can’t wait to put miles on it and write its story.
I feel like you and I cut our guitar playing teeth around the same time with the same music. While I was kind of a metal kid at the end of the 80s (Metallica, Megadeth, etc.), it was Nirvana/Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement of the early 90s that inspired me to pick up a guitar and learn to play.
I think one of the coolest things about being a musician is the fusion of different art forms. Woodworking, wood finishing, engineering, electrical design etc come together to make a cool thing I can be proud to hang on my wall AND it’s a tool to make music with.
I Love Leo Fenders take on offsets like the doheny or espada,sixty six where the knobs and pickguard etc is metal on classic natural woodgrain.Just beautiful.👍
Tastes change. Yours will, other people’s will. When I started playing electrics, I wanted nothing more than a les paul. Then I got into rg’s and jems. After that a long stint of vintage-y stuff. And I still like elements of all of them, though some more than others. It’s a blessing to have a couple of instruments around that do different things for you, be it sound or simple aesthetics.
Definitely a big reason I gravitate towards Stratocasters. I have a Howlin' Wolf t shirt (still) from the 90s that pictures him with a white Strat. This is the whole reason I was compelled to have one. Luckily, it happens to be the greatest guitar design of all time😊.
Hey Fluff, i recall diggin' your channel since '15, '16 or shit, a salute from Mexico. lml My personal taste in guitar has been interesting. My dad being a classical guitarist since the 80's, already had quite a solid idea on the electric instrument overall and he bought for me a Squier Strat Standard, candy apple red with a CBS headstock and a maple board, back in late '15. How could i forget about her... She even survived a couple of times i thought of selling her and stuff. I recall digging Nirvana riffs on her back in the day, the instrument helping me overcome my first romantic breakup, playing on her punk, thrash, deathcore, metalcore, funk, jazz, djent, she was in pretty much any tuning ranging from E standard to Drop A and even lower. The thing is, i dreamt of having other guitars back in the day instead of her, or imagining having a custom guitar made for me, and that also happened to me in my classical era, but, having never obtained any of my dream instruments during that time, i just kept playing my Roxy Strat until i found in mid pandemic (Around 6 years after having her) that my hands had shaped to her neck profile and her string spacing and such, and that i really didn't need any signature guitar of some sort, since, the hands of another axeguy will very surely not be exactly as mine. I learned to do everything in that guitar, and for that, i thank her, and i thank my dad, and the people who built her, because that thing shaped a good part of me as a musician. Years later, a Les Paul came into my hands, and it has been my main both hard rock and jazz guitar. Yet, i never sold Roxy, and i am waiting to get some money to restore her since i will not let her go, ever. She just needs a bit of love from time to time. Fret recrowning, changing pots and electronics, changing tuning machines, tightening the trem claw, cleaning the bridge and saddles... Right now she sleeps, but i hope very soon, soon as possible, she'll come back into the world of the living. I will paint her fiesta red, relic her, put a locking nut, shape the headstock into a regular Strat one, put locking tuners, and a single humbucker, to pay homage in a way to my greatest influence of all time, mister Edward Van Halen.
Every guitar I own is different in the sense that when i pick each of them up, I'm always inspired to play something different on each one. I'm very thankful that I own three of my dream guitars and they're all genuinely amazing, and I go through periods of using each one. Every time I pick one up, I'm reminded of why I love that particular guitar and it continues to drive me to be a better guitar player and be influenced by the guitars themselves. I played in a mathcore band and I played a sparkly purple custom jazzmaster and everyone always asked me about it and commented that it just didn't seem like a guitar for the genre, but it was also how I expressed myself on stage, both physically and sonically.
I agree with this vibe, there's no perfect or bad guitars per se, you just pick one up and see what comes out It can be fun and surprising to find out what different guitars bring out of you
I haven’t really liked the feel of the jazz masters I’ve tried at guitar stores, but my mind immediately thinks of Sonic Youth and Dino Jr. whenever I see one. The epitome of cool to me.
How my tastes have landed and developed at this point in my life is that for whatever reason for my own collection personally I tend to prefer lighter colors on guitars. Shades of white, yellow, silver, or just a natural wood grain. I think most ash bodies look so sick most of the time. I basically always need a six in line headstock guitar. My whole thing is sustain. There will be no trem usage. I’m too stupid too. I actually don’t prefer locking tuners, although I think what every guitar really should come with is a spoke wheel truss rod adjustment. Regarding nostalgia, I will always stick up for the Ibanez standards and even gios. I kind love them, even the infinity humbuckers I kind of don’t completely hate. They’re such actually awesome like I’m 13 and I have cheap parents guitars for what they are, the same way hp is for laptops and lg is for phones.
Creative people find inspiration in random, day to day things. Whether a "look" is important, cool, or neutral to you... it may trigger some highly creative person's creativity, and there you go. Art.
I fell in love with the Peavey Vandenberg EX Limited Edition. I bought 3 of them and I love it for the violin body cut ultra narrow neck and the hollowed out tuners. It has been my go-to guitar for over 20 years. The only thing I have change is the pickups. I use Zebra Seymour Duncan’s. JB in the bridge and Saturday Night Special in the neck. Killer guitar!
I recently bought a DIY headless guitar kit. It was fun to put together and stain the body to my liking. With this Guitar, I have stepped out of my comfort zone with having a headless Guitar and the color of choice I chose for it.
I don't know why but I'm a church musician with a love for explorers. Could it be paul and Ace of Kiss who both played them . Or maybe Billy from ZZTop. ANYWAY I have a Gibson Explorer. It's always been my favorite for decades. Finally got one this past Christmas and I love it ,
My first (and current) guitar hero is Alexi Laiho, and some of the first song I hear from him are from Follow The Reaper. No wonder I like sharp-looking guitars as much as sharp-sounding guitars.
I wish I could find a superstrat but with a full set of classic single coils. Only ever seen them with 2 humbuckers or a humbucker in the bridge position. I’m a fender guy, but I love the way those superstrats feel. Buttery. My love for strats goes back to my love for Hendrix and Gilmour and the tones they pulled out of them. As a kid, they were the reasons I wanted to pick up the instrument. And I just thought they were beautiful, simple workhorses. The Les Paul is my second and I love my epi LP, but I more often than not reach for the strat.
It's like Mick and Dan on That Pedal Show say. "The 3 most important things when choosing a guitar are: what it looks like, what it looks like, and what it looks like." You want something that looks cool to you and makes you want to pick it up and play it. Also something that inspires you to play a particular style that it puts you in the mindset for. Luckily or unluckily for me, I don't actually have any attachment really to any guitars that my musical influences play. Dean ML shapes are very comfortable to me in classical position because that's what I grew up playing as my first guitar, but I'm not and never was a big Pantera fan. My parents just happened to pick that for me as a christmas gift. I didn't have any say in it. I grew up listening to people play mostly gibson, jackson, Ibanez, and ESP, but I don't like gibsons, jacksons, or Ibanez and I'm indifferent to ESP. I ended up being more into Schecter, Solar, PRS, and Fender.
Looks are important. People heard with their eyes. Guitarists buy explorers, warlocks, and teles due the music they play and the image they want to give off.
Guitars to me are like cars. Gibsons are like Ferraris. The older ones are very sought after but also very expensive. The newer ones still have the same elements but do not have the age. Fender Strats are like the Honda Civic, and the superstrat is like the NSX. But me I'm an American Muscle kinda guy, so I tend to go for the explorers. The guitar equivalent of a 1967 pre-coke bottle Dodge Charger.
I play rock, metal, blues, and reggae. I am completely a Starcaster, Jaguar, Jazzmaster type of guy. That is why my baritone is that Squier Baritone Jazzmaster, and BOTH my basses are a Bass VI (Squier Classic Vibe, and Fender Pawn Shop). That is why I jumped on the bandwagon when Jim Root started playing a Jazzmaster, and why I am pre-ordering that LTD XJ.
I always say Look Good, Feel Good, Play good. Nobody was ever inspired to play guitar by what a good deal they got or the value of a guitar. It's gotta look cool and inspire you.
Funny, as a teenager i always wanted a PRS custom 22/24 because of Mike Einziger of Incubus. Like, PRS and Dual rectifiers were what everyone seemed to play, POD, Creed etc. But when i actually got to play them and i started to figure out what i actually liked to play the PRS didnt quite hit the mark. I still want one but for my daily drivers i prefer longer scales, flatter radiuses, and no pick up rings etc
I started playing the bass when I was 14 and immediately connected with Fenders. I spent years solely playing P and Jazz Basses because nothing ever sounded as good, played as well, or looked as cool as a Fender bass to me. My ultimate bass was a P Deluxe Special with a Blizzard Pearl finish and a maple neck. It’s like a vintage Cadillac of an instrument, bright, curvy, a little heavy and unwieldy, but dripping with style. It would glow under stage lighting. When I started seriously playing a six string in my 30s, I went directly to my earliest influences and bought a dirt cheap Epiphone SG to learn on because of Angus Young. After that I bought a black Gretsch hollowbody, because something about it’s iconic old-school looks truly spoke to me. Brian Setzer and Tim Armstrong both looked cool as hell with one, and I loved that mojo. Recently I bought a Fender 72 Telecaster Deluxe specifically because a big guitar influence on me was my one of my best friends. He had one, and I always thought it was the coolest guitar that Fender ever offered. Just the combination of the Tele body with the shiny chrome humbuckers, sweeping pickguard, and awesome jumbo 70s Strat headstock gives me a palpable joy.
i agree with the it's an extenstion of ourselves claim the most. as for nostalgia, for me it's more of the nostalgic feeling when i just started playing 16 years ago and watched old alexi laiho videos playing his jackson RR guitars... therefore, Jacksons and RR shaped guitars will always evoke those emotions in me! great vid i enjoyed watching
I grew up in SoCal primarily on skate punk music so I'll always be drawn to Fender instruments, no matter how much hate they get online these days. These days though I've grown to really dislike super bright and shimmery finishes and tend to be more attracted to wood grain or straight up black finishes, which are colors I thought were super boring when I was young 😂
Never in a million years did i think id ever consider a jim root jazzmaster, i just couldn't put metal and fender together in my own taste, feel or logic. Then this past week, after not having a holiday for nearly 4 years, I had about 8 guitars out fiddling around,6,7,8 strings, etc. Anyway, i guess you could say our taste, look and feel refines over time. I think my inner teenage metal head has had his day. Gone are the days of buying something for looks and doing it up. I think a prs will do that to you, you simply can't imitate quality. Our taste definitely evolves with age. My teenage metal head would have hands down went an e.g. Mick Thompson. There it is. I think as we age, we are listening more for tone over that of looks. Also as we age we refine. This is a timely video, i literally redefined my view on guitars this last week. Heres to doing it til the day we drop 💪
In 1995 my friend had a 7-Up green Clapton that had an amazing sound. Been a Strat guy ever since. If you've never played a Clapton Strat, do yourself a favor and check one out 🤘
It's funny PRS always remind me of the guitarist of Story of the year! That's when I was learning to play was around 2004 and that's when I started noticing guitarists in the music I like.
For me I have the following for the following reasons of inspiration: PRS Custom 22 - Daniel Johns, Brad Delson & Wes Borland Jazzmaster - Mascis, Cobain, Rossdale Single Cut - Cantrell (It's a white PRS SC but it has Deg Trip vibes for me) Modded HH Telecaster - Cantrell again.... very much for me it's like his Blue Dress meets his Boogie Bodies H Tele
It's crazy how just a different color can make a huge difference! And what I also often find: Things I like in terms of feel when I'm picking up a guitar or bass are not necessarily what I like when seeing myself play the instrument. E. g. I like the feel of matte finishes or plain, barely treated wood, but often I don't like the look.
When I was younger I was really only drawn to Les Paul/single cut shapes but a few years ago I got randomly into classic fender shapes. I still love both but I never thought I would be into those shapes and more recently I purchased a solar V and love it too. Nothing wrong with your opinions growing and changing! Great video Fluff!!
Agreed. For years I played whatever I could. But I always loved single cuts, hated the look of teles and PRS custom 24s. Now I own a tele and a custom 24. I think people (myself included) forget that it's ok to change opinions of things over time.
Thanks to Adam Jones I am addicted to Silverbursts, I have 2 LPs, a V and an SG style all in some kind of Silverburst. Would love something with a nice flame top one day.
When I was a teen I dreamed about having the Dimebag's lightning bold Washburn. the years passed and I prefer my gear a little bit more simple so my electric guitar now is the opposite pole: a white telecaster.
Heck yeah. As someone who got an Ibanez Destroyer as his first guitar as a kid, I finally f ound my final guitar (I know, this won't last). A Schecter E-1 Custom. Absolutely perfect explorer style for me. (but I agree, I love playing metal on a pearl white Squier Contemporary Telecaster, because it's not "really" made for it)
isn't it the base for evolution in taste for anything really? Your taste is originally informed by the first things you discover, then you branch out and your taste evolves based on previous experiences. I liked the observation on the "extension of you". Even though I'm a function-over-form kid of person I love Flying V guitars, I have one, and it's one the most uncomfortable guitar I own, but boy do I feel cool when I'm playing it
I don't play hair metal but I love the vibe and look of the early 90s so my lady of choice most of the time is my LTD rainbow crackle eclipse 1987 reissue .
"We have to play what inspires us," I've been told again and again. For all of my non-playing life, I thought a Stratocaster would be the ultimate guitar for me. But from the very beginning of actually playing guitar, Strats prove they don't fit my style. Thought the same about Telecasters only I never liked the shape. I own a very strange Telecaster now. I picked up a Gretsch Duo-Jet, thinking it was a Les Paul, and fell in love before I realized I'd made a mistake. Been lusting for one ever since. I'm also not one for the relic-craze these days. I'd just assume do all that damage myself, and come by it honestly. I prefer metallic and flamed wood finishes, but I don't own any. It's ultimately my ear and hands that make decisions for me. Of the ones that got away, I include a PRS Custom 22 triple soapbar that oozed blues. Never heard anything like it before or since, and I've played a lot of PRS guitars trying. The PRS Tremonti SE model is wonderfully built, and my hands hurt within minutes of picking one up. The neck is all wrong for me. The looks are everything I want. The sound and feel are off. Jaguars: too short. Feel like a toy in my hands. Jazzmasters: Pusheen has opened my eyes to why these never work for me, they are fiendishly idiosyncratic to set up properly. Most likely I've never played a properly sorted example. Les Pauls: Be 90's vintage or be gone. Everything since has been a steady decline. SG: The Guild Polara is the only one I can stand. Come to find out, the body is a bit thicker, and the neck joint is different. Plus the added offset gives better access. There's always a caveat to my thinking that sidestepped appearance.
I absolutely have! The look of the guitar I play is fundamental to how I express myself - My guitars don't 'feel' right if they're not slung pretty low, and need to LOOK like they feel heavy as hell! I adore my Gretsch Baritone and it's my A guitar for my live shows, with a Bass VI as my backup cause it doesn't 'look' right on me - I love how it plays and sounds and I adore it - but I prefer how my Gretsch 'feels' cause it looks heavy as hell! I also love the look of Dunables, and Gibson RD's for exactly the same reason!
Believe me, how a guitar looks is right behind the specs in terms of priority when I'm considering a guitar. And for me, superstrats just do it for me, especially the flashy ones. I love superstrats but it's so hard to find 7 string versions, especially a 7 string that retains a strat pickguard. I eventually found exactly what I was looking for in the ESP Ohmura Custom Snapper. It checks all the boxes _especially_ the flashy factor, worth every penny.
Even before I started playing guitar I had a love for the Les Paul because of Ace Frehley, I always associated it with him as “Ace Frehley’s guitar” and when I got serious about playing guitar in middle school naturally I wanted an LP, finally got an Epiphone LP in high school that I still have to this day.
While I agree with your sentiment of veering outside your aesthetic comfort zone and trying a guitar out you wouldn't look at otherwise, there are instances where a guitar's aesthetics can also impact playability and tone. One example is the classic Telecaster. I love the Tele shape, but I've always been turned off by the look of the classic single-single pickups and they don't give me the tone I want to get inspired. Same with a Les Paul for me. I love the tone and aesthetics of a Les Paul, but find them really hard to play, especially standing up.
I don't know what it is, most of my influences were mostly from the late 80s into late 90s were the best, most fun memories. So for some reason I have this thing for reverse headstock super strats lol.
For me I have 3 basses I rotate through when I play out my absolute favorite is the Meteora bass in silver burst. Any show I play with it I always have a great time
Having my first show be a skillet show, Seth Morrison is where I draw my guitar inspiration from. So I’m drawn to prs singleuts like the Tremonti or the og 25” singlecuts.
my first ''real'' rig was a beat up looking bright pink japanese charvel with an upside down headstock remember plugging it in for the first time and feeling how low the action was compared to the no name lp trash fire i had and how crisp it sounded as i played the same bad religion riff 10x faster each time ,over ,and over,( washed away), most importantly as a 15 year old how i looked in my bedroom mirror as i played it.... i knew this was what i liked....the rest is history.
I like the superstrat shape because for me it is like a perfect middle ground between a plain and simple strat, and an edgier looking, sharp pointy guitar. And with the paint job I usually prefer more subtle finishes the same way, something you have to pay attention to the detail to notice. I don't like calling too much attention to myself but also like a little flash, and I feel like being more of a rhythm guitar player lends itself to being more in the background. But also almost like having a secret weapon that I can unleash some serious riffage. Les Paul is cool too, and the jazzmaster shape, for different reasons.
I have a deep nostalgia of SG's. Seeing 5 dollar punk rock shows like Bigwig, No Use For A Name, Swinging Utters etc etc etc always revealed someone swinging an SG around. I do not own an SG though. I DESPISE the baseball bat neck on those things. Nostalgia is not enough ........
You nailed me right at the end. I grew up with EVH, all the time, every time - with the Kramer-style 5150 being the be all and end all of guitars. (While I hold the Frankenstein in high regard for what it represents, the first one I saw was the Kramer.) First guitar I bought with my own money was a Floyd-equipped Washburn super-strat. Flash forward 30 years and picking the guitar up again after decades away and I'm I'm all about single cuts and I have an aversion to whammy bars. My collection is mostly LP-style and they are the ones I pick up most often. Weird. But I still kind of want one of the EVH 5150 striped series guitars though .......
It's amazing of all the guitar utubers it's taken to now for anyone to actually say this. Guitar is about expressing your individuality, and that's through the music you play, the band's you form, and the very guitars you choose to use. It's like the clothes you wear: there's always a practical element...and there's always a self expression element. Funnily enough, I ,too,like Leo Fender curvy bodies...and I like them best with metallic candy finishes - but not heavy flake! And I have a fixation with blue/green guitars. They can be any shade of blue. They change any shade of green. The can have any shade of both,in a two-tone burst of fade or whatever...Or they can be a mix : so aqua.. turquoise...teal..etc And I'm about to buy a candy slime green Charvel San Dimas before you can't get them anymore. So...remarkably similar to Fluff here....but still it's own thing, for my own reasons!
The sexiest guitar to me is the John Petrucci Majesty. It has a perfect mix of looking aggressive, yet refined. I’d have to settle for a Sterling though as the EB’s are way out of my budget.
I totally get it, I'm still in love with black Les Pauls due to Mick Jones (tHe cLaSh) and flying V's due to Micheal Schenker. No V's in the collection but if I found one of those green metal flake Gibsons like the one Ritchie Faulkner has...oh snap...that would be a great day! Cheers
For me , the “look” of certain guitars makes me want to pick them up. I’m highly attracted to a certain level of flame on a neck: not too much but just a little. And if it has a Floyd Rose you damn right I’m picking it up.
Hell yeah brother
I agree RJ. I see pretty much ANY Les Paul or Tele and I just want to pick it up and play. So many of my heroes play those two (Zakk Wylde and Jerry Cantrell, And then John 5 and Prince respectively). Doesn’t have to be Gibson or Fender but just a good single cut with a thick neck. Love your channel too by the way brother!
Yey, I'm not the only freak 🤘🤘🤘
Can you tell me flame on neck is please? English isn't my first language
@@agnessofiacastrocarvalho774maple has a natural look to it with light and dark streaks that sometimes makes it look like a dancing flame. Leo Fender saw this as a flaw, but now it’s thought of as a luxury look. I think it’s beautiful the way the colours of the wood dance in different light :)
It's all about the "vibe". As a guitar builder I've made a white explorer to write thrash metal, a worn-out looking Les Paul type body for doom/stoner rock and a teal blue strat style with coil splitting for other genres. I wouldn't feel inspired to write low tuned Meshuggah type riffs on a telecaster as an example. Aesthetics are very important.
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yeah but people do be ripping brutal drop f thall riffs on a tele tho ua-cam.com/video/x08O6LlNcw4/v-deo.html
I looove playing doom on my strat
all about that classic vibe
I thought jazzmaster were weird and then one day I saw one that just for whatever reason looked cool to me. I played it and realized jazzmaster/jaguar styles are the most comfortable guitar for me and now I’m hooked on offsets haha.
PRS has always had it's place in my head as the Linkin Park/Breaking Benjamin brand. The late 90s/early 00s models have a kind of mojo that earlier and later models lack. It's definitely all mental, but still.
This may be controversial but whenever I see a PRS it always makes me think about Chad Kroeger
I think of tribal tattoos and goofy butt rock
I think of John McLaughlin! 😊
I suppose this is how it reminds you
I don’t know what guitars bands use. Never had mtv
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For me I tend to play in the classical position so Flying V, and Strats work best for me vs a Les Paul. But I do believe that the guitar should inspire you to play and make you WANT to pick it up and play IMO 🤘🔥🔥🤘
It's simple, if it's hot pink and has Hello Kitty on it it's the best looking guitar automatically.
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I hated the look of Telecasters. Only old men and cowboys played them. Then I played one and well...now I have 2 and they are my main guitar.
Good point to try new things or looks. Sometimes you love what you least expected to.
I think that's everyone's story with teles, me included. Yeah, they're great for country, but they have a certain nastiness to them when you crank up the gain.
It's a rite of passage. It's how you know you've reached middle age.
Same. I’ve disliked the shape my whole life, and now I’m obsessing over building one. 🤦🏼♂️
@@AndiKravljacaI’ve hit middle age too early I guess, chronologically speaking, but yeah, that’s a pretty good way to put it. One day you realize you actually like Teles, usually around the same day you realize your back hurts and you’re getting a bit annoyed with the dagnabbed whippersnappers of the younger generations.
It’s kind of mind-boggling how much Leo got right on his very first try.
Me too! But there is something about Teles that says you’ve matured, are non-nonsense, and want to be low-key but taken seriously. Teles taking a beating and look more distinguished with age and they have the cohones to play any kind of music. What can I say my favorite. Has everything you need and nothin’ you don’t.
I didn’t start playing guitar until I turned 48 which was a few years ago. I began to notice a trend that I really liked both telecasters specifically and white guitars generally but didn’t really put my finger on it. Then one day watching purple rain it hit me. we had just gotten cable and therefore MTV back when I was in high school and prince playing a T style guitar and then the all white guitar from Apollonia made it all become crystal clear.
For me, there were a few factors. I was REALLY into The Wiggles when I was a little kid, that really inspired me to be a musician- they played strat style guitars. While I ended up gravitating towards the drums in 4th grade and played drums since, most guitarists I’d see in bands would play a strat. My brother would rent his saxophone from a local music lessons center, and they had a whole bunch of black, red and blue strats hanging on a rack on the wall- the light blue in particular caught my eye. Many years later, at age 21 when I bought my electric guitar, I was intimidated by so many options but ended up going for a Tidepool Blue player stratocaster as it reminded me of the time before I was a musician. And it ended up feeling perfect!!
I learned this lesson after buying my dream guitar in a color I didn’t love because it was crazy cheap. I snagged it, because it was a kinda rare guitar (an early 2010’s EVH Wolfgang special with stainless frets and the flat top) and because I found it for a stupid cheap price, I opted for a finish that wasn’t my favorite (I wanted the flat black, but went with a tobacco burst). As a result, I never deeply bonded with the guitar, even though it was exactly what I wanted otherwise.
In contrast, I now aesthetically have one of my #1 dream guitars, as well as spec wise: a jazzmaster with a Floyd rose (SBS brand, covered humbuckers with coil splitting, a 60’s Fender-looking satin blue finish reliced, aftermarket pearloid block inlay decals, and original Jazzmaster knobs). For me, I love bridging the world of that beautiful, classy 60’s offset Fender look, yet can actually stay in tune with super modern specs, can get heavy/high output or stay mellow and beautiful with the volume knob, and that also connects to my roots in 80’s alternative music. I love that guitar to death. Now that I’ve set it up really well, I can’t wait to put miles on it and write its story.
I feel like you and I cut our guitar playing teeth around the same time with the same music. While I was kind of a metal kid at the end of the 80s (Metallica, Megadeth, etc.), it was Nirvana/Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement of the early 90s that inspired me to pick up a guitar and learn to play.
Great shoutout Sparkle and Fade great album ! Always loved Gavin Rossdales purple jazzmaster and corgans Born to lose strat
I think one of the coolest things about being a musician is the fusion of different art forms. Woodworking, wood finishing, engineering, electrical design etc come together to make a cool thing I can be proud to hang on my wall AND it’s a tool to make music with.
I Love Leo Fenders take on offsets like the doheny or espada,sixty six where the knobs and pickguard etc is metal on classic natural woodgrain.Just beautiful.👍
Whatever creative work you do, you should strive to use the best tools available to you, but more important, you should use the tools that INSPIRE you
Tastes change. Yours will, other people’s will. When I started playing electrics, I wanted nothing more than a les paul. Then I got into rg’s and jems. After that a long stint of vintage-y stuff. And I still like elements of all of them, though some more than others. It’s a blessing to have a couple of instruments around that do different things for you, be it sound or simple aesthetics.
Definitely a big reason I gravitate towards Stratocasters. I have a Howlin' Wolf t shirt (still) from the 90s that pictures him with a white Strat. This is the whole reason I was compelled to have one. Luckily, it happens to be the greatest guitar design of all time😊.
I’m really into the superstrat/floyd rose scene like Kramers, charvels and evh guitars
The Legenddddddd!!!!👍Love ya Fluff!!!Hope you're feeling better.
Prayers for you and your family.
GodBless brotha!!!
More than heros that played such and such guitars will ever be an influence on me, are the times and people in my own life.
Hey Fluff, i recall diggin' your channel since '15, '16 or shit, a salute from Mexico. lml
My personal taste in guitar has been interesting. My dad being a classical guitarist since the 80's, already had quite a solid idea on the electric instrument overall and he bought for me a Squier Strat Standard, candy apple red with a CBS headstock and a maple board, back in late '15. How could i forget about her... She even survived a couple of times i thought of selling her and stuff. I recall digging Nirvana riffs on her back in the day, the instrument helping me overcome my first romantic breakup, playing on her punk, thrash, deathcore, metalcore, funk, jazz, djent, she was in pretty much any tuning ranging from E standard to Drop A and even lower.
The thing is, i dreamt of having other guitars back in the day instead of her, or imagining having a custom guitar made for me, and that also happened to me in my classical era, but, having never obtained any of my dream instruments during that time, i just kept playing my Roxy Strat until i found in mid pandemic (Around 6 years after having her) that my hands had shaped to her neck profile and her string spacing and such, and that i really didn't need any signature guitar of some sort, since, the hands of another axeguy will very surely not be exactly as mine. I learned to do everything in that guitar, and for that, i thank her, and i thank my dad, and the people who built her, because that thing shaped a good part of me as a musician.
Years later, a Les Paul came into my hands, and it has been my main both hard rock and jazz guitar. Yet, i never sold Roxy, and i am waiting to get some money to restore her since i will not let her go, ever. She just needs a bit of love from time to time. Fret recrowning, changing pots and electronics, changing tuning machines, tightening the trem claw, cleaning the bridge and saddles... Right now she sleeps, but i hope very soon, soon as possible, she'll come back into the world of the living. I will paint her fiesta red, relic her, put a locking nut, shape the headstock into a regular Strat one, put locking tuners, and a single humbucker, to pay homage in a way to my greatest influence of all time, mister Edward Van Halen.
Every guitar I own is different in the sense that when i pick each of them up, I'm always inspired to play something different on each one. I'm very thankful that I own three of my dream guitars and they're all genuinely amazing, and I go through periods of using each one. Every time I pick one up, I'm reminded of why I love that particular guitar and it continues to drive me to be a better guitar player and be influenced by the guitars themselves. I played in a mathcore band and I played a sparkly purple custom jazzmaster and everyone always asked me about it and commented that it just didn't seem like a guitar for the genre, but it was also how I expressed myself on stage, both physically and sonically.
I agree with this vibe, there's no perfect or bad guitars per se, you just pick one up and see what comes out
It can be fun and surprising to find out what different guitars bring out of you
I haven’t really liked the feel of the jazz masters I’ve tried at guitar stores, but my mind immediately thinks of Sonic Youth and Dino Jr. whenever I see one. The epitome of cool to me.
How my tastes have landed and developed at this point in my life is that for whatever reason for my own collection personally I tend to prefer lighter colors on guitars.
Shades of white, yellow, silver, or just a natural wood grain.
I think most ash bodies look so sick most of the time.
I basically always need a six in line headstock guitar.
My whole thing is sustain. There will be no trem usage. I’m too stupid too.
I actually don’t prefer locking tuners, although I think what every guitar really should come with is a spoke wheel truss rod adjustment.
Regarding nostalgia, I will always stick up for the Ibanez standards and even gios.
I kind love them, even the infinity humbuckers I kind of don’t completely hate.
They’re such actually awesome like I’m 13 and I have cheap parents guitars for what they are, the same way hp is for laptops and lg is for phones.
Creative people find inspiration in random, day to day things. Whether a "look" is important, cool, or neutral to you... it may trigger some highly creative person's creativity, and there you go. Art.
Yeah man! I have nostalgia for Caparison guitars because of KSE and as a bassist, the Fender jazz Jaco used!
I fell in love with the Peavey Vandenberg EX Limited Edition. I bought 3 of them and I love it for the violin body cut ultra narrow neck and the hollowed out tuners. It has been my go-to guitar for over 20 years. The only thing I have change is the pickups. I use Zebra Seymour Duncan’s. JB in the bridge and Saturday Night Special in the neck. Killer guitar!
For the guy that thought “PRS reminds me of Chad Kroeger” that a way he found of reminding you, of what he really was
The look and style of my guitar makes me want to pick it up more and practice.
I recently bought a DIY headless guitar kit. It was fun to put together and stain the body to my liking. With this Guitar, I have stepped out of my comfort zone with having a headless Guitar and the color of choice I chose for it.
Whenever I pick up a Music Man Richardson at the factory, I can't help but play it for a little bit before sending it on it's way.
I don't know why but I'm a church musician with a love for explorers. Could it be paul and Ace of Kiss who both played them . Or maybe Billy from ZZTop. ANYWAY I have a Gibson Explorer. It's always been my favorite for decades. Finally got one this past Christmas and I love it
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This was beautifully said.
My first (and current) guitar hero is Alexi Laiho, and some of the first song I hear from him are from Follow The Reaper. No wonder I like sharp-looking guitars as much as sharp-sounding guitars.
I dont even play a guitar but I bought a Jim Root squier tele cos it looked cool. Love teles, strat and hollow bodies.
I wish I could find a superstrat but with a full set of classic single coils. Only ever seen them with 2 humbuckers or a humbucker in the bridge position. I’m a fender guy, but I love the way those superstrats feel. Buttery. My love for strats goes back to my love for Hendrix and Gilmour and the tones they pulled out of them. As a kid, they were the reasons I wanted to pick up the instrument. And I just thought they were beautiful, simple workhorses. The Les Paul is my second and I love my epi LP, but I more often than not reach for the strat.
feels like the old beard files videos! bring this back! more of this dude!
To me the Les Paul is absolutely associated with Slash. Especially in this color.
I like Strats, Teles, LPs, Revstars and Gretsches Semihollows, covers all my bases both musically and aesthetically
It's like Mick and Dan on That Pedal Show say. "The 3 most important things when choosing a guitar are: what it looks like, what it looks like, and what it looks like." You want something that looks cool to you and makes you want to pick it up and play it. Also something that inspires you to play a particular style that it puts you in the mindset for.
Luckily or unluckily for me, I don't actually have any attachment really to any guitars that my musical influences play. Dean ML shapes are very comfortable to me in classical position because that's what I grew up playing as my first guitar, but I'm not and never was a big Pantera fan. My parents just happened to pick that for me as a christmas gift. I didn't have any say in it. I grew up listening to people play mostly gibson, jackson, Ibanez, and ESP, but I don't like gibsons, jacksons, or Ibanez and I'm indifferent to ESP. I ended up being more into Schecter, Solar, PRS, and Fender.
Reminds me of the ‘Guitar Files’ videos. 🤘🏽
I think the most important part of your gear is the guitar shape and colour.
I want to look cool AF while my tone sucks just as bad as my playing.
Thanks for recognizing Tim Mahoney!!!=311
Looks are important. People heard with their eyes. Guitarists buy explorers, warlocks, and teles due the music they play and the image they want to give off.
Guitars to me are like cars. Gibsons are like Ferraris. The older ones are very sought after but also very expensive. The newer ones still have the same elements but do not have the age. Fender Strats are like the Honda Civic, and the superstrat is like the NSX. But me I'm an American Muscle kinda guy, so I tend to go for the explorers. The guitar equivalent of a 1967 pre-coke bottle Dodge Charger.
I play rock, metal, blues, and reggae. I am completely a Starcaster, Jaguar, Jazzmaster type of guy. That is why my baritone is that Squier Baritone Jazzmaster, and BOTH my basses are a Bass VI (Squier Classic Vibe, and Fender Pawn Shop). That is why I jumped on the bandwagon when Jim Root started playing a Jazzmaster, and why I am pre-ordering that LTD XJ.
I always say Look Good, Feel Good, Play good. Nobody was ever inspired to play guitar by what a good deal they got or the value of a guitar. It's gotta look cool and inspire you.
When I think of PRS, I think of Dave Prichard of Armored Saint. He was the first guy I saw endorsed by them
Funny, as a teenager i always wanted a PRS custom 22/24 because of Mike Einziger of Incubus. Like, PRS and Dual rectifiers were what everyone seemed to play, POD, Creed etc. But when i actually got to play them and i started to figure out what i actually liked to play the PRS didnt quite hit the mark. I still want one but for my daily drivers i prefer longer scales, flatter radiuses, and no pick up rings etc
I started playing the bass when I was 14 and immediately connected with Fenders. I spent years solely playing P and Jazz Basses because nothing ever sounded as good, played as well, or looked as cool as a Fender bass to me. My ultimate bass was a P Deluxe Special with a Blizzard Pearl finish and a maple neck. It’s like a vintage Cadillac of an instrument, bright, curvy, a little heavy and unwieldy, but dripping with style. It would glow under stage lighting.
When I started seriously playing a six string in my 30s, I went directly to my earliest influences and bought a dirt cheap Epiphone SG to learn on because of Angus Young. After that I bought a black Gretsch hollowbody, because something about it’s iconic old-school looks truly spoke to me. Brian Setzer and Tim Armstrong both looked cool as hell with one, and I loved that mojo. Recently I bought a Fender 72 Telecaster Deluxe specifically because a big guitar influence on me was my one of my best friends. He had one, and I always thought it was the coolest guitar that Fender ever offered. Just the combination of the Tele body with the shiny chrome humbuckers, sweeping pickguard, and awesome jumbo 70s Strat headstock gives me a palpable joy.
i agree with the it's an extenstion of ourselves claim the most.
as for nostalgia, for me it's more of the nostalgic feeling when i just started playing 16 years ago and watched old alexi laiho videos playing his jackson RR guitars...
therefore, Jacksons and RR shaped guitars will always evoke those emotions in me!
great vid i enjoyed watching
because my favorite artist played it
I grew up in SoCal primarily on skate punk music so I'll always be drawn to Fender instruments, no matter how much hate they get online these days. These days though I've grown to really dislike super bright and shimmery finishes and tend to be more attracted to wood grain or straight up black finishes, which are colors I thought were super boring when I was young 😂
Thats one of the nicest PRS ive ever seen
Never in a million years did i think id ever consider a jim root jazzmaster, i just couldn't put metal and fender together in my own taste, feel or logic. Then this past week, after not having a holiday for nearly 4 years, I had about 8 guitars out fiddling around,6,7,8 strings, etc. Anyway, i guess you could say our taste, look and feel refines over time. I think my inner teenage metal head has had his day. Gone are the days of buying something for looks and doing it up. I think a prs will do that to you, you simply can't imitate quality.
Our taste definitely evolves with age. My teenage metal head would have hands down went an e.g. Mick Thompson.
There it is. I think as we age, we are listening more for tone over that of looks. Also as we age we refine. This is a timely video, i literally redefined my view on guitars this last week. Heres to doing it til the day we drop 💪
Claudio Sanchez from Coheed, is the reason I own a Gibson explorer.
thank you for this man. i need it!
i feel that looks are important
mostly early on too, if tour starting huitar, get a guitar that looks cool, and is ideally a good low budget brand
I have a deep love for the Iceman, seeing the chop suey music video when I was 14 just did something to me
In 1995 my friend had a 7-Up green Clapton that had an amazing sound. Been a Strat guy ever since. If you've never played a Clapton Strat, do yourself a favor and check one out 🤘
Well said! That’s why we all need so many guitars!
It's funny PRS always remind me of the guitarist of Story of the year! That's when I was learning to play was around 2004 and that's when I started noticing guitarists in the music I like.
For me I have the following for the following reasons of inspiration:
PRS Custom 22 - Daniel Johns, Brad Delson & Wes Borland
Jazzmaster - Mascis, Cobain, Rossdale
Single Cut - Cantrell (It's a white PRS SC but it has Deg Trip vibes for me)
Modded HH Telecaster - Cantrell again.... very much for me it's like his Blue Dress meets his Boogie Bodies H Tele
TIESCO Strat,to an SG, to a LesPaul, in 85 went to an Explorer… Never looked back.
i like strats and p basses becos growing up, that is the shape that i thought of when i thought "electric guitar"
It's crazy how just a different color can make a huge difference! And what I also often find: Things I like in terms of feel when I'm picking up a guitar or bass are not necessarily what I like when seeing myself play the instrument. E. g. I like the feel of matte finishes or plain, barely treated wood, but often I don't like the look.
When I was younger I was really only drawn to Les Paul/single cut shapes but a few years ago I got randomly into classic fender shapes. I still love both but I never thought I would be into those shapes and more recently I purchased a solar V and love it too. Nothing wrong with your opinions growing and changing! Great video Fluff!!
Agreed. For years I played whatever I could. But I always loved single cuts, hated the look of teles and PRS custom 24s. Now I own a tele and a custom 24. I think people (myself included) forget that it's ok to change opinions of things over time.
Thanks to Adam Jones I am addicted to Silverbursts, I have 2 LPs, a V and an SG style all in some kind of Silverburst. Would love something with a nice flame top one day.
When I was a teen I dreamed about having the Dimebag's lightning bold Washburn. the years passed and I prefer my gear a little bit more simple so my electric guitar now is the opposite pole: a white telecaster.
Heck yeah. As someone who got an Ibanez Destroyer as his first guitar as a kid, I finally f ound my final guitar (I know, this won't last). A Schecter E-1 Custom. Absolutely perfect explorer style for me. (but I agree, I love playing metal on a pearl white Squier Contemporary Telecaster, because it's not "really" made for it)
We need a guitar collection video, Fluff! Would love that!
isn't it the base for evolution in taste for anything really? Your taste is originally informed by the first things you discover, then you branch out and your taste evolves based on previous experiences.
I liked the observation on the "extension of you". Even though I'm a function-over-form kid of person I love Flying V guitars, I have one, and it's one the most uncomfortable guitar I own, but boy do I feel cool when I'm playing it
I don't play hair metal but I love the vibe and look of the early 90s so my lady of choice most of the time is my LTD rainbow crackle eclipse 1987 reissue .
Tim Mahoney is why I got my PRS, it’s a CE like on of his firsts and in powder blue like his main Standard 24 😸👍
For me head stock shape really matters too. It could be a beautiful guitar but if it has an ugly headstock it’s a deal breaker.
"We have to play what inspires us," I've been told again and again. For all of my non-playing life, I thought a Stratocaster would be the ultimate guitar for me. But from the very beginning of actually playing guitar, Strats prove they don't fit my style. Thought the same about Telecasters only I never liked the shape. I own a very strange Telecaster now.
I picked up a Gretsch Duo-Jet, thinking it was a Les Paul, and fell in love before I realized I'd made a mistake. Been lusting for one ever since.
I'm also not one for the relic-craze these days. I'd just assume do all that damage myself, and come by it honestly. I prefer metallic and flamed wood finishes, but I don't own any.
It's ultimately my ear and hands that make decisions for me. Of the ones that got away, I include a PRS Custom 22 triple soapbar that oozed blues. Never heard anything like it before or since, and I've played a lot of PRS guitars trying. The PRS Tremonti SE model is wonderfully built, and my hands hurt within minutes of picking one up. The neck is all wrong for me. The looks are everything I want. The sound and feel are off.
Jaguars: too short. Feel like a toy in my hands.
Jazzmasters: Pusheen has opened my eyes to why these never work for me, they are fiendishly idiosyncratic to set up properly. Most likely I've never played a properly sorted example.
Les Pauls: Be 90's vintage or be gone. Everything since has been a steady decline.
SG: The Guild Polara is the only one I can stand. Come to find out, the body is a bit thicker, and the neck joint is different. Plus the added offset gives better access.
There's always a caveat to my thinking that sidestepped appearance.
I absolutely have! The look of the guitar I play is fundamental to how I express myself - My guitars don't 'feel' right if they're not slung pretty low, and need to LOOK like they feel heavy as hell! I adore my Gretsch Baritone and it's my A guitar for my live shows, with a Bass VI as my backup cause it doesn't 'look' right on me - I love how it plays and sounds and I adore it - but I prefer how my Gretsch 'feels' cause it looks heavy as hell! I also love the look of Dunables, and Gibson RD's for exactly the same reason!
Believe me, how a guitar looks is right behind the specs in terms of priority when I'm considering a guitar. And for me, superstrats just do it for me, especially the flashy ones. I love superstrats but it's so hard to find 7 string versions, especially a 7 string that retains a strat pickguard. I eventually found exactly what I was looking for in the ESP Ohmura Custom Snapper. It checks all the boxes _especially_ the flashy factor, worth every penny.
Even before I started playing guitar I had a love for the Les Paul because of Ace Frehley, I always associated it with him as “Ace Frehley’s guitar” and when I got serious about playing guitar in middle school naturally I wanted an LP, finally got an Epiphone LP in high school that I still have to this day.
While I agree with your sentiment of veering outside your aesthetic comfort zone and trying a guitar out you wouldn't look at otherwise, there are instances where a guitar's aesthetics can also impact playability and tone. One example is the classic Telecaster. I love the Tele shape, but I've always been turned off by the look of the classic single-single pickups and they don't give me the tone I want to get inspired. Same with a Les Paul for me. I love the tone and aesthetics of a Les Paul, but find them really hard to play, especially standing up.
I don't know what it is, most of my influences were mostly from the late 80s into late 90s were the best, most fun memories. So for some reason I have this thing for reverse headstock super strats lol.
I only noticed difference in guitars when I tried one myself. Before that everything was just an electric guitar, just different shapes 😅
For me I have 3 basses I rotate through when I play out my absolute favorite is the Meteora bass in silver burst. Any show I play with it I always have a great time
Having my first show be a skillet show, Seth Morrison is where I draw my guitar inspiration from. So I’m drawn to prs singleuts like the Tremonti or the og 25” singlecuts.
my first ''real'' rig was a beat up looking bright pink japanese charvel with an upside down headstock remember plugging it in for the first time and feeling how low the action was compared to the no name lp trash fire i had and how crisp it sounded as i played the same bad religion riff 10x faster each time ,over ,and over,( washed away), most importantly as a 15 year old how i looked in my bedroom mirror as i played it.... i knew this was what i liked....the rest is history.
I like the superstrat shape because for me it is like a perfect middle ground between a plain and simple strat, and an edgier looking, sharp pointy guitar. And with the paint job I usually prefer more subtle finishes the same way, something you have to pay attention to the detail to notice.
I don't like calling too much attention to myself but also like a little flash, and I feel like being more of a rhythm guitar player lends itself to being more in the background.
But also almost like having a secret weapon that I can unleash some serious riffage.
Les Paul is cool too, and the jazzmaster shape, for different reasons.
head tock shape body shape color are what draws me to a guitar
I have a deep nostalgia of SG's. Seeing 5 dollar punk rock shows like Bigwig, No Use For A Name, Swinging Utters etc etc etc always revealed someone swinging an SG around. I do not own an SG though. I DESPISE the baseball bat neck on those things.
Nostalgia is not enough ........
You nailed me right at the end. I grew up with EVH, all the time, every time - with the Kramer-style 5150 being the be all and end all of guitars. (While I hold the Frankenstein in high regard for what it represents, the first one I saw was the Kramer.)
First guitar I bought with my own money was a Floyd-equipped Washburn super-strat.
Flash forward 30 years and picking the guitar up again after decades away and I'm I'm all about single cuts and I have an aversion to whammy bars.
My collection is mostly LP-style and they are the ones I pick up most often.
Weird.
But I still kind of want one of the EVH 5150 striped series guitars though .......
Yes it does.. that is why guitar stores have mirrors!! To see yourself with the guitar, you have to like how you see yourself with it
That PRS is perfect. Love the video
It's amazing of all the guitar utubers it's taken to now for anyone to actually say this.
Guitar is about expressing your individuality, and that's through the music you play, the band's you form, and the very guitars you choose to use. It's like the clothes you wear: there's always a practical element...and there's always a self expression element.
Funnily enough, I ,too,like Leo Fender curvy bodies...and I like them best with metallic candy finishes - but not heavy flake! And I have a fixation with blue/green guitars. They can be any shade of blue. They change any shade of green. The can have any shade of both,in a two-tone burst of fade or whatever...Or they can be a mix : so aqua.. turquoise...teal..etc
And I'm about to buy a candy slime green Charvel San Dimas before you can't get them anymore. So...remarkably similar to Fluff here....but still it's own thing, for my own reasons!
Looks does matters.
3:57 in actuality for the most part you hear Telecaster, but you envision Les Paul.
The sexiest guitar to me is the John Petrucci Majesty. It has a perfect mix of looking aggressive, yet refined. I’d have to settle for a Sterling though as the EB’s are way out of my budget.
I totally get it, I'm still in love with black Les Pauls due to Mick Jones (tHe cLaSh) and flying V's due to Micheal Schenker. No V's in the collection but if I found one of those green metal flake Gibsons like the one Ritchie Faulkner has...oh snap...that would be a great day! Cheers
Saw the video thumbnail. Couldn't agree more 🤘🏻🔥
Your black satin PRS is perfect.
PRS reminds me of Larry Lalonde 🙂 I love the V because of Hendrix, Randy, and KK Downing.