Hi!
I need advice about choosing the right guitar. First of all, I've been playing for pretty long time on my classical guitar (and so it's prettty used by now) and I also have BC Rich with my Marshall. Now I finally feel that the time for the change has come.
I'm looking for a new guitar and the music I'm interested in playing is most-likely folk and folk-rock. I'm talking about Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen style but The Band, Pink Floyd, The Beatles are also very high on my "must-learn" list.
So what do you think? New classical, acoustic or some soft electric guitar (you know - to play e.g. "Still got the Blues" but also to be able to play some fine chord-based Dylan song).
I'll be glad to read every one of your opinion. See you.
you have 2 ends of the tonal spectrum fairly well covered, how bout a bit of versitility?
say a strat?
it would cover most of the folks you mentioned
#4491....
Like Lefty said, you seem to have the acoustic end and the heavy end of the spectrum covered - so what you need is a fairly versatile guitar to cover the middle. Strats and Teles are pretty versatile - for Dylan, Beatles and Band I'd think Tele, for Floyd a Strat, but you might like to consider a hollowbody as well - something along the lines of an Epiphone Casino or Sheraton.
As always, try before you buy - get yourself down to a guitar shop and road test a few models.
Oh, and welcome to GN, Bobby!
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Vic
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Hi Bobby. Welcome too.
I like the Strat suggestions so far. I'm sure that Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan, David Gilmour, and perhaps George Harrison would have approved.
I used one of my Strats as an Acoustic/Electric at Coffee Houses, solo, first with vintage effects like chorus and flanger, then up through the Boss AC-2 (Acoustic Simulator), and so on, till I found the Zoom G1.
The only problem that I have with the semi-hollows including chambered guitars (other than Danelectro) is that they are humbuckered and not soft enough - they drive the simulators too hard & raspy.
Not that we can't make a Strat do that, but that topic isn't required here. :D
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Big thanks for the reply, you've been the most helpful! I've been sitting here for like an hour and analizyng your posts. Now I finally have some light turned on in my head - I'm thinking on Strat, Tele or some Epiphone hollowbody (just like you suggested).
The only problem that I have with the semi-hollows including chambered guitars (other than Danelectro) is that they are humbuckered and not soft enough - they drive the simulators too hard & raspy.
Yeah, I think I want something soft enough, so following your lead - I shouldn't take guitar with humbuckers, right?
PS. By "Hi!" I meant "Welcome everybody on this great and priceless site! Pleased to meet you." of course! :wink:
+1 to all the strat suggestions. But also if you tweak the amp and tone controlls on your gutiar, you can make a (semi)hollowbody sound extrememly soft and mellow. But thats just my opinion. :D
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I agree with the previous posters but would submit the following caveat about choosing a Strat versus a Tele.
For whatever reason, my playing style causes me to strike the volume knob and sometimes the pickup selector switch when I strum my Strat. I've had to do numerous modifications to mine to somewhat mitigate that problem. It was my first "real" guitar, so the nostalgia factor causes me not to sell or trade it, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have chosen a Tele. Love the sound of both, but it seems like the Tele is more ergonomically suited to my style.
Happy playing!
Oh My.. I just realized I put worthlless instead of priceless... I'm sorry, I'm from Poland and my English is, well quite good ( :wink: ), but I sometimes got the words wrong. God, the colour of my face has turned red in half a second as I realized it ...
Thanks to you all, I'm almost decided to one of the three I've pointed above. Talking bout Strat, Tele or hollowbody Epiphone. I think I'm just going to spend few nights in the nearest music store and decide which sound better for me. But the most important thing is that I now know where to look and which road to follow in my musician life. Thank you very much.
