...a STRAT?
Or a TELE?
Two very fundamental questions and I'm not sure there's a right or wrong answer, but you may disagree. Fair play, and let's not forget Gibson.
Maybe you're an SG?
Or a CLASSIC?
Your call, no "rule," except one. As with guns, you can't have too many.
Rock on,
LSP
Ovation.
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I bought mine new through the AAFES catalog service, along with a hard case, in 1976.
Ovation Classical
ReplyDeleteFrankencasters, mostly. Home-built strats, currently playing Rocky IX, standard pickups, single master volume with a Tele speed knob, no tone controls, fleckstone grey granite spray finish well chipped (hence "Rocky", ninth of its name) built of parts from misc. sources. Balance is good, not too heavy. Had a Tele James Burton Special for backup, with the pink paisley finish and the small humbucker in the neck position, but the lack of contour on the body caused major bruising on my forearm. Current backup is a Squier Strat dead stock, and a Peavy Patriot (Made In USA!) with an odd P-90/Charlie Christian p/u at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge. ($65 at a garage sale). Ran a LP Deluxe for years ($100 at a pawnshop around '85), which replaced my Epiphone Riviera (sweet sweet axe, stolen). LPs are just too massive, and SGs and Firebirds are neck-heavy. I may get a parts kit for an LP Jr and contour the back and sides.
ReplyDelete"let's not forget Gibson."
ReplyDeleteBy all means. How can one ever forget Debbi Gibson? (Not to put any shade on Tiffany but Gibson was better.)
None…I was drawn to the drums, Slingerland in 70’s sparkly blue.
ReplyDeleteThat assumes one can play them...
ReplyDelete"She didn't look like too much
ReplyDeleteJust a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe
But a lady has never faired as well
Who'd traveled through so much"
Got four Acoustics, Martin dreadnought for one.
ReplyDeleteCan't play any of them without criticism.
A drummer would help . . .