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Like wise I'm sure John Mayer still has his Strats and I bet they will come out from time to time
Or he's being paid handsomely to use it.
OK, I should stop sniping about it, but I don't think PRS should be in the business of making Strat copies. I know there have long been models in the PRS range to do that job, starting with the original EGs, but they always looked like PRS designs. This doesn't.
Does a guitar need to look like a Strat to sound like a Strat ? - It certainly needs to have the right ingredients - But I do agree with you about should PRS be trying to make in roads into the Strat market - I can see merits in the 513 and 305, as they are PRS's ideas influenced by an established format yet firmly a PRS Guitar - I suppose it is a case of JM driving PRS or vice versa or both
Gibson don't. Arguably the closest they got were the Corvus, Victory and M-III, two of which weren't even bolt-ons. And look what runaway successes they were.
Of course I'm not forgetting the Gibson Hendrix "Strat"....
John won't be paid handsomely to use it either, and no he doesn't need it. Like Mark says he'll have been pushing for it after he had a bit of a parting of the ways with Fender. Don't think he was best pleased when the neck on his much loved black relic Strat warped and had to be replaced a few years back.
Fingers crossed they make a Tele too!
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Imagine if a classical composer was confronted by the use of the flat 5th -it would seem disonant and devillish ........it's just that blues and blues rock has taught our ears to accept it ..........like some Eastern Scales
If you blow away expectation of headstock shape you would be more naturally receptive -it's probably a great guitar to play
Doesn't look any worse than a Strat with a reverse headstock or locking nut.
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