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There have been many 'ghost builder' models over the years, were the artist is playing some supa dupa custom shop version yet the market is full of a cheaper version
So many signature models now on the market - at many price points from many builders and from many countries, so hard to be specific - I dare say the large majority don't play, tour and record on a regular basis with such 'signature replicas'
I wonder sometimes if they use them for a few gigs around the release, but other than that no way.
Ed Obrien and The Edge have both been using their sig Strats (or st least prototypes of) for their last couple of tours
I was erring on an epiphone century reissue last year as a living room beater for noodling on and now they finally did the James bay sig model will it actually be much different.
i like the old p90 sound of his can't see the noiseless version giving me that. For him it makes sense to swap the pickup live to manage noise better. In a home environment think I would rather have the non signature and put the money towards upgrading the epi p90 to something a bit better
1) a version for the fans to buy like the Simon Neil strat (though it usually gets played at least one song each gig from what I've seen) it's about a company shifting units
2) then you have an artist request his favorite guitar is replicated so it doesn't have to be toured and damaged, like the James Bay sig
3) the artist or company is searching to recreate something that no longer exists, long the lines of the Marshall AFD 100
I agree!
Obviously, a guitar design with a widdlestick neck profile lends itself to shred style playing. Some body shapes and colour schemes are undeniably distinctive and/or genre appropriate.
There is also the phenomenon of audience expectations. The instruments that can be seen onstage suggest to some people what sort of music is likely to be performed. e.g. Explorers are not associated with lounge Jazz.
I tried a Chris Shiflett Tele tue other day, that was impressive. So I imagine he could gig a mex built one. But then he uses stock Les Paul's as well as CS ones.
But I just wanted to point out that Les Paul only used the early versions of his signature guitar to pose for photographs.
The ones he actually used were modded. By himself.
So I guess you could argue that he had a cheek doing that.
The "artist's name here" on a cheap Strat or LP is a very different thing. They all say "I wanted it to be affordable for the fans" but you can bet 99% of them are wishing they were famous enough to have a pricier signature model. But fair play to them if they are seen to actually use those cheap models.