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Remember, kids, being different is not cool. Conforming is cool. Dull mediocrity is totally on fleek.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The guitar I have been using mostly for 'real stuff' recently is a Godin...which nobody knows and I always feel mildly chuffed that I'm a bit different in that regard...silly I know but still. I've owned a few LPs but never gigged them, partly because I never felt that comfortable with them but also I felt I might get judged slightly for having a posh guitar, without having the talent to back it up. The PRS only cost slightly less but people don't recognise it.
...the one LP I did gig a lot was a Japanese copy (Signature HB01) - for some weird reason that did feel comfortable. It was a bit annoying that people would ask me if it's a Gibson and I always felt a bit judged when I said it was a copy.
I think that this is a perfectly valid reason for either liking or not liking a guitar. What appeals to, or repels, one person will be completely different for another. All that is important is that your guitar appeals to you and that you can't walk past it without an overwhelming desire to pick it up and play it.
There are a myriad of guitars out there. I start my search based on looks (and I'm not afraid to say that the name on the headstock is also important to me). That still leaves me with a list containing more guitars than I can afford (or that my wife will allow me) so then I start playing them. Some guitars work for me and some don't. I've never owned a Gibson LP because, for some reason, I don't get on with them (despite them being played by some of my heroes on my favourite recordings). PRS on the other hand do appeal (although not the Santana shape) and they 'fit me'.
On the subject of headstocks. I have no problem with the PRS design on a 'standard' PRS guitar but I really don't like the reversed version on the Silver Sky (I have no problem with the shape of the guitar, I love Strats). Eye of the beholder and all that.
Pointy or "shouty" (no, don't ask me to define it, I know what I mean) headstocks just don't do it for me. I don't care about the name on them, as long as the shape is elegant and "right". One I like at the moment is the standard one on the Crimson Guitars Descendant...
It does look better in the flesh than in pictures. If I didn't already have a good Strat, I'd quite like one of those.
I'd be interested in a PRS version of a Tele.
Another guitar that looks better in the flesh than in pictures, is the Taylor solid body electric. That one never really caught on at all though. It's very difficult to break into the market with something new.
Maybe I’m not superficial enough to be a successful musician. I mean my priorities are tone and intonation & how things sit in a mix. Now imagine if Rankin was told he couldn’t use a Phase One Digital Camera on a shoot because they had to use 1960’s analog cameras like Nikon F’s & Minolta SRT101’s because that’s what the really “cool” 1960’s photographers used?
No wonder guitar music is in the toilet these days. Chasing iconography rather than making new art.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
The Marcus Miller range of Sire basses are hyped big time for being amazing quality for the money but to me the headstock is the ugliest part of any guitar I've ever seen and that alone puts me off them completely.
Chapman were wanting to use that style initially but they couldn't because it's patented by MM.