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my next favourites are Frusciante, Hendrix, Clapton (Layla era), Blackmore, Knopfler, Dave Murray (all strats), then Quo’s teles.
Just my personal opinion of course, I have reasons to think this but to be honest I can't be arsed with typing them right now. I need to get on with some work and stop faffing around on the FB!
Most of my favourite players are strat or Les Paul with a few teles. Used to be LP only but got fed up with the weight, bulk and upper fret access. I feel like I’ve been building up to getting a PRS for a while now which does actually seem like a good blend of strat and LP. If only the McCarty was anywhere near my budget!
But most of the music I listen to these days is heavier still and so Strats don't really get a look in.
Metal itself though has its own modern instruments, it's still very much in its day as a genre rather than being somewhat of a retro "throwback" genre like a lot of the ones I'm in to. So they tend to have more updated extended range designs, active pickups and the likes rather than Fender or Gibson models from the old days.
And in recent years I've personally been preferring Fender guitars - especially the necks, I never seem to find a Gibson, PRS or whatever with a neck I really like. And I love the look, especially the big-headstock '70s style.
Despite all that, I generally prefer the sound of humbuckers, although a Strat is wonderful for certain distorted lead guitar tones, not so much for rhythm. I'm not particularly fond of clean Strat sounds.
Landau in particular always makes me GAS for a Strat, I have a few but in all honesty they don't see the light of day, however, this weekend I am actually going to use a Strat for a gig just to see how I get on as in the house it plays and feels fine, in the heat of a gig though its a different matter - I liken it to playing a banjo - just plinky plonk city!!!
Strat in question for this weekend is a CP 50 in Shoreline Gold - this one is currently the one that feels OK under the fingers...
I also have an '82 JV, a '94 62 RI Jap, an '87 Standard (bastardised to hell) and a late 90's US Standard (which hasn't actually been out of its case for 5+ years!!)
I really want to be a Strat player, its just they leave me down ( or more a case of I leave them down!!) in a live environment.