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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I used two guitars live from 1981 onwards, a strat and my Aria PE1000, partly for backup and to get those OOP straty tones, not much in the way of talent pedals back then. Since the kids grew up and finances allowed I've been taking 3 guitars on stage Strat, Tele and 335. I use 3 transmitters and one receiver so switching is very fast and almost seamless.
I like to use something appropriate if I can but if we seque songs I can play anything on any guitar.
Does anyone else hear a difference? Probably not, but then they cant tell the difference between a BOSS overdrive and some booteek stomp box either. In truth iI like gear and guitars are what it's all about so I'll continue to do this, no more than 3 though. Car space and setting up dictate that. In my country rock bands the strat gives way to an acoustic as third guitar but that's hard wired to the preamp/DI, again swap over is fast and slick just sling a strap over the head. Same pick for everything.
If you're in a tribute you want to look the part, but even then, you'd likely go for the guitars that have the strongest visual association with the artist rather than whatever they might have originally played the song on.
I never took the approach of chasing tones that were on the records. I just concentrated an getting an appropriate sound gain wise and getting the parts nailed.
It always ends up being a tele +1, with the +1 being either another tele, a cabronita or a strat.
Most of the time I’ll get through the gig on the main tele.
Cannot be arsed to deal with unnecessary guitar changes.
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I use to try and at least match humbucker or single coil, then realised people mostly didn't care.
I have a second as a backup, usually for songs in a different tuning if needed although D-tuners have solved a lot of those issues too.
For one song I came up with a guitar solo played with an amp-style tremolo effect. I tried various of my guitars but the one that sounded best in the mix was a Maverick Chaos, an inexpensive ‘metal’ guitar with locking tuners.
Go figure, as they say.
Strat in-between
Bridge humbucker/hotter single coil (Tele, P90 etc)
Some sort of clearer neck pickup (Strat, PAF-type humbucker)
And possibly a two-pickup bridge/neck combination (Tele/Gibson middle position)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Who takes an acoustic to a gig because it’s the “right” guitar?
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