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Real good......but not as good as a Gibson LP
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
I did something similar a few months ago when I decided to get a new guitar after 30-odd years using a Gibson Marauder. Tried a couple of Epi LPs and felt they were somewhat bland, trawled Youtube and discovered the Lemon Drop (Roy Fulton's vids) but didn't like the distressed look. Then found they had introduced a non-distressed 'reissue' version and ordered one unseen, unplayed, unheard. A tweak of the action and change to speed knobs and I'm really impressed with it.
Fast forward a bit and I'm in and out of GG trying effects pedals, and always ask for a humbucker guitar. First time, I get a LP Studio. Fat neck, high action, nasty fret ends, dull sound - 800 quid of yuck. Next time, I ask for a humbucker guitar, but not the one I had the last time. I get a 600 quid Gibson LP with a nasty matt/stain purple finish. Better action, slightly better sound, but nothing to write home about. I ask to try one of the dear ones - a 2.3K jobbie with a nice flame top. Action similar to the 600-quid one, but with the characteristic LP sound more evident. I'm mainly interested in neck pickup - mellow but with a bit of top end - and the dear LP was the only one that had that. The 600 and 2.3K guitars felt like the action would come down nicely and the necks felt similar to the Lemon Drop (70s profile?).
The LP Studio couldn't get close to the Lemon Drop in terms of sound (very dull and not at all what I expected - maybe it was a duff one). The 600 quid purple stain one was closer but not as lively - about what I expected sound-wise from a bottom end 'real Gibson'. But what struck me most was how small the difference was between the 2.3K pretty LP and the Vintage. I've hankered after a real LP for years (a couple of decades), but I came away wondering why I would want to spend about 2K extra on something that might sound slightly different from what I have, but isn't necessarily better and most certainly is not night and day.
While part of me still likes the idea of a real Gibson LP, my hankering for one has been eliminated - the Lemon Drop is just too close to the 2.3K guitar for me to justify trying to find the extra money. The law of diminishing returns was thrown into sharp relief that day. I sniffed the corks, they were all red wine, and the cheapest bottle was in near-as-dammit the same league as the dearest bottle.
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It was the guitar I dreamed about when I was a kid, and that plays a significant part, I walk into the front room see that guitar as it makes me smile, I don't get that from a prs etc.
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