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  1. I know this, and I know that the Tele is more suited to power chords and twang and the Jazz to drone and shoegaze stylings (to say the bare bones least), but I'm wondering which you think would make the better more versatile second guitar to my electric collection.

    Right now I have the ES-335, Double Humbuckers.

    (though its soon to be painted in scheme with my color aesthetic for iOi)
  2. If you already have a 335, I'd recommend you to get a Tele.

    If you'd had a Les Paul, I would have recommended you to get a Tele.

    If you'd had a Strat, I would've recommended... hmmm... maybe a Tele would fit then.
  3. I love the wood-glaze hollow tele's that Jonny Buckland plays.
    Got to hand it to that guy, he's taken shoegaze drone and made it fit into anthemic music.

    One wee problem. I'm a lefty.
  4. Oh dear, I didn't know... That automatically means that all gear is more expensive to buy and less profitable to sell. I'm sorry for you.
  5. Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

    I know this, and I know that the Tele is more suited to power chords and twang and the Jazz to drone and shoegaze stylings (to say the bare bones least), but I'm wondering which you think would make the better more versatile second guitar to my electric collection.

    Right now I have the ES-335, Double Humbuckers.

    (though its soon to be painted in scheme with my color aesthetic for iOi)


    I'd recommend a strat. In my opinion strats are the most versatile guitars out there. That's not taking into account guitars like the Line 6 Variax guitars that can sound like 6 guitars in one, but if I had a 335 and wanted a new guitar that was versatile, I'd get a strat. You won't be able to put it down. They're also super customizable. It's easy to replace the neck, the pickups, the pickguard, even the body (as I did - the only stock part left on my strat is the neck, love the american necks).

    And I hate you too!
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    I'd recommend a strat. In my opinion strats are the most versatile guitars out there. That's not taking into account guitars like the Line 6 Variax guitars that can sound like 6 guitars in one, but if I had a 335 and wanted a new guitar that was versatile, I'd get a strat. You won't be able to put it down. They're also super customizable. It's easy to replace the neck, the pickups, the pickguard, even the body (as I did - the only stock part left on my strat is the neck, love the american necks).

    And I hate you too!


    The line 6 Variax acoustic is a serious option too. I might use it as Edge did - as an electric.
    Strat's though, not my bag. If they float your boat, enjoy. They just get in the hull of mine and rip it open.
  7. Versatile? Affordable? Durable? Cool as hell?




    Nice to meet you, I'm a PRS SE Singlecut
  8. It's a Tele or Jazzmaster, I don't want any of the others!

    (Though I will get one of those alpine white LP's later on...)

  9. Everyone's playing Teles these days - go for the Jazzmaster I reckon

    I concur with Alex though, Strats are the dog's gonads. Even my cheap shitty ancient copy has got character to take one's hat off to; tuned it to Eb standard the other day and playing along with various versions of The Fly, gives Edge's Variax a run for its money! However, for all that, I love my Explorer. I doubt I'd ever sell any of my guitars anyway, too attached to them, but above all else the Explorer stays with me.

    Yeah I went off on a tangent there, but hey, so what

    Fairly tasty, for sure I just never took to the headstocks. Something about PRS headstocks that puts me off. In fact, spikiness in guitars puts me off as a whole. Explorers are exceptions 'cause they're not spikey.
  10. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Everyone's playing Teles these days - go for the Jazzmaster I reckon

    I concur with Alex though, Strats are the dog's gonads. Even my cheap shitty ancient copy has got character to take one's hat off to; tuned it to Eb standard the other day and playing along with various versions of The Fly, gives Edge's Variax a run for its money! However, for all that, I love my Explorer. I doubt I'd ever sell any of my guitars anyway, too attached to them, but above all else the Explorer stays with me.

    Yeah I went off on a tangent there, but hey, so what
    [..]
    Fairly tasty, for sure I just never took to the headstocks. Something about PRS headstocks that puts me off. In fact, spikiness in guitars puts me off as a whole. Explorers are exceptions 'cause they're not spikey.


    Glad to see someone agrees with me!

    My turn to agree with you. I never took to PRS', I'm not sure why, could be the headstock, but something about them just irks me (sorry matt). There's only one PRS that I was really close to buying, and it was this one:

    http://www.prsguitars.com/25th513/
  11. No worry, ya'll- to each his own, especially in guitars. There are too many for there to be one make or model that pleases everyone. I love my PRS and thats enough for me

  12. Well you know what they say, great minds and all that...the PRS you linked, even that doesn't really cut it for me. It's much of a muchness really as far as aesthetics go. Pretty sure it all boils down to the fact that my two key guitar heroes - The Edge and Malcolm Jones of Runrig - are big on Strats, although in Edge's case clearly, his wider taste in guitars has influenced me too, considering I have the Explorer and Les Paul (Malcolm Jones, bar a brief stint in the early 90s when he dabbled with a couple of Gretsches, is exclusively a Strat man).

    I mean, with regard to other guitarists I like, say, Noel Gallagher, I don't feel much inclined to follow much of their taste in guitars with hollow-bodied stuff like Casinos, 335s and whatnot - the ones I've played are just too cumbersome for my liking; not weight-wise, just the shape and size of the body is a problem for me - I like guitars to feel dynamic, wieldy, a rapier as opposed to a claymore. For all that, as I said the other day, I'd love a Rick, or at the least to try one out - don't know how they measure up ergonomically to other semi-hollow/hollow-body guitars, but the tone alone is worth the compromise for me. Needless to say, I envy you lot with yours!
    Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:No worry, ya'll- to each his own, especially in guitars. There are too many for there to be one make or model that pleases everyone. I love my PRS and thats enough for me

    Amen brutha
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