decided to get a guitar. would like your advice!

Which one you like more?

  • Jazzmaster (white)

    Votes: 8 34.8%

  • Telecaster (beige)

    Votes: 15 65.2%
  • Total voters
    23
What are you looking to play? When I was into heavy metal, I got a strat due to thier versitily, but was very disapointed when I later played a Jackson my friend had. Im not really into looks as much. Function before fashion.

If you are stuck on these 2 I would get the jazzmaster. You could always replace the upper soapbox with a humbucker or a double coil if you need a cleaner sounding rhythm. But as is they do sound nice.

I've found that you fender is like the chevy. It is a good car, lasts long and is of good basic quality, but a cevy is by no means a caddy. Look into other brands. You get what you pay for ;)
 
If you're looking at newer guitars Gretsch and Jackson are both produced/distributed by Fender now anyway. Vintage of course is another story.

Not a fan of Charvel/Jackson personally. But its the eighties cheese factor that turns me off on those guitars. lol Sorry Fishy!! You're right, form before function. :p But aesthetics have to count for something don't they?

Oops... meant to say function before form. :p
 
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Thanks for the advice Sumethin. . .

I like to play different things, but always more blues based than anything else.

I have a strat, and I'm very happy with it.

I would like the Tele for its brighter twangier sound. That overdriven tele sound sounds great as well . . . Early Pink Floydish kinda sound. Not compressed the way an LP would sound, (LP's sound great, but a little too compressed for my taste).

As for the Jazzmaster, well Sonic Youth (which are freaken unbelievably great, in my opinion) mostly use jazzmasters. I love that "glassy" almost synthetic sound that they have. Nels Cline uses one as well, and again, the stuff he does sounds so good.

In any case, I'll figure it out. . I'm just stuck between the two. . .

As for your comment on comparing a fender guitar to a reliable chevy, and noticing that it's not a caddy, well I got a few words to say to that...


Stevie Ray Vaughan,
David Gilmour,
Jimi Hendrix,
Eric Clapton,
Buddy Guy,


and many many more all could have easily purchased the cadi, but stuck with the chevy. And there's nothing that sounds sweeter than an old fender strat plugged into an equally old tube amp. . . .

:D
 
jessicar613 said:
If you're looking at newer guitars Gretsch and Jackson are both produced/distributed by Fender now anyway. Vintage of course is another story.

Not a fan of Charvel/Jackson personally. But its the eighties cheese factor that turns me off on those guitars. lol Sorry Fishy!! You're right, form before function. :p But aesthetics have to count for something don't they?
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I always thought Gretsch were produced by Gibson...??
 
cheech said:
I always thought Gretsch were produced by Gibson...??
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Ok, this is where it gets confusing... Gretsch has never been associated w/ Gibson, at least that I'm aware of. Gretsch was started by Friedrich (sp) Gretsch, went to his son, Fred Gretsch Jr, owned temporarily by the Baldwin co and then reacquired by Gretsch's son, Fred Gretsch Jr in the late eighties. They were out of production for a few years somewhere in there, mostly due to the quality of the guitars Baldwin produced.

The Baldwin Co is now owned by Gibson. So there is an association in the seven degrees of seperation sense. :p Also both Gretsch and Gibson produced a Chet Atkins signature hollowbody. Gretsch lost the rights to the name Chet Atkins when he signed w/ Gibson, and has just recently (in the past few weeks) started producing a CA 6120 again.

A few years ago (can't remember the exact year - it has been w/in the past five years) Fred Gretsch sold the rights to Gretsch to Fender. They've really been pushing the Gretsches since they introduced the Setzer model and a line of cheaper Gretsches (the Electromatics were made in Korea I believe and actually are fantastic guitars; they were only in production for a few years) w/ varying success. I'm not crazy about all the things Fender has done to promote Gretsch (the Black Falcon :rolleyes:) but they have brought a lot of attention to the name again, so overall not a bad thing.

Anyway there's the short version and I'm sure there are some mistakes in there, but that's the gist of it. :) More than you ever needed, or wanted, to know about Gretsch guitars. :p
 
Tele sounds early floydish because he played a tele before he switched over to strats. If your looking for that blues sound, than I would go with the tele... or a hollow body (epiphone actually makes/made a very nice hollow body)for about 500 big ones. I'm partial to the humbuckers though..
 
I'm goin with the tele, simply b/c when I think of your pic(yourself), and different threads I've read of your's....I can just picture you with that one!
 
cheech said:
Thanks for the advice Sumethin. . .

I like to play different things, but always more blues based than anything else.

I have a strat, and I'm very happy with it.

I would like the Tele for its brighter twangier sound. That overdriven tele sound sounds great as well . . . Early Pink Floydish kinda sound. Not compressed the way an LP would sound, (LP's sound great, but a little too compressed for my taste).

As for the Jazzmaster, well Sonic Youth (which are freaken unbelievably great, in my opinion) mostly use jazzmasters. I love that "glassy" almost synthetic sound that they have. Nels Cline uses one as well, and again, the stuff he does sounds so good.

In any case, I'll figure it out. . I'm just stuck between the two. . .

As for your comment on comparing a fender guitar to a reliable chevy, and noticing that it's not a caddy, well I got a few words to say to that...


Stevie Ray Vaughan,
David Gilmour,
Jimi Hendrix,
Eric Clapton,
Buddy Guy,


and many many more all could have easily purchased the cadi, but stuck with the chevy. And there's nothing that sounds sweeter than an old fender strat plugged into an equally old tube amp. . . .

:D
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a lot of the hot guitarists out now are playing:

ESP
Paul Reed Smith
Ernie Ball Music Man
 
I kinda figured you were more into the old skool. You just can't get the speedy play out of some of those guitars, but they sound like crap when played clean. So it really depended on what you were looking for. I'm not going to knock fenders, or chevys for that matter.

If you want a good vintage guitar for blues, find yourself a VOX Lynx or custom. The red guitar in my mugshot is a 68 Super Lynx. Still if it's between the 2 choices, I'd still take the jazzy.

BTW I own 2 chevy's and a fender ;)
 
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