are you/ have you been in a band?

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Originally Posted by jabumbo

yeah, i was lookng at a fender telecaster on craigslist the other day. they were real ambiguous on their posting, so im not sure how i want to word it. they stated a price but also said they are open to reasonable cash offers.

i think i might cut their suggested price back just a bit and see what they say.

Oooh, get the tele. Loves 'em.

I was also the singer in a coupla bands. Played a bit of keyboard and some guitar but like super minimal.

Also, why is everyone so hung up on Fender and Gibson? There are tons of other companies out there that make great stuff.

Schecter, Ibanez, ESP, PRS

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Also, I realize that the Telecaster is a Fender. I didn't say no Fenders, I just said think outside the box.

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just because i always wanted a fender.. im definately getting a charcoal strat as my next 6string.

my ibanez bass served me well.. it needs electrical work, i might just get that fixed because i kind of like how it looks all beat up. i lost all the tuning pins so i replaced them with regular old nuts and bolts, looks all industrial and they do the job. i dont like all the fancier guitars that studio musicians play.. i suppose if i was recording id think differently - but those wood grain basses with 10 strings and a 5 inch wide neck, i dinna like

so it looks like (thats not right) that 85% of the bbmb plays an instrument?

i can picture you as a kick ass front woman

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and yes i fucking LOVE telecasters, but if i was getting one guitar its too limited in sound i think

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There is something beautiful about that age old design. I've never owned either Fender or Les Paul (or Gibson) because I can't afford them but I have a few passable copies of both! Actually, one is more of a PRS copy. Swap out the pickups and ya on fiyah.

I like Andersons. They're a "studio guitar" type thing but man oh man if they don't play like buttah.

So if ya got a coupla thou laying around...

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pretty much everything i have i acquired in some way. one of the bass amps i have a pretty ok peavy bass amp actually, i got it in exchange for a beeper :P .. this crate bass amp my spoiled rich friend gave to me because it didnt work and i got it fixed. that shit is LOUD and it has a graphic equalizer on it

actually i think i know what guitar you're talking about with the prs..

is it a les paul style? i knew someone with i think it was a prs.. it was like a les paul but a tiny bit smaller and had all these nice white pearly details. i think back then he wanted $500 for it but that was too rich for my blood then (id immediately give him $500 for it now)

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Yeah, PRS, ESP, Ibanez and Schechter are all pricey brands so my point is moot but I had fun making it!

PRS is sort of a Les Pauly style, it has the warm wood grain in the finish, a slightly longer and more pointy horn, but otherwise the body style is similar. Edit: the flame on a PRS is actually pretty distinctive, I guess it's not really wood grain, it does have a more speckled look.

I just like the way they sound, you can overdrive the shit out of it and it'll still be vivid and gutteral. Some other types get kinda white noisy when you push em too hard or too loud.

Pair it with a Rivera amp and it's dark and warm and velvety all the way to 11.

There's another brand I don't see much of anymore called Chevelle that has kinda the same sound with a little less on the bottom. Probably would sound great with an Orange amp.