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    Les Paul High Performance Love Thread

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    I hope your comment isn't aimed at me because if it is then I heartily resent it.

     

    I make no comment whatsoever about anyone's playing skill. Truth be told I reckon just about every poster on this website plays better than me.

     

    Who exactly is telling anyone that they "should share" this opinion or that opinion. I don't think I have ever done that in any post I have ever posted on this site and certainly not within this thread.

     

    I don't getting where you are coming from mate. Don't get it at all.

     

    I really don't think that was aimed at anyone in particular.

    Les Paul High Performance Love Thread

    in Gibson USA

    Posted · Edited by Big Bill

    except I don't have to learn different techniques for every string when I have a beautiful modern guitar, my PRS, my Fender Stratocaster, my Ibanez, are all high tech specifically engineered to make the guitar easy to play, transparent so that you can focus on music, instead of fighting with technique. and they all run the frets completely to the edge of the fretboard, none of the non-bankrupt companies offer this feature.

     

    Paul Reed Smith has stated it He designed the guitar so it disappears in the players hand, they're doing nothing but playing music, without having to think about the guitar limitations.

     

     

    The increased playable area of the frets on my HP, finally brings Gibson in line with the best guitars in the world for modern musicians, playability wise.

     

    the traditional LP slows you down especially after you've played fast and smoothly on really good guitars. on the Trad you have to be very careful to delicately and precisely play the E string.

     

    that's why I took the one back after three weeks, I had a PRS at the time, played the two guitars side-by-side for 20 days in a row, it was a shock, to see how superior the fret over binding was playing so effortlessly in a head-to-head competition.

     

    I have heard Slash, say that he likes fighting with the Les Paul that it makes him focus, that you have to be very careful precise fretting and twisting your body to play up high on the neck, and it makes him focus and work really hard and makes him satisfied to get the notes of the guitar. but he plays guitar 24 hours a day seven days a week.

     

     

    I do not like fighting with my guitar.

     

    I certainly do not begrudge someone seems to find the nibs such a critical part of the guitar experience.

     

    but I've never heard a rational well thought out, well written description of how and why they bring so much pleasure,

     

    I remember the first time I saw them in the guitar Center I thought they were not pretty and were unfinished looking, So the old veteran guitar center guy told me it was decorative and those guitars were for collectors and not for playing, if you wanted a guitar to play music on he recommended the Les Paul studio version. so maybe I got poisoned that day.

     

    but I am an engineer and highly functional designs actually are the most beautiful looking things.

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    You're an asswhole.

     

    ... but I mean that in a respectful way.

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    Dear Gibson:

    in Gibson USA

    Posted · Edited by Big Bill

    ok dad

     

    EDIT:

    What's there to argue about that I don't agree with - truth? This isn't a customer support forum like the rules say. Sorry your impression of me is bad, but mine of yours is that you are pretty lame after this. Have fun being nice, moral cop.

     

    And if you think all I contribute is negative, then read up some more dude, maybe you will see how I have been treated since day one. This isn't F'n daycare.

     

    Asswhole

    What the latest song you've been playing on your guitar?

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    By an odd coincidence I've broken with recent tradition and mostly been playing my Strat for the last couple of weeks.

    Quite a few of J.J.'s compositions have been my main victims as well as "Down to the Waterline" by Mr. Knopfler and his troupe.

    Apart from 'Sultans...' it's the first Dire Straits song I ever heard being, as it is, track 1, side 1, album 1. There's a lot of VERY good music on that album.

     

    I'm mucking-up quite a lot of early-mid seventies Clapton as well - Derek, Faith and his eponymous stuff.

    Sometimes 'A change is as good...' as it were.

     

    Pip.

    Yo Yo Pippy. Funny that you bring up picking up the Strat to Play J.J.'s tunes. My Strat is the first I picked up to play, didn't sound right to me. Then I picked up the Tele, still didn't cut the mustard. Ended up using my ES-339. Don't know if its my playing style that made this the fit, but it does sound pretty good. The ES-339 is ending up to be my "go to" guitar from my arsenal.

    The Traditional Club

    in Gibson USA

    Posted

    Just joined the traditional club today with my first ever Gibson, can't believe just how much better she plays and sounds over my old Epiphones!!!!

     

     

     

    Congratulations. That thing has a sweet flame. [drool]

    People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    ...What is this thread about ?.......man anyone that thinks some magazine should represent their views on anything is a chump.

     

    .........And anyone calling attention to how a magazine like "People" did this or that.......here on our guitar forum.........is a _______________

     

     

    Can I have an AMEN!!

    The Traditional Club

    in Gibson USA

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    Those Bursts are beautiful.

     

    I'm thinking the Traditional may be the best value in a Gibson. Of course' date='

    this being my first Gibson, I sort of have to say that. Seriously, with the

    color choices, p/u's, binding, neck (losve the chunkyness), quality, what

    else could anyone want?

     

    How's that for appreciation?[/quote']

     

     

    Can we get an AMEN!!

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