Witmer Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 This poll hits close to home, since I only own one electric and one acoustic guitar. But, since we often moan about GAS-ing after more and more guitars (whether we can actually buy them or not), I thought it might be fun to imagine what we could get away with if we had to. I bet there will be some real variety from member to member. Let's hear it! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I already use 3. A Telecaster (or Strat), a Gibson (varies), and my Ric-12 string. One thing, for me...is that what I use, on some songs, depends on what our other guitar player is using. If he uses his LP Custom, I use my Telecaster. If he uses his Telecaster, or Epi Nighthawk, I use my Gibby. The Ric is used, for the songs it's required on. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I can't really vote. I mean right now, I really only use my Les Paul and my acoustic, but it just depends on the song. I mean some songs call for one style, but most of mine are pretty singular. I guess I kind of have a locked in style, good or bad, its what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witmer Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 I can't really vote. I mean right now, I really only use my Les Paul and my acoustic, but it just depends on the song. I mean some songs call for one style, but most of mine are pretty singular. I guess I kind of have a locked in style, good or bad, its what it is. Would you take a backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Ive been GASing for an LP Goldtop for a looooong time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Would you take a backup? Well, if I had a backup LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witmer Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Well, if I had a backup LOL Heh. Yeah, that's me. I take my acoustic in case the LP dies... which it never has yet.... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FarnsBarns Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I don't do gigs anymore. I keep thinking about it. If I did, I'd be playing my own stuff in my own style so an R6 and a Dobro would be all I need. BTW I keep meaning to ask, and this seems the place to do it. What does GAS mean. Obviously I know it means lusting over gear but, I mean, is it an acronym or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I don't do gigs anymore. I keep thinking about it. If I did, I'd be playing my own stuff in my own style so an R6 and a Dobro would be all I need. BTW I keep meaning to ask, and this seems the place to do it. What does GAS mean. Obviously I know it means lusting over gear but, I mean, is it an acronym or something? G.A.S. is "Gear (or Guitar) Acquisition Syndrome" ;>) CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 These days I only do fill-ins - sometimes the band tells me what they want and sometimes they don't care - so I usually just have one guitar. But back in the day it would've been three - Gibby (usually LP), Fender (usually Strat), and an acoustic/electric. These days I would probably add my SuperStrat to the line up. Since "four" wasn't an option, I didn't vote. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I always have my Robot and a backup.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I've never taken more than two guitars to a concert. It's a GLP and my Strat, for variations on rock and blues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I only have one electric and one acoustic, but the acoustic is not electric so I'd have to mic it. I guess if I was in a band making enough money, I'd get another Les Paul or Strat for a back-up and an electric acoustic. So I voted one because that's all I have now. It would be hard to put my main Les Paul down though, just sayin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witmer Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 These days I only do fill-ins - sometimes the band tells me what they want and sometimes they don't care - so I usually just have one guitar. But back in the day it would've been three - Gibby (usually LP), Fender (usually Strat), and an acoustic/electric. These days I would probably add my SuperStrat to the line up. Since "four" wasn't an option, I didn't vote. B) Awww, that's totally a "One for every style in the set." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Awww, that's totally a "One for every style in the set." That's assuming I would be playing three or four "styles". . . . . . Way too limited. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I play at church regularly and always have 2. For other gigs, I like to have at least 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnastynebr Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 If you carry your #1 in a hard case, your #2 in a gig bag, a combo amp, and a duffel bag for your pedals and cables, you can get all your gear in one trip. We time it so everyone is always with truck, and someone is always with the gear in the pub. That way nothing gets stolen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I voted "just one", for many of my gigs that is all that is needed, but my point is really.......... I take NOTHING extra or spare, except "accessories" (strings, picks, batteries, cable, gig bag stuff). I've been doing this for 40 years and I know exactly what any gig may require. I use only professional roadworthy equipment, perform regular maintenance and do needed repairs before they are an "issue". Plus I'm just too damn old to schlep around a bunch of extra just-in-case gear. I also believe in the "one trip" policy, if I can't get it from the parking lot to the door in one trip, I don't bring it (most of the time). That said, I do play concerts that require various different guitars for different genres. In the 20-piece jazz big band the L-5CES is my main guitar, although we do some Latin jazz that requires a nylon string classical guitar. When the song list requires it, I will bring it. In the blues band we do a lot of progressive "history of the blues" type shows where we start out acoustic and end up blues-rockin'. For this band my main guitar is a ES-345, when we do the acoustic stuff I'll bring my L-7. If we're doing the blues/rock stuff I'll also bring a Strat. During my 70's Rock & Roll days we used to carry around everything we owned, just to pile it up on stage to look cool. I remember once stacking four Dual Showman cabs up for my guitar rig, even though only one had speakers in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I used to always just bring 2 but when I get my next project off the ground,if everything goes as planned I may have to bring at least 4 a Strat,Les Paul,Casino,Vox Phantom XII as I intend to do Beatles/British Invasion Paul Revere and the Raiders etc. so these guitars will be esential.A Rickenbacker 360/12 would be nice but they are pricey,so maybe after I make it big lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Depends on where it's at and style of music - usually three/four. LP, Hummingbird, National Reso and my Trussart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Really for the type of music I play (classic rock) I can get by with one and my pedal board and amp. That being said though its normally a combo of the les paul, tele and strat because all are solid and dependable and sound great. Which one I'm bonding with at that moment also can be part of the equation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 These days I only do fill-ins - sometimes the band tells me what they want and sometimes they don't care - so I usually just have one guitar. But back in the day it would've been three - Gibby (usually LP), Fender (usually Strat), and an acoustic/electric. These days I would probably add my SuperStrat to the line up. Since "four" wasn't an option, I didn't vote. B) Depends on where it's at and style of music - usually three/four. LP, Hummingbird, National Reso and my Trussart The above comes close for me.....I no longer gig.....I've done anywhere from one to ten.....Usually used three / four per gig..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I'm pretty much with L5Larry, olden days up to current days, except I don't get to gig out much any more - which may change at some point. But the old 175 tends to be too temperature dependent in winter, so I got an Epi Dot that still can do about anything from Bach to blues, country to cowboy. I used it for my last real "playing out" gig at a cowboy poetry, music and art benefit. One of the other guys had a 1950s Gibbie florentine cutaway flattop with a mag pickup and another used a 1950s Gibbie archtop with a mag pickup so... it seems whether you fingerpick as I do, or mostly strum as those guys did, if you don't make a deal out of it for a solo gig (assuming the guitar still sounds kinda acoustic guitar regardless), it'll work fine. On the other hand, the very last gig I did was a benefit for a city-run after school and summer school program for latchkey kids. I used an AE and mostly "bump-shush" pickin' 'cuz it was all "children's tunes" ranging from Woody Guthrie's "Car Car" to the one about great gray-green greasy gopher guts. I could have done that gig after I'd played guitar for six months or less, and the acoustic look was perfect for the setup. Excluding the 12, I can't imagine much need to take more than one guitar to a gig if you've a good amp and a good multi-effect rig that has been wrung out for different sounds. That runs from jazz to rock to folk to country to... whatever. I just don't see the need and, as Larry noted, I don't care to haul that much stuff any more. Some years ago I took my early 70s AE nylon string Ovation to a 15-minute gig that included a classical version of Star Spangled Banner to open a military appreciation picnic. Some 90 minutes later - "Wudja keep playing?" - I'd done jazz, country type stuff, rock-type stuff... and nobody thought a thing about it being a "classical" guitar. The older I get, too, I think the more likely I am to believe that "we" often get so much into gear that we forget the audience mostly hears music. I don't see any reason why a picker couldn't use an AE in about any sort of rock band if he/she really wanted to make his own sound. Add a stomp box and have decent amplification... it may not sound like somebody on a Strat, but are we doing our own music or somebody else's? m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 My new Parker DragonFly has SC pickups so it can sound like a strat, a coil tapping humbucker so it can sound like a Gibson, a Fishman under the bridge so it can sound like an acoustic, and the fastest neck I've ever played. I gig for a living, and it's the only axe I bring (I do carry spare strings though - "just in case") I also play sax, flute, and wind synth. The only spare anything I bring is a wind synth, because it can cover the sax and flute parts in an emergency. Notes ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I chose option one because it was closest, but it really depends. Typically, Nighthawk, Strat, and Squier TransStrat tuned to Eb. For far away gigs (specially first time situatuions) I try to keep it at Two, Nighthawk and Strat. They compliment each other, but if I have a breakdown either one can handle the night. For special occasions, like a Holiday Gig or just a Prime Venue I'll bring Way Too Many guitars. The most I've brouhgt has been 2 Strats, the Nighthawk, an Ibanez V, an acoustic, and the Eb Trans Strat. Did that twice, once for a 4th of July gig and once for a place with a big stage on a night we knew there was going to be a Birthday and a Bachelorette Party. For Jamming or sitting in I take one guitar and one amp, no pedals or anything. For that I could bring any of my guitars, depends on who I'm jamming with or what I feel like showing off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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