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Title: Surprising Combinations
Post by: willo on December 04, 2005, 01:52:29 AM: So I'm sitting here, listening to Bob Marley, the beautiful 'Wait In Vain', and it got me thinking - this guy is a Les Paul player?!

So I started thinking of guitarists who play guitars that you wouldn't necessarily expect (for whatever reasons, image, sound etc).

At the moment, I'm on two:

Bob Marley: Les Paul,
Tom Morello: Telecaster

Anyone else got any similar suggestions of surprising and unusual combinations of artists and guitars?
Title: Surprising Combinations
Post by: tewboss on December 04, 2005, 02:22:07 AM: Telecaster isn't that unusual in metal anymore. Most famous example is John 5 (ex Marilyn Manson), although Jim Root from Slipknot also plays one.
Title: Surprising Combinations
Post by: blue on December 04, 2005, 03:31:14 AM: so does richie kotzen. howzabout Albert King and his flying v, or Johnny Winter and his Lazer?
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Post by: chrisola on December 04, 2005, 09:58:31 AM: spinal tap playing a Jackson Marshall Stack guitar... oh wait :lol:
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Post by: Skybone on December 04, 2005, 12:55:45 PM: Billy Duffy's Gretsch White Falcon...

How he kept it from feeding back I'll never know.

Steve Miller & Tom Petty - Ibanez Iceman (Icemen?) in the late 70's.

\m/
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Post by: Ratrod on December 04, 2005, 04:17:58 PM: Ted Nugent with his Byrdland.
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Post by: tewboss on December 04, 2005, 05:58:19 PM: I thought Johnny Winter was better known for his firebirds.
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Post by: schmendict on December 04, 2005, 08:38:41 PM: The retro-Edge with his explorer...and hair.
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Post by: chrisola on December 04, 2005, 09:11:49 PM: Opeth like their PRS guitars and have done for a while, which was a suprise when i saw em.
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Post by: big steve on December 04, 2005, 11:27:50 PM: fast eddie and his strat!
don't maiden use strats as well?
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Post by: indysmith on December 04, 2005, 11:34:22 PM: Why is it weird that they use strats?! i couldnt think of anything more natural for them to use to be honest!
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Post by: jt on December 05, 2005, 12:24:56 AM: :D The problem these days is you can get any guitar shape made in any wood combination, in the old days if you used or wanted a strat it was because it was almost the only guitar made to that scale length & with those type of wood combos + P/U style combo.

:D 8)
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Post by: big steve on December 05, 2005, 05:09:34 PM: surely though strats= singlecoils
metal = humbuckers
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Post by: bucketshred on December 05, 2005, 05:26:05 PM: Killswitch Engage and Caparison...

...I know they are both metal as, but I'd expect Killswitch to be endorsed by ESP or Ibanez or summink.

Andy![/code]
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Post by: _tom_ on December 05, 2005, 05:47:46 PM: Quote from: big steve
surely though strats= singlecoils
metal = humbuckers

Iron Maiden = metal!

I think they use the singlecoil size humbuckers though? Probably wrong but I remember the Iron Maiden sig strat came with JB Jrs..
Title: Surprising Combinations
Post by: Brow on December 05, 2005, 06:32:53 PM: Quote from: _tom_

Iron Maiden = metal!

I think they use the singlecoil size humbuckers though? Probably wrong but I remember the Iron Maiden sig strat came with JB Jrs..

Yup. Both Janick and Dave use the SC sized humbuckers.

From what I remember, Dave uses a set of Hot Rails and Janick uses combinations of Hot Rails and JB Jrs in his Strats :)
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Post by: _tom_ on December 06, 2005, 08:45:55 PM: ooh I thought of another one. Found my John 5 cd! Shredding like that on a telecaster! Sugar Foot Rag is just amazing. I dunno if its a cover or not though, either way it shreds!
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Post by: 'Ash' J. Williams on December 10, 2005, 01:56:47 AM: Quote from: _tom_
ooh I thought of another one. Found my John 5 cd! Shredding like that on a telecaster! Sugar Foot Rag is just amazing. I dunno if its a cover or not though, either way it shreds!

Yeah but don't forget that his Tele sig has a 12" fretboard, much like an Ibanez for example. And so is the Kotzen Tele sig.
But i'm pretty sur this guys play like that on standard Tele as well :roll:
Title: Surprising Combinations
Post by: maliciousteve on December 10, 2005, 10:21:42 AM: Malmsteen with an 335, there was a video of him on the internet playing some blues 'shred'. Sounded pretty good and the difference in guitar didn't hinder him.

Dimebag (r.i.p) when he played his Washburn Culprit. Just looked wierd on him