Am I odd for being a 1-guitar man?

[badgermark]

I sort of wish I'd got an SG as a 2nd guitar to compliment my LP.. I guess I could always sell the Pearl and get an SG but the pearl does look pretty cool..

Just think how cool the MQ and MQpig will sound in a SG. It will melt faces! Faces! Melted. I want one.

[_tom_]

^That's a good point Mark :P I still need to take the Pearl to this local tech for him to have a look at the slightly cracked neck join and fix it.

You know I can't resist  :oops:

The perfect tele!

[AndyR]

I've been having a think about this thread, and I've figured out how I turned from "one guitar man" into "not enough space in the living room man"...

I can lay the blame squarely on
1) Line6
2) BKP
3) BKP user forum members
in that order...

A couple of years ago, getting back into music, starting to do some song-writing again and some home-recording, I needed a versatile guitar solution, and when I found the Variax, that was it. Old gigging guitars went back (or stayed) in the attic.

But I was always tweaking the Spank (strat) models, trying to get the strat sound I really wanted. The other models are pretty good, but the strat seems a bit weak - probably because there are so many variations on "strat" tones in the real world and they modelled a single instrument.

So my wife bought me a strat as a present last year...

That led to Irish Tour BKPs (I'd heard of them ages ago), which seemed a large outlay for "just pickups". I delayed and delayed, and I suddenly had some "spare money" so I bought them January this year. Obviously I felt this "large outlay" justified itself once the ITs arrived :D

BKPs speak for themselves, so I started upgrading my old guitars, but then add to that the "problem" that with a Variax I've heard what my playing sounds like through a lot of very different guitars and pickup combinations. For example, I knew about the tele "both pups in series sound" because you can do things like that on Variax (and that particular option is one of the factory defaults before you start fiddling).

Because I can afford it at the moment, I got sucked in to "lets get the geetar that does the job..." The Variax is good at what it does, but for any model you're using, put a real one with BKPs in next to it, and there's no comparison...

After buying a Dano yesterday, and thinking about this thread, I've realised that the Variax models are what is driving the shopping list!!!

The BKP forum members part in all this is just that we all seem to be feeding each other's GAS - except for lucky guys like Roo and others who seem to be immune (at least on guitars). Personally, I'm immune on amplifiers, but that's probably only because I don't play live any more...

[Will]

Roo, you aren't odd, just lucky!
I enjoy having another LP in reach :)

[HTH AMPS]

If required, I could make do with just my Les Paul as it does everything I need.

However, I also have my Explorer which has a nice fast neck for metal moments, my Tele for the twang and Les Paul junior for the rawest rock & roll raunch possible (my current fave too).

If Roo is odd for not liking Teles, I'm probably in the same camp with regard to Strats - just can't get away with them.

I would like a Ricky 330, a Gretsch Duo Jet and a 335 to fill out the collection and I'd have every tone I'd ever need.

[PhilKing]

You aren't odd - just someone I can't relate to :?  I started with one guitar but quickly moved to 2 (acoustic and electric), and then 3 (bass), then a backup electric, then a 12-string acoustic.  From there it grew to about 12, which it held steady at for a long time.  but then in around 1990, I was just divorced and had moved back to the US, and started playing in a band again, and thinking it would be great to get a Les Paul once more, so that was my change over.  I also met someone who made me 3 guitars, so I thought that I could get one electric made to cover all the bases for live work (with HSMiniH), but that didn't work.  Next thing you know it is 20 guitars and still getting more.  I really don't know how many guitars I have now.  I should be able to say, but some are in storage because my house is up for sale.  I know it is around 60.  Do I play all of them, in a 6 month period I will, and set them up and restring them, but I have to say that there is a core of about 20 that I play much more than the others.  However, even if I don't play it all the time, if I wanted a smooth jazzy sound, my first choice would be my Ibanez GB10. The same with the Sivertone hollowbody, for the rockabilly sound it can't be touched, though the solid guitar with the same deArmond pickups is much more early Cure!  Do I play rockabilly or early Cure - that doesn't matter - I have the guitar for it if the call ever comes!!!

[MDV]

Yes, is the simple answer.

A mate of mine has been trying to play for a couple of years. He plays/practices highly sporadically at best and can just barely play enter sandmans riffs, but he has 3 guitars already anyway.

[Kilby]

Hmmm been thinking about this.

I have 3 guitars:
One lives in the attic (it was my sole guitar for over 20 years) and is now essentially retired

So that leaves a Ric 12 string (which I adore) and the regular 6 string.
Due to the 12 strings somewhat individual nature I would say that it would be impossible to go back to one single guitar these days.

If I was forced to I suppose it would mean going back to the white SG in the attic that my father and I ressurected when I was 18 as those times are mocu more important to me than any pievce of woord or metal.

[Roobubba]

Just to clarify - I do have an acoustic guitar, and I have a backup electric (on permanent loan) which is only there for gigging backup purposes. I wasn't counting the acoustic, because it's not something I *could* gig our music with, short of an unplugged set!! (hmm, hardcore unplugged...).

[WezV]

so your really a 3 guitar man.... i see!!

not that odd at all then

[Philly Q]

This whole thread has been conducted under false pretences!  :o

Tell us, Roo... this "backup electric" which you seem quite keen to disown... not a Telecaster by any chance is it?

[FernandoDuarte]

:lol:

[WezV]

i bet its a pink paisley tele  :twisted:

[38thBeatle]

I bet he sleeps with it.

[MDV]

Oh, I'm with roo on the tele thing, btw.

The only one of the major Axe Groups I really uniformly dislike.

Youre not a lone buddy! Dont listen to them! They probably have status quo albums under their pillow!