Author Topic: Surprising Combinations (Read 12875 times)

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?

tewboss · « **Reply #1 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.

blue · « **Reply #2 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?

chrisola · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:58:31 AM »

spinal tap playing a Jackson Marshall Stack guitar... oh wait :lol:

Skybone · « **Reply #4 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.

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Ratrod · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2005, 04:17:58 PM »

Ted Nugent with his Byrdland.

tewboss · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2005, 05:58:19 PM »

I thought Johnny Winter was better known for his firebirds.

schmendict · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2005, 08:38:41 PM »

The retro-Edge with his explorer...and hair.

chrisola · « **Reply #8 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.

big steve · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2005, 11:27:50 PM »

fast eddie and his strat!
don't maiden use strats as well?

indysmith · « **Reply #10 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!

jt · « **Reply #11 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)

big steve · « **Reply #12 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:09:34 PM »

surely though strats= singlecoils
metal = humbuckers

bucketshred · « **Reply #13 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.

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_tom_ · « **Reply #14 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..

Author Topic: Surprising Combinations (Read 12875 times)

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