No, no new guitars acquired lately, just been playing a lot at night ... and now my left shoulder is giving me fits, telling me *not* to buy another guitar as heavy as my Davison Les Paul clone!
My go-to guitars lately have been my two Fender Squire strats -- my tobacco sunburst with the cracked body, and then the arctic white hard tail. Oh, can't forget one of my non-strat favs -- cherry red OE-30 semi-hollowbody. I've enjoyed playing Johnny Rivers tunes on it ... Rivers seems to almost always use Gidson ES-335s, either red or sometimes black. My OE-30 is a pretty close clone to the ES-335. I've thought that the next guitar I buy will either be something along the lines of a Epi Dot, or more likely, the ES-339, which plays about like the 335 but is smaller in size. The body of the 335 (as well as my OE-30) makes playing it a little cumbersome. If I can get a knock-off clone of the ES-339 (that's playable), I might take the plunge. The ES-339 isn't that expensive to begin with, so maybe that's where I should set my sites.
BEHRINGER? I HARDLY KNEW HER! I have a couple of guitars in gig bags that I seldom play -- my Behringer strat clone and my Ibanez GAX-30. I broke out the Behringer the other night to give
I haven't played it in a while, but I had forgotten how shitty the pickups sound! I've been playing my Squires and other guitars exclusively for months, and complain you may about the Squire strat pups, the Behringer sounded horrible! They just sounded distorted on every setting -- not loud and distorted, but just trashy at any volume left (with the exception of "0").
I'm tempted to buy a set of Squire pups for it, just to see if I can improve its sound. I don't think I can hurt it much!
I'm off to play some more, probably my OE-30, and probably to some Johnny Rivers. Rock on, Garth!
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