Les Paul Junior - "The Minimal Guitar"

The most basic guitar you can make is a couple of pieces of wood, a set of tuners, one pickup, a stop-bar tailpiece, two pots with knobs, a pickguard, a jack and some wire, screws and glue. If you put it all together properly you end up with a Les Paul Junior.

Check out Leslie West's growling tone in Mountain's Mississippi Queen...
http://www.somethingabout...nimal.html

If I could find a lefty one of those, without having to give up one of my kids, i'd be seriously tempted.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

The 3 most important electric guitars to me:


Fender Stratocaster


Gibson Les Paul


The almighty Rickenbacker



The 3 most important acoustic guitars to me:


Martin & Co.

Yamaha

Ovation



One day I will own all of these, and then I will become the greatest guitarist of all time!

theAudience said:

The best looking Les Paul there is. Not much into the look of the original Pauls.

I have 2 Telecasters a paul reed. one telecaster (my father's)
I ADORE TELECASTERS!
it has such a hypnotic sound
it was the first guitar i learned how to use
I think they are utterly BEAUUUUUTIFUL

theAudience said:


the Hofner Bass is probably my favorite of all time. I love the classic violin look, PLUS I'm a lefty!

Other favorites of mine include Prince's original white cloud (after that, I think he's just gotten carried away) and this Betty Page model owned by Wendy Melvoin and designed by artist Hilary Carlip:

In case you guys wanted to know, these are my axes.



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sinisterpentatonic said:

Whose is this? This is beautiful.

bass...Gene Simmons Punisher


rythm...the legendary Brian May "Red Special" a.k.a. The Fireplace

Lammastide said:

gorgeous isn't it?




It's this guys....Steve Vai.

I like the guitars seen above but i could never part with my first Squire Strat. 12 years and weve still been together. i do admit ive cheated on her with my acoustic but hey we aint perfect.

theAudience said:

Yeah, maybe if I hadn't wasted all those years of dance training since I was eight years old, I could be a guitar wizard by now instead.

Supernova said:

That's true. I didn't think about that (the busting up bit).

missing word edit
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minneapolisgenius said:

Aah, the good old days.
(not sure if it's the act or he going after the fan onstage)

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

minneapolisgenius said:

So am I, but I play right-handed. I wonder if I should try a lefty guitar?

OdysseyMiles said:

Hell if I know. I know nothing about it. But watch, you'll switch and then find out that you could have been the next Hendrix this whole time.

minneapolisgenius said:

minneapolisgenius said:

In a way, I'm glad because of Ace Frehley of Kiss, I switched from left to right when I was little, because I have always gotten compared to Jimi, all my life. And that's with me playing right handed. If I had stayed playing left, oh man, it would have been so much worse. So don't feel bad Odyssey.

blackguitaristz said:

BTW, Ernie Isley plays both Left and right handed, switches back and forth allthe time ...

paligap said:

I know. I didn't find that out untill I saw Ernie at The Roxy in 90 on his "High Wire" tour. He switched for a couple of songs. At first, I was like "o.k., he's cool playing chords, but let me see how he's going to be playing this lead." Ernie tore it up! I was so impressed. I mean, I always dug Ernie anyway, he's always been one of my influences. But when I saw him do that , I was fucked up. That takes so much dedication. I know Ernie did that because Hendrix used to do it like it wasn't shit. Jimi would do the same thing on a bass. He would just turn it upside down and play it like it wasn't shit. But I truly believe it was all natural for Jimi to do that. I don't think it was as natural for Ernie. So I really admired Ernie even more for that because I know he had to work on that to get it down.

blackguitaristz said:

In an interview once, Ernie implied that it Was kind of natural...Not exactly like Hendrix, but he did say that he kinda shocked himself, he thought it was strange when he found that he could play so well with the left..he said it was "almost like an alter-ego,...another version of myself"....
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paligap said:

I wouldn't doubt it, but..it just looked more like Ernie had been woodsheding like a motherfucker to get that down.

OdysseyMiles said:

If you're a righty considering a lefty axe, look at this guitar very carefully.


Hendrix Tribute Stratocaster

I got it because not only do I play left-handed but upside-down.
They were made to give rightys that Hendrix upside-down look.
They're discontinued now but were sold stock this way.

I should have gotten 2 while I had the chance.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

I don't think I'm really inerested in playing upside down. I know a guy who does that too. If I go lefty, I'll probably just buy a left-handed guitar.
I've been told that companies don't really cater to lefties, but it would be cool even if it serves to find out how ambidextrous I am.

theAudience said:

Now I'm really confused.

minneapolisgenius said:

Just means that he plays a regular right-handed guitar and simply flips it around so the left hand is doing the strumming or picking. Doesn't sound comfortable to me, but everyone is different!

OdysseyMiles said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Nah, don't explain that shit to her, let her stay confused!

minneapolisgenius said:[quote]

OdysseyMiles said:

It's not as uncommon as you might think.

A couple of left-handed upside-down players you've heard of:

Old School

Albert King

New School

Doyle Bramhall


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

minneapolisgenius said:

LMAO!!!