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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Oct 25, 2020 1:16:17 GMT
I definitely would have fallen in lust with it, from your description @manxcat. 😘
My first guitar was a Teisco sort of cheap strat copy, lots of saving paper round money to get it. I never loved it though, I always lusted for a black Les Paul, I don't know why? It was just that's "the guitar" sort of juvenile adoration. When I eventually got a Les Paul albeit an Epiphone I was smitten. It may well not be the easiest guitar playability wise but it seems to fit me.
What I will say is the access to the higher frets is superb on an SG (not that I'm shredder or soloing wizard. I'd never experienced neck dive before but seated you can sort of negate it. Putting a strap on though it's noticeable and a bit awkward. 😔
I get where your coming from regarding the Cort & Yamaha guitars. But are they really as sexy as the devil horned SG? 😂 😂
Seriously though I make you right with the way you select your guitars. Unfortunately I'm still a sucker for the guitars I adored as a kid. 🤭
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 11:40:23 GMT
Unfulfilled childhood desires remain a strong driver of behaviours throughout life in my reflection upon it at this point.
Digressing from SGs for a moment to Les Pauls. I've taken to deliberately playing standing regularly recently, partly because my competency now facilitates it without undue encumbrance but also as development of another arguably prerequisite skill.
It's coincided with a phase (?) I am enjoying playing a lot of driving rock riffs. "Paranoid", "Teenage Kicks", "You Really Got Me". Playing strapped on standing up, the primary reason for my dislike of my Harley Benton SC Custom is rendered moot, so I am playing it a lot more often than I have previously and enjoying it. I can live with its weight which whilst heavier than my other guitars, is lighter than a classic Les Paul. Also different, on a plus side the SC Custom's neck is a modern profile I like a lot and find very comfortable for my hands to fret.
Whenever I think of a Les Paul iconically, I auto-visualise Paul Kossoff playing with Free. Similarly, the SG, Tony Iommi, and George Harrison for a brief mid 1960s interlude. Evidence to me the experiences of our formative years remain embedded in our psyche arousing an instant emotional association incentivising our actions. D & M Ende.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 17:26:38 GMT
Like the Les Paul's ergonomic foibles, I don't think either can be resolved completely without significant redesign, which of course runs contrary to the undeniable appeal of their aesthetics and commercial interest of marketing.
I recall all that time ago when I first encountered it on the SG body thinking what an oddly unconventional and awkward place to position a strap button.
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Oct 25, 2020 18:43:24 GMT
Glad to see the sc custom is growing on you @manxcat. 👍
I'm with you on the youthful/formative ingrained experiences. Peter Green, Kossoff, Page even Bolan and of course the twin Les Paul Thin lizzy. But I have vivid memories of Manny Charlton (Nazareth) playing a black LP not the usual sunburst. I can still see it in my mind now 🥴 definitely emotive.
I was a big fan of Deep Purple in my youth. But Blackmore's strat all though it sounded superb, never excited in a way for me to want one.
Let's not talk about Page though, I can't get an SG double neck! 🎸
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