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The best guitar you’ve ever played?
I’ve got a strat and a tele and they’re both fine instruments. However, some years ago I went to a music show in Birmingham where I was lucky enough to meet John Entwhistle and Jim Marshall. One of the sales stands there was Paul Reed Smith. I saw a beautiful looking guitar and asked the guy for a strum. “Sure” he said. “But be careful with it. It’s quite expensive”.
“How much?” I asked. “Four grand” came the reply. I didn’t have four grand but I still played it, and I have to say it was the best guitar I’d ever played. I can’t remember much about the model etc but it felt a perfect match for me. My dodgy lead breaks sounded a lot better! If I’d had four grand that day it would have been an instabuy.
What’s the best guitar you’ve ever played?
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Maybe 15 years ago I picked up a Wolfgang EVH at the guitar store - I only played a couple licks but almost instantly I could tell this guitar was special. I think it was around $2000. Never did try a PRS - always wanted to - everyone seems to love them.
I used to own a ‘74 Les Paul Custom that played well, but it was impossible to put light strings on it and get it to play and sound as good as it did with heavier strings.
Of my current guitars the one I own that plays best is an Ibanez S series HSH, that is a model that is no longer in production (I can’t remember the exact model off the top of my head).
Of guitars I didn’t own, the best one I ever played was an incredible vintage Telecaster owned by a guy who came in to the studio I worked in when I was in my early 20s. It almost played itself, and just felt so good for anything I tried to play on it.
I tried a John Petrucci Music Man at $5000 in a music store and, yep, that was a great guitar!
Long time ago I sold an ESP Horizon II. I miss that guitar. $1200 in CAD if I remember correctly. Now you can buy one for around 4 or 5K$.
PRS guitars by far. If I had kids, I’d sell them for one
Dusenberg Starplayer TV.
I didn’t care for all of the mosaic and inlays on the body, but it sounded beautiful.
Is it the name of a guitar or the name of an hipster band ?
Long Time ago, I went into this tiny guitar store and they had this beautiful forest green Gibson Explorer. It is a pretty big guitar and I could feel the body vibration. When I came back with money the Monday to purchase it, It was sold.
Best is a hard thing to say. I remember playing a $6000 Martin many years ago and it blew mind mind. That stuck in my head for a long time. Then I was lucky enough to own a perfect Rickenbacker hardbody 12 string. For a long time that was the best thing I'd played. I've played lots of nice to play guitars but they weren't necessarily the best sounding ones. I just bought a Gretsch G5622T. As far as intonation, action goes it is the best thing I've ever own. Plays flawlessly. I have others I prefer the sound of though.
My 1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with original mini humbuckers.
Tone for days.
Pre CBS partscaster.
Otherwise I have a 76 Greco Les Paul that’s way too good for how cheap it was.
Nothing beats an old Hagström from Älvdalen!
Perhaps the greatest electric of all time: the Steinberg GL2T. Approximately worth $10-20k in brand new condition now. It’s a perfect guitar. Impervious to weather, warping, humidity, and DAMAGE. You can’t break it if you tried. And it has the most advanced tremolo ever made, the best finest tuning system, a built in midi pickup and controller and the most advanced pick ups (at the time and to date ). ill get one one day. Hey instead of the op1F! Lol
They made/make some very cool guitars.
I had a 60’s Viking as a guest guitar (I’m left-handed) for ages and eventually sold it to someone very talented.
Was that JH??
Recently, I had the chance to put my fingers on a Collings 470 JL (Julian Lage model) and this was hands down the best electric guitar I ever played.
Being currently in search of a decent ES335 type I tried many from Gibson and other brands. I have been disappointed by all the Gibson I tried so far and the best were all Japanese: the Yamaha SA2200, the Tokai ES 220 (and upper models) and the Exrubato by SeventySeven. Still Considering getting one of those... But I am so satisfied with my Telecaster that always seems to fit my hands perfectly that I might not need any other electric anymore.
In terms of acoustic I have tried many gorgeous models from different brands but my quest for a great acoustic ended up 2 years ago when I purchased the one: a Gibson Advanced Jumbo. This guitar plays so wonderfully in any style and any dynamic range that it puts a smile on my face any time I play it. Icing on the cake: it is so beautiful to look at!
I absolutely agree @Ailerom. An absolute "Best Guitar" can be hard to nail down when the variables are so vast. Best acoustic or best electric, humbuckers or single coil, a guitar you own or just one that you've played. etc...
I was born & raised in Vegas (and still live here) and we have been very lucky to have several music stores ipn town. Before big box Guitar Center & Sam Ash stores we had Vesely's, Mahoney's & Accent Music which carried a variety of and had good used inventories. But when Guitar Center & Sam Ash came to town there were some really incredible instruments now available to have a plonk on...(of course the local Mom & Pop music stores vanished within a few years).
I've been fortunate to play lots of vintage guitars and top dollar new specimens. I've played plenty of D-28's but I vividly remember a Martin D-40 I played that was just incredible, but it was also like 5 G's. D-40's were like a toned down D-45 that came out in the late 90's. As far as acoustic guitars go it was all there. Plus when I played it it was only 5-6 years old...the sound as the wood ages is just going to get better and better.
The guitar that I'd have to choose if I was at gunpoint was a 1957 Fender Stratocaster I played at Cowtown Guitars in Vegas. It had to be like 2006 or something in that ballpark. That's when I learned the hyperbole and ballyhoo about "vintage Strat's" had merit. That '57 had some special joojoo for sure.
It is unwieldy enough to be a hipster band name, isn’t it?
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Years ago I had a 360/12 Rickenbacker, the George Harrison model.
I would play the Hard Days Night chord on it over and over.🙂
Other things too.
I needed money at one point and I sold it.
It’s the only piece of gear I’ve ever regretted selling.
Well, that’s easy. My ‘58 Strat.
That, along with a vintage Fender amp I had at the time, modified with a master volume, was the most majestic guitar experience ever in my life, bar none. (Whammy bar none?) Unfortunately, l sold it in the late 70s for $275!
Playing the accompanying piano and bass notes with your toes?
Seriously though, I was amazed at how clear those individual parts sound on the remixed Red Album - you can really make out all the instruments that make up that giant chord much more clearly
Best electric was an original Parker Fly a friend had. The tone and action were amazing.
Best acoustic is probably my Taylor 814ce.
When I played an Anderson I sold two Reverends and a nylon string guitar for it. Now I just have the one Anderson Raven. The neck is perfect for me, steel frets, the pickups sound beautiful, I love it.
The most expensive guitar I ever played was an early 50s D'Angelico New Yorker. When I was a teen my boss had a vintage hollow body electric guitar collection. The D'Angelico was beautiful, sounded sweet, but it was kind of uncomfortable to play.
I love Gibson Lucille. Goes a bit out of tune relatively quickly but I just love the way it looks and plays.
I have been trying to think what the best acoustic I have played is, but I have played so many that sound fantastic I just can’t put one above the others.
Sometimes with acoustics it’s the mid-priced ones that have really surprised me. A friend inherited a Seagull guitar that was surprisingly good. No idea how old it was, but with a setup and a new set of strings it played and sounded amazing.
Seagulls are nice, I like the neck and fretboard on those a lot and they have nice action. I’ve always enjoyed playing on those, nice and smooth playing
I own a few guitars 2 les Pauls one Gibson and one is an epiphone. A cheap squire and Yamaha.
The best guitar I have played so far is a cheap js32 Jackson dinky I bought used that needed a lot of love. Since purchasing this guitar I personally leveled and crowned the frets replaced all the cheap Flyod rose parts, dropped l500xl pickups in both neck and bridge. Maybe I’m biased from all the work I have done to this cheap guitar that should not even come close to playing better than my Gibson, but damn I have never played a guitar this fast, smooth and versatile no doubt due to the bill Lawrence pickups. Since my time with the Jackson I have discovered that the guitar neck and fret work is what makes for a truly great playing guitar.
My Custom Shop Les Paul
Also about 4 grand…
@Edward_Alexander That Les Paul is beautiful! I like the inlays and the black pickup covers. The pickguard looks leathery?
Some years ago Music Man sent me the then-newly-launched James Valentine to review. When I got it out of the box and saw it, I thought it was super dull-looking. But then I started playing it and couldn’t stop.
I made them an offer after I was done reviewing, and I l still have it.
My other favorite is my self-built Strat, with a roasted maple neck, ebony board, Wilkinson trem, and some Fender custom shop pickups that I pulled out of a modded Affinity Squier strat I bought cheap. Super light (3kg), sounds and feels amazing, and never goes out of tune.