Has mike influenced our choice of guitar purchases?

silverflow
silverflow Posts: 37
edited June 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
He's definitely influenced mine =P

Example. Before i got into Pearl Jam i wasnt really a fan of Stratocasters at all. And i absolutely despised the look of the three colour sunburt.

And look at me now......trying to find a USA Fender American Series Strat with a Three Colour Sunburt finish =P I'm not sure whether i want rosewood or maple though.....the maple and sunburst just seem to match eachother so perfectly!
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  • harrisonmerwin
    harrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    I wouldn't say mike has influenced my guitar purchases, but between him and stone they have opened my eyes to alot of pedals and tones. For instance, The DL4 and MM4, i just ordered those after debating for months, they are pricey, but i finally caved and got them. Im a fan of strats and the "crunch tube" sound anyways, and i love the wah and overdrive. The only thing mike has truly sold me is the Hughes and Kettner rotosphere (im plannign on picking it up with NEXT years income tax return) at 500 bucks a pop it takes a bit of saving, other than that, my collection is done. Oh yeah, watchign them play wireless has somewhat inspired me as well.
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    I would agree,

    I want a Sunburst Strat....pretty much based on Mike.

    I've bought pedals and looked at alot of gear also because of Mike and Stone too so I would agree. :)
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  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c350/Dirty_Frank/?action=view&current=41_12_sb.jpg
  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    My two electrics are a Fender American Strat in Tri-Color Sunburst with a rosewood fretboard (a la Mike's '59) and a Gibson SG Special in Teal (just like Ed's before he smashed it, except without the p90s). So to say Pearl Jam has influenced my guitar purchases is an understatement. But they both rock, along with that Greedtone pedal I picked up a few weeks ago, so its not all bad.
  • silverflow
    silverflow Posts: 37
    lol dirty frank.....why in the rest of those photos do you just use the gibson =P
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    silverflow wrote:
    lol dirty frank.....why in the rest of those photos do you just use the gibson =P

    The pics predate the strat. :p
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    Even with how amazing it is to see McCready wail on his vintage Strat, I still much prefer the sound of the Les Paul.
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Maybe not the guitar itself, but the color, yes. I always pictured myself getting a solid black guitar, or a solid dark red, etc, but now I am in love with the Sunburst. I am planning on getting a Suburst strat, the really bright sunburst color, not the dark kind.
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    well PJ are my favorite band and i have a strat and a les paul, so..........but i really have them for the same reasons PJ do- they are the foundation of rock and roll, and because of the people who used them before (hendrix, page, neil young, townshend)..........the one thing i definitely did buy cuz of PJ is the ibanez tubscreamer.........and i have no interest in PRSs, probably cuz PJ never used them!
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    They've opened my eyes to stuff. Any other guitar player I enjoy influences my purchases. Or, If someone in a club I see has good tone it influences. I may buy a strat because of many people, one of them being Mike (the others being SRV and Jimi). Anyone with good tone has a good chance of having an influence.
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  • MichaelMcKevin
    MichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    Although strats are the standard guitar, i absolutely hate the way they look... probably just because they're so basic and every knockoff looks like a strat.


    I feel like tele's are a lot better looking and sound just as good if not better. I'm on the virge of purchasing a telecaster similar to the ones mike and stone each play.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,020
    When I got my strat I got it in Sunburst because I liked that color on Mike's 59 strat.

    I got my SG mainly because Ed used one but then I played it and I loved it and then I got the color because of Ed's (teal).

    I got a Ts9 because of Mike, I hated it and sold it.
    I got a BD-2 because of his tone from the Gorge during the acoustic set.
    I got a 535Q because of him, I was just going to get an original.
    I got a delay pedal because of his crazy stuff, but I got a digital delay instead of an analog but I still love it

    LOL!!!! DIRTY_FRANK!! I have the same angle picture of my strat too...
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  • CaptainSpaz91
    CaptainSpaz91 Posts: 266
    Yeah he has, that's why I got a "Strat-ish" guitar, aka my G&L Tribute. I wasn't big on Strats and I went and played every MIM Strat and a few MIA Strats but seemed to really fall for that particular G&L and well I walked out with it haha.
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    saw dwight yoakam...his lead guitarist...eddie perez, I do beleive, had a nice sunbusrt hollowbody telecaster.


    I WANT ONE.


    great, great tone off that thing.
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  • harrisonmerwin
    harrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    GivenToCarve wrote:
    Although strats are the standard guitar, i absolutely hate the way they look... probably just because they're so basic and every knockoff looks like a strat.


    I feel like tele's are a lot better looking and sound just as good if not better. I'm on the virge of purchasing a telecaster similar to the ones mike and stone each play.

    mike rarely plays a tele, stone busts one out every once in a while, ed is the tele man of the group
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  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    GivenToCarve wrote:
    Although strats are the standard guitar, i absolutely hate the way they look... probably just because they're so basic and every knockoff looks like a strat.


    I feel like tele's are a lot better looking and sound just as good if not better. I'm on the virge of purchasing a telecaster similar to the ones mike and stone each play.

    You mean like this?

    http://www.gguitars.com/images/fe_av_52tele_bs/fe_av_52tele_bs_1a.jpg

    *drool*

    Mike and Stone really rocked the tele's during the Riot Act era:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Dl8jtqCKPE&search=save%20you

    And Mike in '92. I think he smashed this guitar. :(

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