Whats with Mike's recent LP love affair?

Dogman3
Dogman3 Posts: 330
edited July 2008 in Musicians and Gearheads
It seems thats all he plays with now and its sad. Alive sounds off with a Les Paul toned solo.
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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    His ear has matured . . .
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  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    songs like alive, evenflow and black should ALWAYS be played by his sunburst strat imo
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  • Red Burrito
    Red Burrito Posts: 484
    Pappas wrote:
    songs like alive, evenflow and black should ALWAYS be played by his sunburst strat imo

    Agreed!
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  • All Those Yesterdays
    All Those Yesterdays Posts: 2,723
    Dogman3 wrote:
    It seems thats all he plays with now and its sad. Alive sounds off with a Les Paul toned solo.

    Maybe his back is feeling good, so he is up for the added weight of the Paul!
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,311
    All Those Yesterdays wrote:
    Maybe his back is feeling good, so he is up for the added weight of the Paul!

    Could be. For the short tours he plays the Les Paul since he thinks it sounds better and on the long tours he uses the Strat so he isn't as sore (this is probably wrong, but a guess). Maybe he just wants to mix it up. It seems like Stone is always changing the guitars he uses for every tour.
  • Jam10
    Jam10 Posts: 654
    Yeh it looks like Stone is using Strats more often and Mike is using LP's more often. The beauty of being a rock star......you can play any guitar anytime you want! I personally love the sound of both Lp's and Strats.
  • Drew263
    Drew263 Birmingham, AL Posts: 602
    Dogman3 wrote:
    It seems thats all he plays with now and its sad. Alive sounds off with a Les Paul toned solo.

    he's balancing out Stone's recent Stat obsession.

    Stone playing Alive and EF on a strat in Columbia was downright disgraceful.

    ;)
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Pappas wrote:
    songs like alive, evenflow and black should ALWAYS be played by his sunburst strat imo
    and Ledbetter
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,174
    Pappas wrote:
    songs like alive, evenflow and black should ALWAYS be played by his sunburst strat imo
    damn straight.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Werl, it's like this kiddies.

    He has a genuine 1959 Les Paul burst. These things are widely regarded as the absolute gold standard for guitar tone.
    When you play a nice LP, it just gives you things effortlessly, that you either fight to get from anything else, or you don't get at all. The tone is substantially different to a Strat and IMHO, an LP is much more reactive wiht the amp.
    There is a subjective pleasure to this that is easily experienced, and impossible to explain.
    Need proof ??
    Well, there is MIke up there preferring his LP to his Strat.
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 896
    well, he has one less LP after the Who Rock Honors show

    its funny, in the Ten liner notes it says "stone gossard plays gibson guitars, mike mccready plays fender guitars"....i guess at that time it was somewhat set in stone (pun intended)......now they mix it up, if anything now stone has basically become a total strat player
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    well, he has one less LP after the Who Rock Honors show

    its funny, in the Ten liner notes it says "stone gossard plays gibson guitars, mike mccready plays fender guitars"....i guess at that time it was somewhat set in stone (pun intended)......now they mix it up, if anything now stone has basically become a total strat player
    Especially with those Fishman's...
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  • Dogman3
    Dogman3 Posts: 330
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    and Ledbetter

    Wrong. I don't mind older songs on the LP, such as EF and Alive, but Ledbetter? Thats like, a tribute to Hendrix. Strat is essential for the Ledbetter.

    I just wish I had the dough for a LP though. But I don't, hence why I'm a Strat guy. Not that its a bad thing. If I had cash like Stone and Mike, I'd have LP's, SG's, and whatnot too. I did notice on the last tour that Stone was using more Fenders than usual. So you're right, it does balance out :)
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Dogman3 wrote:
    Wrong. I don't mind older songs on the LP, such as EF and Alive, but Ledbetter? Thats like, a tribute to Hendrix. Strat is essential for the Ledbetter.

    I just wish I had the dough for a LP though. But I don't, hence why I'm a Strat guy. Not that its a bad thing. If I had cash like Stone and Mike, I'd have LP's, SG's, and whatnot too. I did notice on the last tour that Stone was using more Fenders than usual. So you're right, it does balance out :)
    I meant Ledbetter should only be played on the strat... :)
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  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    whoops sorry i forgot to mention ledbedder. yes of course that should be strat only too :D

    i dont think mike would ever play that with anything but a strat anyway. same with evenflow and black, as both are his 'tributes' to the great stevie ray vaughan!
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    well, he has one less LP after the Who Rock Honors show

    According to some dude on the main board who talked to Mike this week, that LP he busted on VH1 actually belonged to Stone ...
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Pappas wrote:
    whoops sorry i forgot to mention ledbedder. yes of course that should be strat only too :D

    i dont think mike would ever play that with anything but a strat anyway. same with evenflow and black, as both are his 'tributes' to the great stevie ray vaughan!
    Black was played on a tele during a recent (past couple years) show. There's a video of Ledbetter being played on an LP that was discussed earlier. Nothing known on other than a strat on Evenflow.
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  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    Black was played on a tele during a recent (past couple years) show. There's a video of Ledbetter being played on an LP that was discussed earlier. Nothing known on other than a strat on Evenflow.
    mikes strat must have been in the shop :p
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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    Hey, Mike helped write these tunes, so he can bloody well use whatever guitars he
    wants to express the tunes (in whatever way he deems fit).

    There are no set rules, so why should anyone be asked to limited themselves to only one
    tonal pallet (to suit "your" idea of what sounds best to you     or me or him or her, etc, etc . . .).

    It doesn't matter. The band as a whole is basically playing whatever they think sounds best
    to them at that moment (not you) - remember that one's ear matures over time. Remember
    that they're the ones playing the tune, and overall what we think is fairly insignificant.

    If you don't like how he played it - go play it that way yourself - see if you get the crowd
    they have - they play what they want because the overall majority of people don’t care,
    they're just happy to be at a PJ show.

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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    Hey, Mike helped write these tunes, so he can bloody well use whatever guitars he
    wants to express the tunes (in whatever way he deems fit).

    There are no set rules, so why should anyone be asked to limited themselves to only one
    tonal pallet (to suit "your" idea of what sounds best to you     or me or him or her, etc, etc . . .).

    It doesn't matter. The band as a whole is basically playing whatever they think sounds best
    to them at that moment (not you) - remember that one's ear matures over time. Remember
    that they're the ones playing the tune, and overall what we think is fairly insignificant.

    If you don't like how he played it - go play it that way yourself - see if you get the crowd
    they have - they play what they want because the overall majority of people don’t care,
    they're just happy to be at a PJ show.

    - Ian
    Cool down, man...it's a matter of opinion and how we like it. There's no doubt is sounds AMAZING either way... No one is bashing Mike or questioning his artistic ideas.
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