sunvalleylaw
Yep.
This is a cross post from my other forum. I would love to get your opinions as well as my old buddies at my other place.
I am not yet shopping to buy, but am starting to window shop my next guitar. The next set of sounds I want to add is somewhere in the solid body with at least one humbucker. I was thinking either a LP (maybe with a P90 in the neck) or a tele with a bucker in the neck. Thinking mostly vintage/indie/punkie rock sounds here mostly. I know LPs can get nice cleans and jazz sounds, and of course teles can too, but I get those from the my Hagstrom Viking. I am looking more for Joe Strummer, Tom Wisniewski (from MxPx) Rivers Cuomo (I just looked him up, looks like he often uses a Warmoth strat with buckers), Westerberg, Neil Young/Crazy Horse etc. here.
So give me your thoughts. General comments about LPs and Teles for garage rock/indie/ punkish sounds is the focus, but I also am interested in specific recs regarding my pickup thoughts and any cheap models you think might be good options. I would love to go out and play some, to choose, but that is hard here in Idaho, especially if I am thinking about unusual pickup formations in these guitars. That Xaviere on sale with a soapbar in the neck for under $200 looks like a good buy, but I keep leaning toward getting an Agile 3000/3100 and having the option to drop a soap bar in (sized for humbucker holes of course). And the GFS/Agile tele knockoffs are up for consideration as well.
Oh, I had considered a super strat, basically getting a used MIM or a squire to mod, but I had thought for the sounds I am after, it might be better to not go there.
EDIT: Just so you know what I already have, I own a MIM 60th Anniversary strat (SSS), and a Hagstrom Viking (335/semihollow type).
I am not yet shopping to buy, but am starting to window shop my next guitar. The next set of sounds I want to add is somewhere in the solid body with at least one humbucker. I was thinking either a LP (maybe with a P90 in the neck) or a tele with a bucker in the neck. Thinking mostly vintage/indie/punkie rock sounds here mostly. I know LPs can get nice cleans and jazz sounds, and of course teles can too, but I get those from the my Hagstrom Viking. I am looking more for Joe Strummer, Tom Wisniewski (from MxPx) Rivers Cuomo (I just looked him up, looks like he often uses a Warmoth strat with buckers), Westerberg, Neil Young/Crazy Horse etc. here.
So give me your thoughts. General comments about LPs and Teles for garage rock/indie/ punkish sounds is the focus, but I also am interested in specific recs regarding my pickup thoughts and any cheap models you think might be good options. I would love to go out and play some, to choose, but that is hard here in Idaho, especially if I am thinking about unusual pickup formations in these guitars. That Xaviere on sale with a soapbar in the neck for under $200 looks like a good buy, but I keep leaning toward getting an Agile 3000/3100 and having the option to drop a soap bar in (sized for humbucker holes of course). And the GFS/Agile tele knockoffs are up for consideration as well.
Oh, I had considered a super strat, basically getting a used MIM or a squire to mod, but I had thought for the sounds I am after, it might be better to not go there.
EDIT: Just so you know what I already have, I own a MIM 60th Anniversary strat (SSS), and a Hagstrom Viking (335/semihollow type).
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