Fender Stratocaster Chris Rea

[soulman101]

If you play the guitar or like Chris Rea you may like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYrYWQpZ_CA

[boingy]

When I did gigs I was often likened to Chris Rea, but on the Guitar front I've always been a Gibson man, till later when I mainly was acoustic.

[kettering_baggie]

I have an Epiphone Les Paul, a really nice guitar; fantastic value for money compared to the Gibson (Epiphone is a Gibson owned brand) and you would need to be an expert to tell the difference. Certainly, my level of playing wouldn’t justify the extra cost of the Gibson version. As for the Fenders, their ‘Squier by Fender’ Brand is also great value for money; I have a Squier Telecaster and very pleased with it am I. You would have to be flush with cash or be a pretty good guitarist to justify buying the Gibson or Fender branded instruments over their alternative own brands.

[boingy]

Hi Ketts, Guitars are as good as they are. My Gibson ES 330 is a beautiful guitar and has been gigged quite a lot and I take your point on the Epiphones. The Guitar I gigged with the most only cost me £200 and came from ebay. Top quality sound and feel so I used it. You can get too hung up on brands. Remember when Paul McCartney was asked which strings he used he said "shiny ones"
Everyone I know who is serious about music doesn't have time for anything but the music. If it sounds good, its good enough.

[soulman101]

Hi i've had and sold 2 great epiphone a Les Paul and a BB KIng Lucille with stormey monday bare knuckle pickups but found I was always going back to my Fenders Strats and Telecaster .Just found them more comfortable to play i've got damaged hands.
But it could be down to my ist guitar being a Strat , maybe if I had started with Les Paul the Gison and Epiphone range would have suited me.
My mate has a Japanese JV squire Strat and its fantastic, in fact I would swop my USA deluxe Strat for it.

[boingy]

Strats are great. The only reason I loved Gibsons was for the more creamy blues sound which was what I was into back then (always will be to a point, as Eric Clapton said "It always goes back to the blues", and I believe him. We all love what we love. My mate in one band I was in loved his Strat and kept trying to win me over, but when I got that cream flowing through my Gibson I used to just wink at him.

[soulman101]

Strats are great. The only reason I loved Gibsons was for the more creamy blues sound which was what I was into back then (always will be to a point, as Eric Clapton said "It always goes back to the blues", and I believe him. We all love what we love. My mate in one band I was in loved his Strat and kept trying to win me over, but when I got that cream flowing through my Gibson I used to just wink at him.

Hi have you seen Clapton talking about his Les Paul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CChQUNmi7cg

[boingy]

Nice!, funny enough my mate who was trying to get me onto a strat now plays a les paul studio. I only ever had a copy years ago and it was a cheap copy and quite heavy if you were standing up for a couple of hours. I think that put me off, but Roger my mate loved the sustain he could get on his studio. Lives in Spain now and I only got reunited with him on whats app a few weeks ago.