Oh totally. Yeah my playing style and hand grip just makes big necks hard for me. I like my thumb over the top a lot. I agree mahogany sounds better. Big problem with me is that I am not nice to my guitars, and mahogany necks breaks SOOOO easily. I had an Guild M75 a while back. set it up against something at a multi-band show during tear down and it got knocked over...and proceeded to break the headstock off. It was fixable but...sucky. So that's another reason why I can't own something like an LP unless it had a maple neck or something. Also, I don't think I've ever held a LP that didn't weigh a crap ton, and after a 4 hour gig that gets a bit painful.
Buddy Holly was my first big influence. Lots of other 50's 60's bands after that but when I got into blues it was Jonny Lang's fault..he played Telecasters up until the past few years (He plays Tele's AND Les Pauls now) and everyone I was led to after him played Fenders...Stevie, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix... I was already a Strat/Fender guy and that I guess solidified it for me.
I may have been part of starting a new band last week. Looking forward to getting out and gigging again.
Yes, its all about what music you play, I love hard or heavy rock and the Les Paul loves this type of music but if i'm jamming Pink Floyd then its the strat. You'd love my gold top LP, its a custom shop built Honduras mahogany weapon and weighs just over 7.5 pounds, its weight is perfect, its my go to guitar for soloing, my cream LP custom is heavy but oh so sweet, a real tone machine, actually, I've not played another guitar that resonates like it does, the bridge is starting to collapse, its also 32 years old, so i need to buy a new bridge, that'll let me lower the action a bit again too...
You do have to be careful of headstock breaks on LP's, I treat them like babies , never broken one in 35+ years of playing, they do have some dings though, at home I have the 2 I usually play the most, on stands in the lounge room, but when gigging, I never leave them on stands, straight in their cases if not being used, I've seen to many broken and they are to expensive to repair or replace....
Been about 10 years since i've played in a band, sorry , I filled in for a mates band about 5 years ago and got a pile of offers to play but i had to travel a fair way to do this gig and wasn't going to do that on a regular basis.. Do you have any more guitars besides the tele..? You know we like pics round here....
