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what guitar should i get?

PhillyB

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If you dislike RUSH more than Kiss you may want to take up the tambourine...and put the guitar down. 

Just kidding

I personally like hollow bodies and they can make most any sound minus really heavy stuff(Lamb Of God, SLAYER) but a classic fender Strat with a maple neck will do.you well. 

I love Jacksons for heavier stuff, Semour Duncans pickups. On a budget basis the new Charvels look great.

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I have a Charvel Model 6 from 1988 which is neck through body(weighs a ton) with Brazilian rosewood fretboard. It is a Jackson Soloist but made in Japan and are pretty sought aftèr. 

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Of course if you have the money Les Pauls are beautiful.  Esps are well made. PRS guitars are pretty but I feel overpriced..they are machine made and you pay premium prices. 

All are good however. 

 

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Amps I would go with a classic Marshall or Mesa Boogie 4×12 cabinet. I used to run a now hard to find Rockman XP-100 for incredible clean tone and decent distortion. Great solo tones but Boston like distortion(since their guiar player made these)

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Just get a good amp..if you play a bar you dont need to lug a 4x12 and amp with 100w and 2x10 or 2x12 speaker will be fine..poo I used to use the Xp 100, which looks like a boombox and mic it up. If you have good distortion, delay, chorus and a nice crybaby wah pedal you will be a rock god. 

Orange is the current sought after amp today..they look cool and I honestly have little exp with them 

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i spent a good part of my evening playing an ES-335 on a couple of different amp packages. i found a really nice price/quality combination of a two-channel marshall tube head on a 120w cab, possibly a 240 if i decide to splurge. tubes really are beautiful... there's a solid state that's more in my price range but it just sounded so flat.

i plugged into an orange for a while as well, and i love the warmth on the clean tones but it gets really dark when you add distortion. the marshall setup gives me the classic 90s stack sound with warm, bright crunch, which better fits what i'm trying to play.

gonna make a few more visits this week and then hopefully pull the trigger saturday

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I'll throw my two cents in...the only nice electric I've ever owned is an American Telecaster. Absolutely love it. Can get just about any kind of tone you can think of. It's the same model that Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead plays.

they're too twangy for me. nice bright tone but i don't really like the sound they put out with heavy gain.

plus aesthetics is a big thing for me and i've never been a fan of the look. strats are nice but eeeeeveryone has a strat. if i was gonna get a fender it'd be a jaguar... those things are hot

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they're too twangy for me. nice bright tone but i don't really like the sound they put out with heavy gain.

plus aesthetics is a big thing for me and i've never been a fan of the look. strats are nice but eeeeeveryone has a strat. if i was gonna get a fender it'd be a jaguar... those things are hot

yeah pretty much nailed it. Tele can be twangy as hell.

That Gibson looks sweeeeeet

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