Tone

Crappy Otis Rush recordings from eMusic reveal nice tunes excellent guitar playing; and amazing tone. That guitar just sings. Some stringiness, some bight, plenty of body and some grunge in the lower register. Wow just learning to recognize the ES-335/176 thing; its sweet. Blues somehow always meant a Strat to me, without even thinking. Now I'm glad I've got the LP setup. A little more flexible I think. If you have a Strat, well then you damn well know what its supposed to sound like. With dual humbuckers you can go biting (not as sharp as a Fender) like a semi-hollow, warmer like Les' Paul, through stinging like Albert King and into grunge or roar from Ribot to Page to Satriani. Hooray.