Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?

Subject: Best Cheap Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST,Jose Alberto
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 10:55 AM

Which should be the best cheap guitar to play blues?
Suggestions Folks?
          Joe

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 11:06 AM

best cheap blues guitar..


any reasonably well made 3/4 scale steel strung acoustic..

shorter neck will facilitate string bending

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST,wld
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 11:19 AM

Gerry Lockran played a Martin, then an ovation. He was the best I ever saw.

Nobody else ever come close.

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 12:42 PM

Blind Boy Fuller played a National, but a Yamaha is as good as any if you want inexpensive.

Gerry Lockran ? White Boy Blues. I don't say he wasn't good but if you remember him you must be of an age to remember that this country was visited by Muddy Waters, Fred McDowell, Johnny Shines, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Arthur Crudup, Jimmy Reed, Dr Ross, Brownie McGhee, Rev Gary Davis, Buddy Guy, BB King, Jesse Fuller and many others. Did you not hear any of these players? What about Peter Green, Cliff Aungier, Johnny Joyce, even Ralph McTell if we must talk about White Brit players of that generation.

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 12:58 PM

Matin OM-15 or the Martin 000-15S

Your opinion may vary.

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 05:24 PM

Actually - The best guitar for blues is the one you have in your hands. The best blues players can make any guitar sound good because it's their hands and hearts that really produce the sound.

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM

To my mind the best guitar for the blues would be an expensive Martin or Santa Cruz that got left sitting behind your car in the driveway and you backed over it. Boy that'll give you the blues looking at all those pieces of wood ! :)

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: GUEST,wld
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 07:39 PM

yeh heard most of them.

never saw anybody like Gerry though. somehow he could just play the first two or three notes and and the audience just 'knew' here was somebody special.

there was one awful horrible noisy place I saw him play in Sutton Coldfield - other than that, every gig was a gem.

Another thing I found him more accessible than many of the American artists. having said that I always went to their gigs with expectations - having heard the records and of course, I was a dumb kid so I didn't know they weren't going to sound like the record they had made 20 years (and more) before.

i was a fan, i'm allowed that ain't I?

Incidentally i worship at the altar of ralph, (I'm thinking about postponing my holiday this year so as not miss the Newark gig, I already have tickets for the Leicester gig!) -but if we're talking about Blues - Gerry

Subject: RE: Best Guitar for Blues?Opinions?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 08:16 PM

Ahhhhh, when I perform I take three guitars...

1. An acoustic: sometimes my old Martin, sometimes my Hohner

2. A steel bodied resonator: Reagl in my case

3. A wood bodied resonator: Oscar Shmidt in my case

(I also occasionally will thrown in my 30's Dobro tenor resonator...)

The blues ain't like a danged stationary target, here, and there ain't just one guitar that will give you everything...

Unless, off course, all you wanta play is Chicago blues with hoens backin' you up and a big ol' amp... Then, in that case, just get a Strat and let it wail...

But country/acoustic blues is a different animal...

But I guess if I were to be plunked down of the proverbial deswerted island and could have but one guitar, I reckon I'd make it my old Martin... But only because I might get a bone to play a little country 'er old folk music...

But if I knew that I would never have any interest in playin' country or folk on this perverbal deserted island, I'd take the Regal (National wantabee...).

Bobert