How does he make this highly edgy sound? Traditionally Bernard Sumners played two guitars when he was in Joy Division. Check out Joy Division playing live in Amsterdam on YouTube to hear what I'm talking about. The extreamly electric tone he produces has always enthralled me. I have always been a big fan of Bernard Sumners guitar playing with Joy Division. It's not wildly different - it can do all the same stuff! I need to play it again and try to analyize it. It's not really that different than the mahogany - just brighter. It's maybe 1/4th the way between an SG and a Les Paul. It is noticably heavier, but certainly not 'Les Paul' heavy or anything. ISoto: I was surprised that it wasn't that much heavier - I was expecting it to weight a ton. It's weird - I'm not a rocker, but I have a love affair with SG's. So, I find that I play my electrics and my acoustic in the same style - fingerstyle with the occasional pick. No, I guess I'm defining folk lightly - I love the whole range from really folksy stuff like Nick Drake, to weird stuff like Jandek (I'm not a huge fan of him, I just appreciate the idea of what he does),to current Indie folk (David Bazan, Damien Jurado) to folk-rock like the Byrds or Dylan (hence, the electrics). Change isn't always bad - if Gibson didn't experiment with their guitars, the Les Paul would never have been shaped into an SG in the first place.īarbas23: If Gibson paid me to talk about (or own) their guitars, I would be really happy. I think that many people have formed opinions without trying it out in the first place. It seems just fantastic, and all of that bad publicity that it seems to be getting seems unwarranted. I really didn't have time to play it longer, but I am really excited to get to know it better. It is very expressive and the muddiness that usually plagues humbuckers is just not there. Yet the wood and the pickups interact in a way that somehow feels different from every other SG I have played. ![]() The '57 reissue pickups combined with the maple make it pretty bright (but not annoyingly so) - it actually sounded pretty similar to my other SG (a faded special with P-94's). The maple fretboard is very smooth and the whole neck feels quicker than any other Gibson I have tried, though I am admittedly a slow (folk, mostly) player. ![]() It almost has the same feel as one of those new Fender Telecasters that have been 'aged.' The nitro paint will probaly age well itself. There is a lack of info on the internet about this new guitar, so I thought I'd share my twenty minutes worth of 'expertise,' in case anyone else is considering it.Īt first impression, it feels like a glorified special faded - the finish is very thin and is not glossy at all. I'm the king lurker on this board - like, 5 posts even though I'm on here almost every day.īut, anyway, I just bought a Raw Power SG and picked it up on my lunch break.
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