Kupovat si signature model, abych se přiblížil svýmu vzoru - to bych asi taky neudělal. Já vnímám výhodu těchhle nástrojů spíš v tom, že za relativně slušný peníze můžou nabídnout vychytávky, který na standardních nástrojích běžně k mání nejsou - lepší snímače a jejich vzájemný kombinace, upravený kobylky, třeba i preampy, podlaďovač Drop-D tuner a podobně...
Jinak o tom, jak to je opravdu s umělcema a s nástrojema, na který ve skutečnosti hrajou, je na http://www.anycities.com/andyhifi/musicians.htm. Přebírám tu nejzajímavější část - sorry za délku, ale je to fakt dobrý počtení:
Rock stars don't actually own the guitars and amps you see them use on tour, in their videos, and in photos. Rock stars want to save their money for their drugs, trophy girlfriends, fur coats, and absurdly stupid luxury items. Rock stars rent their equipment at places such as Styles Music, Alta Loma Music, Andy Brauer Studio Rentals, L.A.FX Studio Rentals, Lon Cohen Rentals, Third Encore, and Studio Instrument Rentals Hollywood. Don't forget, rock stars don't actually own those amps in their videos and hardly any of the guitars - they're all rented.
The truth is that the "tone" of your guitar and amp is in your fingers and your music. Unless you are playing solo guitar without any effects and the guitar is a solo lead instrument (not just rhythm), guitars tend to sound the same. Many guitar fans want to emulate their rock star idols by buying the same equipment their idols endorced. But unless you read interviews of people who were actually there when those rock stars made their famous recordings, you won't know what equipment was actually used.
For example: fans of Jimi Hendrix buy Fender Stratocasters and Marshall amps, but Hendrix actually made his most famous recordings with Gibson and Hofner and Epiphone and Gretsch guitars into Silvertone and Burns and Fender amps, for live performancs Hendrix used solid state "fuzz" pedals into "clean" Marshall amps; fans of Jimmy Page buy Gibson Les Paul guitars and Marshall amps, but he made his most famous recordings with Fender Telecaster and Danelectro guitars into small "practice" Fender Champ amps; B.B. King made some of his most famous recordings with Fender Telecasters; Mark Knopfler recorded with guitars by Pensa; Stevie Ray Vaughn's "main" recording guitar was a Hamiltone built by James Hamilton with EMG pickups, and he also used Gibson guitars with a Silvertone amp and a Fender Vibroverb amp with an Ibanez TS-9 pedal, the amps he recorded with are considerably less expensive than the Dumble amp and beat up guitars he toured with and used in videos and photos; the guitarist for U2 uses a wide variety of guitars such as Gibson, Rickenbaker, Fender, etc., but no matter what he uses he still sounds like him and nobody can differentiate which guitar was used on his recordings, not even him; Slash, was the famous "Gibson" guitarist for Guns 'N Roses, but his guitar was actually a replica guitar built by an independent luthier who didn't even work for Gibson; Kurt Cobain appeared on stage with a Marshall amp that wasn't even plugged in, the cabinets were empty so he could more easily shove his guitar neck through the cloth when he "trashed" his equipment at the end of his concerts, he actually used an Ibanez TS-9 and SansAmp into the PA; some rock stars have used such a wide variety of guitars and amps that even they can't remember what they've used.
Some people want to emulate their idols like tribute bands do and they try to adopt their identities from their posessions; they say things like "I'm not a Fender-man, I'm more of a Gibson-man", all the while they're completely mistaken about what their idols actually used.
Fender Precision (USA) 1978
Columbus Jazz (Japan) 1970s
Fender Bandmaster Reverb 1971, Marshall DBS 72410 1997
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