so they tend to ditch les pauls for sgs or some newer lighter type.

teles are still up there.

strats..i hate them....and you're probably right..seen as an old fogey thing..

mustang..don't see the attraction..i did when i was 14 but i would never spend money on one unless it was cheap....

what i would liek to know..
where the fuck did all these travis beans come from all fo a sudden???

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gibson les paul cost big money no?

and i've always seen people using them.

Andrew had a vast quatity of Gibson:

SG

Doubleneck SG

335

that's reason enough for me to save up for one, so i can be as amazing as him

it's limited edition because it's a cool colour. i've bookmarked this post for when my band is popular

Some guitarists want to play what so and so plays and some want to make a statement by playing something unique and some guitarists just play whatever is around but most guitarists just know what they like and choose guitars accordingly.

Adam Jones of Tool - Les Paul Classic Custom Silverburst.

Wata of BORIS- Les Paul Custom

nice sound, but they're too big, heavy and fat (especially the necks) for my liking.

giving me a tele/jazzmaster any day.

I like Mustangs and Jaguars myself.... Just for how they look. Lovely dirty sound too.

seem to have the ibanez influenced ones..
I think stratocasters maybe had become so popular that people wanted to use something different visually- maybe also distancing themselves from the cheap strat copies you get from argos etc.

Tone wise indie-rock is incredibly dull at the moment. There's so many bands who have this really thin, clean, dry sound that has no balls to it at all. It annoys me seeing someone with a jazzmaster or jaguar, who has put no effort into thinking how the sound fits, and having a really dull tone that doesn't cut through the band at all.

Personally I prefer the feel of a fender to a gibson (I've never got on with the gibson bridges as much) but I prefer the sound of dual humbuckers. I've got a modified jagmaster at the moment so it's kind of the best of both worlds in a way.

and I don't know anyone who has said it's out of date or a fogey's guitar, at least not to my face anyway!

Alex Turner played one in the "...Dancefloor" video.

Strats will always be fuckin' cool!

how much do jaguar/jazzmasters cost?

Bjorn copeland from black dice plays a les paul type thingy.

times new viking, beach house, of montreal, okkervil river.

I think strats and les pauls being the two most popular guitars in the world are a reason indie types avoid them, wanting something a bit different. Models like jazzmasters, jaguars and mustangs became popular among indie tyes because they could be bought for next to nothing in the 80's and early 90's.

I hate gibsons, that bit in juno where she is like 'wow is that les paul ive always prefered them to fenders' I thought that was pretty unrealistic

I'm getting a Strat just to fuck things up a bit. And to get a tremolo.

... someone in battles uses a les paul.
(so they must be cool right?)
personally tho for me its tele's all the way

use Les Pauls. As do The National I think.

every one will be using a Yamaha RGX 112P like mine even though it's probibly shit and I have had it since I was about 14 and still can't play...

so many indie guitarists use telecasters is because of radiohead. it's fair to assume that guitarists of a certain age group got into playing the guitar through radiohead and so wanted to jock all of jonny greenwood's moves. a good example of this is the guy from bloc party.

according to this poor logic, the next big guiatr will be the fender bronco or strat. whichever it is that alex turner of the arctic monkeys plays.

or really expensive aluminium guitars like foals use.