Members Chief Ten Beers Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I mean i know it's a faux pas and all but i think you can get a convincing jazz tone out of an lp especially with the right pickups and the right settings.why is it so wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarist_with_ Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Since when was it wrong...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members trill Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 The Geneva Convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Takeaway Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 They were intended to play Jazz; a solid body to reduce feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Assumer Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I realize it is fusion but didn't DeMeola use a les paul forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fouronsix Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 How can it possibly be wrong to play jazz on a guitar that was designed for jazz by one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time? geez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted May 13, 2008 Moderators Share Posted May 13, 2008 I mean i know it's a faux pas and all but i think you can get a convincing jazz tone out of an lp especially with the right pickups and the right settings.why is it so wrong? Who told you that it was wrong? Your wife?) Lester William Polfuss....he say it OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 The snobbery of the jazz folk. It's so obnoxious. Les Paul [YOUTUBE]Esq_XhwENxc[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aahzz Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Les Paul plays jazz....on a Les Paul. Who would consider it wrong????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zenbu Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I bet Fender started that rumor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FUBTAG Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I think Chief Ten Beers got to 12..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Andersson Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 A les paul is always right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Les Paul plays jazz....on a Les Paul. Who would consider it wrong????? more specifically, the Recording model, which has been out of production for 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Plenty of jazzers play an LP. I like Ulf Wakenius[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnny Z Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I mean i know it's a faux pas and all but i think you can get a convincing jazz tone out of an lp especially with the right pickups and the right settings.why is it so wrong? It's not the guitar but the player. I've done Jazz on a LP for 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V-Type Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 My buds a Jazz player and he just loves his LP Classic. The 500/496 combo works surprisingly well for the standards and original Jazz/Blues Arrangements he plays.You can even get close woody like semi/hollow tones with a couple of slight guitar volume and tone adjustments.But I have wondered why their arent more known artists using them over the years.IMO the LP as well as a Strat can play into any Genre and quite easily. Especially in the Right hands.True of most guitars in my experience though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members robbyg Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 profiling.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chief Ten Beers Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 It sounds like most of you haven't heard that les paul is inappropriate for jazz.I've heard it on more than one occasion,and you certainly don't see a lot of jazz players using them.i know les paul himself uses one but it's not very common.just today i read on the gear page some guy selling his r8 because he's mostly a jazz player now and no longer needs a les paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alfsboy Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 most well known 50-60's type guitars and a decent amp will get a jazz tone mainly because they were designed for the music that was played at the time and had lower output pickups compared to the later shredding types with hot pickups .The hard bits playing jazz not getting the tone right .I would certainly play Jazz on a Les Paul if I had one .I do have a Tele and a Dot and both are fine for soft chordy melodic Jazz .Both use Tonerider pickups. ,Vintage plus and Rocksongs respectively Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I mean i know it's a faux pas and all but i think you can get a convincing jazz tone out of an lp especially with the right pickups and the right settings.why is it so wrong? Where have you been getting your disinformation? Somebody needs to go tell Mr. Les Paul himself that he's been wrong all these years. Hurry up! There's no time to waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aahzz Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 more specifically, the Recording model, which has been out of production for 30 years. That's the model he uses now - he played plenty of jazz on a Goldtop, on a Custom....those are 2 that I know I've seen him with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chief Ten Beers Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Where have you been getting your disinformation? Somebody needs to go tell Mr. Les Paul himself that he's been wrong all these years. Hurry up! There's no time to waste. ok aside from les paul,you really can't name very many jazz players who use an lp for jazz.... and i'm not talking fusion i'm talking straight up jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SmoothJK Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Chief_Ten_Beers, I have no idea where you get your information. Les Pauls can do jazz, blues, rock, even metal. I hope you don't just come up with this stuff in your head and try to pass it off as common knowledge? That's how bad information spreads on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlackCat Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Wrong to play jazz on a Les Paul?Thats news to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Since most jazz is played in restaurants, restaurant managers expect to see a "jazz guitar" -- some kind of hollow body with f-holes. Play a Les Paul, and you'll have problems getting the most important gig for jazz musicians. Restaurant managers are the arbiters of jazz guitar aesthetics. Though jazz can be played on any instrument and on any guitar, there is an image that people associate with jazz guitar -- that can't be denied. Even in the jazz guitar community itself, a very conservative bunch in general, when someone says that they need to get a "jazz guitar" everyone has an idea that that means hollowbody with f-holes. I wish it weren't true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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