All about sleekness ...

Now that you guys have an idea about acoustic guitars lets go on to the lean mean world of the electric guitar ...

Well, all the stuff that I mentioned in my previous post , while extremely necessary , is definitely not the where the guitar spectrum ends ... In fact , the variety of electric guitars is such that it would give the Manhattan skyline an inferiority complex . Needless to say ,I would need a whole bunch of posts trying to describe them to you . Thankfully I won't even try that approach . Well , if you want to have a look at the sheer range of designs and models that electric guitars come in , all you have to do is open your favourite search engine and type in the magic words ... but here I will try and give you a ringside view of the whole business of guitaring ... So keep reading ...

The first thing that strikes you when you look at an electric guitar being played by someone on stage , is the sleekness and the sheer aura that seems to emanate from the guitar . Lets, take an example :


Metallica live in concert

Well , need I say more . The pic speaks for itself .

The very first electric guitars were designed by Les Paul modified from acoustic guitar built by Orville Gibson . The Gibson Les Paul guitars , as they became known , looked something like this :

a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar

Well , the next generation saw the advent of Fender guitars - the telecaster and the stratochaster which are still , albeit with some modifications down the line , one of the most popular guitars the world over .


Fender Stratochaster ( "Strat")

This particular type of guitar was used by guitaring greats like Jimmy Hendrix , Yngwie Malmsteen and Eric Johnson, to name a few .

The current breed of guitaring legends , however, revel in a different name : Ibanez ... The very name that sends the shivers down the spine of any wannabe guitarist because this is the guitar used by Steve Vai , Joe Satriani and John Petrucci , each of whom have a signature line of guitars , i.e. a particular model with the particular design and specifications preferred by these artists . Check out the whole range of Ibanez signature line guitars at music-n-sound.com ... here are a few examples :
Ibanez Jem - Steve Vai signature series
Ibanez JS 1000 - Joe Satriani Signature series

Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it...

Till then its good bye ....