mex strat or burns marquee?

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seveone said:
mexi strat. not even a question. Ebay it. I guess I don't know prices over there, but that seems high for a mexi strat. I got a mexi tele here for $150, I wouldn't pay more than $450 for a new mexi strat.
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MY friend just baught a mexi strat for $350. ITs nice, I would advise the strat.
 
Have you played the Burns? If not, how on earth can you advise him which is better? :confused:
 
That Burns is one UGLY guitar. I'd go for the Mex Strat. I haven't played a Burns so I can't comment on the sound.
 
another question:

just read this months total guitar magazine, where the burns marquee batwing is featured as one of the reviewed guitars. they say the price is £369, whereas on www.gak.co.uk the price for a standard marquee (not batwing) is £289. why might this be?
 
The former is the RRP (Recommended Retail Price) and the latter the ARP (Actual Retail Price).

Don't complain :p
 
what i mean was is there a difference between regular marquees, and marquee batwings (besides the headstock).
 
i dunno what it means either, but the guitar is called the "Burns Marquee Batwing" in Total Guitar
 
the bison rocks! I love that guitar, and the marquee as well... there were a few in the guitar store I worked at a while back, and they got passed over time and again for muuuch crappier guitars, even when I showed people how awesome they sound... GAH! the best surf tone i've ever heard was out of a bison. (not that it didn't do a million other things well, but nothing else was the BEST i'd heard)
 
how dyou reckon they'd sound with overdrive? im not thinkin chords im thinkin more for solos?
 
I used to plug the bison in more than the marquee, but it rocked socks on smokin bluesy leads, even fattened up well for santana dorian styles. I dug it a lot.
 
cheers. see my brothers guitar is an epiphone les paul, and despite being a great guitar, lovely to play on and everything, theres something about the tone im not keen on. its not great clean, and my sound is really a kind of tom delonge/john frusciante/hendrix sound, and it just doesnt do it for me. the other guitarist in the band, however, finds it suits him better as he has more of a 70s metal sound, and it has the balls to do that kinda thing for him.

so yeah, besides solos, ill be generally using it for a kind of clean but with the tiniest bit of dirt rhythm sound (think little wing)
 
I don't like Epiphone Les Pauls really ... too muddy and lifeless.
 
There's a couple of amps you can do that with. In fact, I'm not sure the bigger Valvetronix ones couldn't. A mate of mine has a really nice all-tube Carlsboro that is the business on most tones.
 
i do like that cobra guitar now youve brought it to my attention!
 
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