Stratocasters "Not cool" right now. My opinion.

[ZlurkCorzDog]

Trying to be cool is a sure way not to be.

Frankly, the pursuit of "coolness" is a waste of time.

It's best to be yourself.

 

[BallisticSquid]

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It's like when everything became alternative and what was mainstream had become alternative. It's enough to make your head spin.

 

[WhiteWabbit]

I agree with your statement for the most part but the “prince” of indie rock plays a strat.

 

[Lone Woof]

You have to wait until it becomes completely, intolerably, offensively uncool and then it will be cool again.

 

[Brutus]

He's back , and that doesn't look like an offset to me.

https://www.jambase.com/article/red-hot-chili-peppers-john-frusciante-burkle-tribute-videos

Yeah!

 

[NeverPracticing]

They really are. Can you think of any other manmade product that has such enduring beauty? I can’t. I can stare at my Strat for hours. They are just so beautiful from every angle.

Boeing 747 / P-51 Mustang (pick your airplane)
Rolex/Cartier/Patek (pick your Timepiece)
Zippo lighter
Bikini??

You're right, but it was fun to think of other manmade objects that I find beautiful from every angle.

 

[WilseyFanPDX]

Boeing 747 / P-51 Mustang (pick your airplane)
Rolex/Cartier/Patek (pick your Timepiece)
Zippo lighter
Bikini??

You're right, but it was fun to think of other manmade objects that I find beautiful from every angle.

P-51 Mustang, absolutely.

 

[Jason D]

I just don’t care if something is cool or not. I am leaning toward Mustangs the last few years because they are way easier for me to play. I figure any guitar that helps you play better is the coolest guitar on the market.

 

[Wound_Up]

When I was young and into guitar, all the 'cool people' played strats. ALL of them. There wasn't a Les Paul or Tele or SG in sight. If you were 'metal' then you were playing some kind of pointy thing from BC Rich or Jackson or Kramer or something else... like a V.

So I bought a cherry Ibanez ES-335 copy. Cause I wasn't cool. But it was beautiful and it felt nice to hold (and when you know absolutely nothing about guitars, that is actually half the battle already won)

Still have it and it's way frickin cooler than my strats. Cooler than my LP's....

However it is most definitely not as cool as my Ric 360/12C63.

I just bought a solid black Strat copy as my first guitar after thinking I wanted a LP-style guitar for the previous 6 months. Very glad I did, now.


And when I see/hear Fender Mustang, I automatically picture Kurt Cobain so that may be part of why so many use it now. That alone makes it cool to millions of people, I'm sure.

 

[Nevets]

One of the reasons I gravitate towards my strat is because they're not as "cool" as telecasters and offsets. That and they're just amazing guitars that sound and feel right.

 

[BuddyHollywood]

A Stratocaster generates tones only a Stratocaster can.

 

[mmmm]

A Stratocaster generates tones only a Stratocaster can.

Well said!
If you play guitar you have to play a strat at least once in your life!

 

[jtoomuch]

A Stratocaster generates tones only a Stratocaster can.

Exactly. An L.P. can do something a Strat can't, a Strat can do many things a L.P. can't.

 

[mapleglo]

And a Tele can do do things an LP or a Strat can't. This one can even do acoustic:

 

[David Garner]

You couldn’t give them away in the 80s unless they had a humbucker and a Floyd. They came back. They will again.

 

[Stratwrangler]

Boeing 747 / P-51 Mustang (pick your airplane)
Rolex/Cartier/Patek (pick your Timepiece)
Zippo lighter
Bikini??

You're right, but it was fun to think of other manmade objects that I find beautiful from every angle.

I raise your p-51 with the Spitfire most beautiful plane ever made .

 

[Violeiro]

IMO the Strats are way better looking than the Teles...more electric mojo/vibe to me...that being said, I absolutely LOVE my Tele AO and have a CS ordered... Two very different guitars, some days I get up and feel the Strat sound is speaking to me, other days the Tele...sometimes throughout the day I change and fall in love with both over and over again...If I had to make a decision on keeping only one I honestly don't know which I would chose.

 

[Andrew Wasson]

I raise your p-51 with the Spitfire most beautiful plane ever made .

I was thinking that exact thing. I like Corsairs too. I always thought they were the hotrod of prop driven aircraft.