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Ahh I played a great looking even better sounding Gibson Firebird today. It sounded wonderful with a Marshall Vintage/Modern 50 watter. The sales man pulled it down seeing I was drulling all over the place. Then he asked what do you wanna play it though? So of course see the latest JoeB. Video I had to try it. Anyways to make a long story short I think I'm just going to have to take on a second and third job until I have them in my hands! Dream on lol.
Is the scale length different on the Firebird vs. a Les Paul or ES335? The one and only Firebird I played sounded great but played like a bass guitar. Someone had huge strings on it and it was very stiff feeling. I have always liked how they look and sound though. So what are you getting first the VM or the Firebird V?
I have a Bird. It's def. a long guitar and it can be fussy with tuning, but it sounds wicked. I use it as a drop D guitar b/c the mini's have a great clean, chimey, and articulate tone. It's like Gibson's fireback at Fender only better.
Ben
The bird is more in my price range and more relistic then the VM, I'd feel like a true guitar god with both though. Its amazing the kind of respect you command when you testing out over $4000 worth of stuff in one sitting. The little kids playing their Ibanez death metal thourgh their little Crate amps and line 6 spiders all stopped as I belted out my best Johnny Winters riffs I had to offer. Of course it also helps when the sales man is adjusting the controlls for you and he continues to turn me up louder and louder with this "yeah I've sold this" kind of grin on his face! For at least 5 minutes all you could hear in the guitar section was that Marshal VM and the Firebird.
I have always wanted a Firebird, everybody I like has one. Winter, Clapton, Winwood, Warren Haynes, Albert Collins its just a kick **** guitar and nobody seems to play them right now in main stream. Everybody wants SG, and Les Pauls. I'm hoping by september I will be the proud owner of one, as September is when my little band of brothers are going to play a festival in our home town (population 500 or less) We will be the only rock group out of 10 country and bluegrass bands.
Gibson scale is 24.75" they claim, but I've measured some different scale lengths on different Gibsons I've tried. Fenders, on the other hand are 25.5" and PRS I believe is 25".
All I'm going to say is it felt like a Gibson. I had a SG Standard and the neck on that Firebird felt very much like that SG did, with all the playablility of a 24 3/4ths neck.
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