I found myself almost bleeding to sustain a note, and I know it wasn't all the amps fault.ġ977 Gibson poster featuring Rich Williams of Kansas, with his modified L6-S But i've got to tell you the truth: that guitar was like a General Motors car - within two months, man, something would always go out. That's why I liked the L6-S - because it was a Gibson, but it sounded almost like a Strat. It sounds like a Telecaster, or like a Strat with the switch between the pickup positions. Yamaha came out with a guitar called a Super Combinator, and the body looks like a takeoff on a Stratocaster, but it's got all those phases that the L6-S has. Yamaha to me, is more like my wife at Thanksgiving. From June 1978's edition of Guitar Player magazine: The reason I left Gibson was because I feel like they're McDonalds now they just wrap a hamburger and throw it at you. Within a couple years Santana was endorsing Yamaha guitars. It has a very fast fingerboard, and it's clean sounding. With the controls, I can make it sound like a Stratocaster, a Telecaster, an SG, or a Les Paul - I get them all. It's got more accessible frets, and the pickups are just incredible. It's not like i'm endorsing it, but that axe is beautiful. Oh, I just flipped over this Gibson L6-S. Carlos Santana started playing the L6-S in 1974 - he heaped praise upon it in the November '74 issue of Guitar Player magazine, and by 1975 was on the cover of the Gibson solid-body catalogue, and further magazine adverts as an endorsee.
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