Your Thoughts on getting a Gretsch Guitar?

[The Only Way To Fly]

What are your thoughts on getting a Gretsch guitar? I think Page has only used one on the RAH gig for Come'on Everybody. I love the sound, & have played a few at Guitar Ctr, but want to see what ya'll think. My budget is not more than $2,000 USD.

[Stryder1978]

If they are good enough for Billy Duffy (The Cult) they'd be good enough for you! Go for it!

[the chase]

I play drums not guitar.. But a close friend of mine, who's an excellent guitarist swears by them.. It's pretty much all he plays.

Their Drum sets are great quality as well.

i'd say go for it.

[ZosofanCMR]

Gretsch's are fantastic. You really can't go wrong with a 5120 which is basically a second tier version of the Gretsch 6120 which run around $3,000 depending. The 5120 from their Electromatic series runs about $700, but the sound is there, very rockabilly, lots of swing, amazing resonance. For the extra $2,300, I'm not sure that it's entirely worth it to go for the whole hog 6120 unless you are a huuuge Chet Atkins or Brian Setzer fan.

[docron]

[Gretsch will be my nextsch]

[Giordano]

great guitars !

Mind you, they are still basically jazzboxes. big hollowbody guitars.

suitable for some music, less suitable for other styles.

If you are looking for a big hardrock/metal speedpickin' tone, you might want to look into something different.

with lots of gain, they will feedback your brains out.

They are divine for blues/rockabilly, pop, sixtiesstuff jazzy stuff and funk and anything else you can think of.

[Charles J. White]

Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar has a few of them. I like them, unique sound for country rock

Edited August 31, 2012 by Charles J. White