Teen Gothic

I play a Fender Telecaster made in Mexico.

Fender Mexico is my favorite.

I also love Gibsons ES 335s and Les Paul’s

Gibson really got their stuff together this last five years. I lot of us were worried they wouldn’t even exist. All through the 2010s they put out nothing but garbage and the company almost went under.

In my opinion the best guitar ever made is the Fender Telecaster. It’s just a flawless design and specifically for goth music, it can get those super clean and clear chimey tones that you hear on Drab Majesty and Cocteau Twins songs.

What are your favs and why?

A question, thats been lingering for a awhile, popped up in my head here …

Any recommendations on newer generations of really good gothic rock guitarists / guitar playing in the style of Marx/Hussey/King etc?

To be more specific: What I’m looking for is not more too simple copies of Wayne Hussey or the 2020s school of minimalism and so on. I’m looking for players like Porl King (when Rosetta Stone was still active) and Mark Wheeler (Who played on Irony of fate with Love like blood ages ago before they turned into a different more metal influenced act) who in my opinion took the style of playing into new directions but still stood with both feet in Gothic rock if you know what I mean.

Many of the newer bands I’ve come across are aiming for something more simple and minimalistic: Say, Molchat Doma – they’re great but they’re a bit of a different thing to me than my fave guitar goth acts (who all seems to have popped up in the 80s and 90s) She passed away is well produced and has good intense energy and so on but the guitars are nowhere near what Porl King did and Wayne Hussey still does (at least live)

Are there any new players/bands that I have missed? Any recommendations?

PS: I am very impressed by some of Pre-Occupations material by the way, I can hear clearly they've been through the LedZep, Hussey/Marx/S.Kilbey/Swans/fieldsofthe/etc thing but they doesn't count as a gothic rock band DS