A Strat, or even a Tele, is a more versatile guitar. I like the sound of a PRS, too, but as you said it's very Les Paul like. My primary electric axe is a Strat, and if Anderson has improved substantially over that tone I'd be willing to take a test drive. I know Make'n Music and it's not too far from where I work. I'm sure I'll be over there at some point and when I am I'll ask about these guitars. And I don't think the price is too outrageous, as long as it performs.

If you're a strat/tele guy, then try the 3 pickup models with the 2 front singles and the bridge humbucker. It gets pretty good Fender type sounds, which is what I want most of the time.

When I played it in the store I liked it enough to buy it, but I didn't really start to appreciate how good it was until I played it at home for a while. I needed to jam along with some backup tracks. Then I could really feel and hear a difference. Give them a try. You might get lucky and not like them.

Rockerbob...beware the Dark Side... once u step down into that path... forever will it dominates yr destiny.........

Tomcat, I've been to the Dark Side many times but all it dominates is my density, which tends to run high.

I have a quick sample mp3. I The playing is full of mistakes, nut it was a quick one time through trying to add descriptions and change pickups and amp setting on the fly. It's all through a PodPro. The first stuff is the Pod's "Black Face", a simulation of a black face Fender Twin. The last bit at the end is the "Small Tweed", a sim of a '52 Fender Deluxe. I have the volume cranked all the way up (to 11).

Please forgive the turds in the playing, but this is a live first take. No chance to figure out what to play, just play, and no fixing mistakes. Yikes! It's almost like you have to really play or something. :-)

It's too long, but I was just jamming and I didn't edit anything. The file is about 4MB.

http://www.rockerbob.com/mp3/AndersonDemo1Mix.mp3

I recorded a couple demos of just the guitar. These let you hear the guitar a bit better.

http://www.rockerbob.com/NewDemo/