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It all depends on your music and budget.
Ibanez makes the fastest guitars - but they sound like shit. Good value though. If you're willing to put up with swamp ash or plywood or whatever they make the bodies out of.
Gibson makes great sounding guitars but they play like shit.
Fender makes guitars that both play like shit and sound like shit and yet somehow manages to get them to sound good on recordings. Except the Yngwie version - which obviously can't play like shit. A telecaster has a very unique sound and you'll know if you need it.
Paul Reed Smith makes guitars that play really well, sound great, and cost way too much. And their newer ones have this giant neck block at the joint that just suck.
BC Rich makes guitars that play like crap, sound like crap, and look totally cool.
Jackson used to be cool. So did ESP. ESP has a Kirk Hammett signature series that is like 500 bucks. Probably not a bad deal.
Epiphone makes cheap version of Gibsons, is owned by Gibson, and you probably won't be able to tell the difference yet.
Kramer just did an Eddie Van Halen reissue that is probably worth looking into - it's not that expensive and if it was good enough for the Great One, it'd probably be good enough for you.
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