I was watching the Fender 50th anniversary concert and was blown away by Joe Walsh's tone with his red strat. Anyone have an idea of what pickups he used in that guitar? I've never heard a strat sound like that it was killer!

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anybody have an idea on these pickups?

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I DVRed that one but never could get it to play properly - would always skip from about 30 minutes into the program to the very end - so I never saw Joe's set and don't have any info on the red Strat.

However, I did see The Eagles Saturday night and on "Funk 49" Joe was playing a light green or light blue Strat (hard to tell from the stage lights) with what appeared to be EMGs of some kind - didn't see any polepieces on the pickups when it was up on the jumbo screens. I know he plays the green/blue one on the 2004 Crossroads DVD and I think he might play the red one as well. I'll pull that DVD out and see if the red one is played and see if it is the same as the green/blue one.

It is hard to tell for sure. From what I could see, they were either Seymour Duncan's or Noiseless SC's.

yea im gonna do a little research on this but after watching that concert those strats just sounded like nothing ive heard before...the red strat did have pole pieces in them so i know they aren't EMGs

Does Joe generally play seymour and EMG?

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Joe plays everything under the sun. Saturday night he played:

1. Deusenberg semi-hollow (Starplayer maybe?) with Bigsby-style trem, orange
2. Deusenberg semi-hollow with trem, tile front
3. Deusenberg solid body (49er?), black
4. Carvin C-6 maple board quilt top sunburst (for slide)
5. Ernie Ball/Music Man Silhouette Special with tele pickups (Hotel California only)
6. Ernie Ball/Music Man Luke
7. Ernie Ball/Music Man Axis SuperSport
8. Fender Eric Clapton Strat
9. Performance light green/light blue "Strat"
10. Gibson 12-string acoustic
11. Gibson 6-string acoustic

I probably missed a guitar or two from that mix.

EDIT: Here is one I forgot about:

12: Rickenbacker 230 (an odd late 80s/early 90s model)

One of the "boo-teke" amp makers wanted Joe to try his amps onstage and said one night Joe went through 26 different guitars.

Joe changed every song; most guitars got 2-3 songs during the set - the exceptions being the EBMM guitars. They played about 3.5 hours in total.

Joe seemed most enamored with the Deusenbergs on Saturday. Also he played the Carvin and the solid body Deusenberg on "Rocky Mountain Way" - his tech brought out the Deusenberg for the talkbox solo and he flipped the Carvin behind his back. All of Joe's lead vocal songs were from his solo career - as long as you count "In The City" as a solo piece since the solo version came out first on "The Warriors" soundtrack (although The Eagles re-cut it for "The Long Run" a few months later).

I finally got to pull out that Crossroads DVD - it has both Funk 49 and Rocky Mountain Way on it.

For Funk 49 he played that seafoam green/daphne blue Strat. It is evidently a Performance guitar, not a Fender (although it might now have a Fender neck on it; it looked more like a Fender logo Saturday night). The pickups are Lace Sensors, not EMGs.

Joe did not use the red Strat from the "Strat Pack" program on the Crossroads program; he used a Rickenbacker and a Les Paul for Rocky Mountain Way.

I could be wrong but IIRC, he was using Bardens at one point.

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You dig?

Joe's greatest studio work was with a Tele through a Champ.

You could tell he had quite a few guitars...but anyway i need that tone! I wonder how i could find out that info...someone tell me!

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Yep, back when the Eagles were still the Eagles, Joe played a Tele on a lot of songs including Hotel California.

A friend of mine was Walsh's roommate at Kent State and was his soundman for many years as well as an engineer on Hotel California. Little-known fact-Boston's debut record, which my friend (Bruce Hensal) also was an engineer on, was sprung from Tom Scholz's obsessive love for the James Gang and Walsh's guitar sound (what's not to love about that?) Scholz was put in touch with Bruce when he wanted to know how Walsh got his sound. The rest as they say...Walsh did use a variety of guitars, most often Teles and Les Pauls-I read that he used a 335 a lot in the James Gang (yeah!!) A lot of the sound was a Champ, lots of overdubs with slight tweaks on the sound, and Leslie speakers.

Man very cool! Joe seems like an awesome guy just by the way he entertains...i loved that 50th anniversary show i really wish i could've gone to that...looked top notch

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