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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:47 am
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Richie Blackmore is an overlord of the strat! Monster tone! :)

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:00 am
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The first Strat tone I loved was Buddy Holly (Yah, I'm old enough to be your grampa).

David Gilmore got a verity of great tones, as did Jimi & SRV.

Let's face it. If you take the Stratocaster & Les Paul away, most rock and roll as we know it wouldn't exist.


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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:00 pm
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DaJeepster wrote:
The first Strat tone I loved was Buddy Holly (Yah, I'm old enough to be your grampa).

David Gilmore got a verity of great tones, as did Jimi & SRV.

Let's face it. If you take the Stratocaster & Les Paul away, most rock and roll as we know it wouldn't exist.



I don't know Im 49 so maybe not my Grandpa :) My dad is 70 something

Ok back to this statement you made...
You are absolutely 100% correct!!!
The Les Paul and the Stratocaster are the two single most valuable instruments in rock n roll.
I own 2 of each its all you need a Gibson and a Fender.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:08 pm
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Ceri wrote:
donnycraven wrote:
Great reply :)

Well, it's a good thread! :)

I know it sounds horribly corny, but I have indeed dived through "labyrinths of coral caves" and Echoes pops into my head every time! :lol: Gilmour's playing is the happy side of nitrogen narcosis without the need for nitrogen! (Any divers here will know what that means...)

People of my vintage might remember a surfers' movie of the 1970s called Crystal Voyager. Gotta be one of the dullest films ever: I was nearly crying with boredom in the cinema - until the long section pairing Echoes with spacy footage of waves breaking from underneath. Then it got kinda mellow - and that was without the pharmaceuticals the filmmakers presumably thought the audience would be using to survive their flick.

Here's a bit of that movie, for illustration. I dunno: Pink Floyd and underwater scenes somehow just work together...



Nowadays someone could do so much of a better job of those visuals. Calling Youtube home filmmakers.

BTW, just to keep it on-topic, Gilmour's got to be using middle+bridge on his selector switch for the first seven minutes or so of Echoes, would you say? I hear a little quacky edge to the notes in there somewhere. Anyone feel like watching the relevant bit of Live at Pompeii to check...?

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Live in Pompeii is a masterpiece! I can watch it and feel like Im smoking fine Hawaiian lol.
I listened to Meddle Obscured by Clouds and Animals today as to get out of the rut.
Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were here needed a break.

This is my first Strat when I was 16

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:53 pm
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My "grampa" remark was meant to poke fun a the fact that I am youth-challenged only...not intended to be disrespectful of others.

I'm younger than Mick Jagger but the Feds required I filed for Medicare a while ago.

Thank you for the Pink Floyd link. Still greatest to me. My albums are mostly on vinyl.

We talk about Jimi and know his main ax was a righty with a lefty nut and stringing.

Here is a link to Dick Dale from the surf music era. He is a lefty that plays a righty without being restrung so his sound is like no other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk


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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:12 pm
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DaJeepster wrote:
My "grampa" remark was meant to poke fun a the fact that I am youth-challenged only...not intended to be disrespectful of others.

I'm younger than Mick Jagger but the Feds required I filed for Medicare a while ago.

Thank you for the Pink Floyd link. Still greatest to me. My albums are mostly on vinyl.

We talk about Jimi and know his main ax was a righty with a lefty nut and stringing.

Here is a link to Dick Dale from the surf music era. He is a lefty that plays a righty without being restrung so his sound is like no other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk


No sweat brother the input is welcome :)

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:56 pm
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Several words from this almost 71 year old:

Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Richie Valens, Robin Luke, Buddy Merrill, Al Jardine, Hank Marvin, very early Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton.

For me and my bandmates, Stratocaster tone begins with them, before the advent of high gain and high tech signal processing.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:07 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
Several words from this almost 71 year old:

Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Richie Valens, Robin Luke, Buddy Merrill, Al Jardine, Hank Marvin, very early Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton.

For me and my bandmates, Stratocaster tone begins with them, before the advent of high gain and high tech signal processing.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:08 am
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I agree never forget our roots :)

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:54 am
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I also am thrilled that with todays technology we can create such beauty and splender even outside of the studio.
I picked up Pink Floyd Pulse this weekend. What a great live CD.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:59 am
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donnycraven wrote:
I picked up Pink Floyd Pulse this weekend. What a great live CD.

Hey Donny: I was out there in the audience on that one! :D

May also I recommend the DVD of the same show? I believe you won't be disappointed...

Cheers - C

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:40 am
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Gilmour, Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, I mean you could really go on forever. There are tons of great tones from Strats.

I will say I am partial to Gilmour, and if you really want to hear his great tones wail, look for live cuts from 70, 71 of Cymbaline, and Fat Old Sun on youtube, man he has a meaty sound that would evolve into Echoes and later what everyone comes to love. But, his 69-71 solo's are what I always found amazing.

Hendrix could just pull off so many things most people cannot, I mean who has the fret reach he had? Not me, thats for sure. Listen to Killing Floor at the Monterey Pop Festival. Man... just a great Strat...

Clapton I actually preferred his Cream days, which really wasnt a strat time for him, so...

I dont know, just tons of great players which is really what makes these guitars sing.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:15 pm
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I did see the dvd there before now that you mention it.

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:43 pm
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Not one person mentioned Jeff Beck. HUH?????

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Post subject: Re: The greatest Stratocaster tones ever captured.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:37 pm
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The greatest Strat tone ?
Ronnie Earl.
Listen to his record " Language of the Soul". Nothing but a 1961 Dakota Red stratocaster through a 1965 super reverb. No overdubs, no digital recording magic and no effects but his fingers. Pure tone and magic.


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