Great Examples of Tone?

[NightWinder]

Dude......Whoa. Thats blasphemous........Mountain baybee. I'm not talking to you anymore. LOL

[mick]

How About.................................

P90...Zal Cleminson /SAHB / Tony Iommi / early Sabbath but cool as and shows that you can really do anything with anything/ the bloke from Canned Heat ( now what was his name ?? , listen to his tone at woodstock , they ( his P90's in his guitar )just scream with tone .. that intro just slays me....plus Leslie west same gig/ Carlos.... same gig
Farked if I know but Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston...sound pretty raw and good..
PAF ....tricky that one but Albert King??? Alvin Lee /Clapton BB era? Mick taylor..Keef even

Strat.. SRV/ Jennifer Warns track/ leonard Cohen thing ( then we take Berlin )..JV ( all of them ) and Buddy Guy with Jr Wells , hoodoo man blues album/Rory Gallagher// most of it? But got to mention Buddy Whitington..,.what a player.../ what tone ( Mayall's 70th gig , Lenz strat and Dr Z amp , I think ?)

Tele... Jimmy Bryant/Rory Gallagher/ Don't really think much of Roy B but ....?

as for position etc , who knows but most of them would have played with the controls a fair bit ( doesn't everyone ?), can't remember the song/tune that did it for me but watching Rory go from pickup to pickup so many times during the one tune was pretty bloody good.. Aw man ... don't tell me they all were using machine wounds/peavey rage's/and studio muso's....................

Mick

[Sweetfinger]

P90, Charley Baty, Junior Watson, Nick Curran, these guys play the classic real tone of P90s

Actually I would put Nick Curran in the Strat section. His early material, which is my favorite, is done with the Harmony jazzboxes with the P-13 pickups. They're darker and more 'squishy' than a true later P-90. He did have an Epi goldtop for a short time, then got a Gibson , but for the past few years, he's been diggin strats and his (not Squier)'51. He likes bright! ...and doesn't use tone controls. Last time he was in town I showed him my late 60's SG body Melody Maker. He said "Oooh these are really bright, ...and with flatwounds! I wonder what these would sound like in a Strat?"

Even more obscure for Strat tones- I like Snooks Eaglin. Totally unlike Cray or Knopfler's smooth, refined touch. Snooks just really hammers the guitar percussively with his fingers. Very identifiable in a crowd.

I'll mention maybe again, that Kid Ramos' Tele tones are tops in my book! 'Greasy Kid Stuff' is EXACTLY how I want my Tele bridge pickups to sound!

I'm also surprised that nobody has mentioned one of my fave P-90 tones: The first couple Black Sabbath albums. Sure, Later stuff had the custom pickups, and the custom guitars, but the early material was cut with the P-90's.

[David Schwab]

Leslie West, I did his last four album covers, or was it 3, unfortunately the idiot has an endorsement with Dean guitars and is playing some piece of shit that ought to be hung around some metal head's neck, maybe he's getting senile or needs the money, very sad.....

Well he had been playing stratoid metal style guitars with locking trems and stuff for a while now. He hasn't gotten that classic Leslie West tone in a long time, which is a shame.

Jazz bassist Jeff Berlin plays a Dean. It's a real nice bass, but they discontinued his signature model, because it was passive and a four string, and they figured no one wanted it.. then they came out with the same bass, with one pickup, and they sell it cheap...

[Spence]

The mention of Mark Knopfler in connection with Strat sounds
is something of a canard since Knopfler's instrument of choice was
a Pensa Suhr Strat made by John Suhr while at Pensa in New York,
before graduating to a stint at the Fender Custom Shop.

That's so untrue. Knopfler used a Fender Strat, tele and a Gibson Les Paul long before he got interested in Pensa Suhr.

[NightWinder]

HE was also an advid EMG user too.

[DrStrangelove]

Strat: Robin Trower, Richie Blackmore, Tommy Bolin, Ted Turner of Wishbone Ash

Tele: Joe Walsh did most of the vintage James Gang with a Tele. Bill Kurchen of Hot Rod Lincoln fame

PAF: Paul Kossoff of Free, ...

Yah. Purest Les Paul + Marshall crunch.

Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane ...

That one was a sunburst ES-345 with Varitone. The difference with Jorma was that he actually used the Varitone settings. I wouldn't call it typical PAF sounds, more like typical ES-345/355/Lucille sounds.

Otherwise, I completely agree with you.

-drh

[Possum]

Curran

Yeah Curran can do the strat thing really well too. Here's Nick playing my Mojo V set, he signed the Squire these were in and I sent him a set, have no idea if he's playing them but he did love them. He really knows how to work a strat:
http://www.sdpickups.com/audio/curranone.mp3
http://www.sdpickups.com/audio/currantwo.mp3
http://www.sdpickups.com/audio/curranthree.mp3

I think its sad he is in the Thunderbirds now, his identity is kinda lost there, I hope he revives his own recording career someday soon.

As for Leslie, I don't care, he needs to throw that Dean piece of shit away and strap his P90 weapons back on. His newest album is called Blue Me, you'll see my name inside. He'll probably do another one this year I bet.....

[Possum]

PS....

Forgot to mention in the sound clips Kirk Flecher is on the left channel playing some strat handed to him, Curran is on the right channel with my demo guitar.....

[NightWinder]

Amazing....

I can't believe you guys!! What about Tinsley Ellis! OMG! What a great Blues player. His Picking technic is flawless....Vintage Strats and a SR Blackface. He floors me with Emotional playing......
COM"ON!!! POSSUM! Back me up!! You make a christian pickup! What about Barney Kessel!!!(God be with you friend) The guy played Elvis!! And his tone was as early as you could get to a blade single.

[Possum]

Christian pickups??? :-)

Thats pretty funny, yes I bless them with a Rosie splash of water after I use my magic winding pattern, what I don't tell people is I use alnico 6 magnets and I use 6 turns per layer and wind to 666 turns, using 6 magnets of course. Hail Satan, blues is devil music, YAAAH!!!!

Well hell yeah if you want to go way back Barney Kessel, Hank Garland, Bill Jennings, all those guys had GOD tone, mostly P90s and the Charley Christian ES150 blade pickup, fucking cool little amps cranked up. You just can't beat that stuff with a stick, its why I like the West Coast jump blues stuff, its rooted in early tones, there's alot of that stuff around Portland and everyone plays it here.

[NightWinder]

Hey now, I got a wind that takes 6,666 turns.....No shit!
You portland guys have it good, I must say....Nothing like that here....mostly Dirty Blues, Punk and ofcoarse metal. I may make it up around portland, as my best bud from pasadena, cali swears we gotta go up to see real blues. He says theres lots of little party towns too.
I just hope oyur women are'nt Paul Bunyun's......
Oh, worth checking out: John Stein trio- Interplay Good stuff man Get it.

[David Schwab]

...can't beat that stuff with a stick

lol That's one of my sayings... cracks my wife up every time. She's too young to remember that one...