Ok...here's a thread that I may be repeating from a previous one...but who in your opinion has given us the most definitive Strat tone? Are we going down the line that its in "the fingers" or is it a combination of the right gear too? I'd be really intersted in your opinions. For the record I'm torn between Rory, Jimi, and Beck!
Tough one. Depends on what time of day you ask me.
Right now, I'd have to say those two dudes in Plankton.
..I'm being totally serious.
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Hey...I checked that Bands site out a while ago....wow...they can play!! Great vibe...real inspirational..
Yeah....I realise that....I guess I should have said "in your opinion" now your thinking of tons of cool players. Check out my mate Gwyn Ashton and let me know what you think of his tone. DO a google search and you'll find his site! Happy playing
Mark Knopfler,
David Gilmour
SRV
Jimi (preferably live)
John Frusciante (red Hot Chili Peppers)
Absolutely, hands down, it's me. My Strat tone kills. Walter Becker can't touch it, Chris Rea stopped playing after he heard my guitar.
Okay, I usually don't jump in with that kind of post, but Strat tone for what? SRV? Curtis Mayfield? Buddy Merrill? George Harrison? Lowell George?
That's why Strats rule. The versaility is off the charts, but the instrument always retains a character that makes you say, "that's a Stratocaster."
Let's mix it up. Which bass player has the best tone?
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
That's easy: Marcus Miller. :)
I agree with the preference for clean tones. Along those lines I would agree with early Dire Straits, and clean Hendrix stuff like Liitle Wing, and Wait Until Tomorrow.
Always liked Entwistle, myself...Originally Posted by Offshore Angler
his playing as much as tone...
Geddy Lee, Miller, Jonesy, Mingus, Jaco...
Strat tones Knopfler Hendrix
Bass tones Jaco and Larry Graham
Jaco's tone is a funny thing. I absolutely love it and listen to my Jaco albums constantly. However, when someone else cops his tone, even as homage, I can't stand it.
Larry Graham's with Graham Central Station was awesome; but for me, with Sly, it was hit & miss.
I was just playing when I said Marcus Miller because I didn't say "In my opinion," which I've goaded OA about before. Marcus has a SUPER clean bass tone that always sounds like he just changed strings 45 seconds before making that recording. My own favorite though, in all honestly, is probably Victor Wooten's.
As for Strat tone, I gotta go with Gravity Jim.
I really love Joe Bonamassa's Strat tone too.
It's not difficult at all.
Ritchie Blackmore.
Done.
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
Oooh, good answer Fripp! I'm kinda partial to my own tone, too! How about you guys? Do you dig your own tones?
...and on the 8th day, God created the Super Reverb and there was ROCK, and it was GOOD!
I do. EOT.
John Anthony motherfucking Frusciante.
I think we have a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan in the house...
The Woodstock version of Red House. Also, Villanova Junction. Also, Voodoo Chile from the Jimi plays Berkeley. Also, the entire Band of Gypsys album.
Stevie Ray Vaughn <--- the best strat tone on the planet, period.
'13 20th R9 Murphy
'13 Believer Burst #003
'13 Redeye #007
'13 Fender '52 WW10 Tele
'12 Fender '59 WW10 Strat Braz
'10 Goldie #008
'10 Dr. Z Maz 18NR
'03 R9 Aged Braz
'03 R9 Braz
'02 Martin OM28JM #360
'97 Fender '58 Strat (Gene Baker MB)
'68 Marshall JMP50 & '68 1960A Cab
'65 Fender Del. Rev.
'61 Gibson ES-335 TD
'59 Gibson TV Model
'59 Fender Tweed BM
'42 Martin 0017
SRV
Hendrix
I agree that there really isn't, or can't be a "best Strat tone."
But the circling figure that flows through all the verses of Rickie Lee Jones', "Flying Cowboys" is about the best use of a Strat I can picture for that particular situation. A fine choice of notes and instruments.
I think it was Sal Bernardi.
It's one of my favorite Strat sounds, and Strat licks ever.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Hendrix and Frusciante !
I dig Quine and Lloyd. What those two folks do/did make me want to start from scratch.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Early Dire Straits Knopfler.
s'all goof.
Frusciante is really growing on me.....used to think he played strange but I've heard some tracks off the new album and I have been eating my words.....a very grown up thing to admit I have to say! CHeck out my mate Gwyn Ashton at www.gwynashton.com
He has a killer tone....I usually play guitar tech for him at gigs, his tone ALWAYS make me smile inside.
ok. sorry it's always been biting me. How do you pronouce his name?
Fruus-siant-teh? or Fruus-shcaint.
I spoke to a guy once who knows him and its pronounced
frew shant ayy (said in a posh English accent)
Me..........?
I would say SRV for sure.
Seconded!
... and SRV has a definitive strat tone IMO.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained as stupidity"
SRV
I'd give David Gilmour a mention
There's a red house over yonder........
Let me put in a vote for my countryman, Ian Moss of Cold Chisel.
Hey Ian Moss has a great tone!! Everytime I read an entry i agree with it and I think differently as to my fave. Lets just say there's some mazing players out there. Chris Duarte has a great sound
I love all the classic strat tones. Hank Marvin, Buddy Holly, Dick Dale, Jimi, Ritchie, Lowell, David Gilmour, etc. My current favorite is Sonny Landreth. Even in my own little world my favorites change from time to time but I don't lose any love for those I dug in the past.
Anyone EXCEPT Eric Johnson.
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bull$hit attached. - E.C.
I vote "clean" Hendrix - quotes used cause i liked it when he used a little Echoplex or whatever the delay thingie he used was.
My runner-up award goes to early Buddy Guy when he used that old strat he had - very gooood tone in there plus his fingers.
Blues = SRV
Rock = John Frusciante
"We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening."
- Nigel Tufnel
EJ is a shining (glossy sheen, actually) example of what I don't want to sound like. He can play his butt off, and apparently can tell the difference in sound between fuzzface bypass switch variants, but man, every single edge has been polished off that rock.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Top Strat sounds in no particular order...
-Clapton (2005 Cream Reunion Live)
-Jimmie Vaughan (well, I like him)
-Michael Gurley (Dada; remember 'Dizz Knee Land'?)
-Robert Cray
-Buddy Guy
-Stevie Ray Vaughan
Bass sounds...
-Charlie Mingus
-Mark Egan
-Jaco Pastorius
-Stanley Clarke
-Jack Bruce
-Steve Rodby
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Hendrix
Knopfler
Cray
Nolin
Mayfield
Nile Rodgers
Hank Marvin
Gilmour
SRV
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