I don't really get the Chilli Peppers.
But I've been taking notice of John Frusciante a lot lately.
Not just his tone, (which seems pretty Hendrixy -at least on solos), but his whole approach. His rhythm playing can really be madness.
With a guy like this, you can't just zero in on his "tone." He has an all encompassing way with the guitar. Tone is just one elemet.
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Elvis Costello
IMO they are very, very popular with the younger crowd (my daughter's fave band) cause they represent a bridge between/combo of two diff music styles - trad rock and something else kinda like rap...I don't really get the Chilli Peppers
The Chilli Peppers Rock!
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best strat tone?
My heroes.
Your heroes sound like crap.
Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
EXACTLY!!!Originally Posted by hudpucker
Buddy Guy and SRV for sure.
But lately, Mato from Indigenous has a great Strat tone going on. I just saw him live and it was awesome. He sounds like Jimi and SRV when ever he wants to and then has a sound all his own.
I think Yngwie used to on his first few albums but has gotten pretty harsh of late,
Now I reckon it has to be.....Robert Cray.
Well, I'm 36, and probably not considered young by the younger crowd.
But you have to remember...they started in the mid 80's.
Actually, my favorite record of their's is "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan", which came out in 1988. It was also their last full-length album with Hillel Slovak on guitar. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" runs a close second, though.
Both Hillel and John have a very obvious Hendrix influence.
"I got Jackie Onassis in my pants." - The Dictators
- Scott.
Ronnie Earl has a killer strat tone
Formerly Bluesgtr20
I agree, Ronnie is also a very skilled guitar player. He has a new CD out, "Heart and Soul" he has an amazing clean tone.
Robin Trower has always had a great tone!!!
good call!!Robin Trower has always had a great tone!!!
(Hey, I used to eat at "Sushi For Less" near Duarte, also The Spaghetti Factory right off the 210...did some of my nursing clinicals at Santa Teresita..)
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Walter Trout
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Thats a long way from Minnesota!!! Sushi for less is now Sushiya, it IS in Duarte. And Santa Teresita is no longer a hospital but a medical clinic.
By the way, The Old Spaghetti Factory is still that, and is still off the 210 fwy!!!
Sushiya- yep they had just changed it right before I moved (2 years ago). AWESOME Albacore sushi!!Thats a long way from Minnesota!!! Sushi for less is now Sushiya, it IS in Duarte. And Santa Teresita is no longer a hospital but a medical clinic.
I have this memory of sitting in my car in the St. Teresita parking lot, listening to Jed the Fish on KROQ announcing that Curt Cobain had just died.
anyway, I still say that those two dudes in the band 'Plankton' have the best strat tones out there today!!!
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
...Hendrix,SRV,Lake,Fripp,Gilmour,Omar from Omar and the Howlers,Knopfler,Buddy Guy, Clapton,Lifeson,among others...
Still my personal fave: Jerry Garcia, Europe, 1972.
Aside from my own delightful tones, there was a Rodney Crowell spinoff in the late '90s, I believe, called the Cicadas. Brother Fezz parka turned me onto them and they have some of the best, shimmering, glassy, sweet Strat tones i've ever heard. not dirty, but it all has a little hair on it. Sounds like what a Strat is supposed to sound like, at least to me. A lot of it sounds like the middle pickup alone, or the "4" position.
I rather detest the neck pickup sound on a Strat (I am not a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan, ok?) though curiously I love the tele neck pickup. Go fig.
But if you want to hear great, vintage-sounding, glassy Strat Tones, go to the Apple Music Store and buy "The Cicadas." It also has the advantage of being a great record with a lot of good songs and great playing on it.
Rory Gallagher's Live CD's.
brianf
Oh Man!!! I never knew Fender made amps too!!!
I just got this CD, Matt Schofield, Siftin' Thru Ashes. It's my first time ever hearing anything by this guy, a friend just sent me the CD and said check this out. Matt can play and it's good album, it's Blues and Jazz and he has an awesome Strat tone, one of the best I have heard in a long time.
The Ventures (pre Mosrite) days...Walk, Don't Run...perfect trem use, IMO.
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits
Southbound
Give it a listen.
2nd vote is the solo Gilmour does on Time
3rd is anything off of the Made in Japan album by Deep Purple
Denny Freeman
Kirk Fletcher
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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But That only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert.
Rory Gallagher, Hendrix, and, Buddy Guy, Ted Turner of Wishbone Ash (somethig about those Orange Amps)
Everyone of my fav's are covered here...Except Jeff Beck! (My absolute favorite.)
Anson Funderburgh
Otis Rush (Cobra recordings)
BB King (mid-50s recording are great and done on a ash body Strat 55 or 56)
Jimmie Vaughan & SRV
So much has to so with the Amp you play out of. I expect you are looking for pure unadulterated Strat through 60's fender amp tone -clean and sparkly.Or you want gritty saturated Strat through '59 Bassman. If you are looking for Strat outta Marshall, then that would be , like, Tommy Bolin I guess. Don't know about Srat through triple Rect. Botique!
Last edited by jerryjg; 08-04-2006 at 01:43 AM.
That would have to be Richie Blackmore, Ed King and Jeff Beck for Strat tones.
As for Bass..Jonas Reingold for sure from The Flower Kings.
todays list would include
Richard Thompson - this man can be fierce and unpredictable
George/Barrere - funk dont work without fender
Hendrix - wrote the book on trem work and big tone
Nile R - tight as ....
Curtis M - no pick required
tommorrow is, of course, another day
Strats are funny things. I remember hearing that you look good on the dance floor tune with Arctic Monkeys on the radio for the first time. I had no idea who they were at the time (to be honest, I don't know much more about them now) "Wow, that was one nasty sounding strat", I thought. Now, that tone has no resemblence to classic (Hendrix, SRV, Gilmour et al) Strat tones whatsoever but it is still very much recognizable.
It's just amazing how such a simple instrument can merge the familiar and the unknown.
You know, it doesn't ever seem to matter to me so much as to who is playing the Strat. What amazes me is that I can always tell that it's a Strat being played. Leo came, saw, electrified a canoe paddle, and kicked ass. And it was good.
..makes sense in my own little reality, I guess!
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Jimi Hendrix without question!!
fripp is right
blackmore!
what about george o nowhere man?
I like Robin Trower..
Knopfler all the way!
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Lots of great players, dead and alive making great sounds with strats ,but lets face it Hendrix was the best and the tones he could pull out of one were the BEST
ones too many and a hundred is not enough!
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.
I like Walter Trout...
Saw Eric Johnson in Modesto,CA..a couple of months ago...Sure can play!!!...but, some strange tones he got out of just one light blue Strat...
Buddy Holly
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