How to Get Jimi's tone in studio Red House?

[CastlesMadeofSand]

Any takers please? I was thinking it was just a marshall plexi into a fuzz face pedal? Thanks for the help.

[Kap'n]

I'd think a hollowbody into a Marshall with the guitar volume low, no fuzzface, and a delay of some sort. Neck pickup for most of it.

[Don]

I believe he played a Gibson on that.

[Kap'n]

It was a Hoefner hollowbody, that legend has falling apart immediately after the session.

[Rickenjangle]

In all seriousness, I'd get one of those DigiTech Jimi Hendrix pedals...

[NeoFauve]

It was a Hoefner hollowbody, that legend has falling apart immediately after the session.

This update apparently hasn't been distributed widely enough.

Can you imagine how popular Hofners would be if they been sufficiently pounded into our head as tonal necessities, by all the magazines?

I feel like you just told me the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

[Kap'n]

IIRC, I got that tidbit from the liner notes of "The Essential Jimi Hendrix, Vol. 1" back in HS. AFAIK, it hasn't been debunked yet.

Nobody's ever come forward to say what model it was. Maybe Eddie Kramer is secretly snatching up all known examples before he releases that information....

[phantomman]

This update apparently hasn't been distributed widely enough.

Can you imagine how popular Hofners would be if they been sufficiently pounded into our head as tonal necessities, by all the magazines?

I feel like you just told me the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

Indeed!

I think I also read somewheres that a coupla toons on "Are You Experienced" were actually done with a (gasp!)......Telecaster.

[Rickenjangle]

I'll bet Jimi grabbed whatever tone toys he had available to him whenever he was in the studio - and he could probably get a good tone out of a cigar box guitar or a wax-paper-and-comb kazoo. Genius is like that.

[Kap'n]

Indeed!

I think I also read somewheres that a coupla toons on "Are You Experienced" were actually done with a (gasp!)......Telecaster.

Purple Haze was one, allegedly. Jimi's strat got broken somehow , and they used Noel's tele to finish the tracks.

[Kap'n]

Jimi....could probably get a good tone out of ....a wax-paper-and-comb kazoo.

Secrets of Crosstown Traffic revealed.

[phantomman]

Purple Haze was one, allegedly. Jimi's strat got broken somehow , and they used Noel's tele to finish the tracks.

Ayup......"Fire" (apparently) was the other. I woulda loved to have been a fly on the wall in the studio on the day those tracks were recorded.

[Rickenjangle]

Secrets of Crosstown Traffic revealed.

Y'know, come to mention it...that riff does sound like the tootlings of a kazoo player...

[NeoFauve]

Y'know, come to mention it...that riff does sound like the tootlings of a kazoo player...

Bingo!!
But since it's Hendrix, I think many would insist that you call him a "kazooist" though.

[phantomman]

Bingo!!
But since it's Hendrix, I think many would insist that you call him a "kazooist" though.

I wonder how soon FMIC will be releasing the "Hendrix Tribute Kazoo"?

[Gris]

Nobody's ever come forward to say what model it was.

If it was Jimi's Hofner it was a 1959 Club 40...

[Kap'n]

Funny, that picture looks like a Gibson L5-CES with staple pickups.

[Gris]

Yup. wrong pic. I'm getting the other one now.[IMG][/IMG]

[Kap'n]

Ah, the Club 40. That's already worth big bucks as a "Beatle guitar" isn't it?

[Gris]

Yup, he probably flipped it like Paul too. BTW, there is only a neck PU on the C 40.

[Kap'n]

Good thing I didn't say bridge pickup.

[CastlesMadeofSand]

Thanks guys. I guess I'll have to find a nice hollow body.

[Kap'n]

The neck pickup of a strat works close enough for rock and roll.

I mean, it worked for Jimi.

[Don]

I play the song with the neck pickup of whatever guitar I have in my hands at the time.
It's more about the song than the guitar anyway.

[Gris]

FWIW, always seems like 'copping a tone' is more about the amp/effects than the guitar to me; though I agree it is difficult to duplicate a hollow body sound with a solid body.