Anyone have? any Pic's?
Anyone have? any Pic's?
RIP Lacey Cat 1992-2009
Nope
but heard Hush on the way to the gig last night
Made in Japan CD/album has some serious strat playing on it
Yeah you said it JM3, Just had that spinning last night, my favorite version of "highway star"
RIP Lacey Cat 1992-2009
Hmmm -- I wonder if Richie Blackmore plays a Richie Blackmore?
I played one of the newer ones. Truth be told I was shocked by the price. I really thought it was a Custom Shop model.
Hmm sounds pretty cool, I haven't seen one in a store since they have been released, thanks for the review!
RIP Lacey Cat 1992-2009
I could never get past the missing pickup.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
The Strats he still has date from the '70s/'80s, the era when Dawk Stillwell built them for him.Originally Posted by bluespckr
The Blackmore Strat is a good guitar but it is little more than a standard Strat (minus the mid PU) with SD Quarter Pounders and a (very) mildly scalloped neck.
If you want a good approximation of a Blackmore Strat build your own as no manufacturer's version is close.
get a jap 72 reissue, scallop the board and bung in lace golds.
the blackmore 'models' are a piss taking rip off.
The Blackmore Strat isn't scalloped uniformly across the neck all the way up. It's less on the bass side, and started up the neck a bit, or some wierd combo like that.
Not exactly a DIY mod.
Also, it isn't the 1940's anymore.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
i read the review in "guitar and bass" (an english mag) and they (of course) said it was a nice guitar. seems fairly priced with decent parts. i buy mine at border's books, if you have one in your town you could go read the article. i looked at their site and the mag must have been from last month.
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
Like I said before, I played one and thought it was absolutely top notch. I suspected it was an expensive MIJ model, or possibly a more expensive custom shop model. I was shocked to learn it was MIM. This was clearly the very best guitar I've seen out of MIM. There was nothing about that guitar that suggested it would be priced less than the YJM, EJ, DM, MK, etc. models.
Comparisons to a "standard" series MIM strat are uninformed and incorrect.
"My Woman From Tokyo" has his best Strat sound IMO--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nope
but heard Hush on the way to the gig last night
Made in Japan CD/album has some serious strat playing on it
Highway Star!
Gotta be "Highway Star". The "Made In Japan" version.
The moans, the groans, the grunt, the squinch......!
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
LOVE HIGHWAY STAR! i think it's one of my favorite rawk tunes. "nobody gonna take my car i'm gonna race it to the ground!"
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
When Highway Star comes on while I'm driving (Especially the MIJ version) All bets are off...as I always seem to get where I was going in record time
RIP Lacey Cat 1992-2009
Pictures from Home is my all time fave... but mostly for John Lord's parts.
Whoops, this ain't Ritchie!
Great intro, from one of my favorite DVD's. I much prefer it to this version from 25 years earlier. Blackmore is mostly absent from this performance due to a poor mix and poor editing.
Pictures from Home from that same DVD.
And my favorite cut, beautiful guitar work.
In that B&W version, that's a small stage for that much Marshallness.
Ritchie's out of the shot for most of his solo. Maybe that's how he got to be such a cranky guy.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Blackmore seemed to always be wandering off someplace out of view or with his back to the audience. And he never smiled, like he hated playing live. No wonder they avoided showing him!
Steve Morse enjoys doing what he does.
Think about the classic photo of Jimi sihlouetted against a couple of beat up Marshall SuperLead stacks.
That's at Woolsey Hall. Seating capacity 2,695. Almost 1 watt for every five people.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
I guess that's why he plays what he plays now.
Talk about fan appreciation.That's at Woolsey Hall. Seating capacity 2,695. Almost 1 watt for every five people.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
If you get the expanded version of Live at Leeds you can get a perspective as to just how small a hall that place was (is?) too.
No wonder Pete's deaf.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
I'm no MD (but I "played doctor" a time or two as a kid).
My diagnosis......?
Hiwattitus
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
ABSOFREAKINLUTELY.......IMO, the 2 best ( and there are many) Ritchie-Strat songs are Pictures of Home and Lazy, off Machine Head for studio work....as for live?..definately Highway Star....and yeah JL's overdriven C-3 always sounds great
Here's some pre-Fender Ritchie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedBl...eature=related
Gotta' love those moves! No wonder he hid behind the amps with DP.
Doing a proper Blackmore scallop is challenging to say the least. The full neck is scalloped, deeper on the high side and the depth varies along the length of the neck. It gets progressively deeper up to the 9th fret where it starts to shallow again. Up to the 14th fret it is assymetrical, the deepest point close to the fret, from the 14th fret on it becomes the more conventional U shape.
I scalloped my own "Blackmore" neck and this is part of a guide I made up a while ago for anybody else daft enough to try it!
Wow Where did you get that tech sheet?
I can't remember where the scallop shape document came from, the bottom one, I think a fellow Blackmore devotee found it? The scallop depth I made up myself after months of studying photos etc and getting to closely examine one of the original Japanese Blackmore Strats. It is common knowledge that Fender Japan had toned the scalloping down to make it easier to live with (even more so on the new MIM version), I made the scalloping slightly more aggressive to get closer to the real thing. The depths are only a guide and not intended to be adhered to religously. You can make the scalloping as deep as you feel comfortable with as long as you follow the shape and depth progression along the neck.
Of course, only Blackmore & Dawk Stillwell know the true scallop depth etc. I did ask Dawk about the scalloping but it's one thing he still regards as one of his "trade secrets"! Amongst followers of Dawk Stillwell's work my scalloping is regarded as being extremely close to the real thing.
Wow
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