Buddy Guy

[Guitar Toad]

I bought my first Buddy Guy CD. Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy. This is some good stuff. He used a Bassman on most of his stuff is that right? I should been on this stuff long ago. What a player!

Will a DRRI would do his stuff?

 

[beandip]

Re: Buddy Guy

I know alot of his new stuff is recorded with the cyber twin. But yeah, his later stuff was recorded with a Bassman. The thing about Buddy though, I hate to say this, he has a generic strat tone, but it's the feel that he uses so much. You could get sooo close to his sound using a MIM Standard Strat and a Peavey Transtube.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: Buddy Guy

Buddy Owns.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Buddy Guy

OK...Buddy used a Tweed bassman for a long time, he did record some of Sweat Tea with a Cyber Twin...it was set to clone a Tweed Bassman! He also used a Victoria tweed Bassman and Tweed Bandmaster for a while...hell in the 80's he even used Marshall JCM 800's (2210's). Since he got a Signature Strat he has been using Gold Lace Sensors. Befor that is was stock Strats, Guold Blues birds, Guild Starfires, very rarely a Les Paul, and recently he has been playing a mid 70's Telecaster Deluxe.

I have to disagree that Buddy has a generis Strat tone...I can pick Buddy Guy out of a sea of Strat players! If anything the SRV tone is the generic Strat tone for blues players...and buddy sounded NOTNING like SRV!

Yes todd, Buddy is amonster player and an amazing singer IMO, very over looked...Buddy Guy is my personal FAV blues guitar player!

As for trying to cop a Buddy Guy with a BF Deluxe...I wouldn't try it like that...I mean if that's the amp you get then go with it, but a BF Deluxe and a Tweed Bassman are pretty different beasts.

 

[gripweed]

Re: Buddy Guy

I've seen him live four times. The first was the best. He was with Jr. Wells. I saw him once where he played all of his solos through a wah (yawn). Another time he was playin a Guild through Marshall amps (he was *way* too loud and his tone was muddy). Buddy can be great but he is hit or miss.

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: Buddy Guy

I've seen him live four times. The first was the best. He was with Jr. Wells. I saw him once where he played all of his solos through a wah (yawn). Another time he was playin a Guild through Marshall amps (he was *way* too loud and his tone was muddy). Buddy can be great but he is hit or miss.

Ya, I've seen him on Austin City limits with John Mayer and another time. But, wasn't very impressed. But, this Baddest Buddy CD is really good. And yes he is generic strat...and I like that. Or could it be, perhaps he sounds generic 'cause many others have duplicated him so well? Tons of players
past and present point to Buddy as an influence.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Buddy Guy

I've seen him play a bunch of times. First time was in 1967 with Junior Wells and he was using a blackface Super Reverb and a 50's Strat. The tone I hear on the classic stuff on Chess sure does have the glassy prescence of a 50's tweed Bassman. And like Christian said, you'll not get that tone from a Deluxe Reverb.

Last time I saw him in person he was playing through a Marshall JCM-800 1/2 stack...but that was about 15 years ago at least. He's gone through alot of other amps since then.

To me, the classic Buddy Guy tone is a 50's Strat and a 50's tweed Bassman.

Lew

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: Buddy Guy

i can't think of anyone else that sounds like buddy, those gold lace sensors really set him apart

then again, I really don't like the sound of LS golds, but, he is an awesome player, probably my favorite blues player, actually

 

[Amateur]

Re: Buddy Guy

What makes a guitar player stand out is his/her playing style and how good he/she plays. A great guitar player can really make good music with some decent axes. Buddy just put a Strat to a clean amp and he left it to the sound engineer to do the rest. The DRRI will probably get close to the sound in the CD because of that. However, they added effects to the tracks during the mix to make it sound good and I don't know if one can duplicate that.

The perfect tone only exists in one's mind and it changes all the time.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Buddy Guy

That tone does not come from mixdown and it will not come out of a DRRI...Tweed Fenders sound completley different that BF/SF Fenders.

What makes a guitar player stand out is his/her playing style and how good he/she plays. A great guitar player can really make good music with some decent axes. Buddy just put a Strat to a clean amp and he left it to the sound engineer to do the rest. The DRRI will probably get close to the sound in the CD because of that. However, they added effects to the tracks during the mix to make it sound good and I don't know if one can duplicate that.

The perfect tone only exists in one's mind and it changes all the time.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Buddy Guy

AFAIC, Buddy is *IT* for Blues. By far my fave blues player.

Stone Crazy...now THATS some friggin serious Strat "Sting"...

I Smell a Rat jes kills...