Songs in a strat's position #4(middle pu + bridge pu)

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Hi to all, can you recommend me an essential listening about this? I've heard great songs with position #2's tone like little wing and lenny but I'm still clueless who to listen to for a good reference of tone in this position?
Thanks.
 
Re: Songs in a strat's position #4(middle pu + bridge pu)

Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing" (Mark Knopfler uses bridge/middle on lots of tunes)

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
 
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Simon_F said:
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
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This position actually applies to any tone that uses a Tele bridge pickup too.

4th position is the classic smoothy but twangy tone on a strat.
 
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IMHO, the finest Strat tones ever recorded were on Big Star's "Radio City" album (#1 Record is second :dance: ). Most of the stuff is the middle/bridge combo. Worth downloading a few tunes; if you do, start with "September Gurls" and "Back of a Car."
 
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A lot of songs from Derek and the Domino's Layla album were done with the bridge/mid position of the strat.

Some good ones from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs:

I Looked Away
Bell Bottom Blues
Tell the Truth

On Tell the Truth, there are two slide parts (One is Duane Allman with a Les Paul, the other is Clapton with a Strat). The cluckier sounding slide part is Clapton with the Strat.
 
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Corbic said:
A lot of songs from Derek and the Domino's Layla album were done with the bridge/mid position of the strat.

Some good ones from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs:

I Looked Away
Bell Bottom Blues
Tell the Truth

On Tell the Truth, there are two slide parts (One is Duane Allman with a Les Paul, the other is Clapton with a Strat). The cluckier sounding slide part is Clapton with the Strat.
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Uh, i think i heard somewhere, maybe an old Guitar One mag or something, that Clapton actually used a Telecaster on Tell The Truth. Maybe i'm wrong, just a little something i remember hearing somewhere.



FenderBender
 
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Now that i think of it, i think it was an issue of either Guitar One or Guitar Player that featured Clapton and maybe a dozen of his old guitars that he's auctioned off. It was printed between '01-'03 i think. It had an article on a '52 Tele that he had and i think thats where it mentioned him using it on Tell The Truth. Maybe someone remembers this and can confirm it and tell me if i'm right, wrong or just out of my mind. lol



FenderBender
 
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If any of you are into classic country, check out some of the very early stuff by Alabama. Jeff Cook used an old Music Man strat type on the first few albums or so but theres some pretty sweet stratty tones on alot of their early hits.

I'm not totally sure, but i think Jeff Cook may have had humbuckers in that Music Man, but his tone seems to still have a slight position 4 sound to it.

Some of my favorite examples:

My Home's In Alabama
Why Lady Why
Feels So Right
Take Me Down



FenderBender
 
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FenderBender03 said:
Now that i think of it, i think it was an issue of either Guitar One or Guitar Player that featured Clapton and maybe a dozen of his old guitars that he's auctioned off. It was printed between '01-'03 i think. It had an article on a '52 Tele that he had and i think thats where it mentioned him using it on Tell The Truth. Maybe someone remembers this and can confirm it and tell me if i'm right, wrong or just out of my mind. lol



FenderBender
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I've only heard that he used Brownie, his sunburst strat, but I know that Clapton had tons of guitars. According to Jimmy Page, who only had his Telecaster and acoustic before visiting Clapton's house, there were guitars in every room, any kind imaginable. Clapton explained to Jimmy that they were all tax deductable, and thats when he bought more. So it could've been a Tele, I'll look into it.

Also, another song from the record above that sounds like the bridge/middle notch is the distorted parts of Why Does Love Have to be So Sad? The entire Layla album is covered with bridge/middle notch tones.
 
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Thanks guys for your inputs. I'll definitely check them out.:)
 
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