Re: Walter Trout
'73 Strat with 9s ... refretted a bunch of times. Plays nothing but Mark Boogie amps (currently a Mark IV). He also has one of those discontinued mesa/boogie rotating speaker gizmos that he uses occasionally. No pedals or effects.
Added this from a googled article:
Let’s talk about gear. Do you still have that '73 Strat, the one with the volume knob that says tone and whatever?
WT: That’s my main guitar, man. I play that every night. I’ve got it sitting in the van right now, on the back seat next to where I ride. I bought that thing new in '73, right off the shelf in California. It was white. You can take a look at it now and see what thirty-three years on the road will do. It’s stock. The only thing that has been changed is the saddles on the bridge. I’ve gone through a couple of nuts at the top of the neck. I’ve gone through a set of tuners. They were changed about fifteen years ago. And it has been refretted about fifteen times. I get the biggest frets made, and pretty much every two years I have to have it refretted. I play the **** out of that thing.
I actually thought it was a natural finish.
WT: No. It was white when I bought it. You can actually see a white patch where my arm has kept the smoke off of the guitar.
What about your amps?
WT: I’m endorsed by Mesa Boogie. I’ve used the same Boogie Mark IV since it came out. I have one of the first made. I still use it. It’s on every cut on the Full Circle record. I use no effects. I have a guitar and an amp and that’s it. I do tour with a Mesa Boogie guitar Leslie. They made about a hundred of them. I have two and Santana has two. But that’s it, nothing else, man.
I’m endorsed by Rotosound strings. They’re awesome, and they stay in tune. They’ve got great tone. I use .9 thru .42. I use my own extra heavy picks.
