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tonello
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Re: What guitar for some blues
I use an Explorer with a Mayhem set for blues, and my community band always sounds great. It depends on the amp more than the guitar, for instance, for my metal band, I use a Mesa Triple and an Orange Thunderverb into Mesa cabs with Celestion GK12 speakers. I don't use those amps for blues, so I got a Fender Bassman Reissue. That has helped much more than the guitars I use. That being said, you really don't know how anything is going to sound unless you play it through your amp. So go down to the guitar shop with your guitar and amp, and test out both against some different ones. Even if it's a modeling amp, there's nothing quite like having the awesome sound of a hot tube with a mild overdrive on it.
I use an Explorer with a Mayhem set for blues, and my community band always sounds great. It depends on the amp more than the guitar, for instance, for my metal band, I use a Mesa Triple and an Orange Thunderverb into Mesa cabs with Celestion GK12 speakers. I don't use those amps for blues, so I got a Fender Bassman Reissue. That has helped much more than the guitars I use. That being said, you really don't know how anything is going to sound unless you play it through your amp. So go down to the guitar shop with your guitar and amp, and test out both against some different ones. Even if it's a modeling amp, there's nothing quite like having the awesome sound of a hot tube with a mild overdrive on it.
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: What guitar for some blues
I've always been in the California blues rock scene. I've opened a lot of shows for Eric Sardinas, and headlined a bunch of them too, with him opening.
He's a really cool guitar player. A real deal guy. I've always loved the tattoo he has on his back...RESPECT.....TRADITION
I've always been in the California blues rock scene. I've opened a lot of shows for Eric Sardinas, and headlined a bunch of them too, with him opening.
He's a really cool guitar player. A real deal guy. I've always loved the tattoo he has on his back...RESPECT.....TRADITION
Empty Pockets
BadHairDayologist
Re: What guitar for some blues
Mother****ing Les Paul.
Mother****er.
Mother****ing Les Paul.
Mother****er.
Hurricane
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Re: What guitar for some blues
When you sit down there at the store and audition them side by side on your amp the one that :
Feels the most comfortable in your hands and sounds the way you like is the one to choose .
After that what really matters is the soul in your expression because The Blues is all about that , your personal take on how you express yourself .
Master that and you will have a chance to sound good and maybe even play awesome . YMMV .
Having a life that has seen some stuff go down that has tested and tried you and pushed you forward to improving yourself is helpful but not a pre requisite for serious Blues expression - but - it does help I think when you are holding your guitar between moments of playing and noodle inside your head trying to come up with something cool and original .
Those pic's on the first page say it all as far as what is a good Blues guitar .
Muddy ( and the other greats ) was and still is quite an inspiration to me and many others and they became quite popular and respected with what most consider really poorly made electric guitars . Once they made the $ they bumped up to Fenders and Gibsons as a rule .
So you have a great chance on a great playing guitar that sounds awesome too , nice position to be in , good hunting :
Hurricane Ramon
When you sit down there at the store and audition them side by side on your amp the one that :
Feels the most comfortable in your hands and sounds the way you like is the one to choose .
After that what really matters is the soul in your expression because The Blues is all about that , your personal take on how you express yourself .
Master that and you will have a chance to sound good and maybe even play awesome . YMMV .
Having a life that has seen some stuff go down that has tested and tried you and pushed you forward to improving yourself is helpful but not a pre requisite for serious Blues expression - but - it does help I think when you are holding your guitar between moments of playing and noodle inside your head trying to come up with something cool and original .
Those pic's on the first page say it all as far as what is a good Blues guitar .
Muddy ( and the other greats ) was and still is quite an inspiration to me and many others and they became quite popular and respected with what most consider really poorly made electric guitars . Once they made the $ they bumped up to Fenders and Gibsons as a rule .
So you have a great chance on a great playing guitar that sounds awesome too , nice position to be in , good hunting :
Hurricane Ramon
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SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: What guitar for some blues
Hell Yes !!!
I have ALL his albums - actual CD's, not down loaded stuff.
R.I.P.
Hell Yes !!!
I have ALL his albums - actual CD's, not down loaded stuff.
R.I.P.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: What guitar for some blues
I know what you mean about Muddy Waters :
. . . just like you and me, Scott H. Biram is also a huge fan (aswell as millions of other guitar players out there in the real world !)
I know what you mean about Muddy Waters :
. . . just like you and me, Scott H. Biram is also a huge fan (aswell as millions of other guitar players out there in the real world !)
Inkstained
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Re: What guitar for some blues
I know guitarists think they don't get to see their favorite instrument on the big screen often enough, but it's important to hate that movie with every fiber of our beings.
That "duel," in particular, needs to be eradicated from human memory. :28:
To the OP: Play whatever's comfortable and sounds good to you, whatever lets you have a voice.
I know guitarists think they don't get to see their favorite instrument on the big screen often enough, but it's important to hate that movie with every fiber of our beings.
That "duel," in particular, needs to be eradicated from human memory. :28:
To the OP: Play whatever's comfortable and sounds good to you, whatever lets you have a voice.
Laughing Kookaburra
Active member
Re: What guitar for some blues
+1
+1 to that and let me add...
T Model Ford
Muddy Waters
+1
jtougas
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Bullshnibbits.
For one, the movie incorporates some key blues knowledge and mythology in it.
As for the duel, up until the 'Jack having trouble with arpeggios' BS, that scene has some of the best *cinematic* guitar playing ever laid down.
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Jessie's ghost
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Re: What guitar for some blues
Tell ya what: I'll think whatever I want, and you can hate it enough for the both of us, m'kay?
Tell ya what: I'll think whatever I want, and you can hate it enough for the both of us, m'kay?
bluesbend
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Mr 9finger
Digitally Challenged
Re: What guitar for some blues
So what I'm getting from this thread is......
If you want to play the blues, you should go down to the local pawn shop. Then you should find the ugliest, hardest playing guitar in there. After that, you write a song about how sad you are that your guitar sucks so bad.
Did I get that about right?
So what I'm getting from this thread is......
If you want to play the blues, you should go down to the local pawn shop. Then you should find the ugliest, hardest playing guitar in there. After that, you write a song about how sad you are that your guitar sucks so bad.
Did I get that about right?
jtougas
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More what Beer$ said, but funky cheap guitars don't hurt...
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Funkfingers
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Re: What guitar for some blues
Don't watch that. Watch "It Might Get Loud". Specifically, the opening sequence during which Jack White builds a diddley bow then plays slide on it.
Don't watch that. Watch "It Might Get Loud". Specifically, the opening sequence during which Jack White builds a diddley bow then plays slide on it.
Inkstained
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Re: What guitar for some blues
I take it you disagree.
That's 'm'kay' with me. But here are the problems, at least as I see it (and I can't help but watch the thing as a guitarist, sue me.)
Let us count the ways ...
The Telecaster sounds *exactly* the same as the pointy-headstock thingy the devil's minion is playing. I know Vai played both "solos," but c'mon: Couldn't a studio flunky have put a Tele and a slide in Vai's hands during the recording of Ralphy's parts? Just for the sake of, ya know, verisimilitude or something?
Vai's fingers do not cramp up. The fingers of Satan's guitar players do not cramp up. Four of five theologians agree on this point. Verisimilitude again. Or something.
Finally -- and this is the worst part, since we're busy extolling the blues and all that jazz in this here thread -- the entire film spends itself out playing up the purity of the blues as a path to -- I dunno, redemption, musical nirvana, whatever. Then Ralphy (or Vai) saves the day with some fancy-schmancy classical arpeggios.
As Eric Clapton noted in an interview on his reaction to the movie (and I quote), "That **** had absolutely nothing to do with anything." Indeed.
I know it's just a movie and not a Guitar Player magazine documentary, but with Arlen Roth and Steve Vai involved in the project, I have to think the director was ignoring some pretty good advice.
I take it you disagree.
That's 'm'kay' with me. But here are the problems, at least as I see it (and I can't help but watch the thing as a guitarist, sue me.)
Let us count the ways ...
The Telecaster sounds *exactly* the same as the pointy-headstock thingy the devil's minion is playing. I know Vai played both "solos," but c'mon: Couldn't a studio flunky have put a Tele and a slide in Vai's hands during the recording of Ralphy's parts? Just for the sake of, ya know, verisimilitude or something?
Vai's fingers do not cramp up. The fingers of Satan's guitar players do not cramp up. Four of five theologians agree on this point. Verisimilitude again. Or something.
Finally -- and this is the worst part, since we're busy extolling the blues and all that jazz in this here thread -- the entire film spends itself out playing up the purity of the blues as a path to -- I dunno, redemption, musical nirvana, whatever. Then Ralphy (or Vai) saves the day with some fancy-schmancy classical arpeggios.
As Eric Clapton noted in an interview on his reaction to the movie (and I quote), "That **** had absolutely nothing to do with anything." Indeed.
I know it's just a movie and not a Guitar Player magazine documentary, but with Arlen Roth and Steve Vai involved in the project, I have to think the director was ignoring some pretty good advice.
UberMetalDood
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Re: What guitar for some blues
First of all, I personally think the LP is the best for overdriven blues. For clean, jangly blues, a strat would probably be better. However, I have played the 60's tribute LP and think it's an awesome guitar for the money. It's going to be hard to beat a value like that.
The great thing about Les Pauls is that sweet, syrupy mahogany tone. Nothing sounds like an LP in the neck position. If you ever listened to David Gilmour play his Les Paul with P90's, then you already know what kind of magic you can make with that.
That being said, I have more strats than Les Pauls. That's mainly because of the cost and because I like to play rock which sometimes requires a trem bar. I can also play faster on a stratocaster, except pentatonics which seems easier for me on a Les Paul for some reason. I think you go with what you like, but these days and the kind of amps out on the market now, I'd say go with an LP.
Oh yeah, how can I not mention this guy:
First of all, I personally think the LP is the best for overdriven blues. For clean, jangly blues, a strat would probably be better. However, I have played the 60's tribute LP and think it's an awesome guitar for the money. It's going to be hard to beat a value like that.
The great thing about Les Pauls is that sweet, syrupy mahogany tone. Nothing sounds like an LP in the neck position. If you ever listened to David Gilmour play his Les Paul with P90's, then you already know what kind of magic you can make with that.
That being said, I have more strats than Les Pauls. That's mainly because of the cost and because I like to play rock which sometimes requires a trem bar. I can also play faster on a stratocaster, except pentatonics which seems easier for me on a Les Paul for some reason. I think you go with what you like, but these days and the kind of amps out on the market now, I'd say go with an LP.
Oh yeah, how can I not mention this guy:
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