When The greats Change Their Tone

[Hot _Grits]

Re: When The greats Change Their Tone

Don't forget other important factors: cocaine and everyone telling you you're the greatest thing since spice racks.

Throw those in with encroaching old-fartedness, bad endorsement decisions, bad producers, and hearing loss, and I think we have the whole picture.

But mostly, I think players get bored. Why should famous players be any different from us?

The older 'legends' also look at vintage gear from the perspective of having used it when it was new and what they had to make do with. what we see as a tone machine may seem like 'something that breaks down and never sounded how I wanted it to' to them. For example, Clapton sold Blackie because he had become used to the higher output of the pickups from his signature models.

 

[funkmeblue]

Re: When The greats Change Their Tone

how many at home have switched there tone?........they are only human you know.........

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: When The greats Change Their Tone

One thing I find interesting is that the guys who made all that vintage gear popular have often moved into customs, boutiques, and upgraded vintage. It's the young cats who are going ga ga over true vintage pieces. Look at bands like Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, and other classic rock bands. They're not using vintage gear anymore, they're using customs and boutiques. Even the acoustic players are seeking out guitars like Collings, Goodall, and Santa Cruz.

However, with sonic perfection comes a sort of clinical or stale tone, at least to some.
There's something to be said for the tonal properties of the 'originals.'
That's where Duncan Antiquities come into play. He He

 

[mrfjones]

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A part of me thinks producers are nothing but vibe killers. More than anything, I wish guitar players were responsible for their tone, and bands were responsible for the sound that makes it to their albums. Forget the techs, the producers, and the newfound endorsement deals of trash, let players put their soul to tape.
Most band's best work is the first three albums....after that, it's tampered with in a negative way.

this is lightly off topic, but if you like music that hasn't been tampered with and you like fuzzed out blues/punk kind of stuff check out a band called the black keys. They are from around my hometown but they recorded their first major release in a basement and the next in an old rubber factory. There were no techs used and no producers other than themselves. They had it mastered in some studio but thats the only time someone else got ahold of their music. It is a very nice and refreshing couple of cds.

Oh yeah and i am all for mixing the old sounds with the new, so i think there is a lo to be said about upgrading vintage gear and i think that has a lot to do with the changing of our heros tones.