Who makes you want to get a Strat?

[Rich_S]

This thread is for the hardcore NON-Strat players. For example, I'm a Tele guy. I own three different Teles, and that's it. I don't claim to have a well-rounded collection, I simply play Teles and I'm happy with that.

You might be a Les Paul guy, or into shred sticks, or pointies, or jazz boxes, or whatever...

But every once in a while, you hear something that makes you say, "That's brilliant. I want to get a regular old S/S/S Strat, so I can sound like that." Who is it that does that to you?

 

[mrpinter]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Carl Verheyen

 

[Christopher Caruana]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

clapton

 

[zakk_speed]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

David Gilmour. Everytime I listen to Floyd I start gassing for a strat.

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

John Mayer.

Sounds like a cop-out response from me, but it's the damn truth. Every time I hear his "Where The Light Is" DVD, I feel the need to play a Strat.

I have had one for 15 years and I have still never figured out how to sound good with it.

 

[kramer.geetar]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

David Gilmour. Everytime I listen to Floyd I start gassing for a strat.

YES!!

 

[Bludave]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

This thread is for the hardcore NON-Strat players. For example, I'm a Tele guy. I own three different Teles, and that's it. I don't claim to have a well-rounded collection, I simply play Teles and I'm happy with that.

You might be a Les Paul guy, or into shred sticks, or pointies, or jazz boxes, or whatever...

But every once in a while, you hear something that makes you say, "That's brilliant. I want to get a regular old S/S/S Strat, so I can sound like that." Who is it that does that to you?

I am a Strat guy, but I have Teles & Gibsons too. I think its a matter of picking the right axe for the right tune. I usually gig with something with Humbuckers & something with singles. I prefer Strats over Teles. Nothing wrong with a Tele at all.... in fact there are certain songs that absolutely require a Tele. Strats just feel more natural in my hand. What made me initially gravitate to a Strat in the first place was Hendrix & Clapton. More Jimi, then Eric and then Gilmore. I think David Gilmore's tone is the epitome of a Strat sound.

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

+1 David Guilmour

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

It's never happened

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Yeah, me neither.

 

[muttznmongrelz]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jimi Hendrix...a couple of months ago I made the comment that "I'm just not a Strat Guy"...well...now I'm eating those words and having the below STRATOCASTER assembled!

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Hendrix
Clapton
SRV
Frusciante
Gilmour


I have several strats

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

SRV, Gilmour and Malmsteen are the three reasons I got a strat.

Pretty much my favorite sounds on a strat.

 

[dominus]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Larry Lalonde, before Primus.

And not just any Strat...


Read the headstock closely.

I didn't doctor that picture in any way, that's directly from "The Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal."

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Larry Lalonde, before Primus.

And not just any Strat...


Read the headstock closely.

I didn't doctor that picture in any way, that's directly from "The Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal."

While it's ok to want what your hero played, even if it's a Squier Strat, that doesn't mean the guitar is not a turd that said hero didn't have to fight with everytime he picked it up. It's usually a case of the hero not having enough money to buy a better one.
Then there are those who put a different logo on their guitar so the fanboys don't flush out the used market (alal Jake Lee's white Charvel - it was a 3-bolt Fender which he had relogoed for that very reason).

 

[SoCalSteve]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

A couple of months ago I saw this older blues guitarist at one of the area tribal casinos one night playing a Strat and bought one that week. You just can't get that tone out of anything else.

 

[dominus]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

While it's ok to want what your hero played, even if it's a Squier Strat, that doesn't mean the guitar is not a turd that said hero didn't have to fight with everytime he picked it up. It's usually a case of the hero not having enough money to buy a better one.
Then there are those who put a different logo on their guitar so the fanboys don't flush out the used market (alal Jake Lee's white Charvel - it was a 3-bolt Fender which he had relogoed for that very reason).

1st - I wasn't being serious.

2nd - You should be posting this for everyone here, not just me.

3rd - There are plenty of pics and videos online of him playing Jackson guitars. I'm guessing he really did like this Squier, as it was on their last tour that he was playing it. Looking at the bridge, that's one of the cheaper ones. I suppose it's entirely possible that he got an original 21 fret CBS Headstock USA neck and mated it to a Squier body and put a Squier logo on it.. or that's pretty much a stock guitar. He played Strats for the first few years he was with Primus too.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Doyle Bramhall II.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

even if it's a Squier Strat

MIJ Squier....

 

[PVFan]

Re: Who makes you want to get a Strat?

Carl Verheyen

+1

and the Steve Miller Band, and Slowhand. Prolly Jeff Beck too. Gilmour sometimes.

Jeff Healey. Just saw Roadhouse again (but made fun of by Rifftrax).

Knopfler for DAMM sure! Man, Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing?