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AKS
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Musician Talk...
« Thread Started on Oct 29, 2004, 2:11am »

So...let's get some guitarists and such in here. What do you play? How do you play?

Well I'm in a quandry myself. I need jumbo frets on my Stratocaster. And bigger strings. I think I'm going to move up to Fender Super Bullet 3250 Heavy. That's Nickel-Plated Steel. [.012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .052].

Stevie Ray Vaughan had jumbo frets. Sure as s**t someone's going to call me an SRV clone. Especially since my hair's getting long, I have a mostly Native American heritage, I'm under 6 feet...

But that's off-topic. I'm working on quite a few songs...
-- Texas Flood
-- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
-- Red House
-- Boom Boom
-- Blues After Hours/Barrelhouse Blues
-- Sleep Walk
-- Should I Wait?

Quite a few more. I need more equipment to work on the John Lee Hooker/Pee Wee Crayton/Luther Johnson sound. I'm putting my own touch on these, understand, BUT...you do need to approach the same sound unless you plan 6to change them radically. As long as you put yourself, you soul into something...it's always going to be different, because no one's just alike.

I sure hope this is the right forum for this...

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Re: Musician Talk...
« Reply #1 on Oct 29, 2004, 2:39pm »

I am so lost in all that technical guitar talk. But yes, this is the right forum for this.

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Re: Musician Talk...
« Reply #2 on Nov 15, 2004, 11:55pm »

I think the big guitar string, big fret thing is overplayed a bit. I've been using .10 gauge strings for ages and never had a problem copping some SRV tone. Most important thing to capture is the right and left hand. That boy had some tone in them fingers!

As for me I haven't had a strat in ages... I've got teles, a nice LP goldtop with P90s, and of all things... a Gretsch! That thing gets some great hollowbody tone! Now I just need a tweed deluxe and I'll be in heaven.

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Re: Musician Talk...
« Reply #3 on Nov 16, 2004, 4:25am »

Well, like I said...the reason I'm doing it is because I like jumbo frets and I think I need them. I think I need the heavy strings too.

Keep in mind -- SRV dropped down to 11s later on and not all of his guitars had jumbo frets. Same here. In that way, we are similar. My guitars are VERY different. OI'll have a VERY diverse collection when it's finished.

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Re: Musician Talk...
« Reply #4 on Jul 6, 2005, 6:00pm »

You're gonna have difficulty trying to sound like SRV and JLH at the same time! I play an Epiphone Sheraton II (v similar to JLH's guitar from the 60s onwards) with D'Addario 10s through a Behringer Vintager AC112. Also bear in mind that JLH always played with his fingers!

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Re: Musician Talk...
« Reply #5 on Jul 11, 2005, 8:13pm »

He's got a point on not really needing the big strings and frets to sound like stevie. Sheerly by accident while playing with a wah pedal and my amp when i clicked the wah off i got a real solid stevie sound out of a Squire strat(yeah i know..) and 10 gauge strings d addario strings through an old gorrilla amp. Though i'm still with you i've been meaning to move up in string size due to the possibilties it opens up with your guitar technique.

Gear: Squire strat(times is hard...) 10 gauge D addairos
Borrowed Dunlop cry baby Wah wah
Ancient (model unknown to me) Gorilla 50 watt
American metal distortion pedal that was given to me
Ephiphone J-125(i think not sure) 12 gauge factory strings
Hohner D key harmonica
Glass slide

Gear lost: Hohner special 20 C key

yeah...i play a lot of different kinds of music as opposed to just blues(blues is first love but i love many) A lot of rock and blues and some folk. Mainly influenced by Bob Dylan and Jimi hendrix but lately its been Mississippi john hurt and Tom morello.

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