1 Topic by AndyK (edited by AndyK 2010-07-31 11:40:47)

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Topic: Joe playing a Fender

What a sound. The guys from Fender should fall on their knee and beg Joe for getting the permission to build him a signature Strat.
Even if i do condemn the way Fender treated Joe and some other artists i do like their guitars. Just a Fender sounds like a Fender, i do find there is no way around. Besides that these guitars are so shredable. No doubt that Joe can make any guitar sound like a dream but that Fender flavor has really something to it.

Here comes the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAQm2qWnYw

2 Reply by NPB_EST.1979 (edited by NPB_EST.1979 2010-07-31 11:53:16)

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

Joe sounded good there. It was early days... when Joe was still looking for his sound. I think he's found it now. Although I did like the Gigliotti days.

I played my Les Paul Custom since I was a teenager. I found that all the artists that played them weren't labeled as another ripoff of another les paul player. They're themselves. There's always the fear of a Eric Clapton or SRV copy whenever you weild a strat. Granted, it is undeserving - but it's B.S. baggage when you're trying to make a name for yourself.

Both LP's and strats have signature models. I think the LesPaul Signature guitars is a much more exclusive club than the dozens of strat sig. models. If I had both companies fighting to give me a signature guitar? I'd make a custom Les Paul.

I like Fenders... they're good - but I'd rather have a MusicMan or G&L that Leo Fender has just as much influence in as a company. I'd happily own a Tom Anderson or a Gigliotti as a brand before Fender. Keeping in mind all guitars feel different, I'd be more confident in the other brands I mentioned than Fender. Is it branding? Loyalty? Cheap guitar lines effect on impression of the brand? I don't know... but while I'm thinking about it, I'll be playing my Les Paul.

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

AndyK wrote:

What a sound. The guys from Fender should fall on their knee and beg Joe for getting the permission to build him a signature Strat.

Funny thing about this statement is that he was playing a Clapton Sig Strat in that clip!  He sure used the Clapton Strats a lot back in the day.  I love his old Strat tone too, but I think he has finally stumbled onto his own sound now.  Fender SHOULD honor him with a guitar, but it's all a mute point now.  He has all the guitars from Gibson, Ernie Ball, Gigliotti, and Chandler he could ever want.

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

stratpaulguy86 wrote:

  He has all the guitars from Gibson, Ernie Ball, Gigliotti, and Chandler he could ever want.

Why does he keep buying new ones then? lol

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

The thing about Strats is that you can get all sorts of different tones out of them. I mean you look at SRV, Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Jeff Beck. All Strat players, all had their own very distinctive. I think more people should look at the different amps these guys use. That's what truly makes the most difference. A Strat has its basic things it does, but if you run it through a Fender amp or a Marshall, you get two different sounds out of it. That's why I really don't get the Gibson vs. Strat debate. I love my Strats I own, I like them because I get a good tone out of them and they're very playable. I love Les Pauls too, but they're just really expensive. So the moral of the story is just do what Billy Gibbons says: grab that slab and spank the plank!  smile

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

Deezer wrote:

The thing about Strats is that you can get all sorts of different tones out of them. I mean you look at SRV, Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Jeff Beck. All Strat players, all had their own very distinctive. I think more people should look at the different amps these guys use. That's what truly makes the most difference. A Strat has its basic things it does, but if you run it through a Fender amp or a Marshall, you get two different sounds out of it. That's why I really don't get the Gibson vs. Strat debate. I love my Strats I own, I like them because I get a good tone out of them and they're very playable. I love Les Pauls too, but they're just really expensive. So the moral of the story is just do what Billy Gibbons says: grab that slab and spank the plank!  smile

Well said young man.  I disagree with Nick re: Joe was looking for his sound back then.  IMHO he's always had his sound and some of how to express it has not made it out back there in his distant past.  Kevin Shirley and SURELY Gibson have had a firm hand in the feeding and eventual release of the caged animalistic bad intent string striations he's come up with the last few years.  He really never stopped playing Fender until he got the truss rod shaft with no credit for the guitar... Luckily it makes no difference what he does or does not play. "It's All Good"!

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Re: Joe playing a Fender

Rocket wrote:

I disagree with Nick re: Joe was looking for his sound back then.  IMHO he's always had his sound and some of how to express it has not made it out back there in his distant past.  Kevin Shirley and SURELY Gibson have had a firm hand in the feeding and eventual release of the caged animalistic bad intent string striations he's come up with the last few years. "It's All Good"!

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IMHO I can see where you're coming from... but I also saw the Tom Dowd DVD. I think Dowd had a lot of influence on the record, and make Joe think twice about his sound and how to make it his own. I mean if Dowd was still alive I wond how much different a Shirley produced album would be versus the same tracks produced by Dowd? (Props to Shirley for the comararson!  cool ) Either way he's been picking the right people all along and it gets better in their own ways. Looking back, that's what I see.

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