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Topic: Joe's strat

Does anyone know what kind of pickups Joe used when he played strats?

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Re: Joe's strat

Joe played quite a few different strats over the years, and I am not sure of the pickup details on them with the exception of the Eric Clapton Stratocaster which he uses on the ANDY Live DVD.  That guitar comes with three gold lace sensor pickups.

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Re: Joe's strat

If anything I'd say his most popular strat is the famous "gold f***ing sparkle strat" which Joe is quoted to say is a piece of crap. So I don't really think it matters what pickups are in it, the tone was in the fingers.

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Re: Joe's strat

This questions been asked before, I'd do a search.

If I had to wager a guess there were Fralins?
But like they say...who cares. Joe didn't really like that strat anyway.

Its funny media photographers would only take pictures for the first song or two, and the bulk of the photos would be of the gold sparkle strat. Take the photos and go home. You Upset Me Baby.

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Thank you all. Yeah I guess he could play anything and make it sound amazing.

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Here we go again! Will this ever be put to rest???

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Spider wrote:

Here we go again! Will this ever be put to rest???

what??

"It makes it sound like the amp is about ready to explode, that's because it IS about ready to explode." -Joe

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JBSRV wrote:
Spider wrote:

Here we go again! Will this ever be put to rest???

what??

Do a search.  You'll probably find it all.  There's a lotta reading to do.  You'll be fine.

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bigjeffjones wrote:
JBSRV wrote:
Spider wrote:

Here we go again! Will this ever be put to rest???

what??

Do a search.  You'll probably find it all.  There's a lotta reading to do.  You'll be fine.

grumps-r-us...:D

thanks. I didn't know this had been asked before. sorry smile

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The Gold Strat originally had real 65 electronics
I know Joe mentioned he had Lindy Fralin rewire the pups at one time

and Joe also mentioned on single coils, he likes
"anything by Lindy Fralin and Seymour Duncan Antiquities"

I like the You Upset Me Baby tones, and get closer to it with Antiquities

Seems I get closer when I use the slight overwound pups

hence
Fralin Blues Specials
or
Antiquity Texas Hots

is probably a good bet

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Cool thanks

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Spider wrote:

Here we go again! Will this ever be put to rest???

Nope

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JBSRV wrote:

Cool thanks

check out Gigliotti guitars and you'll forget all about Fenders....aside from his Gibsons, these are guitars Joe likes to play...

www.gigliottiguitars.com

you can thank me later! wink

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NPB_EST.1979 wrote:
JBSRV wrote:

Cool thanks

check out Gigliotti guitars and you'll forget all about Fenders....aside from his Gibsons, these are guitars Joe likes to play...

www.gigliottiguitars.com

you can thank me later! wink

I absolutly love these guitars. I'm a relatively new fan and when I saw Joe live I very confused as to what it was, but I've come to really love them. Thanks for the link (does this count as later??)

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Patrick is a great guy too. You might see him poke his nose in here every once in a while too...

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