Please post songs with cool use of tremolo.

[Dudeman1967]

I heard a song the other day and I can’t remember who it was. It had a cool tremolo sound.
I have a Gibson GA40-T amplifier from the late 60s. The last time I brought it in for repairs decades ago i didn’tbother to get the tremolo fixed. Now I think I want to get my amp fixed back to factory spec. But I don’t know what the tremolo cost to repair so post some songs to influence my decision.

Or should i just get a pedal?

 

[Motorik]

My kind of thread!

Tremolo is one of my most used effects, in fact it's essential for me. I love it.

 

[Dudeman1967]

Nice start Motorik!



I like what this guitarist did with a classic.

 

[Motorik]

Nice start Motorik!



I like what this guitarist did with a classic.

Oh yeah, I love that version, he really made it his own. Great guitar sound too.

Here are another couple of great tremolo songs



This one is my favorite guitar tone of all time:

 

[tiger roach]

Lots of CCR! So that means a trem pedal is the bar musician’s second-best friend.

 

[Motorik]

 

[Motorik]

And they keep on coming! (told you I love tremolo)

 

[DdBob]

 

[Bones McHorror]

 

[jrockbridge]

This is both tremolo and wah

Tito & Tarantula - After Dark

 

[Dew Knot Humps]

I am also a big time tremolo junkie. I could post these all night.

 

[nuke_diver]

Maybe not the coolest use of Tremelo but I'm on the highway for the next 2 days so it's appropriate. And a fabulous singer IMO

 

[Motorik]

 

[Motorik]

 

[Monson]

Cool songs for sure. I guess Uma was right, and I find myself digging the guitar sounds of the late 50s and early 60s more and more.

After having been overwhelmed by all the sounds currently available for guitar players, even suffering from options fatigue, even post-traumatic, blitzed and coventrised, I feel I'm now finally leaning into France and gaining a bit of initiative and getting more and more familiar with effective use of trem, slapback, reverb, old-school trem systems and slightly driven amps sans dirt pedals.

 

[Motorik]

Cool songs for sure. I guess Uma was right, and I find myself digging the guitar sounds of the late 50s and early 60s more and more.

After having been overwhelmed by all the sounds currently available for guitar players, even suffering from options fatigue, even post-traumatic, blitzed and coventrised, I feel I'm now finally leaning into France and gaining a bit of initiative and getting more and more familiar with effective use of trem, slapback, reverb, old-school trem systems and slightly driven amps sans dirt pedals.

Yeah, those are the sounds I mostly stick to if I'm playing for my own enjoyment, or I can get away with it in a band context.

 

[baimun]

How is this thread this long without.....

 

[jrockbridge]

Sporadic tremolo...

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Sister Christian by Night Ranger isn't to extreme. Jeff Beck of course is everything from mild to wild. Lonnie Mack: Down in the Dumps.

 

[Dew Knot Humps]

Lonnie Mack: Down in the Dumps.

Now the true debate begins. Fender amps have vibrato channels when in fact it’s really tremolo. Lonnie Mack (and his hero Robert Ward played through Magnatone amps which had stereo vibratos. The old Magnatone amps are a magical experience to play through.