Richard Thompson is the greatest strat player that has ever lived
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Help!I'maRock!
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Help!I'maRock!
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Actually, their locations were well thought out. Some people just don't have the proper technique to use them.
surfsteve
Pendejo
Oooo.... a young Billy Gibbons.
sonik
Motor City Madman
Actually, their locations were well thought out. Some people just don't have the proper technique to use them.
Meh. I get that you can control the volume and keep the picking hand going, but meh. Meh I say!
What about the recessed jack? :/
Help!I'maRock!
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Chad
Slender Hobbit
I am so with you on vocal music. If I don't like the singer, I am out.
As for Brian May, if you don't like his playing on this, something is wrong with you.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Agreed...as per usual.
As to other comments, tone is super subjective. I remember "musicians" ragging on Cobain's tone and then it quickly became one that people worked hard to emulate. Sometimes Hendrix's tone was less than pleasant to my ears, but there are people that might kill me for even suggesting that. I've always liked Carlos' and Clapton's tones even as they changed over the years, but we all know folks that will tell the day their "good" tones started and ended. I like Eric Johnson's tone for his music, but I don't care for playing in/with it. Ty Tabor's tone is the electric stuff of dreams for me even after he stopped playing the Strat Elite and Gibson Lab amps...it changed a bit, but was mostly in the player.
Regarding May's solos, again that's all about what you like. It's obvious that they are highly constructed, but so was everything the Beatles and Pink Floyd did (and obviously Queen). They were composed to be a part of the song and not the center piece. I'm not sure there's been a guitarist in popular music whose solos were as interwoven into the DNA of the songs as Brian's. But he was not an improvisor and never claimed to be. There are plenty of wonderful musicians you can listen to for that.
As to Ice Cream Man's comment about May's voice, it was an integral part of Queen's harmonies and backing vocals. Like Roger (who's the better singer of the two), Brian's voice pails in comparison to Freddie's, but whose didn't in general and wouldn't if they were part of the band?
Thompson (to refocus us) is, as I've stated multiple times already, a stellar guitarist. Underrated given his lack of recognition. He's a capable singer in that he can carry a tune and sing in pitch (apparently no longer required for "professional" musicians...you know who I mean, and there's a lot of them), but the timbre of his voice is not only unpleasant to my ears, it's vocal nuances/inflections and melodies do not make for enjoyable listening. As this was about his playing and it spun out of control...I blame (spins the wheel of random MWGL forumites) JBird! I think it helps that (I believe) he's not been a part of this thread, so all in favor say eye...
Beyer160
Vagabond Of The Western World
The locations were OK, but Leo fixed the tone system in the early '90s:
IMHO, the Strat's tone controls were one of the very few things Leo ever got wrong the first time.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Unsurprisingly , I'm wrong, and as JB posted Mr. Blackmore and he's one of my favorite Strat players (if we must define him so myopically), I retract the blame and ascribe to mineself.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Yeah, I really hate that song. A bit of it might be because I've had to teach it so many times, but mostly I just didn't like it in the first place.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
I also like Glenn Tilbrook more than Richard Thompson. Sorely underrated guitarist with a jazzy lean and that mutha fucka's got pipes for days!!!
You can skip to 1:52 for the short sweet melodic guitar goodness...if you don't like a great '80s pop/rock tune.
Sorry, he's playing a Tele. redacted
You can skip to 1:52 for the short sweet melodic guitar goodness...if you don't like a great '80s pop/rock tune.
Sorry, he's playing a Tele. redacted
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Chad
Slender Hobbit
Not the song, I could take or leave that, I just love his lead on it. Just great 50s style tele pickin.
GDSmithTX
Corporate cog
As a purchaser of one of those SDOTD Legacy Tributes a few months ago, you're dead right about the PTB system. That is how all guitar tone controls should work.
I just added a baseplate to the bridge pup and, while it didn't have as profound an effect as the one I added to my CV 60s strat, it definitely makes the bridge sound a little thicker.
Beyer160
Vagabond Of The Western World
I like the PTB in mine so much that I just bought the parts to install it on my beater strat as a test run. If it's a success, I may put it on my "good" strat, too.
Dexter Inferno
Serious error
One of Queen's worst songs imo, and I play in a Queen tribute band. It's the one song I really can't stand on the setlist - but obviously we have to do it.
GDSmithTX
Corporate cog
Not to thread-jack, but I (and I'm sure others) would appreciate an update on how that goes.
I've been considering doing the same thing, following this Joe Gore article on Premier Guitar, which greatly piqued my interest (http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21112-three-must-try-guitar-wiring-mods).
Beyer160
Vagabond Of The Western World
Will do. Kinda busy through, so it might be a while.
rsadasiv
Burnin' Daylight
I also like Glenn Tilbrook more than Richard Thompson. Sorely underrated guitarist with a jazzy lean and that mutha fucka's got pipes for days!!!
You can skip to 1:52 for the short sweet melodic guitar goodness...if you don't like a great '80s pop/rock tune.
Sorry, he's playing a Tele. redacted
I like Glen Tilbrook's guitar playing and I like that solo in particular:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11466082
But Richard Thompson is on another level.