DetroitBlues Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Wonder how my style is classified? Crappy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhoadsScholar Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 FXDX99, I like those Clapton Clips and the difference between warm and cold (always pretended to knew what it meant).... THANKS For posting. Great sounds there from a master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolero Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I think Albert Collins & Roy Buchanan have the coldest, most piercing blues tones I have ever heard. probably due to the tele's into cranked SF fender twins or whatever they used also Rory Gallagher's bridge strat tone ( I assume because there is no tone control = bright....just like my George Fullerton sig & some of those vintage strats ) ps I thought that EC crossroads strat tone was pretty warm for a strat, he's got that mid boost thing working overtime there!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolero Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 ah, and anything post '80's by Johnny Winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockabilly69 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Just so you forget about the post 80's Johnny Winter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffB Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXO5AEVxw5k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthpawGuy Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Ice cold ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koula901 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Just so you forget about the post 80's Johnny Winter... really good vid - enjoy both his singing and guitar playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetroitBlues Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 really good vid - enjoy both his singing and guitar playing. Sweet old Wilshire he was playing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuz Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Man, I will confess that Johnny Winter doesn't do it for me. His slide playing is great but the tone is SO nails-on-the-chalkboard meets ice-pick-in-the-ear. It physically hurts me to listen to him play. And his voice just seems too unnatural for me. Again, just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitfiddler Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Derrick Trucks' tone through his Super brings tears to my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuz Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Derrick Trucks' tone through his Super brings tears to my eyes. Yep, I love the WARMER tone of slide playing (Truck, Duane Allman, Joe Walsh- maybe not the best slide player but maybe my favorite tone, Warren Haynes, ect). I just can't listen to Johnny Winter. I also can't listen to Rory Gallagher. His tone hurts my ears. GREAT guitarist he was, but that ice-pick bridge pup is a deal breaker for me. Interestingly, I have/had no problem with Albert Collins tone. Maybe AC high use of reverb rounded off the tone for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbetts41 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 No worries, after all I've posted and the gear I bought and sold, I deserve it. As far as amps goes, I'm thinking of just buying another Blues Jr and swapping the cabinet for something bigger. They are hard to find but Fender made an amp called the two-tone which was basically a blues jr. in a larger cab with a 10 & 12 speaker... I regret selling mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbetts41 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 That was probably my favorite Clapton tones ever. Then again he was playing 85% Kalamzoo produced guitars!!! And IMHO, his Strat is voiced to TRY to sound like a LP with the mid-boost function and blocked trem. It is probably too late in his career, but I wish he would go back to his Gibson tone and playing. He plays different on a LP or 335, much more aggressive. You mean like this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuz Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Yep kind of like that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbetts41 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I wish a commerically produced version of that show was available... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickpH170 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 So, I guess the warm sound would be humbuckers through a tweed, and the cold sound would be single coils through a blackface? I love the Clapton stuff posted here, both Fender and Gibby. I guess I'm lucky enough to have a Blackface Princeton to play my H170 through. Now if I could play like Clapton---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockabilly69 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 My favorite Blues tone happens here at 5:25 on the clock, Mick Taylor from this era is my number one guitar infuence. The earlier solo on slide is nice, but I love the singing midrange and this is what I strive for when I play solos with my band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCu7Qq1J-Jw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitfiddler Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 They are hard to find but Fender made an amp called the two-tone which was basically a blues jr. in a larger cab with a 10 & 12 speaker... I regret selling mine. ...And the closest thing to that was an 80's Princeton Reverb II. It's like the amp a Blues Jr. was supposed to be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthpawGuy Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Rory on slide, he always gave 110% First on his strat, then the tele. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xomS2NqHmME Gives me goose bumps every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HANGAR18 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Well, I haven't seen anyone mention this amp yet. I don't know if it would qualify as "the best blues amp" but I have high hopes it will do okay. I just brought home a brand spankin' new, all tube VOX AC 15 Custom As in... AC15C1: 15 Watts Single 12" Celestion G12M Greenback Speaker http://www.voxamps.com/custom/ac15/ I don't have photos yet. The idea occurred to me that I might want to take a break from the face melting heavy metal once in a while and play some clean tones for a change. I also thought that I might not need to strain the power grid every time plug in my guitar. This amp should be okay for blues, yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolero Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 yeah I love those new voxes they are very versatile. best master volume I've heard too damn....that EC/Les Paul clip was dynamite!! that's the tone he created 40 years ago, he still has it in him he should do an entire album as a tribute to the Les Paul. rockabilly that is my fave era of Stones as well...loose, sweaty, greasy, jamful ...and just to clarify, "cold" does not mean "bad" IMO!! it is just a different range of tonal spectrum. Jimmie Vaughan and early Buddy Guy tone, along with some Robert Cray, I would also classify as colder tone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoslate Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Sure is the '59. Could be a Twin; could be a Super. Who knows.... At :45, he goes to the middle position. At 1:24, the tone becomes Divine! Snooky Flowers plays a terrific sax solo! 4:24 to the end: For my money, the best tone and the most unrestrained joy I've ever heard from a guitar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferwave Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Bloomfield, what can you say? He had the "gift" and the "demons". One of the greatest of all time and Muddy thought so too. I have most of his stuff on vinyl and CD. When I listen it always leaves me wondering what could have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark555 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I love Rory Gallagher but any one playing a strat through the bridge pick up and a Brit amp will slice your ears off. On top of that Rory did use a treble boost switch as those old Vox amps were a bit muddy. I hear a lot of strat players playing loud and harsh at gigs and it is unpleasant. I am going to buy an amp dedicated to my strat to take the edge off it. The best blues amp? If you can't feel the blues, you can't play it. I am talking about feeling the music, not that your cat got run over or anything like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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