audiomick Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 11 hours ago, p6x said: I admire his [Steve Vai] command on the instrument, but I never really liked his music. Yes, I feel pretty much the same. I believe Steve Vai played on some Frank Zappa albums, and was listed in the credits as "stunt guitar". That comes pretty close... 1 Link to comment
p6x Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 1 hour ago, audiomick said: Yes, I feel pretty much the same. I believe Steve Vai played on some Frank Zappa albums, and was listed in the credits as "stunt guitar". That comes pretty close... He did some more, say, "palatable" music, such as "For the love of God", but his guitar style is really technical and grammatical, perfect and very square. If you simply compare Steve's music with Eric Johnson's "Cliff of Dover" with long intro, I mean, how can you not appreciate the sound prowess. 3 Link to comment
audiomick Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 10 hours ago, p6x said: the sound prowess. Yes, he does exploit the sound possibilities of a Stratocaster rather well. Link to comment
motortouring Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 On 3/18/2024 at 2:14 AM, KINDOY2 said: On a stratocaster. I thought he was more Les Paul guy. 2 Link to comment
p6x Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 2 hours ago, motortouring said: On a stratocaster. I thought he was more Les Paul guy. Eric Johnson was always pretty much a Fender Strat guy. I specify Fender because almost every guitar brand makes a guitar with a Strat body. Eric Johnson remained faithful to Fender in that domain. That does not mean he did not play Gibson. You can see him on a 335 for a first G3 show. Lately, he also used an SG. But his main known guitar was a Fender Stratocaster 1954, that he named Virginia. He sold it after a neck incident and repair. He was always very finicky about his tone and sound in his younger days. 1 Link to comment
motortouring Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Oh, I was talking about Mark Knopfler in the Dire Straights clip. 1 Link to comment
motortouring Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 For some reason I always feel a lot of sympathy for Rory Gallagher. 2 Link to comment
audiomick Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 47 minutes ago, motortouring said: Oh, I was talking about Mark Knopfler in the Dire Straights clip. I had him in my mind as a Strat player. His sound is mostly "typical Strat", bearing in mind that he uses his fingers rather than a pick. Having said that, the intro to "Money for nothing" does sound more like something with a glued-in neck, and the video shows him playing a Les Paul. Looking at the pictures here, it seems that he does swap around a bit, but more Strat than anything else, if the selection of pictures is any indication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Knopfler 2 Link to comment
p6x Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 3/29/2024 at 5:05 PM, motortouring said: Oh, I was talking about Mark Knopfler in the Dire Straights clip. Only, this is not a Fender one. It is most likely a Pensa Suhr, now only Suhr. He also has a humbucker in the bridge, so his Strat is actually a SuperStrat.... I am guitar fanatic too.... lol.... 1 Link to comment
p6x Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 3/29/2024 at 5:16 PM, motortouring said: For some reason I always feel a lot of sympathy for Rory Gallagher. With a lot of good reasons! he was a virtuoso in his own right. Another guitar player who left too early!! Link to comment
p6x Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 @audiomick Mark Knopfler like many others changed brands for profit. Many examples, such as EVH who endorsed so many different manufacturers, until he got his own EVH brand, made by Fender. Link to comment
p6x Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 @audiomick This is for you; to be listened at loud volume on a decent HiFi system. This was recorded in Berlin (Germany), 2015. Lucienne Renaudin is 16 years old here. This is the very well known (among Trumpet players) Hummel Concerto for Trumpet. For those who do not have a particular affinity with classical music and trumpet in particular, skip to the third movement, the Rondo. The video starts at the second movement, the Andante. This is a bit personal and nostalgic to me, since I started learning trumpet at her age, and kept at it for seven years. Only, I never liked the instrument. I wanted to play guitar. Listening to her grandiose and perfect execution makes me want to go back to those days.... 1 2 Link to comment
footgoose Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 New to me artist. Maybe visited the crossroads? adderall? definitely collagen. seriously tho, the man is connected. 3 1 Link to comment
p6x Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 This is what my Guzzi tells me when I want to take a trip... 1 Link to comment
docc Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 As hard as I try to learn the playing, sometimes it's more about the dancing . . . 3 1 Link to comment
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