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Clapton Interviews and Gear, 1967 and 1976

Posted by admin in Monday, April 19th 2010   
Topics: ES-335, Eric Clapton, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Music Man, Strat    
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‘Cocaine’ Rig Photo!

I’ve been sort of back-of-the-mind obsessed with (really more like “puzzled by”) Eric Clapton for a bit now. Ever since I saw him play on Joe Bonamassa’s Albert Hall DVD. I mean, there’s ERIC CLAPTON! – the fact that he’s Eric Clapton is cool on its own, but I wanted him to thrill [...]

PG’s Eye-Opening Townshend Interview

Posted by admin in Monday, March 22nd 2010   
Topics: Bassman, Boss/Roland, Demeter, D’Addario, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Les Paul, Marshall, Pete Townshend, Rickenbacker, SG, Strat, T-Rex, Vibro-King    
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Advised Hendrix On His Rig?

Pete Townshend could never be accused of understating things. In some ways he always seems like the classic artist, in the “here’s the way I see it and F you if you don’t like it” sense. In a new-ish and excellent PremierGuitar.com interview, Pete is all that and says some stuff [...]

The ‘Dark’ Bonamassa Interview, Part 2

Posted by admin in Thursday, March 11th 2010   
Topics: Bogner, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Joe Bonamassa, Les Paul, Marshall, Music Man, Paul Kossoff, Van Weelden    
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Part 1 of this interview was about the music Joe Bonamassa has been recording lately. In part 2 below, it’s all about tone and gear (yeah!). Joe has a great ear for tone (for woody tone), so it’s always interesting to see what he has to say.
WoodyTone: There’s Black Rock, Black Country and now I’m [...]

How to Make Your Own EVH Wolfgang…

Posted by admin in Wednesday, March 3rd 2010   
Topics: Edward Van Halen, Ernie Ball/Music Man    
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…and Save a Bundle
This cool post was submitted by WoodyTone reader and avid EVH tone-chaser Trev Morson. More about him and his band is at wolfscrossing.net.
How many of you want to own a new EVH Wolfgang but can’t afford the $3K asking price?

Warren DeMartini: Strings, Picks, Solos, Snakeskin

Posted by admin in Wednesday, January 6th 2010   
Topics: Ernie Ball/Music Man, Warren DeMartini    
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Here’s part 2 of the post on Warren DeMartini’s gear – plus intel on how to make your own snakeskin-covered guitar and how he looks at guitar solos. All of this info is from the 1987 Guitar Player interview and the warrendemartini.net site referenced in part 1.
All quotes are Warren’s unless otherwise noted.
Picks and Strings
It [...]

Roger Fisher’s Heart Gear

Posted by admin in Thursday, December 3rd 2009   
Topics: Edward Van Halen, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Fane speakers, Hiwatt, Les Paul, Marshall, Roger Fisher, TC Electronic, Twin    
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Plus Roger’s First Impression of EVH
Here’s the second part of my 3-part interview with founding Heart member Roger Fisher – who unfortunately for all of us hasn’t gotten his due over the years.
Although there’s no doubt, you can tell he’s a guitarist merely by the fact that he can recall his gear details from three [...]

Live Show: Bonamassa Off the Charts Good

Posted by admin in Friday, August 14th 2009   
Topics: Bogner, Carol-Ann amps, Eric Clapton, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Firebird, Joe Bonamassa, Les Paul, Live Shows, Marshall    
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Pre-Show Clinic, Bogner Now in Rig

Someone got it wrong.
Either Chuck Berry misread the divine inspiration he got, or a couple of young parents in upstate New York picked the wrong name for their son.
I’m betting Chuck was mistaken because after seeing Joe Bonamassa Wednesday night at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in New Jersey, there’s [...]

Watch Joe Blow: Mountain Time

Posted by admin in Friday, May 15th 2009   
Topics: Ernie Ball/Music Man, Joe Bonamassa    
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I’ve been listening to, and occasionally watching, this vid of Joe Bonamassa for about the last 3 days, ever since the good folks at thegearpage turned me onto it. It’s still giving me chills.

Morse’s Tone Thoughts

Posted by admin in Wednesday, December 10th 2008   
Topics: Engl, Ernie Ball/Music Man, Steve Morse    
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I hadn’t been to Steve Morse’s website in a while so I surfed it for a bit and ended up on deeppurple.com, where I found the following that Steve wrote about tone.
A Deep Purple fan asked Steve which guitar properties affect “tone and sustain most, body/neck/fretboard wood-type, neck joint type, pickups, bridge/saddle design, nut, anything [...]