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Rainbow: Best Rock Strat Tone Ever?

Rainbow: Best Rock Strat Tone Ever?

Is a Strat a rock instrument? Seriously. I’m talking about a Strat with a single-coil pickup at the bridge. If so, can you name five rock Strat players in 10 seconds? How about five rock Strat players whose tones you’d want to cop? I can only name two. I’m not dissing Tommy Bolin or anyone […]

April 12, 2011 | By | 20 Replies More
Blackmore’s Dad: Learn Guitar Or I’ll Beat You!

Blackmore’s Dad: Learn Guitar Or I’ll Beat You!

Wanted a Trumpet, Drums; Settled for Guitar Fender.com recently published a short-ish interview with Ritchie Blackmore that had a couple of interesting tidbits in it, below. For the full interview, which discusses his current work with Blackmore’s Night, click here. Fender: Is it true that when your father bought you your first guitar at age […]

October 15, 2009 | By | 1 Reply More
EVH Started Using the Bar Because of Blackmore

EVH Started Using the Bar Because of Blackmore

Here we are again, I guess – another episode of “is it true or not?” starring Edward Van Halen. Can you take him at his word, or not? Is 90% of what he said truth or was 90% misdirection? Was it more like 50/50? Who knows. I’m not in one camp or another. I just […]

September 18, 2009 | By | 1 Reply More
Misc Lynch CD, Tone Details

Misc Lynch CD, Tone Details

New Mob CD, Super V Pickup Info, T&N Trivia Surfed around a little and picked up the following about George Lynch, for all the fellow Lynch-heads out there. The New Mob If you don’t have Lynch Mob’s first CD, Wicked Sensation – recorded after Dokken bit the dust – you should get it. The songs […]

May 6, 2009 | By | 1 Reply More
Blackmore’s Technique and Opinions (part 2)

Blackmore’s Technique and Opinions (part 2)

Page Played ‘You Really Got Me?!’ Here’s part 2, the last part for now, of my deep dive into Ritchie Blackmore’s tone. Below Ritchie first talks about his technique, and then he issues opinions on everyone from Yngwie Malmsteen to Jeff Beck (all from the same sources as used in part 1).

April 27, 2009 | By | 1 Reply More
Ritchie Blackmore’s Tone and More – part 1

Ritchie Blackmore’s Tone and More – part 1

Strat + Modded 200-Watt Marshall + Boost = Wood Before he got on his Medieval music trip, Ritchie Blackmore’s tone was all wood. I heard a Rainbow tune the other day on Internet radio, and I just sat there wondering how the heck he could get that fat tone out of a Strat’s bridge pickup. […]

April 20, 2009 | By | 7 Replies More
News Clips: Ace, Rainbow II, Guitar Gods

News Clips: Ace, Rainbow II, Guitar Gods

Some news clips of the week: Ace’s Album/Space News From Blabbermouth.net and HardRadio.com: Ace Frehley’s new solo album, tentatively due out this spring, will be called “Anomaly.” In an early 2008 interview with Billboard, Ace said about the forthcoming CD: “Basically I’m trying to get back into the mindset I was in when I did […]

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