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TKO

TKO

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None for me. Give my seat to someone else. I never liked any of them much except Michael Jackson. I would not have even walked across the street to see a concert, though. I'd buy two tickets to see Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr doing their lounge act, though. My wife says I was 29 years old when born. LOL!
 
ChicagoMan74

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Hendrix hands down among that group.

Never understood the fascination with Queen, always found their music, as well as Freddie Mercury, quite repulsive.
 
PghPanther

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Hmm......being a guitar player I usually go to a concert with binoculars and study the fret board and picking hand of the guitar players on stage.......in this case my first choice might be Hendrix followed by Queen because I'd watch the work of the brillant Brian May carefully.........and then followed by Prince as he's a pretty good axe man as well.

From a nostalgic deal Hendrix wins out on the selection given to us outside of any guitar playing technique study..........but if nostalgic only is the selection criteria for me then I'd rather have wanted to see these acts when they were in their prime........and I'd still get to see some pretty good axe men to boot.........like Clapton, Page and Gilmour among them.
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PghPanther

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texkat72 said:
Shoulda had SRV as a choice.
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Winner!!! winner!!!.........how could I have left him off my list??....................#1 most important person for me to see live as a guitar player......sadly it has passed.

You know I will watch music videos on youtube for hours of every guitar player you can think of any every style of music but somehow I always end up putting on SRV at El Macombo doing Voodoo Chile and just sit there with my jaw on the floor............my God he was a channel of music from beyond.......with string gauge tone that mere mortals could never bend like that....and that particular night his tone and playing was just flat out incomprehensible.....

His bootleg stuff from his teen years is even just as good..........
 
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WalknTrot

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PghPanther said:
Hmm......being a guitar player I usually go to a concert with binoculars and study the fret board and picking hand of the guitar players on stage.......in this case my first choice might be Hendrix followed by Queen because I'd watch the work of the brillant Brian May carefully.........and then followed by Prince as he's a pretty good axe man as well.

From a nostalgic deal Hendrix wins out on the selection given to us outside of any guitar playing technique study..........but if nostalgic only is the selection criteria for me then I'd rather have wanted to see these acts when they were in their prime........and I'd still get to see some pretty good axe men to boot.........like Clapton, Page and Gilmour among them.
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Haha...yup...when I go to Queen concerts, I always by tickets close up on Brian May's "side". Watch his tech skittering around doing his thing, geeking on gear, and of course Dr. May...as close as possible to see how he makes the magic. Nobody can play virtuoso cello on guitar like that man. Nobody ever will.
 
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Marthanoir

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PghPanther said:
Winner!!! winner!!!.........how could I have left him off my list??....................#1 most important person for me to see live as a guitar player......sadly it has passed.

You know I will watch music videos on youtube for hours of every guitar player you can think of any every style of music but somehow I always end up putting on SRV at El Macombo doing Voodoo Chile and just sit there with my jaw on the floor............my God he was a channel of music from beyond.......with string gauge tone that mere mortals could never bend like that....and that particular night his tone and playing was just flat out incomprehensible.....

His bootleg stuff from his teen years is even just as good..........
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I'm still gonna build up a Strat one day, never found one I like but so many of my fav guitar players play them that I have to put one in the collection.
 
PghPanther

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Marthanoir said:
I'm still gonna build up a Strat one day, never found one I like but so many of my fav guitar players play them that I have to put one in the collection.
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Most strats used by the stars are frankenstrats made of various strats and other parts usually constructed by their touring guitar technicians with feedback (no sound pun intended) from the players themselves.........however, if you can find a signature Robin Trower strat (maple neck with candy gloss maroon colored body) or Bonnie Raitt's signature strat (3/4 scale with rosewood finger board and blue burst finish) both of those artists praised their production models and played them stock on stage as they were produced out of Fender's facilities.

Me??.........I searched and found a simple plain blue body standard strat with a rosewood fret board and the vintage headstock and bridge with older pickups that I found gives me that SRV tone if you play it with the right set up, string gauge and effects on the amping of the signal........like this one.

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Marthanoir

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PghPanther said:
Most strats used by the stars are frankenstrats made of various strats and other parts usually constructed by their touring guitar technicians with feedback (no sound pun intended) from the players themselves.........however, if you can find a signature Robin Trower strat (maple neck with candy gloss maroon colored body) or Bonnie Raitt's signature strat (3/4 scale with rosewood finger board and blue burst finish) both of those artists praised their production models and played them stock on stage as they were produced out of Fender's facilities.

Me??.........I searched and found a simple standard strat with a rosewood fret board and the vintage headstock and bridge with older pickups that I found gives me that SRV tone if you play it with the right set up, string gauge and effects on the amping of the signal.....
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I'm so used to Gibsons that the Strat just doesn't feel right but I want one just so I have one,
Most likely pick up a Harley Benton vintage Strat put in a Freeway 10 way switch, change out the pickups and call it a good-un, probably give it a slight road worn look but not Rory Gallagher road worn.

It won't be a daily player more just a Strat for Strats sake, I don't gig anymore.

I have an urge to do a Macawber clone Tele too :D
 
PghPanther

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Marthanoir said:
I'm so used to Gibsons that the Strat just doesn't feel right but I want one just so I have one,
Most likely pick up a Harley Benton vintage Strat put in a Freeway 10 way switch, change out the pickups and call it a good-un, probably give it a slight road worn look but not Rory Gallagher road worn.

It won't be a daily player more just a Strat for Strats sake, I don't gig anymore.

I have an urge to do a Macawber clone Tele too :D
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Love Gibson fret boards and especially the ES 335 model...............strats feel cramped to me but the tone from the single coil pick on the neck where the 24th fret would normally be is the 2nd overtone that set up clean and ballsy like SRV rings with overtones to die for when blasting it out.........

Of course overdriven a strat sounds too thin but the Gibson with humbuckers sings just right.................(and I don't like fat strats because the humbucker is by the bridge which is too bright to me..........in fact that is one of my criticisms of Hendrix.......he played way to much on that strat single coil bridge pickup which gave a piecing sound that I can't handle to much of)
 
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