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Post by MartinT on Oct 6, 2016 12:12:32 GMT
Are they like Joe 90 specs? If I take the 'Gilmour' one will I play like him?
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Post by Slinger on Oct 6, 2016 13:06:39 GMT
You are all correct about the Hendrix Strat of course, but at the time of knocking that image out (23:00 last night) the only relevant picture I could find in the "view" that I needed was the *new* Fender Jimi Hendrix model, and not one of Jimi's original guitars.
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 6, 2016 13:14:09 GMT
Are they like Joe 90 specs? If I take the 'Gilmour' one will I play like him? I believe that is the profound wish of many people who choose their first 'proper' guitar. I expect disappointment soon follows! |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 6, 2016 14:53:40 GMT
Deep, deep disappointment in my case  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Oct 6, 2016 21:40:40 GMT
Nice Rick Mr. Whippy, but if we're talking iconic guitars...  ...and that's just the tip of the iceberg, and we're not talking lettuce here. Couldn't resist that last one; sorry.  Well, yes, the Fender Strat. is iconic. For me though, the 325 is something more. Offer me any guitar going and I'd have a Rickenbacker 325. I just love the look of it. The contrasting black and white body together with the chrome ancillaries just make it standout for me. And I love me Tanglewood copy. |
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Post by Slinger on Oct 7, 2016 16:26:51 GMT
Don't get me wrong, I love the look of Ricks, and this has to be my all-time favourite...  ...or maybe it's the 660/12TP that Rickenbacker made for Tom Petty, but the Strat is probably the most recognisable guitar on the planet, and all of those guitar icons (well, 7 out of 8 of them anyway ) have rated their own custom 'edition' of the Fender Strat. Hence the 'icon' status. Actually, talking of icons, I'll add Lemmy to the list. |
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Post by Stratmangler on Oct 7, 2016 22:44:24 GMT
Jimi's was a standard right handed guitar flipped over and the nut turned around.
The Hendrix model is made to emulate what the flipped over nature of Jimi's guitar created, but for right handed players - the bridge pickup is slanted so that the treble side is further away from the bridge (just like Jimi's), the headstock is upside down to emulate the way the strings were on Jimi's guitar, with the bottom E string having the furthest distance to the tuning peg, and the last bit is not easy to spot - the pickups have pole pieces that are staggered for a left handed guitar.
Those three elements are probably the most important elements of why Jimi's guitar sounded the way it did at the guitar end of things.
There's the little matter of signal losses from driving around 100 feet of cable (it was curly), coupled with an ever increasing arsenal of germanium transistor based effects pedals, and valve amplifiers played at volumes that would intimidate an angry elephant into retreating.
Then there's the tiny matter of Jimi playing guitar endlessly - he'd be picking up a guitar upon waking, and if he stayed in he'd be putting it down when he was going to sleep.
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Post by Stratmangler on Oct 7, 2016 22:51:40 GMT
Are they like Joe 90 specs? If I take the 'Gilmour' one will I play like him? Gilmour wanted a red Strat because Hank Marvin played one. Hank was the inspiration for many of the name players from this side of the pond. Not one of 'em sounded like Hank, but they all found their own voice on a Strat. |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 8, 2016 7:41:19 GMT
That's interesting. I think that not one other guitarist sounds like Gilmour, so he too found his own voice.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 8, 2016 15:43:41 GMT
For donkey's years the Shadows thought the colour of Hank's strat was Flamingo Pink, but apparently Fender never had any such colour; it was Fiesta Red  |
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Post by Stratmangler on Oct 8, 2016 16:26:25 GMT
For donkey's years the Shadows thought the colour of Hank's strat was Flamingo Pink, but apparently Fender never had any such colour; it was Fiesta Red Fender might not have done such a colour, but it was commonplace for the UK importer to just order Stratocasters in Sunburst and have them resprayed. Fiesta Red Strats were largely a UK phenomenon, and factory spray jobs Stateside are very rare indeed. Here's Joe Bonamassa with one, and this one has never left the USA. |
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Post by Guest on Oct 8, 2016 16:31:15 GMT
Three hifi design icons for me ...    Can you remember the JVC toploading cassette deck shaped like a wedge of cheese with Star Trek transportation sliders to control the input level? I had one and wish I had kept it. |
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Post by Guest on Oct 8, 2016 16:32:58 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 8, 2016 17:09:44 GMT
Can you remember the JVC toploading cassette deck shaped like a wedge of cheese with Star Trek transportation sliders to control the input level?
I had one and wish I had kept it. Wasn't that the Yamaha? ...  Or did JVC do one as well?
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Post by stanleyb on Oct 8, 2016 18:03:22 GMT
I think that Aiwa and Nakamichi also did one of those sloping designs.
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 8, 2016 18:51:55 GMT
JVC KD-720:  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Oct 8, 2016 19:02:31 GMT
These EMI Ferrics won't take much more, Captain.  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Oct 8, 2016 19:11:38 GMT
Dick Dale is also left-handed who first played his guitar upside down.
This is interesting:
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 8, 2016 19:11:51 GMT
This might be the Aiwa that Stan refers to: Aiwa AD-1250  ....and I know this is the Nak that he meant:  Meant to sit on a flat surface a la console or mounted in a rack  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2016 19:50:23 GMT
This might be the Aiwa that Stan refers to: Aiwa AD-1250 Saw one on E-Bay today |
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