Stevie Ray Vaughn
Listening today to Stevie play "Voodoo Chile" and file figured out (well, got an idea of what he's playing) some of the incredible riffing he does after the second chorus.
Been looking to get back to some recording - perhaps this Sunday or Monday over the holiday. Need to find some time to work on it amongst school, work and trying to get the house done for Lynn's wedding shower.
Bought a few Kramer Focus's (strat copies) off of Music Yo.com a couple of years ago, just to mess around with - two of them are metallic blue and the necks are like tree trunks - not taper at all - interesting for slide work however and the fret jobs are decent (they're made in Korea). The other, a black one, has a very thin neck - almost like an ibanez and an excellent fret job (for a $70 guitar). It's a keeper. Thinking of taking the fender gold lace sensors out of my ibanez RS300 and putting them into the black one. Need to figure out what resistor to use with the tone pots or if I need to buy new pots for the pickup change. Anyone out there who does know, give me a shout.
By the way, the stuff I've gotten from music.yo has been great. The Steinberger Spirit has a fret job that kicks my Gibson ES135's ass. Of course, the 135 still plays better, but it's not due to the care in polishing the fret ends, let me tell you. The 135 should play better - brand new it was $1000 more than the Steinberger (I didn't buy it new and got it for about 50% retail). I also picked up a Tobias Pro 5 string bass and it's an excellent ax as well.
I'll be putting more actual stuff on music up here once I get me sea legs with blogging. In the meantime, I'm interested in comments and suggestions for this blog. Peace!
posted by Guitarman @ 5:49 PM
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