General Music Chat

played a PJAZZ gig last night in the warehouse of a brewery (machinery off, thank god!). so, i knew we'd be in a room w pretty bad acoustics, and that when we played this gig last time....my big-ass archtop never made it out of the case. instead i played the whole gig w my thinline tele. that worked pretty good and i was able to cut thru. i'll often use that tele on jazz gigs and it works out fine.

so, last night i packed up the tele....and my STRAT! the strat hasn't made it out to a gig in looooooong time and frankly it hasn't been outta the case here at home for some time. oh, man....did i have BLAST playing that thing last night! and it really sent me in some directions i wouldn't have gone w another axe.

and really, to my thinking...there's no point in having a few different gtrs, or basses if you end up playing the same way on all of them.

i had to smile when a drummer who was there came up between songs and said "whoa, i never knew you could play jazz on a stratocaster!"

You can also play a Ritchie Blackmore "literally tearing the guitar in half with the whammy bar" solo with a strat as well!

You can also play a Ritchie Blackmore "literally tearing the guitar in half with the whammy bar" solo with a strat as well!

funny you mention that... i did quote the "Smoke On The Water" lick when we were trading fours on "Birks Works" (a straightahead Dizzy Gillespie tune).

that was good for cracking up my bandmates and a few of the crowd.

aaaaand....i was doing a little wanking on the vibrato bar on my strat (sorry...i refuse to call it tremelo). nice to have the ability to both lower AND raise pitch as opposed to only lowering the pitch w a Bigsby. I still prefer a Bigsby though.

I removed the bar on my Yamaha strat. That dog simply don't hunt for me. My favorite is Neil Young, though. His early career - a lot of bending notes, later career - a lot of vibrato. Perfect blend between the two is his Reactor album ('81).

[url]Neil Young - Reactor: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... BA68TOoTuK[/url]