In his hands, the electric guitar was more than a musical instrument. The musical vocabularies of today’s guitarists are sprinkled with phrases coined by Jimi, and the same goes for the modern toolset of tones and techniques.Įven if one isn’t given over to venerating pop icons, Hendrix’s bold visions, fearless experimentation, and genre-defying psychedelic soul music merits respect on another level. Whatever his intentions were, there’s a strong case for claiming that Jimi Hendrix ‘invented’ modern rock guitar with that performance. Perhaps he was protesting the Vietnam police action maybe it was an act of patriotism. That strange brew of wah, fuzz and feedback transformed the American national anthem into a battle cry and Jimi’s guitar into a machine gun. Of course, only Jimi can truly sound like Jimi, but read on to get your amp set up in a way that’ll get you a little bit closer to the man’s legendary tones… (Photo by Pudimm, used according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.) Granted, it wasn’t that exact stellar moment at Woodstock that transformed James Marshall Hendrix, journeyman guitarist, into Jimi Hendrix, cosmic rock deity, but his apocalyptic rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner at the legendary hippie happening imbued the phrase ‘flower power’ with a whole other meaning. In the early morning hours of August 18, 1969, a force of nature was unleashed that would forever change the world of electric guitar.
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We’re pretty sure you’ll get 10 completely different lists.īut anyway, here we’re going to pick guitar players we love, regardless of anything else, and tell you how to get your amp tone in the same ballpark. Want proof? Well, try this: ask ten guitarists to name their top ten six-stringers. Great guitar skills and tone are completely subjective.
We’ll begin with no less than Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and the Hitmaker himself, Mr.
#David gilmour guitar rig series
Knowing how to set your rig up helps, though, so here we begin the first in a Blog Of Tone series on achieving the amp sounds of the stars.
But sounding like your heroes is not easy, and of course it’s about your fretboard skills and technique as much as it is the gear you’re using. One of the best things about being a guitar player is that moment when you genuinely manage to recreate a sound, a tone, a riff, or a solo by a guitarist you love.
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