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Vox Real McCoy Chrome Wah Ltd and V846 Vintage Wah

6 days ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

The Real McCoy Wah is designed as a throwback to the earliest iteration of the wah sound, with a warmer vocal character. More-nasal in tone, it accentuates midrange for a more-musical flavor, accentuating articulate single-note definition. It’s the secret sauce for funk rhythm styles that require cleaner amp tones. Running between a superstrat and a Marshall combo, it offered mellower, richer sounds.
Louis Electric 6L6-183 Cobra

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Dave Hunter

Rosano’s first Cobra 183 hit the streets in 2020 with a set of EL34 output tubes. An acclaimed version of the Dumble Overdrive Special (which is saying something), it was a transitional iteration between early and later Dumble ODS circuits, employing a unique combination of stages that produce magic when firing together. His 6L6/KT66 version joined the herd this year, capable of carrying a quartet of the American-flavored bottles also occasionally used by Howard Alexander Dumble.
Pigtronix Philosopher’s Tone 2

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

A compressor is useful for everything from taming aggressive volume fluctuations to adding sustain or a professional sheen to one’s sounds. The Philosopher’s Tone 2 is a straightforward design that gives essential functions including Volume, Sustain (the threshold, or degree of compression), Treble (to brighten the sometimes-dulling effect of compression), and Blend between colored and uncolored tones.
Brian F. Wright | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

The pages are rife with hip trivia. For example, in ’51, Fender sold a mere 83 Precisions. An R&B group known as The Treniers had a P-Bass player named Shifty Henry, and the ensemble’s performance in the 1956 movie The Girl Can’t Help It provided many viewers with a first gander at an electric bass – in color. Also, read about the two bassists on Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs’ 1963 “Sugar Shack,” with Stan Lark on a Rickenbacker 4001 and George Tomsco plucking a Dano six-string bass.
Dennis Jones | Vintage Guitar® magazine

1 week ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

Drawing from the six-string legacies of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, and Pat Travers, Jones brings a modern, black urban sensibility to the proceedings, creating a distinctive POV. “Too High To Fly,” “Just Like You,” and “Always The Same” are power-packed compositions, Jones emphasizing harder melodic-rock tones steeped in traditional blues, offset by clean, funky, and precise rhythm work coupled with beautifully chorused arpeggiation.
Dennis Jones | Vintage Guitar® magazine

2 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

Songs like “Always The Same” are blues-based but really hit home. “Always The Same” is an old song I’d redone. It’s probably 30 years old. I re-wrote it, and I think if I can relate to it, other people can relate to it. “Too High To Fly” and stuff like that are about waiting for things to happen. That never works. You have to get off your butt and do it. “Just Like You” is about traveling the world and seeing how much we all have in common – respecting other cultures and not being the ugly American.
Lee Ritenour | Vintage Guitar® magazine

2 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

How far do you and Dave Grusin go back? He goes back to the very beginning for me. I’ve known Dave since I was 18, but I knew about him before that because he was the most popular and respected TV and film scorer in Los Angeles when I was in my late teens and early 20s. I watched shows like “I Spy” and “The Name of the Game,” and loved Howard Roberts’ playing. He was a great jazz guitarist and studio musician with a phenomenal sound.
Rocky Athas | Vintage Guitar® magazine

2 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Pete Prown

There’s a lot of blues emotion on Livin’ My Best Life, but also hard-rock riffs. Is there a tipping point between the two? It’s all about the feel. If a song leans to the blues, I feel it that way; if it rocks, I flow in that direction. But even if it rocks hard, I never forget my blues influence in my lead work and want the melody to sing, like on “Dark Days.”Your guitar tone smacks the listener in the face, especially on the title cut. Thanks. That means my mission is accomplished.
Joanne Shaw Taylor

2 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

Heavy Soul has a wonderful synergy between your vocals, writing, and guitar playing. I love writing songs. It’s very therapeutic for me and I love playing guitar. My job at the end of the day is to play obnoxiously loud guitar and scream into a microphone about things that bother me. I’m very lucky. It’s free therapy (laughs). It’s like scream therapy. Oh, 100 percent! I call it the “Adele effect.” People think I break up with someone every time I write an album.
Paul Gilbert | Vintage Guitar® magazine

2 weeks ago | vintageguitar.com | Oscar Jordan

With help from drummer/friend Nick D’Virgilio stepping in for Torpey (who died in 2018 after dealing with Parkinson’s for four years), they’re closing the book on a treamendous ride with their final studio album, Ten, a tour to support it, and in September they’ll offer fans The Big Finish Live album and an accompanying concert film. Mr. Gilbert agreed to tell all. When Mr. Big has reunited every so often, is it like riding a bike? Overall, things fall into place.