SRV Live in Montreaux '82-'85

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:53 pm

I thought I read that Healey's pickups were actually made by someone named Rod Evans (?) (unless that's an EMG employee.)

Klark · Post by **Klark** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:00 am

Zoso wrote:...a SQUIER, yes you heard me right, a Squier Strat with EMG pickups...

Some jerkoff from GC probably sold it to him...But told him it was a real strat.

bluefuzzguitar · Post by **bluefuzzguitar** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:39 am

Thought I'd bring the topic back to SRV and big strings. SRV has been a major influence on my playing. So is his brother Jimmie. I was fortunate enough to see Stevie play live twice. It's an experience I'll never forget. To this day I can't remember a single song he played, I just know I was floored and must of looked like a dope with my eyes and mouth wide open!

I too use 11's, Ernie Ball Power Slinkys to be exact, on my two Tokai Springy Sound strats and have the action set fairly high. I love the sound and feel of big strings. I tried 12's for a while and found there really wasn't all that much difference in sound between 11's and 12's. The 12's, in fact, sounded less 'alive' than 11's, so why wreck your fingers unnecessarily trying to work those 12's? Having big strings and high action means you have to work hard on your guitar. I pick very hard to create the biggest tone I can muster. Vibrato is an important part in creating a huge tone as well and I've got that Texas vibrato down, if I may say so myself.

Stevie's concert at the El Mocambo is a classic. He taught me to get into the music from the very first note and become sort of an open channel where you shut off all thought and become only music.

Mike

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:19 pm

bluefuzzguitar wrote:
I too use 11's, Ernie Ball Power Slinkys to be exact, on my two Tokai Springy Sound strats and have the action set fairly high. I love the sound and feel of big strings.

Mike

High action does make a HUGE difference with the sound of the twanger. I had 11's on my Les Paul Double-Cut and it was pretty amazing how much the effect of raising the action influenced the tention. I think the biggest diffence between Power Slinkys and say a GHS Custom set like SRV (58 38 28 19 15 11), is noticeably the bottom half of the strings. When you're doing shuffles and really digging into the rhythm, it sounds noticeably tighter and heavier. I never got Power Slinky's to have that same great heavy blues sound that i'm so used to with my GHS Custom Sets, but they do have a great sound all their own that blows away the weak tone of 9's and 10's.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:53 pm

DR Pure Blues, DR Pure Blues, DR Pure Blues 11's. Oh did i mention DR Pure Blues 11's
These strings kick ass and last a long time. Try them. I like the Raunch Factor that they bring out in my sound.

Jeff

dirtydeeds22 · Post by **dirtydeeds22** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:55 pm

That was me. You always have to log in, end the forum and then select it again. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:20 am

I heard a lot of people like DR's over the Elixirs. The thing with Elixirs, is that when they wear out, the coating starts to peel away like snake skin. Then your strings look and play totally gross.

Zoso · Post by **Zoso** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:57 am

Flames1950 wrote:I thought I read that Healey's pickups were actually made by someone named Rod Evans (?) (unless that's an EMG employee.)

That may be, I just know at the time he was using EMG's, at least in that one guitar. I just remember because that is when all the metal heads were raving about EMG's and their super high output and I thought it was odd that a blues rock guy was using them.

McGoogle McDougal · Post by **McGoogle McDougal** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:15 am

I agree that heavy strings can give a big bold sound, but I don't think they are necessarily "better" than lighter strings. You ought to adjust both your playing technique and your amp/pedal settings depending on the string gauge being used, just as you should adjust when switching between very different guitars like a Les Paul and a Strat.

Let's not forget some of the great tones produced with very light string gauges by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Billy Gibbons.

There are advantages, both tonally and technique wise, to both light and heavy strings. One may suit you better than others and thus be "better" for you, but not necessarily for everyone.

Just my 2 cents...

Eamon

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:45 pm

I agree with you totally. It wouldn't make sense for a Tele-twang master to use 12's or for Jazz players to use 9's. Good points here.

dirtydeeds22 · Post by **dirtydeeds22** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:16 pm

Everything is personal taste except 2 things: Marshall and Metroamps.
They rock.

p.s. George, I'm sucking up for a deal on a MMOT. HAHAHA!!

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:58 pm

dirtydeeds22 wrote:Everything is personal taste except 2 things: Marshall and Metroamps.
They rock.

p.s. George, I'm sucking up for a deal on a MMOT. HAHAHA!!

Duely noted.

George