jfine
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Scott Grove--OK, the guy's a decent player, but, jeez, what's with these guys who use the same middle-and-bridge Strat tone on EVERYTHING? It's a good tone (or would have been if he'd dialed in a little more midrange!), but even Mark Knopfler doesn't use that setting all the time. I listened to the first few tunes in that vid--heck, I've played all of them; I've done a lot of country gigs over the years--but if you're the only lead guitar in the band--I didn't hear a steel player, so he must be--you've got to suggest other instruments, and a good way to do that is to vary your tone up. Change pickup settings, use your bridge pickup once in a while; that's a classic country tone, just ask Brent Mason, Roy Nichols, Don Rich, Luther Perkins, James Burton...there's a lot more to dynamics than just switching in your distortion with the same old tone on your guitar. Heck, I even use that middle-and-bridge setting myself, usually if I'm trying to channel Mark Knopfler or later-period Clapton--but, come on, there are lots of good tones available on a 3-pickup guitar--let's use a few more of them suckers!
Hey, Scott, that's not your signature tone--too many of the rest of us have used it too much over too many years! Kind of reminds of that period in the early-to-mid-'70's, right after phase shifters came out, when there were way too many guys using the phase shifter all the way through every song for the whole gig. Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...Aaargh!
Hey, Scott, that's not your signature tone--too many of the rest of us have used it too much over too many years! Kind of reminds of that period in the early-to-mid-'70's, right after phase shifters came out, when there were way too many guys using the phase shifter all the way through every song for the whole gig. Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...Aaargh!
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