Re: OT:distortion, overdrive,fuzz,crunch,special sauce, secret goo

["Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>]

Scott your right, Hendrix, if you really listen to his studio stuff didn't use alot of distortion except when needed. His clean sound was out of this world. Listen to "All Along the Watchtower" from Electric Ladyland. The range of tones is amazing!

but then again some times it's what you want: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMTSPx7dNBE

 

peace,

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

Scott said

>thought his sound was the heaviest, hardest, fill in the adjectives....

>then i remember seeing a live clip on MTV i think a few yrs back, the one of purple haze at a club in >london early in his career ('67), and i remember listening to the sound of his guitar, he may have had a >fuzz box, but was hard to tell (no shots of the floor), i think he had just one marshall amp, anyway, >hearing that after yrs of playing, and experimenting w/ different effects, i thought his sound was almost >country twangy. it was weird