Did Joe Satriani Just PROVE Gear Is Irrelevant?
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2023
- Did Joe Satriani just prove that gear is irrelevant? I recently stumbled across a video of Joe Satriani - a guitarist known for playing almost exclusively Ibanez guitars, playing his song Satch Boogie on a Gibson Les Paul. This was pretty interesting because Joe Satriani's playing usual style is pretty different to what you'd expect from a typical Les Paul player. Joe uses a lot of tremolo and whammy bar tricks and techniques in his playing, so to see him playing his song Satch Boogie on a guitar with no whammy bar and p90 pickups was pretty cool!
This isn't a new video, it's from a 2006 live performance for Les Paul's 90th birthday, which explains why Joe Satriani is playing a Les Paul instead of his usual Ibanez model. But this video just highlights what I've always felt. It's not the gear that's important, it's the player.
Hope you enjoy the video
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Turns out the Les Paul gig was his 90th Birthday celebration, not in memory of his passing!
Hey Rob, I am one of those people for which the gear is very relevant, which I will explain momentarily.
I just happened upon your video and subscribed.
Generally, I would agree with you and this vid in that is it the player who contributes most to their own tone. I learned this from a story in a guitar mag years ago. I am a gen x'er and having been attempting to play guitar since I was 17. My first inspiration was one of my uncles. I have 2 uncle who are twins. One plays guitar, (and still does today), the other plays violin/piano/keyboards (he had a few nice synths that were new back in the 80s, Ha!). So, naturally I hung out with them when we would visit... and was more interested in playing guitar. My guitar playing uncle had a Les Paul Black Beauty, which I held when I was 10. That, along with him jamming on some songs while I visited, was what got my into playing guitar. I already had an interest in music, this was just a specific focus. Funny, thing though, because of my dad's parents being super religious, the path of me getting music was due to a cartoon, but I will save that story.
Anyway, from that point I was buying all sorts of guitar mags and music books to have and learn from.
As I was homing my techniques and learning about guitar sounds and tones, it was this story in a guitar mags that solidified the tones being mainly in the fingers. The story mentioned some time, in the late 70s most likely, when VH was touring with and opening for Ted Nugent. Apparently, after a VH sound check, Ted wanted to play Eddie's rig. While he was playing Eddie's rig, he was trying to pull off some EVG licks, but it still sounded like Ted trying to play EVH. From that point on, I always attribute the majority of a guitarist;'s sound and tone in their fingers.
Ok, now onto why gear is important to me specifically. It is interesting that this is a vid about Satch, cause he has been my favorite overall player since i happen to catch his video of 'Satch Boogie' on Mtv. I was draw to him as a musician, not only for his talent and technique, but also his understanding of the music business, which he talked about in interviews.
Part of that inspiration was his tone. The incidental things he would create and use as part of his playing. That helped me learn about these type of things that could enhance one's expression on the guitar.
He was the biggest reason I starting playing Ibanez guitars. The other was my own physicality.
I have big stubby fingers and my thumbs is a little short, so many of the typical neck shapes are uncomfortable or uplayable to me. My fingers are so wide that I had to learn to finger some typical open chords differently, because the normal ways are too uncomfortable for me. I finger a typical open A chord with just 2 fingers, instead of the typical 2, because my middle finger is so wide that I can use it to fret the G and B string at the same time. 24.75" scale length frets are too close together for me. Guitars I play really need to be 25.5" scale lengths.
The neck shape from me really needs to be wide, thin and pretty flat. The best one I have found was the Ibanez wizard II neck, which was on a cheaper Ibanez I bought back in the early 2000s. I think that is the best neck they ever made. I have some others that are similar and playable for me, but not quite as comfortable. I might be able to play some modern C shape necks, if they are thin enough, else the hump of the back of the neck pushes my thumb too fat back and makes it harder for me to completely grip the neck well in all positions.
That is the main reason why gear would be relevant to me, but as I said, else, I generally agree with you.
Cheers,
Tim
Honestly all the videos that you have posted are just brilliant. Looking forward for your next post. 💜
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Joe did an interview recently, he doesn't like Les Pauls and he uses this performance as an example to his point.
"I did a couple of shows for Les Paul for his birthday party," Joe recalled (transcribed by Ultimate Guitar). "There's a good RUclips clip of me playing a '58 Les Paul Special, 'Satch Boogie.' That was really hard, actually. That's because Les Pauls go out of tune, like instantly, when you play that kind of aggressive style of guitar playing."
New subscriber. This channel is great and I hope your recovery is going well. Satriani in various different interviews has commented that the reason he always returns to his Ibanez guitars is out of comfort and ergonomics of the instrument. There certainly are some different characteristics you can get from different pickup styles in combination with certain amps, but quality playing is always the most important thing. Side note, I was shocked at the difficulty on Crash Bandicoot 4 compared with N Sane Trilogy.
Yeah, I totally get the preference for the feel of an instrument. But good guitar playing spirit itself! & yeah Crash 4 was solid 😂 Good game but stressful
I thought the same thing when I saw this clip last week. You have those player types that say "To play so-and-so's shred style you need a Floyd Rose with a thin neck profile and flat radius, blah blah." A real guitar player can play their style in almost any situation on almost any guitar. Hell everyone assumed when Edward Van Halen came out, that tapping legato style could only be done on an electric guitar and sound good. What does he go and do? Record Spanish Fly on not only an acoustic guitar, but a NYLON STRING acoustic classical guitar! BOOM!
If there was ever a person to show us how it's done it's EVH hah
Is Not the instrument , its the person playing it. Some people have more talent than others. It is a fact of life.
For all thinking that using a "les Paul with P90 pickups" will make you sound like a certain musician, it will not.
Jimmy Page used a Telecaster to record most (or all) of the songs on Led Zeppelin 1, and he only began using a Les Paul with humbuckers
later.
Watch Yngwie playing a 59 Les Paul. It's all about finger tone I think. Nuno talks about Eddie's guitar and amp too and he sounded just like Nuno.
I saw the Nuno thing, that would have been a good clip to use also!
@@RobGalley Yeah!! Check out Yngwie playing a Les Paul. It sounds just like a Strat ha.
@@Taylor___ there’s a clip of that in my video 😂
@@RobGalley Oh sorry!!! I didn’t watch the full video silly me. I got distracted at work ha.
I’ve always been of the mind that, in addition to the player him/herself, amplification is farrrrr more important to sound than is the guitar for getting great sound. In other words, I’d say if you had a $1500 budget, spend the majority of it on your amplifier rather than the guitar. A great amplifier can make an inexpensive guitar sound pretty wonderful, while a great guitar can never make a shit amp sound anything other than shit. Choose wisely.
I agree - when it comes to the gear, Good amp and less good guitar over Good guitar and less good amp anyday!
Playing over gear, any day!
The phrase 'All the gear but no idea' isn't around for nothing..