What strings do you recommend....

[Bill Ashton]

Getting back almost to the matter at hand...

Has anyone noticed that Guild is now supplying D'Addario EXP strings on ALL of their guitars, even the GAD's?

When I bought mine (August '09), only the Traditional-Series came with the EXP's...

...oh sorry, you were talking about electric...

 

[Treem]

Im using DR pure nickle blues 11s on my S-100. :mrgreen:

 

[adorshki]

Here's why I was thinkin' Doc Johnson may be the guy we're lookin' for:
http://www.amazon.com/Doc-Johnson-Origi ... B0007N5DSO
Try usin' of THOSE for a slide!

Reeves Gabrels does it all the time. He created quite a buzz when he debuted with Bowie.

AS well as Alphonse Mouzon, drummer for Larry Coryell, '74-'75. Quite a "Solo".

 

[bluesypicky]

AS well as Alphonse Mouzon, drummer for Larry Coryell, '74-'75. Quite a "Solo".

Ahhhhhh...... The Eleventh House!!!! Not to mention Weather Report.... a whole chunk of my teenage life just jumped in my mind. Thanks Al! :wink:

 

[adorshki]

AS well as Alphonse Mouzon, drummer for Larry Coryell, '74-'75. Quite a "Solo".

Ahhhhhh...... The Eleventh House!!!! Not to mention Weather Report.... a whole chunk of my teenage life just jumped in my mind. Thanks Al! :wink:

:wink: Back atcha! BTW I have a Coryell "Best of" double disc on Vanguard which has 2 of my most favorite Coryell tunes: "Scotland" and "Lady Coryell". Also love "Live at the Village Gate". If you've got 'em, you know what I'm talkin' bout. If you don't, trust me on this, you want 'em. In spite of the fact I'm a Carlos Santana fan and my guitar quacks like a dog. :lol:
As for Weather Report I always thought they had tons more elegance than that "other" group, you know, the Chick Corea outfit...my hard-earned bucks went to Mr. Zawinul & Co.

 

[bluesypicky]

I need to get this stuff back.... thanks for the titles. I don't think I have anything left from Coryell/Mouzon and that's unacceptable.
Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.....
John Scofield and Steve Kahn come to mind also.
How about Alphonso Johnson and Jaco Pastorius? The amount of genius and talent that went through this band is phenomenal....
Birdland and Black Market have been litterally destroyed by the needle of my "electrophone"! :lol:

 

[adorshki]

I need to get this stuff back.... thanks for the titles. I don't think I have anything left from Coryell/Mouzon and that's unacceptable.
Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.....
John Scofield and Steve Kahn come to mind also.
How about Alphonso Johnson and Jaco Pastorius? The amount of genius and talent that went through this band is phenomenal....
Birdland and Black Market have been litterally destroyed by the needle of my "electrophone"! :lol:

Got to see 'em live once at the famed UC Berkeley Greek Theater on a balmy May night. It was shortly after sunset and Joe was makin' noises like the saucers were landing. I mean, this wasn't your trite old "bubbling echoes" dreck, this was moaning groaning crescendoes that sounded like they were coming from the hills behind us, thanks to some quirk of acoustics. I looked at Joe closely to make sure he WAS in fact tickling those keys! :lol: One of those "I'll never forget it" moments...
"Coryell at Village Gate" was the first time I heard a guy get good Hendrix tone out of a semihollow body. 8)

 

[bluesypicky]

Lucky Al!.... I was a world away with only the album covers to drool on.
But hey, at least I was raised on real food. :lol:

 

[adorshki]

Lucky Al!.... I was a world away with only the album covers to drool on.
But hey, at least I was raised on real food. :lol:

Hey, I thought they were real ducks.... :shock:

 

[bluesypicky]

Hey, I thought they were real ducks.... :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Bill,

How does a guitar company decide what strings to put on? I would think they'd use whatever makes their axes sound best. And one aspect in that regard might be how well the strings last while sitting in a guitar store for months.

I would also think that one particular string (such as Daddy-o EXPs or anything else) would not be the best for each model. So if Guild is saying one size fits all, then maybe they just use whatever good strings they can get a good deal on a ton at a time.
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Treem,

I like the idea of heavier gauges on solidbodies. Do you step down the strings a tone or two? Do you ever use a wound third on a solidbody? I did when I got my first solidbody. I'd played acoustics for twenty years, and then starchtops, so I couldn't get the concept of an unwound third or a set of 9's.

Do you know if any of the big boys like SRV use(d) a wound third on a solidbody? I know Jeff Beck used flatwounds on a solidbody for a whole album.

Is it true that nickels are easier on your fingertips?

HF (Smoking Chesterfields)

 

[taabru45]

I heard that SRVs strings were like 'cables' and that helped in his sound...Steffan

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

tab brut,

Yes, I heard they were heavy and that he tuned down a few tones. But I don't know how heavy.

Chester (Field)

 

[taabru45]

SRV used GHS Nickel Rockers 13 to 58 tuned down half a step...here's the info Chester....Herb (Fields)
http://www.tangledupinblues.com/setup.html

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

013, .015, .019 (plain), .028, .038, and .058.

I think it's odd he tuned it down only half a step. Try bending that 19. But what's really weird is to go from a 38 fifth to a 58 sixth.

Any comments my fallow Guilders?

 

[taabru45]

Well...he coulda crushed your hand with his grip... :shock: Steffan

 

[Jeff]

1/2 step down works on the SR tunes I've used as jam tracks, music written in E, tune's played in E flat. ???

An instructor once told me Stevie Ray didn't know what he was doing much of the time, ....puzzling concept, continues to trouble me. :?

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

tab,

He looked like he'd crushed his nose.
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Jeff,

Howdy stranger. Much stranger.

John McLaughlin said the same thing about Hendrix. I think a few of those miraculous players have such a supernatural talent that they don't need to know what they're doing. I guess Sigmoid Freund would say they "know" it unconsciously.

There was a great jazz pianist, Erroll Garner, who couldn't read a note. Neither can Glen Campbell, but he can play all of Tiny Moore's recordings; Tiny was a mandolinist. Glenn could transpose all of that to a guitar without thinking about it. When Glenn told Tiny, Tiny didn't believe it, because Tiny played Guitar too, and he knew he couldn't play his own mando riffs on a guitar. But Glenn whipped out a guitar and proved he could do it. I couldn't prove anything if I whipped mine out.

 

[fronobulax]

How does a guitar company decide what strings to put on? I would think they'd use whatever makes their axes sound best.

Interesting question. Answer may depend upon production volume and price, as well as sound and longevity. I'm cynical enough to believe that Guild sends out a Request For Quote to string makers and then selects the cheapest string that "works". Even with production volumes on the order of 10 guitars per day, I don't see them taking the time to select a string vendor based upon how well the strings sound on a new Guild as long as the selection sounds 'good enough'. My hunch is at the price point of the NH Guilds the buyer is either not really sensitive to what strings are on the guitar when it arrives or already knows what brand are going on it as soon as the strings get changed. Given the production numbers and the oft lamented lack of Guilds in stores I have to believe that the quality of the strings is not going to influence a lot of sales. My hunch is that the vast majority of people who buy NH Guilds are not making their decision based upon playing an instrument in the store.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

(To and) fro,

I agree. I don't think you're being cynical. I think it's more a matter of economics, which includes saving time. They can't afford to have people play their guitars and decide which strings they prefer. I imagine any big guitar maker would, indeed, take the best deal, as long as the strings are from a reputable company.

Robin Byrd (HF)