Jimbob, you gonna love it.

[Ed_Chambley]

In case you want to know how to get the proper tone.

[sluckey]

Damn! Another idol!

[Ritchie200]

No no no no no no NO!  All wrong!  First, too much distortion.  Not enough mid.  Not enough bass.  No he was not using the treble booster.  He had given that up a little over a year before.  No he was not using the Awai, that was to come in another 3 years with MKIII.  He hadn't used a Revox since the 60's.  The Vox thing has been floated for years ever since Ritchie said he had an AC30 mounted in a Marshall cabinet.  Nobody ever saw this.... Nobody.  People swear that they see it in old videos and circle it and point arrows at it.  What they see is actually a Marshall reverb unit that he would bash with his guitar to make a glorious noise.  Ritchie also used to say that his Majors had extra output tubes and that they produced over 400 watts....  Ah no.  For Machine Head he was using the Major with the latest mods from Marshall.  The sag he is talking about was from the mod and I was sworn to secrecy.  Yes Ritchie finger picked the riff, but this guy is doing it all wrong!  Ritchie was VERY percussive with this riff using his thumb and three fingers almost in a popping bass player motion.  His thumb naturally dropped between the E and A and that is where you get that fingernail squawk before he picks the chord.

Other than that, he was right! rookie....

Jim

[Ritchie200]

Look at 2:00 on.

Jim

[SILVERGUN]

Or this

[Ed_Chambley]

No no no no no no NO!  All wrong!  First, too much distortion.  Not enough mid.  Not enough bass.  No he was not using the treble booster.  He had given that up a little over a year before.  No he was not using the Awai, that was to come in another 3 years with MKIII.  He hadn't used a Revox since the 60's.  The Vox thing has been floated for years ever since Ritchie said he had an AC30 mounted in a Marshall cabinet.  Nobody ever saw this.... Nobody.  People swear that they see it in old videos and circle it and point arrows at it.  What they see is actually a Marshall reverb unit that he would bash with his guitar to make a glorious noise.  Ritchie also used to say that his Majors had extra output tubes and that they produced over 400 watts....  Ah no.  For Machine Head he was using the Major with the latest mods from Marshall.  The sag he is talking about was from the mod and I was sworn to secrecy.  Yes Ritchie finger picked the riff, but this guy is doing it all wrong!  Ritchie was VERY percussive with this riff using his thumb and three fingers almost in a popping bass player motion.  His thumb naturally dropped between the E and A and that is where you get that fingernail squawk before he picks the chord.

Other than that, he was right! rookie....

Jim

Took the bait I see!


Tim says he is not sure, so go post and correct him.


And of course it is too much Distortion.  Blackmore was so loud that the treble notes he played after the bass notes arrived at you ears first.  That is why he has that tone of his.


Really, just puching a cranked marshall is about 10% and 5% in the fingers and 85% for being a Pilgram.

[Ed_Chambley]

Look at 2:00 on.

Jim

I play it with my thumb too.  2 songs I posted.  This and Ice Cream Man.  Remember, "most" everyone I play with think I only play country.  Well, if you played before 77, you had to know Smoke and take part sometimes to be cool.  Then after 77, Eddie sort of took the reigns.


To this day to be able to play either of these solos, if I forget to run through them once every couple of weeks I have to play along with the songs a couple of times.  I guess I am getting to old to remember the order of the parts.


I have never forgotten the last bend in smoke.  That is KEWL!

[Ritchie200]

I know he said he was telling what he knew and that's cool.  It's good to see people younger than me with some interest!  I have no desire to post anything to correct him as the tools will come out of the woodwork.  That's why I don't go on the Marshall forum any more.  Nope I'm more than happy coming here and torturing you guys!

Jim

[Ritchie200]

SG nobody wants to see a video of you in your jammies sitting on your bed playing an acoustic to the best of your ability.....  I think your theory and lead scales are coming along just fine though.

Jim