Re: I Want A Strat And A Marshall

Pete Kerezman wrote:

> >Dickie Betts is good tone.   Billy Gibbons
> >(pre-Eliminator) is good tone.  But Clapton?  Not to my ears

> If it wasn't for Clapton's Cream Betts and Gibbons wouldn't *have*
> tone.

I disagree.  Mr. Betts was well into Les Paul / SG into turned up Marshalls
and Fenders as Cream were doing their Creamy thing.  I do agree with you
that those Cream records were the shizzle on monizzle about tone and all
that for a lot of people, but there were also folks doing similar at around
the same time, folks that had not listened to any of that stuff at all.
Blackmore was certainly diming amps and shoving strats and 335s into them by
that time.  Don't know about Gibbons, but being around the same age as the
other two, wouldn't surprise me.  I don't know what he used with Moving
Sidewalks or whatever them guys were.
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rct
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