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- This magic guitar-and-amp combination happened by chance in 1971. It started because Pete Townshend and friend Joe Walsh kept gifting gear to each other — swapping synths for guitars.
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Jul 8, 2019 · Instead, his main guitar rig on classic Who albums like Who’s Next and Quadrophenia was a 1959 Gretsch 6120 plugged into a 1959 Fender Bandmaster amp. Townshend revealed the details behind this rig to me in a Guitar Player magazine interview in 1993.
- What Guitar/Amp Was That?
- Take A Listen
- Re-Creating The Tone
- Don Carr About The Rig
- Don Carr About The Performance
- Other Gear We Used
- Mic Placement
- Let’s Hear from Pete Townshend Himself
- Conclusion
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Some of the classic Who songs like “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Bargain,” and “Behind Blue Eyes” (all from Who’s next, which was recorded 50 years ago), along with the album Quadrophenia, featured an unlikely guitar and amp combo — one you would never suspect. When I first heard about it, I honestly didn’t believe it. This magic guita...
So, could we duplicate that classic guitar tone today? Armed with all that info, Don Carr, Shawn Dealey, and I gathered up some gear, and here’s the guitar tone we came up with — inspired by Townshend’s guitar part on “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” Before diving deep into the gear we chose, take a listen. You’ll hear the original recording intercut with...
To try to mimic that amazing tone, we started where the historical road map led us and grabbed a Gretsch 6120 (Don Carr’s own personal 2015 ’59 reissue) and an amazing facsimile of the Fender Bandmaster, the Dr. Z Z-Master. (Read more about the fascinating history of how Joe Walsh had this amp built at the bottom of this article). Just like Townshe...
Carr: The guitar-and-amp combination are unique, each with their own idiosyncrasies. The Gretsch 6120 sounds like a Gibson ES-175 meets a Fender Telecaster: a big hollowbody with a floating bridge and plenty of snap. Filter’Tron pickups are a large part of that equation, but so is the guitar’s construction. An all-maple body with trestle bracing ma...
Carr: Anyone that’s ever tried to play a Pete Townshend song or riff knows that the picking/strumming is critical. Pete’s right-hand technique is not only vicious and aggressive but also nimble and deadly accurate. Even something as straightforward as “Won’t Get Fooled Again” requires a specific attitude and finesse to approximate; let’s call it bo...
According to Glyn Johns, when remembering the tracking session for “Won’t Get Fooled Again” at Stargroves: Johns:We were recording at Mick [Jagger]’s house, Stargroves near Newbury, and I’m outside in the studio truck, playing in the synthesiser and hearing them locked relentlessly on the beat right through the song. I was blown away. I knew it was...
With the historical record, putting together the right guitar gear seemed almost too easy. Then we started experimenting with mic placement. That was a different story. We excitedly started with the mic in a typical position, and the sound was . . . wrong. With the U 67 centered on the Z-Master cabinet, we found that mic distance had a huge impact ...
After we finished the recording, I was delighted with the results. But coming up with that iconic guitar tone seemed almost too easy. Even after all my research, reading scores of Townshend interviews over the years, I still had questions about the session that took place 50 years ago and how it all came together back then. So, I decided to go stra...
What a wonderful project this was. As a Who fan since the 1970s, the chance to re-create Pete Townshend’s iconic tone and even to correspond with the legend himself was truly a “once in a lifetime” event.
Here are other interesting articles in our Iconic Guitar Tones series that you may want to explore: 1. Iconic Guitar Tones: AC/DC’s “Back in Black” 2. Iconic Guitar Tones: John Mayer’s “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” Footnotes 1. https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8652.0 2. http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/fenderbandmaster....
Jul 21, 2016 · While most of the dirt on the Live at Leeds guitar tone comes from cranking the living daylights out of the Hiwatts, there are some points where Pete Townshend will kick on a Univox Super Fuzz, an old germanium diode-equipped fuzz pedal that has achieved near mythic status in the last couple of years, garnering very high prices on the used market.
Mar 10, 2019 · The Who frontman Roger Daltrey explained why bandmate Pete Townshend became known for smashing guitars at the end of shows, saying it had nothing to do with the visual aspect of the...
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6 days ago · The guitarist who “changed our view of the world”, according to Pete Townshend. Arun Starkey. Mon 23 September 2024 14:00, UK. Pete Townshend played a vital role in his generation changing the dimension of music. Rock ‘n’ roll was no longer just the puckish passion of young folks, but now it was rock music, the opiate of the masses and ...
Mar 11, 2010 · The Premier Guitar Pete Townshend interview: Why he''s playing Eric Clapton Strats; his favorite instruments for home and studio; leaving Marshalls behind; hearing loss; and the future.
In part one of the 1968 interview, Townshend spoke about his guitar smashing techniques, why he does it, the mod revolution in England and narrated the story of his next record, which...
