JoeB63
01-04-2004, 11:20 PM
I posted on this topic on "The Gear Forum," so forgive the cross-post if you go to that forum as well as this one -- but since I played my Anderson Classic on the gig, I think it deserved posting here too.
Last night my band opened for Jimmie Vaughan at a fund raiser.
Anyway, there were about 150 people there in a pretty small room with a small, high stage. We spent the better part of the afternoon getting our stuff set-up around JV's stuff and hanging out with his people. At 6:15 a jazz band played for an hour during dinner. After dinner we took the stage, and....
... they loved us! Pretty wild applause - it was nice to have an audience that came to see/hear music, rather than just being background noise for drunks and drunks-to-be. We played an hour-long set and then cleared our stuff out of the way for Jimmie.
After our set we got to spend some time chatting backstage with Jimmie and we got a picture of him with our band. (I'll try to post it here as soon as my bass player sends it to me).
Here's something interesting: They held a silent auction for a Fender JV signature model guitar. These are pretty inexpensive Mexican-made Strats. Anyway, before they gave it away, they brought it out on stage and JV played two songs on it. There was a clear difference in tone between JV playing his own JV guitar and this off-the-rack model. The give-away guitar was thin, thin, thin. Clearly JV is not using the stock Fender Tex-mex pick-ups in his own guitar. Interesting, but not surprising I guess.
For the tone-minded, I played my Anderson Classic (Strat) through my Two Rock Custom Reverb and it sounded damn good to me. JV played his Strat through a Victoria Combo and sounded, well, like JV. Good, but somewhat thin, slightly dirty tone. He spends too much time on the bridge pickup (or maybe he needs a better bridge pickup). But it's a good tone for what he does.
All-in-all, a really great night. One that makes the tinnitus worth it!
Last night my band opened for Jimmie Vaughan at a fund raiser.
Anyway, there were about 150 people there in a pretty small room with a small, high stage. We spent the better part of the afternoon getting our stuff set-up around JV's stuff and hanging out with his people. At 6:15 a jazz band played for an hour during dinner. After dinner we took the stage, and....
... they loved us! Pretty wild applause - it was nice to have an audience that came to see/hear music, rather than just being background noise for drunks and drunks-to-be. We played an hour-long set and then cleared our stuff out of the way for Jimmie.
After our set we got to spend some time chatting backstage with Jimmie and we got a picture of him with our band. (I'll try to post it here as soon as my bass player sends it to me).
Here's something interesting: They held a silent auction for a Fender JV signature model guitar. These are pretty inexpensive Mexican-made Strats. Anyway, before they gave it away, they brought it out on stage and JV played two songs on it. There was a clear difference in tone between JV playing his own JV guitar and this off-the-rack model. The give-away guitar was thin, thin, thin. Clearly JV is not using the stock Fender Tex-mex pick-ups in his own guitar. Interesting, but not surprising I guess.
For the tone-minded, I played my Anderson Classic (Strat) through my Two Rock Custom Reverb and it sounded damn good to me. JV played his Strat through a Victoria Combo and sounded, well, like JV. Good, but somewhat thin, slightly dirty tone. He spends too much time on the bridge pickup (or maybe he needs a better bridge pickup). But it's a good tone for what he does.
All-in-all, a really great night. One that makes the tinnitus worth it!