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Obviously only a gig fee.

 

At the PRS experience this weekend. I got the pic from the PRS (B&M) forum.

 

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Here's the video.

 

I must admit he sounds better than his Strat and his playing is better than I have heard recently!

 

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Here is the final one with Buddy really struggling to jam with Santana. Does he even know what key the song's in? Carlos sounds GREAT though!

 

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Sounded great and a highlight for me out of all of the shows so far.

The PRS amps sound great. He was playing the 305 through a PRS amp.

Zappa plays Zappa used PRS as well.

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Isn't the 305 sorta the PRS version of a Strat? I'll admit, I'm very interested in how that model sounds live. Enjoyed what there was of that video.

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Isn't the 305 sorta the PRS version of a Strat? I'll admit, I'm very interested in how that model sounds live. Enjoyed what there was of that video.

 

Yea, me too!

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Now that i own H 150 Strat of sorts, and i was just telling John how i would never buy another Fender strat....i'm really excited to get into that tripple single coil Heritage and really broaden my horizons

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Here's the video.

 

I must admit he sounds better than his Strat and his playing is better than I have heard recently!

 

I thought the tone was thin and raspy. Yuch.

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I thought the tone was thin and raspy. Yuch.

 

Buddy, even with his Strats, has gone to that ear piercing high end. Especially when he went to HIGH gain.

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Buddy, even with his Strats, has gone to that ear piercing high end. Especially when he went to HIGH gain.

Probably has to do with hearing loss.... sounds good to him... :o

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Probably has to do with hearing loss.... sounds good to him... :o

Probably. We had a steel player that only played on the higher end and with his Highs cranked. After a few weeks we decided he was hard of hearing. Unless he was looking right at you he wouldn't hear a thing you said.

 

Then the other day at a country jam I got up to play and noticed the guitar player (using a Strat) had the bass at (0), the mids at (5) and the highs at (10) on his Marshall MGD or whatever that amp is. No wonder it hurt!! I put it all back at (5), turned the gain down to about (4) and proceeded to play. When he got back up he left my settings. Sounded pretty dandy, then.

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Buddy, even with his Strats, has gone to that ear piercing high end. Especially when he went to HIGH gain.

Yeah, could be hearing loss. I love his tone in the early days. But then Buddy's always been and in-your-face kinda player so he's almost always going for an in-your-face tone.

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How old is buddy any way, cut the guy some slack..

 

I agree. The dude is the hub upon which modern guitar music turns. This from a guy that kills himslef trying to banish every hint of the blues from his playing, no matter where I turn, there's Buddy Guy saying, "So you thought you could get away, junior?"

 

Buddy is my Darth Vader.

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Hold the phone, fellas!!

 

Here's another shot of Buddy Guy playin' his brand new PRS Buddy Guy Signature. Maybe even he got tired of that piercing, polka dot Strat. Maybe his contract with Fender ran out and PRS jumped in with a big check.

 

 

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IMO.... there would not have been a Jimi Hendrix , without a Buddy Guy. Jimi idolized him and copied much from him.... IMO

 

and this is Stevie Ray Vaughan meant when he said, "Without Buddy Guy, there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan."

 

Clapton, who's not prone to hyperbole, insisted in a 1985 Musician magazine article that "Buddy Guy is by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive...

 

Sorry , this really isn't a Heritage topic, eh... still my 2 cents worth.... Oh and he's 73 y.o.

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IMO.... there would not have been a Jimi Hendrix , without a Buddy Guy. Jimi idolized him and copied much from him.... IMO

 

and this is Stevie Ray Vaughan meant when he said, "Without Buddy Guy, there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan."

 

Clapton, who's not prone to hyperbole, insisted in a 1985 Musician magazine article that "Buddy Guy is by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive...

 

Sorry , this really isn't a Heritage topic, eh... still my 2 cents worth.... Oh and he's 73 y.o.

 

+1

 

but there are some hot shot kids coming up

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