John5: I Bet You Can Play This

After watching this video, John5 actually made me feel like could play those runs.  To me, he teaches well on video, just like Paul Gilbert and Scott Henderson.

No, I won’t pay Yngwie Malmsteen to teach me even if I won the lottery and thus had enough money to pay him.  Hahaha.  Sorry, Mr. Malmsteen.

Boss DS-1 Fat Mod

This is a Boss DS-1 mod from www.muzique.com. 

http://www.muzique.com/news/?p=95

I wonder if this idea can be applied to my crappy Lazer distortion pedal, which sounds better than stock with more mids but still fuzzy sounding.

The Digitech RP500: Interesting!

I really wonder what it would be like to own this.  Check out the details here:

http://www.digitech.com/products/RP500/index.php

The Boss DD-7: Yummy!

Sorry, people.  I hope this video won’t make you want to get rid of your digital delay pedal for this one.  Well, it sure would be nice to own one of these puppies.

Steve’s Real Tone

To me, Steve Lukather’s tone has changed over the years, from his wailing, sustaining mid-rangey sound to one with more bass and high ends and significantly lowered mids (scooped sound, if you will), then lately back to one that’s reminiscent of his melodic and haunting guitar solos that have become a Toto trademark.

The couple of videos I have presented thus far represent a small sampling size of Luke’s guitar tone.  I don’t know, but I could almost be certain that Steve Stevens (remember the Top Gun theme, son?) had a huge influence on Steve Lukather at that point of his career and at the time I was really into Luke’s guitar playing (nah, I can’t sing like him).  Well, try to find some of Lukather’s pics at the time: the hair, earrings, and guitar sound — they will remind you of the other Steve.

Here’s a video of Lukather singing and soloing on George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."  That’s the Lukather tone I should’ve tried to emulate during my gigging days.