![]() ![]() If you like what you saw, click on any of the pedal links in the list below to pick up your own right here on Reverb. For solos, Joe generally plugged into a smooth overdrive with a lot of sustain, and for mimicking Prince's synth parts, Joe got creative with the Synth9 from Electro-Harmonix.īe sure to check out the full video above to watch Joe recreate Prince hits like "Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy," "I Wanna Be Your Lover," and more. A lot of the tunes covered in the video above feature multiple guitar parts, and to approximate those tones (and a few bass tones as well), Joe relied on a lengthy list stompboxes belonging to almost every classification.Ĭlassics like the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver and MXR M-291 Dyna Comp Mini made multiple appearances, as did Fender's Marine Layer Reverb and the Philosopher's Tone Germanium Gold Micro by Pigtronix. His slick stage move at 4:43 and his guitar face at 5:05 are as enjoyable as anything he plays.and he plays up a storm. From that point on, the show is entirely his. This new tone is one of the main reasons I am really digging 3rdeye and I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this subject.Complementary to his eclectic and flamboyant style is his genre-bending music, in which you can hear elements of funk, pop, rock, R&B, soul, psychedelia, and even new wave. Prince made nearly half of his records using Boogie amps, and one of the first brand-new additions to his rig was Peavey’s Delta Blues. Though Prince is onstage the entire time, he stands off to the side until the end, when he takes center stage. This is a Prince queote from a article by: Jon Bream, Star Tribune, May 16, 2013: ![]() With other players they just seem to copy his playing in a Casio kind of way, but with Donna she seems to channel Prince's playing style mixed with her own feel. Of all Prince's past guitar players at this point I think Donna is the best compliment to Prince's guitar playing. Looking back at some work of hers before 3rdeye she was really influenced with that 60's 70's Rock and Roll guitar sound and playing style. For people who don't know pedal collecting and knowing the different tones and functions of effects pedals is endless OCD/addiction, geek out mania land. Also I would see pics with her on the ground tweaking/playing with the pedals and I thought hard core pedal addict. It resembles the symbol that Prince changed his name to and was introduced around the same time as the name change. It was built for Prince by the luthier Jerry Auerswald, who also made the Model C guitar and Cleo bass. When I would see any pictures of her set up she usually had not one but three pedal boards and with like 20 pedals deep on each board. The Auerswald Symbol Guitar is an electric guitar used by Prince in the mid-1990s. It has a bar connecting the body to the headstock, called a 'sustain bow' - like the Roland G-707, also used by Prince. It was built by the luthier Jerry Auerswald, who also built the Symbol guitar and Cleo bass. Now my theory is "Donna!" and the intro of 3rd eye Girl is when the tone changed. The Auerswald Model C is an electric guitar used by Prince in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I have read stories that Prince was not that concerned with switching up pedals for sound rather was more about the feel of his playing. This (Boss pedal board) may have been a fine sound/tone for the 80's but has been one of the reasons in my opinion that his sound started sounding stale/thin as time went by. To what I understand and I may be wrong but Prince seemed to use mainly an all Boss pedal board for years. ![]()
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