you're playing it wrong!

[Sgt.]

I am enjoying the last few issues of Guitar Player, specifically the "You're Playing It Wrong!" page. There's been Money by Pink Floyd, Last Time by The Stones, and recently Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix. Yeah amidst all the mishmash sounds from the recording how do you figure out or isolate the guitar track to reproduce it accurately? The way it 'feels' when it's played right seems to me to be signature Jimi Hendrix. When you play a particular artist's music on guitar the way it sounds and the way it feels is different from what you'd expect it to be ... When learning Gilmour parts I find a learning curve there too, and Brian Jones' technique gave The Stones a unique sound. Without real tab or artist testimony how do we know? Or in fact how to reproduce the subtle 'mistakes' that give some of these pieces their character. Oh yeah, interesting to find that the guitar solo on Purple Haze was actually played on a tele borrowed from Noel Redding! (from. Gibson.com)

 

I'm still baffled by early Ritchie Blackmore Deep Purple. How were those huge crazy guitar bends achieved? Slackning treble strings? Litest guage strings? I want to know!!!! Particularly evidenced on Shades of Deep Purple, I think I read Blackmore used a Gibson ES on early recordings and was not the strat used on Machine Head. Could it be I'm still dumbfounded by a piece like Mandrake Root enough to not even consider those 'crazy bends' are whammy bends with a strat.!? Yeah it drove me crazy trying to replicate that on an lp ... duh! O man o man.