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just watched the Newport 1960 Muddy footage, now available on DVD along with a couple of other concerts from later eras. Great footage. It looks like he's playing a Gibson amp in the Newport era and a Super after that. But he's Muddy Waters -- you could put him through a Hiwatt stack or a transistor radio and he'd still sound great.
The only other Guitarists IMHO who take a solo as sweetly are Charlie Christian and Magic Sam. I used to follow The Muddy Waters Band around as a teenager just to hear Luther cut for 30 seconds, decades later I heard "Get Out On The Floor" and looked for who cut it for two and a half years as I only heard it from "the break". It was Luther.
I have noticed this about Buddy Guy before. Am I hearing things? I watched "A Tribute to Muddy Waters" last night. It was recorded in 1998. Charlie Musselwhite, Koko Taylor, GE Smith, on and on. Buddy Guy plays. Like so many other times I hear him play, he seems to bend notes either under or over where the seem to "fit".
And before there was a thing called Delmark there was the mighty fountainhead called Chess from which came the genius of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy, Howlin Wolf, Otis Rush and so many more. and so on & so forth back to WC Handy and Geechee Wiley. A long way of saying I don't have one favorite or even 20 favorites.
I was ganged up on by two members the other day. They angrily DEMAND that I stop playing this Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf crap that NOBODY knows, and NOBODY wants to hear (but me) and play more Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and crowd pleaser stuff. The bassist want's to do a rap tune. They ALL want to include Parliament/Funkadelic in the repertoire.
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King -- None of these guys played so technically. They played what they felt and rocked the house. Joe B. - to quote an old guitar teacher of mine, who didn't like the soullessness but technical precision of Japanese shredders - is all technique and technical prowess.
Nashville, TN. homesick345 said: glass is maybe warmer, chrome maybe brighter. I like both, brass is in-between and sounds great. Open E is great cause it's easy! Middle finger to wear the slide, gives a lot of control, & you can also fret & mute, etc.. But there is no rule, really, just what works for you.
When I turned 16 in 1985 my dad gave me his Chevette which had a cassette player. On my first day out I drove my punk rock/metal buddies to East Town Mall in Madison WI. I found Muddy Waters' Hard Again in a cassette cutout bin for fifty cents. That was a game changer and is has remained in regular rotation to this day.
Tonewise, not really the same. The later GA40s have some kind of dark magic going on, a denser, hotter sound somehow than the Fender. Neither one is better; they're just different. The Fender would certainly have the better tremolo, if that's the deciding point for you. A friend of mine has the Trem de la Trem.
Here's the Muddy Waters band in Newport in 1960 or so: Guitar amp looks like a tweed pro / super? Muddy's playing through a two-tone Gibson, Cotton's got what looks to be a tweed bassman, and the bass player looks like he's playing through something off the wall.