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National Steel Standard Johnny’s favourite guitar for slide/bottleneck work, first shown on the “Progressive Blues Experiment”. These models will honk and talk with the best of them.

#JOHNNY WINTER FIREBIRD V PLUS#

The ’50’s Tele has an ash body, vintage ’50’s pickups and optional gold hardware, The ’60’s Telecaster Custom has a alder body, bound top and back, Texas Tele pickups, plus gold hardware and custom color options. The classic ’50’s and ’60’s Telecasters conjure up images of early Rock & Roll and Country music. Even in the rough shape that this one appears to be in, they are still worth a large amount of money.įender Mustang – Fender’s premiere sound and quality live on in these classic models that were the heart of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s electric guitar movement.įender Telecaster I’m not sure whether Johnny actually used the Fender Telecaster, but he is playing it on the inner sleeve photos of “The Johnny Winter Story”. Up until they came out with the Le Grand, no other Gibson had those except for a special model of the Les Paul that you almost never see. You can always tell a 400 from the lower models because of the split block inlays. The Super 400 was the top of the line rich man’s guitar and is 18″ wide. It’s harder to indentify because of the pickguard missing. On some of the tracks of the album “Hey where’s your brother”, Johnny plays an: It’s an old Super 400 Gibson! The truss rod cover being on backwards is supposed to be funny. The Gibson Firebirds were followed by the Erlewine Lazerįor slide Johnny uses his old ’63 Gibson Firebird. Johnny Winter’s Guitars usedĭuring his “And Live” period, he played the Firebird into 3 stacked Fender Twin Reverbs with JBL speakers. At first, I tried to pull on those big, fat Gibson strings with a Bigsby tremolo because that’s how I thought they were doing those bends.” Nowadays Johnny uses slightly heavier gauge strings and tunes each string down a whole step (Lowest to highest: D, G, C, F, A and D). “After everyone figured out what was going on, the lighter gauges cam out. Others would substitute a high G banjo string or a high A pedal steel string for the high E and then move everything else down, putting the high E where the B normally is and the B where the G normally is, and so forth. Some would replace the G string with a second B string. I found out later that a lot of blues guitarists were switching strings around. In those days they weren’t making lighter gauge strings. “I was just using heavy Gibson Sonomatic strings, which were almost impossible to move.

#JOHNNY WINTER FIREBIRD V HOW TO#

If he uses fingers for fretting, he keeps the slide a fair distance from the neck to avoid accidentally coming in contact with the strings.īefore I learned how to bend strings, I heard people do that on records, but I didn’t know how they were doing it” he said.

When playing slide, he mutes the strings behind the slide with his first three fingers. When playing anything that requires a wide finger stretch, Winter rotates his thumb behind the neck. Johnny Winter Poster for D’Addario Guitar Strings Guitar strap: PR gimmick from No.1 Guitars in Hamburg, Germany (best shop in Europe, I swear), a little flexible number that you can pull down right to your knees.Effects: MXR phase 90s, Boss C-E2 chorus (setttings), Tube Screamer – only used during slide work on the Firebird.In addtion to the 2 amps that have 4 10′ speakers (one is a stand-by, “on” but not used unless problems occur) there is usually a 2 12′ “one-thirty” on stage in case it sounds better in the venue.

( that is the model name and the power rating ) They employ 4 E元4 power tubes and 1 12AX7 as a splitter/driver. The Music Man amps Johnny uses are designated “one-thirty”. Amplifier: 2 x Music Man, 200 watts, 4×10″.Guitars: Erlewine Lazer, Gibson Firebird for slide work.Neck width 1st fret 4.28498 cm / 1.Photo of Johnny Winter’s most popular gear, Gibson Firebird, Lazer Guitar, Chorus Pedal and MusicMan amplifier Solid indian Rosewood fingerboard, 22 Historic Medium-Jumbo frets 9-ply Mahogany/Walnut Neck-Through body, Authentic '64 Medium C profile GIBSON Custom Shop Murphy Lab Johnny Winter 1964 Firebird V Right-handed / left-hand : right-handed

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