Famous records featuring the Stratocaster

[dietcookie]

dave gilmour

[vvv]

Did somebody already mention Trower?

Rory Gallagher?

Thin Lizzy?

[Piotr]

Oh yeah, Dark Side of the Moon...what was the album with Learning to Fly??

[Piotr]

Oh, what about some Steely Dan?

[lonesome_tone]

Pavement - indeed a strat for the majority of the stuff... later on Stephen picked up a Les Paul w/ p90s but it's kinda remarkable how similar the sounds really were ... especially through that Orange...

Television - Richard Lloyd, being that much more conventional of a player, stuck to strats and teles while tom dicked around with Jags/Jazzmasters - case in point: when I saw them, he was playing a Jazzmaster body, with a later, block inlay, limegreen Jaguar neck, and with lipstick pickups (!!!).

Sidenote: Marquee Moon to me sounds like the ultimate Fender Twin Reverb album-- so does Slanted at times. I think that amp with make just about anything chime like a strat.

Thin Lizzy - Sounds like Les Pauls all the way! I kinda remember the back of the Jailbreak album showing both guitar players sporting Les Paul Custom Black Beauties, but I could be wrong.

Big Star - #1 Record has many, to me, Les Paul moments with lots and lots of 12 string as well. Radio City has a definite switch to the Strat sound. The live album that someone mentioned- I'm not so sure. Another live document from around the same time (Norton records' issued 'Nobody Can Dance' or something to that effect) has a picture of Alex with a Firebird and they both sound a little more Gibson.. especially during the solos.

One of my favorite Strat players is Adrian Belew-- have you ever heard those sounds from any other strat, ever??

Jonathan Richman indeed played a Strat with the Modern Lovers and onward, but mostly acoustic these days. He plays a Rickenbacker for the part right before getting shot in Something About Mary.

[lonesome_tone]

Oh I believe another tasty beatles song that features the dueling Strats is 'And Your Bird Can Sing.' Careful listening reveals that it's not, as many would believe, a 12 string.

[bobbydj]

and Bob Mould.

Yeah - Sugar.

[supafuzz]

lowell george little feat

les paul{just kidding]

[Piotr]

Green Day - Dookie

Alice in Chains - Facelift?

Super Sonic Soul Pimps

Maktub - Khronos


I have an American Texas Fat Strat myself...

[NewYorkDave]

And all the early Motorhead records featured a strat with a humbucker in the bridge position, which happens to be my own favorite strat config.

[Paul Fury 161]

Hi yallz.As somebody who spends a lot of time becoming a guitar anorak, I can say with authority there are definitely no strats on Alice In Chains Facelift or Cream Disraeli Gears. AIC was something US with a floyd (G&L? I forget, but he always played the same model anyway) and Disraeli Gears was all gibsons - Psychedilc SG, 335, Flametop Les Paul.

Sorry for the interruption - carry on ;-p

take it easy,

Paul Fury 161

[Rodgre]

okay, I'll get shot for this....

the rhythm track in Sweet Home Alabama is the obvious 2nd position on a strat.

Ike Turner. Curtis Mayfield.

Richard Thompson is a great strat guy. Dick Dale is one of the surf guys who definitely uses a strat, but many others are Jazzmasters and Jaguars. Thin Lizzy is definitely Les Pauls.

David Gilmour did a lot of stratting. The solo in Another Brick in the Wall is a very neck-pickup stratty tone.

These are all obvious ones. Sorry.

Roger

[Scodiddly]

I think Zappa tended to use Gibson-type guitars more often that Strats, but that may be "early years" stuff.

Definitely Adrian Belew as a Strat player, and he's all over 80-90's hits. I keep stumbling across albums he guested on...

Most of the earlier Red Hot Chili Peppers, very distinctive Strat sounds.

Buddy Guy.

[phalex]

Didn't the David Byrne and the Talking Heads use Strats almost exclusively?

[JGriffin]

I dunno about "famous," but Steve Rothery uses a Strat on Marillion's "Clutching at Straws." Some beautiful playing on that album.