I am willing to bet how they wished that they had boutique gear to better express TONE IS IN THE HEART. Kung ganoon ka ka-bilib sa kanila, gamitin mo ngayon ang [gooey brown stuff] na gamit nila... Walk the talk.
Jeezus, don't you have anything other than a sledgehammer in your toolbox?
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I'm with you. My favorite blues players have the s#)tt)@$t guitars ever but made the most influential music of the 20th century.
Elmore James with the cheapest Kay acoustic with a so-so pickup jammed in the soundhole.
Robert Johnson with a low end Kalamazoo flat top acoustic.
Leadbelly with a 12 string plywood topped Stella.
Hound Dog Taylor with those stinky Japanese guitars on a broken tube amp.
Blind Blake again with a Stella.
Even some of the greatest music ever recorded sounded so-so. Ever heard of Motown?
The guitar on that video has an ok tone. But if that played clean, it cannot make a good sound. Nonetheless, the guys has impressive chops and it comes across clearly to me.
Good tone is subjective and need not be expensive.
I've been recently listening to Son House and Robert Johnson. I know what you mean. But don't you think they would have gotten out of their way to use better instruments for recording if they could afford them?
I took my girlfriend out to lunch yesterday, and there was this guitar quartet serenading customers. They played cheap, beat-up instruments that were definitely poorly tuned. But they did their thing pretty well despite that. On the other hand, I am really sure they wouldn't mind using nicer guitars.
What I am really tired of seeing, hearing and reading is how some people use these examples as excuses and be even more defensive about their gear because they're poor or whatnot. Eto yung mga tao na pag nakakita ng member na nag-post ng matinding amp, e ang banat agad e...
wow ang yaman mo sir. O kaya pag humingi ng suggestions about a pedal or something... you suggest something really good, tapos sasagutin ka pa ng pabalagbag tapos sesegundahan ng...
mahirap lang po ako sir... Ugh.
And that is what bothers me: the quotes and stories enabling the attitude of these people rarely tell the whole story of things.