Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:49 pm

If it was a Kanye West signature strat you'd only be able to play other people's tunes on it and even then they'd all sound the same.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:06 pm

I make it a general rule of thumb not to listen to guitarists that only other guitarists listen to, though with KWS the fact that his original claim to fame was "being young" is sort of the deal-sealer.

Nice to see he's got his own John Mayer sig now though.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:07 pm

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:53 pm

Exactly. Who are these people? Dick Dale's should have been at least 20 years ago. I would hit that. I wonder if he mods his. I think he can play it with the strings on upside down. Srsly

Skip · Post by **Skip** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:41 am

artist models are tough to fathom
i like to make guitars my own
and i don't want someone else's name on my guitar
plus i really don't believe they are exactly what those guys use

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:37 am

Mike wrote:Who?

In the arly nineties he kind of took over as the big, modern blues guitarist after Stevie Ray Vaughan died, although has often been criticised for how similar his style is to SRV's, who he took a huge amount of influence from.

He's not great. Imagine SRV, except pro-toolsed up the wazoo.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:43 pm

DGNR8 wrote:Exactly. Who are these people? Dick Dale's should have been at least 20 years ago. I would hit that. I wonder if he mods his. I think he can play it with the strings on upside down. Srsly

He only plays with the strings upside down. He plays left handed, but the guitar is strung like a righty. He learned to play on a right handed guitar but never bothered to restring it like a lefty. I have no idea how it's even possible to finger a chord with the strings upside down.

You can see some close ups of his fretting hand in this video.

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robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:57 pm

that video was amazing, ireally need to re-buy the dick dale i had on tape into cd.