And you play, the soul of the music has to come out. When you play, you play with bad intentions. You don't have to have a five figure vintage guitar. Joe Bonamassa: You listen to Hound Dog Taylor, that's organic guitar playing, his stuff is just raw and, it's like Teisco Del Rey's through Univox amps, cheap junk, but the passion is there, and it would just transcend the instrument. That's an integral part of the sound, it's this like symbiotic relationship between guitar and the amp, speakers, all creating the sound. The 11s bark the amps harder, so that it hits them harder in the front. And because now I use pretty much a natural overdrive, I don't have a pedal board, it's just two pedals taped to the floor, and then most of the sound is derived from the amplifiers. I’m not sure what factory made this Del Rey EV3T guitar, but it wasn’t Teisco and it wasn’t Kawai. In fact, many of these later Del Rey branded guitars weren’t Kawai-built Teisco guitars. simply stopped exclusively using Kawai-built Teisco guitars to carry the Del Rey name. Joe Bonamassa: Unfortunately, the way I play, I need some more resistance, especially live, because as you start getting your adrenaline going, you need more resistance, so the 11s work for me. &0183 &32 The Del Rey name was used by the W.M.I. I think they sound better with 10s, by ear and they just have that thing, that classic sound that I heard on records, is a 10. Joe Bonamassa: I prefer the sound of a Les Paul with a set of 10s. Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S. 30 bucks is half a tank of gas in a Ford Econoline Van. &0183 &32 Teisco guitars sold in the United States were badged 'Teisco Del Rey' beginning in 1964. Back when I was making $50 a night touring in a van, I would go to music stores and try to haggle and buy a 10 pack for 30 bucks, because I knew the dead cost on a set of strings. Now I'm very fortunate that people like are generous to me, they give me strings for free. Joe Bonamassa: I've always played the Slinky, Nickel, 11 to 48, used to buy them in the packs.
Joe Bonamassa: The legacy of Ernie Ball, I mean, going with Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, and when you start reading the roster that's been using Ernie ball since day one, since the 60s. And it's not this particular guitar, it's just anything with six strings bolted onto ash and maple. But it's like, it just feels like familiar, I feel like I've known it my whole life. This is an old guitar, but it was made before I was born. You know what I mean? Like it's so comfortable and it's so familiar. Joe Bonamassa: But like this thing has always been around. My father also ran a shop in the 90s so I kind of grew up in a guitar shop. And my father played guitars in bands, and he always let me play his guitars, but he knew that I needed my own. I thought it was Santa Claus, but turned out it was my mom and dad. Joe Bonamassa: My father gave me my first guitar for Christmas. I love it, and I wake up every day excited to play. It's defined my life for the last 35 years.
I've been around guitars, in guitar shops, played them, sold them, bought them. Joe Bonamassa: Guitar playing to me has been something that I've done for 35 years.
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