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Old 04-03-2009, 12:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Guitarist that once had great tone-but now is different or just plain bad.

Leslie West.

I loved his tone and vibrato in the Mountain days. But later on - the 'Theme' album is a great case in point - he started using the Westone guitars with a Floyd and fell in love with his whammy bar.

West has one of the greatest natural vibratos I've ever hear, bar none. To hear him replace it with a synthetic-sounding whammy vibrato kills it for me.

- D
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