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Originally Posted by StrangerNY
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.
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Have you checked out those three blues / blues rock albums he's put out within the last several years (Blues to Die For, Got Blooze, and Blue Me)? On the cover of Blue Me, you can see the headstock of the LP Junior he's holding, and on the inside / back cover of Blues to Die For, you see a LP Junior proudly displayed (albeit with a tune-a-matic bridge) leaning against his amp). That material is heavily sprinkled with some good Leslie West grind on a Les Paul Junior, as in "Why I Sing the Blues" and "I'm Ready" from Blues to Die For. Wonderfully full notes with plenty of sustain and huge vibrato.