John Scofield's Tone: Classic Sound or Some Ol Bullshit

He's the prime mover on Miles' only listenable output in the 80s, for whatever that's worth. I've never heard him on his own.

I only have Hand Jive. I haven't listened to it much, but the booklet has lots of pictures of him making weird motions with his hands, so classic.

That second clip is sick, too.

Does Scofield play on "One Word"? I didn't know he ever did anything with Mahavishnu. He's not listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Fire

What do you dislike about Scofield's tone?

omg you guys i totally meant mclaughlin :-o

i'm no dbag at all ;_;

mclaughlin vs scofield vs abercrombie

embarrassing, hoos

I just ordered some Gabor Szabo or whatever.

Gabor Sbarro

You shoulda put that over here, HOOS.

Or here: Gabor Szabo: Who Cares About His MIddle Eastern Modalities Aside From Me And Hurting?

But McLaughlin's tone surely has changed over the years, unless I'm misunderstanding? His sound on In a Silent Way is quite different from the Mahavishnu sound, which differs from his sound with Shakti, which is different from the sound on Aura (not to mention the classical stuff, which may be unfair to bring). Even if much of this just has to do with effects and production... (And I didn't know he was on the Hancock album?)

"unfair to bring up"

i did no research before starting this thread

River: The Joni Letters is the 2008 Grammy-winning album by Herbie Hancock.

Personnel

* Herbie Hancock – piano
* Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone
* Dave Holland – bass
* Lionel Loueke – guitar

>_<

That's kinda sorta my point though, that on River Loueke sounds a lot like Uberjam era Scofield or Bird of Fire era McLaughlin, that kinda high-mids I AM PLAYING FUSION GUITAR tone

Speaking of McLaughlin, wazzabout his educational DVDs? They have some staunch supporters.

the first song on Inner Mounting Flame has Manowar levels of triumphation

John Scofield will go more trad neck warm goo if it is a classic jazz setup, but he isn't afraid to throw on effects and get pretty weird at times. Scofield is the only jazzbo guitarist I know that will get down with a Digitech Whammy pedal every now and then.

McLaughlin's electric tone is all over the place. His tone with Mahavishnu is really high gain for the time. Later on he started using guitar synths and all. Even when he plays electric guitar now, it isn't nothing like the Lifetime or Mahavishnu kind of sound. His tone is way more clean and closer to traditional 'jazz guitar' kind of stuff.

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guitar isn't one of my favorite jazz instruments. i like sax, trumpet, piano, drums, trombone better...maybe not trombone...but maybe tuba! (on those arthur blythe records)

> the first song on Inner Mounting Flame has Manowar levels of triumphation

-- BigLurks, Friday, August 22, 2008 2:56 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

on the mclaughlin

Epic fail, hoos!

I could listen to the high-mids I AM PLAYING FUSION GUITAR tone on "Dawn" by Mahavishnu every day and not get tired of it, because it is awesome.

I do prefer his acoustic records though. My favorites are the first one by Shakti and the one with Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

i like his tone. to me the stereotypical fusion guitar sound has more distortion and reverb, like mike stern or whoever, and scofield's sound is a little cleaner. and he's got all those funky little bends & scratches and shit.

oh, mclaughlin. those first couple mahavishnu records are sick but he might be the worst part.

how can i be the only person that voted some ol bullshit?

going to see scofield's gospel band tonight

With George Porter, Jr. and Ricky Fataar and the other guy? Cool.

jon cleary, yeah. cleary's own band is pretty fucking badass btw: