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10 unsung Fender Stratocaster stars
Ask MusicRadar: your favourite players revealed
The MusicRadar Team, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:53 am UTC
After celebrating Fender’s iconic Stratocaster with a list of the 35 best players who’ve championed it over the years, we asked you who we’d missed. And you told us, in your droves… some we’d never heard of. Some we’d overlooked. But all were unsung stars, and this is a gallery of the top 10. First up: Richie Sambora.
Being a celebrated solo artist and, well, being in Bon Jovi, hardly makes Richie Sambora an ‘unsung’ star of anything. We just kind of forgot to include him in parts 1 and 2. So here he is…
As well as various models by Kramer, Jackson, Charvel, Hamer, Gibson, Zemaitis, Ovation, Taylor, Martin, ESP… we could go on - Sambora has been known to pick up a Strat from time-to-time. In 1991, Fender awarded him a signature model with Floyd Rose, DiMarzo PAF Pro humbuckers and two Fender Texas Special single-coils.
Your votes
“You missed Richie Sambora.” (From @spawai via Twitter, thanks)
“We need Mr. Sambora in this list man! He is one of the best guitar players of all time.” (Thanks, Paco7800)
“Still no Sambora? Surely one of the tastiest Strat players of the last 30 years.” (Thanks, Sickstring)
Next: Sonny Landreth
User comments (7)
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Forgot one.
EDDIE HAZEL!!!!!!!! -
Chris Impellitteri. How he gets those tones out of a stock Strat is beyond me. Same goes for Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro.
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Well what about Joe Walsh?
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I like these galleries quite a lot. But why doesn't MusicRadar use a display method which doesn't require a full page reload with every "Next" image click? My connection to the net is quyick and robust, so it's not a matter of it taking much time (for me, anyway...woe be to the people with crap connections).
If it's just to incremement the eyeball count on the adverts, well that's just stupid, and rather disingenuous from a business standpoint. -
John Kimbrough (from Walt Mink) is embarrassingly underrated as both a strat player and a guitar player in general. It boggles my mind that he never got the attention he deserves. I suppose the Emmy he just won is some consolation, but come on, people!
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Kotzen's a preening, LA scene also-ran. With a signature Telecaster.
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Still no Richie Kotzen? He utterly pastes most of the guys on these lists for style, technique, taste, groove, vocals, dancing, being a handsome bastard... the list goes on.
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