famous beagle
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Who do y'all think the most blatant clones are?
My vote goes for Robin Trower.
My vote goes for Robin Trower.
Kevin Deschwazi
Well-known member
Tokai strat
Close enough to the original (and good enough) that fender sued them.
Close enough to the original (and good enough) that fender sued them.
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travelin travis
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Kenny Wayne Shepard, although he's pretty straight up about it.
kojdogg
bollocks redux!
what about the somewhat legit ones like the g&l strats and teles ("legacy" and "asat" models (love my legacy 
), or the music man axis, which became the axis after eddie van halen started endorsing the peavey "wolfgang?"
also what about those olp versions of musicman guitars and basses?
), or the music man axis, which became the axis after eddie van halen started endorsing the peavey "wolfgang?"also what about those olp versions of musicman guitars and basses?
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travelin travis
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are we talking musicians or instruments? I was wondering who in the hell Tokai Strat was. 
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Codmate
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Nah - here's the most blatent clone ever 
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1997/1101970310_400.jpg
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1997/1101970310_400.jpg
kojdogg
bollocks redux!
Codmate said:Nah - here's the most blatent clone ever
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1997/1101970310_400.jpg
yeah that looks just like kenny wayne sheppard!
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travelin travis
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kojdogg said:yeah that looks just like kenny wayne sheppard!
he does kind of look like a sheep.
he's a pretty damn good guitar player though.
famous beagle
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TravisinFlorida said:are we talking musicians or instruments? I was wondering who in the hell Tokai Strat was.
I was talking musicians (guitar players specifically), but genetics and/or guitars are welcome too I guess.
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notCardio
I walk the line
I don't think Trower's that much of a clone
I think he just took a style and ran with it. He's no more of a clone than most of the guys who came within the next 2 decades after EVH. Was Howlin' Wolf a Leadbelly clone? Was Leadbelly a Robert Johnson clone? George Harrison could easily be called a Carl Perkins clone, Paul a Little Richard clone. Keith Richards is a Check Berry clone.
And even if he is, what do I care? I think he's great.
I think he just took a style and ran with it. He's no more of a clone than most of the guys who came within the next 2 decades after EVH. Was Howlin' Wolf a Leadbelly clone? Was Leadbelly a Robert Johnson clone? George Harrison could easily be called a Carl Perkins clone, Paul a Little Richard clone. Keith Richards is a Check Berry clone.
And even if he is, what do I care? I think he's great.
cephus
Slow Children Playing
notCardio said:
DANGER---THIN ICE!!!
Robin Trower is not a xerox of hendrix and I like where he took it. But he sounds way more like hendrix than any of the other parallels you draw. When SRV does Hendrix, it is a total Hendrix rip-off and he sounds way more like jimi than Trower, though.
Geo Harrison a Carl Perkins clone? He wishes!!! (Wished) George was no hillbilly cat like CP.
peopleperson
I'm so sorry.
No one said Dolly the sheep.
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32-20-Blues
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I don't know if you guys know Donovan, the British Bob Dylan.
Wolfmother = Led Zeppelin.
The Beatles = E.L.O
(I always take shit for this one, but Mr. Blue Sky and Day in the Life are extremely similar) Also, The Jam, their bassline to 'Start' is just Taxman.
Also, that new Killer's song 'When You Were Young' and Springsteen.
Wolfmother = Led Zeppelin.
The Beatles = E.L.O
(I always take shit for this one, but Mr. Blue Sky and Day in the Life are extremely similar) Also, The Jam, their bassline to 'Start' is just Taxman.
Also, that new Killer's song 'When You Were Young' and Springsteen.
ausrock
Well-known member
I think some people need to go back and listen to the artists they're calling clones 
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Late '60's Robin Trower in Procul Harum is so unlike Hendrix it ain't funny. Anywhere he went after that was just a natural progression.
While Donovan did do a small amount of "Dylan-esque raw folk", the vast majority of his music was radically different, not only to Dylan, but to most other stuff of it's time, actually, the nearest thing to Donovan is probably Nick Drake.
Wolfmother...........AAARRGGHHH. Listen to some Tea Party and you'll hear Zep influences .
.Late '60's Robin Trower in Procul Harum is so unlike Hendrix it ain't funny. Anywhere he went after that was just a natural progression.
While Donovan did do a small amount of "Dylan-esque raw folk", the vast majority of his music was radically different, not only to Dylan, but to most other stuff of it's time, actually, the nearest thing to Donovan is probably Nick Drake.
Wolfmother...........AAARRGGHHH. Listen to some Tea Party and you'll hear Zep influences
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Purge
Traitorous Usurper
Tea Party...great band.ausrock said:Wolfmother...........AAARRGGHHH. Listen to some Tea Party and you'll hear Zep influences
MadAudio
Damned if I do
"The Island." The whole concept was such an obvious reworking of "Parts: The Clonus Horror" yet that hack of a director Michael Bay denied it every chance he could!
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ericlingus
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friggin wierd. I JUST got done watching that movie and hear I see someone making a reference to it here.
MadAudio
Damned if I do
I thought it was appropriate since it involved clones.ericlingus said:
"Parts" is one of my favorite cheesy sci-fi movies.
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Gnash5150
Lefty
I'm a Steve Vai clone! I play in front of my girl, and practice Lydian runs and funny winking faces everyday! I'm getting a "Legacy" head tommorow! Early!
I play in front of my girl, and practice Lydian runs and funny winking faces everyday! I'm getting a "Legacy" head tommorow! Early!
TelePaul
J to the R O C
32-20-Blues said:
No argument here. And Aerosmith; Stones Clones to the extreme.
