Most blatant clone ever

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Who do y'all think the most blatant clones are?

My vote goes for Robin Trower.
 
Tokai strat

Close enough to the original (and good enough) that fender sued them.
 
Kenny Wayne Shepard, although he's pretty straight up about it.
 
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?
 
are we talking musicians or instruments? I was wondering who in the hell Tokai Strat was. :D
 
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kojdogg said:
yeah that looks just like kenny wayne sheppard! :)
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he does kind of look like a sheep. :p he's a pretty damn good guitar player though.
 
TravisinFlorida said:
are we talking musicians or instruments? I was wondering who in the hell Tokai Strat was. :D
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I was talking musicians (guitar players specifically), but genetics and/or guitars are welcome too I guess.
 
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.
 
notCardio said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
I think some people need to go back and listen to the artists they're calling clones :rolleyes: .

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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"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!
 
friggin wierd. I JUST got done watching that movie and hear I see someone making a reference to it here.
 
ericlingus said:
friggin wierd. I JUST got done watching that movie and hear I see someone making a reference to it here.
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I thought it was appropriate since it involved clones. :D

"Parts" is one of my favorite cheesy sci-fi movies.
 
I'm a Steve Vai clone! :D I play in front of my girl, and practice Lydian runs and funny winking faces everyday! I'm getting a "Legacy" head tommorow! Early!
 
32-20-Blues said:
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.
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No argument here. And Aerosmith; Stones Clones to the extreme.
 
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