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“I realized I’d been a Tele guy in denial my whole life,” he says. The legendary producer Jim Gaines (Santana, SRV, Luther Allison, Steve Miller, Jimmy Thackery) produced Josh’s third CD, Too Damn Cold and Woman. “When I got it, every other guitar was put aside. The built- in reverb tank has three knobs, like on an external tank, but the signal runs in parallel.” Smith uses his signature amp in tandem with an AC40, Morgan’s Vox AC 30-style head. “I needed a trem pedal for a gigging musician,” explains Smith. His demo videos are a way to help out the manufacturers who help him realize his vision. “It’s a Fender Super Reverb-style amp. Live at the Spud "digital video" is now available on Amazon. He wound it to be fatter than normal, but still twang. That’s the way it is with all my gear, whether amps, pedals, or guitar. iTunes is supposedly days away. I break my friends’ strings all the time.” I could play an entire night on my bridge pickup—I can make it sound like I’m on the neck pickup just by varying my attack. Smith feels this way about Teles in general, but he insists that his T-Bird is special. His first national tour with his power trio, Josh Smith and the Frost, featured Josh as bandleader, vocalist as well as guitarist. It also has a volume knob with enough boost to counteract the perceived volume drop created by many trems. “Guys are looking for a certain sound, and they stumble across me demoing a pedal,” says Smith. I want as much expression as possible. “Josh is one of my favorite musicians on the planet. Smith is a relative latecomer to Tele-style guitars. Blending his signature mix of blues, rock and jazz into dynamic original songs, Smith is known for his incendiary live performances, whether at the Grammy Awards or the Kennedy Center Honors with Mick Jagger, Raphael Saadiq and others. Also on the guitarist’s board is a J. Rockett Josh Smith Tremolo. “He put together my black maple-neck Tele,” says Smith. Blues rock guitar virtuoso, singer-songwriter and producer, Josh Smith, is hailed the world over as a master guitarist with raw talent and power to spare. “I’m so used to it, I can’t play other guitars. His musical depth and guitar playing transcend the boundaries of the blues genre into a genre of his own. No other guitar is as expressive.
“But every trem pedal I checked out was either too simple or had a million options. “I said, ‘If I’m going to have a signature amp, it has to be the greatest amp of all time,’ so Joe Morgan named it the GOAT—‘Greatest Of All Time,’” laughs Smith. The legendary producer Jim Gaines (Santana, SRV, Luther Allison, Steve Miller, Jimmy Thackery) produced Josh’s third CD, Opening for B.B.
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speaker out so you can run a 4x10 cabinet and sound like a Super. But his sense is strengthened by tasteful ideas, substantive playing, and a deep understanding of blues guitar.” He also has a signature Morgan Amp: the GOAT.
“It had to sound and feel like it’s in your amp, not a pedal,” Smith insists. He has the distinction of inducting Neil Diamond into the Kennedy Center Honors with Raphael Saadiq’s band and honoring Solomon Burke at the Grammys with Mick Jagger.
I am proud to always share a stage with him and even prouder to call him my friend.“As a player, writer, singer and producer, Josh Smith has it all. “It has a great bridge pickup, wound by Bill,” he explains. Within a year of moving to L.A. in 2002, Josh was retained by Virgin recording artist Ricky Fante and performed nationally and internationally with Ricky for the next two years. Designs are carefully thought out providing ergonomic comfort, incredible playability, and a wide palette of tones. I want every nuance of picking to come through, and no guitar does that like a Telecaster.” “All my boards are wired by Mason Marangella at Vertex Effects,” says Smith. They have an interface box with a breakout loop so I can insert another pedal, usually my wah.” The breakout box is positioned between distortion pedals so Smith can filter distortions placed before the wah or drive ones placed after it.
“After hearing me play, they might order a CD.”Michael Ross is a writer/musician/producer/bon vivant living in Nashville. It’s the only guitar you can play every gig on. Smith can truly rock. Besides the aforementioned Tchula, Smith uses many other Lovepedal effects. In 2006, Josh recorded his fifth CD, Along with touring the world, recording and performing with renowned artists such as Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, Andy Timmons, Kirk Fletcher and others, Smith is also a producer and owns Flat V Studios in Los Angeles. It even has a 2 ?
