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    Posted: May 09 2006 at 10:39
Here's one that's near & dear to me...Your opinions of the best use of wah-wah in Rock/Prog/Fusion (with examples if you like). Here are some of mine:
 
Roine Stolt: Every time he uses it, just seems like a natural extension of his playing rather than an "effect". Very expressive & soulful, like it's talking to you...
 
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland wouldn't be the same record w/o Jimi's wah work...It's "Still Raining..."
 
Chet Atkins: Reportedly the first (recorded) user in 1961 (never heard it, but if he used it I'm sure it sounded great...)
 
Clapton (w/Cream): Disraeli Gears 
 
Zappa: Especially on Roxy & Elsewhere...
 
Miles Davis: Yup, he used to play his trumpet through one...
 
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Say What, Voodoo Chile, Come On (Part 3), etc...
 
Jeff Healey: I remember hearing some really nice textures on See The Light...
 
Robin Trower: One of my favorite-sounding guitarists...When he combines the Univibe with wah it's awesome...Check out Caledonia, A Tale Untold, Day Of The Eagle, etc...
 
 
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Points: 2537 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2006 at 11:55
Hmmm, I would say Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Slash.
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Somebody told me a long time ago, the first serious use of the wah wah pedal was by Jeff Beck on the Truth album. However, I have since become slightly bemused by such a fact when discovering on one of the Electric Prunes compilations albums has their US radio advert for the wah wah pedal.
 
Check out the liner notes on the original Supersession album (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfeld and Steve Stills), and the author suggests Stills was considerably more subtle with the wah wah than Hendrix - amongst the more dated tunes on the Stills' side of Supersession there are some illustrations of his skills with the effect.
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Points: 264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2006 at 15:13
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Somebody told me a long time ago, the first serious use of the wah wah pedal was by Jeff Beck on the Truth album. However, I have since become slightly bemused by such a fact when discovering on one of the Electric Prunes compilations albums has their US radio advert for the wah wah pedal.
 
Check out the liner notes on the original Supersession album (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfeld and Steve Stills), and the author suggests Stills was considerably more subtle with the wah wah than Hendrix - amongst the more dated tunes on the Stills' side of Supersession there are some illustrations of his skills with the effect.
 
Nice...Forgot about Stills, I do have the Supersession cd & he does have some nice wah work on his tunes...The Beck/Truth stuff was a little too blatant & out front for me, like Beck was still experimenting with the sounds & learning how to use them...
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Points: 21554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2006 at 15:31
Steve Vai - Bad Horsie. And from the same album: Kill the Guy with the Ball.
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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2006 at 16:04
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Steve Vai - Bad Horsie. And from the same album: Kill the Guy with the Ball.


Bad Horsie is ridicules.

But from the beginning Clapton was great and Hendrix. They were my top 2 with the wah effect.
    
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Pretty much every solo Mick Box (of Uriah Heep) has ever recorded involves the wah-wah pedal.LOL Yet, his solos from 'I'll Keep On Trying' and 'Sailsbury' are excellent and are amongst the finest I've heard.
 
Jeff Beck's 'I Ain't Superstitious' has some of my favourite wah-work, as does Zappa's 'Peaches En Regalia', 'Willie The Pimp', 'My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama' and 'Orange County Lumber Truck' and Hendrix's 'Burning Of The Midnight Lamp'- perhaps my all time favourite use of wah, with its oh-so-mystical riff that mingles with harpsichord.
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Points: 21554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2006 at 16:15
"ridicules"? I'm unable to determine if you like it or not ... LOL Do you mean "ridiculous" or "hilarious"?
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Also David Gilmour ...

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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2006 at 14:12
OKAY:
 
frank zappa - BLACK napkins and packard goose
iron maiden - prowler
gary green - talybont
 
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