Proud Mary was written directly after I had just been honorably discharged from the Army in 1968. Sometimes it feels that way, as if you had just tuned a radio station in your mind correctly and some music comes through very clearly. Well in the case of Proud Mary, the song kind of just landed on me. Even to this day, when I play that chord live in front of an audience, I always take a moment to revel in how great that sounds. The sound that came out was the opening chord of Midnight Special. I played one E chord which came out as a D chord. I tuned the guitar down to D, kind of like in Proud Mary and Bad Moon Rising. Summing it up - first time I picked up a Les Paul custom guitar in Albany, CA, plugged it in to a Fender Blackface Amp (A twin? maybe a deluxe) in 1969, I think February. Vintage "snob, boutique" amps you can get nowadays. I love to plug in a great guitar, which already sounds good, into a great amp. Basically, my answer about tone is the simpler, the better. You will have trouble sleeping until you figure those out. Give yourself a treat - go look up the Five Royals and play these three songs - Think, Don't Let it Be in Vain, and most notably Slummer the Slum. I grew up loving the great tone of people like Duane Eddy, Bo Diddley, Chet Atkins, Lowman Pauling from the group The Five Royals. I'm sure you've all heard other artists rant about how digital sucks the life and tone out of their music, and in some ways that's true.
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I formed my values early on from the correct realm. I was very lucky back in the day things were still analog, not digital. I realize here I am probably being a guitar geek and so I may have a selective audience who even worries about this part. You spend a lifetime thinking about tone, worrying about tone.
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