Mister 335 with a VA Strat and '80s D amp

[skyboltone]

This is the year before he bought the ES-335. I've seen another cut from '92 with him playing a LP custom with soapbars. This is pretty cool though. You don't need HRM or Humbuckers is you got good hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkArP1YjlQ0&NR=1

[johan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeB4oAN ... re=related

My favorite EVER. Larry Carlton - "Emotions Wound us so" from the Last Nite album

[Normster]

Cool links!!! Last Nite has some of my favorite Carlton tone (and playing) ever. It never occurred to me that he might be using the Valley Arts for that.

[Structo]

Have you seen this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiUdOE6p9W0

[Normster]

Have you seen this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiUdOE6p9W0

Noooooo...say it isn't so!!!

[Structo]

Yeah, the first time I clicked on that video I sat there saying to myself, hmmm, he isn't having a very good night but then realized that it was an overdubbed video along the lines of those "shred" videos.

It wasn't as exaggerated as some of those videos and I thought it was pretty funny towards the end when RF is kind of looking at Carlton with a "wtf?" type expression.

[drhulsey]

... It never occurred to me that he might be using the Valley Arts for that...

If there are other non-Californians out there like me and not familiar with Valley Arts Guitars, FYI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Arts_Guitar
http://www.valleyartsguitars.com/
Check out the pictures in the second site. Larry Carlton with hair is interesting, but get a load of the Steve Lukather 'doo

[LeeMo]

I guess you've seen the Dumble link on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumble_Amplifiers
Ampgarage got a link.

LeeMo