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Originally Posted by Dazed and Confused
So what kind of amp should I use to try to get a tone like that?
Bassman, Twin Reverb, AC30?
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Well, for one thing, I think Bloomfield had the stock vintage wiring on his tele, meaning position 3 was bridge pup, position 2 was neck pup, and position 1 was neck pup with the dark cap on it and no tone control. If you listen to "Got My Mojo Working" on the first Butterfield record, the intro lick sounds to me like the neck pup with the tone wide open, and then when the vocal comes in he flips to the dark cap position for rhythm. Then when that killer solo comes up it sounds to me like he flips all the way back to the bridge with the tone wide open for that incredible twang. I've never read that he used that setup, but he was not known to mod his guitars, and that was the stock vintage wiring for 50's and 60's Teles if I'm not mistaken. That's what it sounds like his wiring setup was to me.
As far as the amp goes, I have no idea how to help with that. In photos from the Highway 61 Revisited sessions, he appears to be using a Twin or Pro Reverb or something, if I remember correctly. His tone on that album is very similar to the Guild amp on the Butterfield record, but still different. My best guess would be to track down a Guild Thunderbird (I've seen them on Ebay), and start from there.
Crawdad, that's a great website, huh? Bloomfield actually wrote a book in the 70's called "Me & Big Joe", about a week he spent with the old bluesman Big Joe Williams. It's a fantastic little book; he only had a few published. I had it, and now I can't find it. If I do, I'm going to scan it and send it to that website so they can post it up there, too.