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Jimi may have given us a glance towards the Strat's potential, but the two guys who have taken it farther (as far as badass tones go) than anyone else would have to be:
-Ritchie Blackmore
-Ulrich Roth
About as muscular of a tone as one can squeeze from a Strat, IMO.
And I'm not a whammy bar fan, but these guys just took it so far over the top.
I think that to really get a good vibe out of a Strat, you have to attack it.
These two guys had a relentless, clawing-of-the-strings technique.
While I love Ritchie's tones on the old stuff, I think that some of his best tones are on Perfect Strangers.
Interesting to mention Iron Maiden. Dave Murray was a huge Hendrix fan (his first band was named Stone Free). While one would think he would choose a Gibson for the heavy stuff they play, it's almost always been a Strat with him. And he's always been big with the neck pickup noodling - not too much of that with Metal from that era. But now Maiden is comprised of 3 guitarists, and they all play Strats, for the most part. Janick Gers used to be in Deep Purple, I believe. Even though he uses JB Jrs, he gets that very raw, messy Blackmore stacatto thing going. Murray has also switched over to JB Jrs. Not by any means what one considers a standard Strat tone, but I think the tones are pretty meaty, and those guys could be playing PRS's or whatever, now. The most muscular Maiden tones, IMO, are on Piece of Mind and Brave New World. These two albums are almost 20 years apart...
Sorry Johnny - I think some of the members here will go silently into the night before this thread does.
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