John in Guitarist & Bass magazine (France) – May/June 2010
Written on May 26, 2010 in Magazine alerts & with 10 responses
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There are some bits of John and Red Hot Chili Peppers (also known as "the band") in the May/June issue of the French Guitarist & Bass magazine. If you need help finding this magazine, Angus Young of AC/DC is on the cover.
A small article covers the recently announced results of The Axe Factor poll. Elsewhere in the magazine, there are Californication chords, with tips on how to get the sound right as well.
Click the thumbnails to go to the pages with the scans in the gallery or click here. There is a total of four scanned pages.
Here is the small article, the longer one is available only with the full news item.
John Frusciante, Best Guitarist in the world!
That's, at least, what brings out a poll released by BBC 6 Music. John Frusciante is thus asserted Best Guitarist of the last 30 years, before Slash, in the second position, Matthew Bellamy, in third, and Johnny Marr from the Smiths, in fourth. Further behind, Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead hauls up in the seventh position and Jack White in ninth.
As well in the top 10: Prince, Peter Buck (REM), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Tom Morello (RATM).
*The original article put Johnny Greenwood in Coldplay, the error has been fixed upon spell-checking.
In the style of Red Hot Chili Peppers
This Red Hot track marks John Frusciante's return in the band with the huge success that we know, the album Californication being the best selling of the band to date. The album abound with jewels between pop and rock, always groovy, with inspired guitar parts.
Harmony and Rhythm
The track is in A Minor tone with a modulation in A Major for the solo. All these chords are diatonic to these tones. The track begins with an arpeggio in A Minor and F Major including on each chord a melodic line from the ninth to the third (B to C for A Minor and G to A for F Major) using open strings. The pre-chorus is played in sweeping and the chorus with a more stressed rhythmic emphasizing the backbeats (time 2 & 4 of the bar). For the solo, John plays around the chords' notes, without hesitating to play extra-notes, outside the tone. The track structure is a little complex : the intro is repeated between the verses being repeated only twice; for the first verse, don't play the repeated part which only intervenes on the second and third choruses.
Intro / Verses 1 & 2 / pre-chorus / chorus 1 / verses 3 & 4 / pre-chorus / chorus 2 / solo / Verse 5 / pre-chorus / chorus 3
Sound
John uses on this track a Gretsch White Falcon (double pickups) in a clean tone (Marshall amp) for the rhythmic as well as for the solo.
Clean tone
Clean Volume: 5
Bass: 6
Middle: 5
Treble: 6
Presence: 5
Reverb: 2
Master: 5
Canal II Drive
Gain Lead: -
Master Lead: -
Many thanks to Caroline Mugnier for scans and translations (check out her music), as well as to H15, who let me know there's something in this particular magazine issue.
10 Reactions to John in Guitarist & Bass magazine (France) – May/June 2010
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I'm not too sure John uses the Marshall on this. At least live he used the Fender for the White Falcon songs, i.e. Californication and Otherside. But he might have bought the Fender after recording Californication for the tour since he had no money before.
Nobody with a brand-spanking-new White Falcon has 'no money' ;D
Which may of course also mean that it wasn't recorded with the Gretsch!
It was. In scar Tissue it says he used his last remaining dollars for rehab and the band bought his `55 strat for him to play with them. It also says John found those arpeggios in Californication only because of the Falcon. But I'm sure the brand-spankling new White Falcon is from the 50s as well. ;D
I just read that in Scar Tissue Anthony referred to the Falcon as "his 30.000$ guitar" so possibly he might have a few bucks by then.
i thought the band bought the '62 sunburst strat for him, didn't they?
that's the one with the rosewood fingerboard
Well, I'm not sure. Some German guitar magazine once wrote it was a '57 but he referres to it as the '55. Look here:http://www.yourforumisgluedtoasiteonfire.net/topi...
Nobody seems to know anything for sure
Althought I play guitar and I am quite a gearhead I don't know how to tell a '57 from a '55 or '62. Even John himself doesn't seem to know. That's what I read.
the 57 is his 2 color sunburst with the maple fretboard, the 62 is his 3 color sunburst with the rosewood fretboard.
He did use the Gretch in the recording otherside and californication and it was ran through a fender amp head with a boss ds-1 distortion for the solo and some rhythm parts in otherside.
Vincent Gallo got him the Gretsch.
Otherside is done on the '62 strat btw, although he plays it live with his Gretsch. The solo on the record is done with a Les Paul.
i read somewhere that the distorted part in otherside was recorded with a Gibson SG
maybe it's impossible to reconstruct the real recording equipment from this time and at last it only matters that we are able to enjoy a great piece of music
Excellent read, I just handed this onto a colleague who was doing a little investigation on that. And he in fact bought me lunch because I found it for him.... smile.. So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!But yeah Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me.