New Stick for the US tour...

[sweetsurrender]

"Can't get no fancy notes on my blue guitar" . . .
Yeah, blue is odd, but I'll get one.

What song is that from. It bothers me now I can't recall it. 

One World, sweetsurrender.

Thanks LE and knopfling.  I've been humming the notes, but never got to the part One  World. ! 

LE

[Ingo]

 

A similar Fernandes 57 vintage Strat is available in my online shop: http://mk-guitar.com/shop/fernandes-revival-japanese-vintage-strat-p-103.html. Don't miss a great chance to acquire an affordable true vintage guitar of great quality with a really sweet sound (listen to Smooching (?), Jokerman (?); I and I (?)...).

[JF]

Ah yes smooching.....one of my top tones ! I love this tune, and this sound...gorgeous !
I always thought it was the red schecter....
same for for jokerman, and I don't know why but I and I was the sunburst schecter in my head....
so you think that it could be this fernandes ?
I can't remember if it can't be seen in  the background of the studio during the Indidels sessions (video clips for example ) ? 

[Ingo]

Ah yes smooching.....one of my top tones ! I love this tune, and this sound...gorgeous !
I always thought it was the red schecter....
same for for jokerman, and I don't know why but I and I was the sunburst schecter in my head....
so you think that it could be this fernandes ?
I can't remember if it can't be seen in  the background of the studio during the Indidels sessions (video clips for example ) ? 

Of course you can never be sure about which guitar was played on which track unless it is confirmed in some way.

Years ago John Suhr told me that he regularly was in the studio to service Mark's guitars when they recorded in New York (1982/83: Love over Gold, Local Hero, Infidels. The Fernandes can be seen on the picture with all guitars during LoG recording at the Power Station studio), and he told me that for him Mark got some of his nicest sounds on the Fernandes with Seymour Duncan pickups.

I think all the Japanese vintage Strats from the era sound extremely warm and have a different tone from e.g. the Schecters. And the songs mentioned sound rather "Japanese" to me but of course I can be wrong.

[Ingo]

You can listen to the sound of the Fernandes in these two videos:

 

 

It has a unique tone, a different kind of "sustain" (e.g. in the second video with all clear sounds) something I believe to hear in Jokerman and I & I, and such.

[yontwocrows]

Wow, great sound!

[JF]

great ! 
gorgeous tone
I love the first one

[Ingo]

Yeah, the nice distortion comes from the Hotcake (Mark will know why he uses this one...)
It does not cut treble/bass and boost mids like other overdrives, and might seem less creamy for this reason, but in fact it is great to add all kind of subtle distortion as the clean sound is not compromised. And when you turn up the gain, there is a lot of distortion, more than with a typical tube screamer.

[sweetsurrender]

Really really nice.  I LOVE it !!!!

Almost sound like MK.