Try turning your amp up fairly loud and backing the volume level of the guitar off a bit, you get much different tone that way, very cool.

Bruce did a lot with the neck pickup so you'll have to rewire to eliminate the cap. He shot for an unholy hybrid of Orbison, Dylan and Spector and actually reached it. Buy Bruce Springsteen Born to Run in Music Records and get the best deals at the lowest prices on eBay Great Savings & Free Delivery / Collection on many. The pickups he used at that time were possibly stock or rewound by Phil Petillo, but any good modern Tele pickup would be close enough. Springsteen's third album was the one that broke it all open for him, planting his tales of Jersey girls, cars, and nights spent sleeping on the beach firmly in the Top Five. And everything was dripping with reverb.Īs with many guitarists his tone is partly in his own hands but you can get really close to his early tone with a tele and nice reverb amp through a echoplex or Dano pedal or the like. Big amps, small amps, medium sized amps, you name it. The recent 'making of' DVD offers plenty of insight but there was a lot of junk on those tracks just layers upon layers of guitars and just about everything else but the kitchen sink possibly. It's fairly well known Bruce was specifically after a 'Phil Spector-ish' sound with the BTR album. Just watch him lead the E-Street Band through 'Kitty's Back' or 'Saint' during a live show in the early 70s and you will surely be blown away. I'm always amazed and secretely a little excited when Bruce's playing and tone gets some exposure around here.

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