Seymour Duncan - Blues Saraceno Explores the PowerStage™ 100 Stereo

[@acemodean]

We need a part 2 of this video where Blues shows us he can still create his dirty boy "plaid" sound with this set up.

[@TVoltG]

Hell yes

[@thesaguitarian9430]

This Guy has some of the most tasteful playing. i love his inflections and melodic sense. One of my Guitar Heroes and I still look up to him o this day.

[@cancelbubble6535]

His first album (Never Look Back) is such a masterpiece of everything 80s guitar. His other solo albums (Plaid and Hairpick) are really good, too, he has such a distinct tone and style. His plaid yamaha guitar is beautiful, too, shame they don't still make that or variations on that theme.

[@profane_kvetch]

I have one of the guitars and it's 100% original!

[@jasondorsey7110]

​@@profane_kvetchI remember his Samick signature guitar from the 90s, it really stood out at the time when the manufacturers were still trying to push pointy looking superstrats

[@johnmcminn9455]

That album is totally kick ass, and the version of "My Generation" was good as well . There is a whole sound there

[@AliensWanted]

One of the most gifted guitarists alive....and a tone MASTER. If he likes it, I am all in.

[@harryhamb]

Still have his lesson vhs-,) top Player!!

[@hawkhead418]

Blues rules! He was always one of my favorite cats from back in the day! He is an extraordinary musician! God bless!

[@sergeyv4908]

Man. You are great. Love your early-mid stuff with musical and technical humor over other shredders and your last more raw bluesy songs. Such a brilliant and underrated musician.

[@PotemkinBUMP225]

glad you're still out there doing it. i lost track of you over the years. used to listen to your first cd in the 80s. loved it.

[@Utube-g3g]

@seymourduncan this is a cool video. Would love to see Blues in a longer video. I know what he does re guitar work. I wonder if we could ever see that process? Just asking. I consider what he does a dream job television and film projects etc. and quite the long list. If not well maybe more of these type of ads? Thank you. In other words more Blues Saraceno with the Quad Cortex with your power stage.

[@mygt8a4re]

Love this content! I saw you during a guitar clinic at Thoroughbred Music in Sarasota Fl about 30 years ago. I was buying strings & stuck around to see what was up. Totally made me rethink my path & changed how I perceived guitar playing in general. I thank you for that! 🍻

[@unclescott8792]

One of my favorites - for sure! Im holding my breath that we might see a new record sometime soon!!

[@robby188]

Great guitar player that I listened from the 90's

[@DaviUba]

Blues, please make another album! You are amazing! 🎸

[@jayteesgear]

I fully agree with him. That setup looks fabulous! I myself love my Pod-go

[@Knoize1]

Oh... My Saraceno... Never Look back, Hair Pick Album is... it's such a like flight battle.. thank you so much for playing & Recording.

[@vintagetone22]

The reason i started playing guitar when i was young teenager i heard never look back album .and that was it i wanted to play like this .superb guitarist .my hero.i still have all his albums on cds.👍👍❤👍⚘⚘❤🙏❤🙏❤⚘❤⚘❤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🎸🔥🎸🎸🔥⚘👍⚘👍⚘❤🙏❤🙏🙏❤

[@robertboydiiido-bolsa7531]

I saw him when he was eighteen, on Ginger Baker's 50th birthday, playing the music of Cream along with Ginger and Jack Bruce.

[@JohnnyBargeldBoom]

Damn, I wanted to hear SHREDDING!!!

[@bassdaddy7293]

I still go back and listen to Before the Storm and Feeding the Box on a regular basis. Great guitar work.

[@ParagonGarage]

What an absolutely underrated killer guitar player i have been a big fan for many years💪🏻👍🏻

[@crazywisdom2]

Where's this guy been all my life ! Love his playing. Digging his ebmm albert lee. Gonna have to dig in on this. Thanks for the vid. Guitar sounds killer.

[@derekfafard7935]

Always had a great tone

[@kojam1]

😱 Havent really seen Blues much in 30 yrs! Had jever heard of him. His band, Color Code, opened for Satriani, or or Ynvwie, or Vai here in Toronto. It was such a long time ago. I liked what i heard. Every once in awhile id wonder why im not hearing people talk about them, and would wait for them to make it big. Never trqnspired in these parts. Never forgot them though.

[@smoovegittar]

Great pair of hands

[@homerdomer73]

Blues really set himself apart from the Shrapnel shred dudes at that time. He’s got a unique voice.

[@SuperflyCLB]

Blues is the KING!

[@PC85X]

Absolute beast of a guitarist

[@funkster007]

Possibly the best guitarist most people never even heard of. Blues kind of opted out of the rock spotlight for personal reasons .Which is completely understandable. But damn it wouldve been cool to have heard more from him over the years. He was still just a kid when he did shows with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce for crying out loud. How many people WISH they had that honor?

[@mrufino1]

I remember seeing him with Jack Bruce and Gary Husband in 1993, it was a great show! And I always loved his first cd. Randy Coven and Joe Franco backed him on that one if I remember correctly.

[@WailingRaven]

I discovered Blues through the soundtracks of Rebel Galaxy (a spaceship video game), decided to search him up and was surprised he used to be a shredder back in the late 80s. I gotten back into playing guitars again, after listening to his music in that game, so I have him to thank for.

[@Utube-g3g]

If you play guitar especially during magazine times. Remember magazines you should know him and a bunch of other players. Now with Utube they should find even more players.

[@stephs.8134]

Was hoping he'd play some "Thats The Way I Like It". Great guitar in that song.

[@Michaelarvin71]

Total guitar hero

[@SaltOfTheEarthRecords]

Blues rules!

[@itowedin]

Transmission OK, The Sky The Stars and The Great Beyond is a flawless album by Saraceno.

[@hmmmwhatever]

Love this

[@therealawakener7]

Great, great, player.

[@bryanvaughn80]

blues is a genius. that is all...

[@jnh73]

Awesome stuff! I wish it was practical/possible for me to use two 4x12s. :)

[@montauta]

Is the same Blues Saraceno from Poison??

[@seymourduncan]

Indeed it is!

[@gadymarcus2362]

Bello/Magnifico.💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@smollande]

Great amp, totally agree that modern amps are more suited for sessions and gigs. Less to carry! Deos anyone know what guitar hes using?

[@BEEPEE767]

Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee signature model.

[@smollande]

@@BEEPEE767 thanks!

[@Koffieleuter]

That was great! Going to chew on some crayons and have some rabbit soup now. 😎

[@brendanjohnpugh]

Going out 3/4 outputs of the Quad, should I use TRS or TS cables when connecting to the inputs on the stereo power amp?

[@MikeUIibarri]

"Who is Blues?" Those were the days!

[@guitarwayneo]

Those Dimarzio pickups sound good with whatever Blues plays them through !

[@billnelson5279]

This is what modeling is for. I havent heard it do convincing non master volume blackface fenders and jtm45s but for that 80s post van halen thing it seems like we're there

[@harleyosterlund5796]

I would be interested in your QC presets.

[@gregalon]

Kudos to him for just jamming on some songs. Highlighting the sounds, not the crazy licks.

[@scirasco1]

Blues if u see this g money aka olly the guy that ambushed u for a private signing at namm where dweezil performed,i once again want to tell u ,ur a fucking legend u raised 2 cool daughters i hope they got their pizza,whenever they punk u hahah remind them of this moment and tell them what a badass u are hahahah u made the namm for me and my gamble paid off to go see dweezil ,as much we went to see u back in the transmission ok days i wonder why i never asked for a autograph hahah well we made up for it ,only the best for u and your fam and once again thanx for taking time and writing these cool things see ya soon:)

[@tonedowne]

I think they should drop the price of these a little. I can't justify $1300AUD for a power amp just for live.

[@seymourduncan]

Check out our PS170 for a less expensive option. Hope that's within budget for you.

[@tonedowne]

@@seymourduncan Thanks, I appreciate the reply. I would like to go stereo to make it worth leaving the valve amps behind. I'll just keep an eye out for a second hand one.

[@theswordofkings7549]

That guitar is not the same without the flannel design. 😉😉👍👍

[@MR1JUNO]

What effects pedal unit is that? is it a Neural DSP Quad Cortex Quad-Core Digital Effects Modeler/Profiling Floorboard?

[@Utube-g3g]

Yes. It’s really good.

[@kリプト-t2w]

アルバート·リーモデルを使うブルース・サラセーノ…時代は進むんだね✨

[@briancrumpacker]

Respect the plaid.

[@BabaGhanoushMusic]

What cabs was he using here?

[@Tyson-u3m]

1 guitar 1 chord 1 combo amp If the venue doesnt have a p.a., I dont play there. Never failed me since 1988.

[@Negative.mrb1]

Wow haven’t seen this guy in a while wonder if he has a scotch Albert lee

[@boringoldman]

Where do I get this guitar?? Can’t find anywhere

[@seymourduncan]

We believe it's his Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee in a Gold Sparkle finish from their custom shop.

[@martijn_yt]

There are a few more options than `vintage` and `digital` ;)

[@gitarman666]

Your sound is going to be consistent, if your sound was constant, it would never stop,lol just playin, hey Im fighting digital to this day although I have neural and axefx3 I’m a die hard, willing to go the extra distance, tube whore and I love Blues S. since the earliest of his work, Back when dad was building his Dirty Boy amps Respectfully, for the last 15+ years of his career he can play any old Chinese tele looking thing into a bunch of San Marzano tomato cans attached by kite string and make it sing he has one of the best tones and execution of style from his original take on the instrument, amazing timing and cadence That why he gets the cue gigs, just great stuff So nice to see yet another digibox replica on the market where plug-ins are quickly taking over and rendering my outboard studio gear almost useless UAD isn’t quite there so my neves and pultecs are safe and the la2a gets buried with me, but for geetar at my age (senior to Blues) I’m sticking to my Marshalls, Mesas, Friedmans, Soldanos, Fenders, Orange, Vox, Matchless, Magnatone, Revvs and most recently acquired Bogner Ecstasy Sure you can’t carry all that stuff but I’ve acquired a collection since the early ‘70s and close enough won’t cut it when you got the real deal I mean kids argue with me online and swear their model of a jp2c sounds exactly like the real earth shaker but I can’t hear it live, not even close Online, digitized, on my iPad speakers sure whatever but playing live there are no 0s and 1s coming out of my 4x12 just the catalyst tones that started the whole tech revolution, if the real deal wasn’t as good as it is then why would they bother trying to reproduce it? I’ll answer myself, because it’s better to have a lite weight, maintenance free disposable close enough box full of sharc and keystone dsp of many rigs than one great rig? Here I wholeheartedly disagree most players use maybe 3 sounds all night anyway so who need 100s of so so?

[@Sheegog1972]

Ok, so I'm playing a bar Friday night, I walk in with my guitar, power stage, some effects or a Helix HX/Stomp, but I still need a speaker cabinet. Hmmm. I'll bring my Fender Deluxe Reverb, small pedalboard in my gig bag, done. For the typical live gig of the average musician this saves you nothing in terms of weight, trips to the car etc. I get it for recording or traveling to a gig where a cabinet is provided but I don't see any benefit for the local pub, club, bar gig.

[@henrydanielgatlin9774]

Until a tube goes bad…waaa, waaa. You are right, doesn’t save on carrying stuff, but for me it was piece of mind, consistency, and less amp maintenance, and I was a die hard tube guy (still love them!), but after a year of using a gx-100, my 67 Bandmaster is now my last resort backup and a museum piece.

[@freddylive4181]

.. I'm leaning towards digital at times.

[@daniwest1370]

Cant he get the same thing just using the Quad Cortex and two FRFR Cabs?

[@tonedowne]

Not really. FRFR means you are hearing a recording of a mic-ed up cab played back through a monitor. Which is fine, but it's not the same.

[@anthonyallard3156]

Not really a recording a capture of its sonic aspects

[@tonedowne]

@@anthonyallard3156 Yeah but it’s captured through a microphone and a preamp, so whatever you listen to the sound through has the sonic signature of the equipment used to record the sound.

[@dogman5680]

@@tonedowne ironic that what your describing as a limitation is pretty much the same pitch used to hype the technology in the first place…

[@synboy]

Yes, you can. Turn off the cab block, and you're good to go.

[@gibson381]

Plaid is still the best!

[@greekfreak1980]

"oNlY tUbE aMpS gIvE YoU tHe ReAl ToAnE'' Meanwhile, you see all these pro-level musicians embracing digital, because it's more easy to use and pretty much nobody can't tell a difference. I'm talking people like Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, the guys from Metallica, Wolf Hoffman from Accept etc. etc. , they all use some form of digital amp simulation ( Kemper, AXE FX, DV Mark etc.), when playing live. ''But but, I can tell a difference..." No you can't, you just think you can.

[@hur1kane]

They can't, they just want to be gear snobs and most are damn near "tone" deaf ... digital... is fast, accurate and loud and all this ..."to break up" nonsense, I can dial that in perfectly, and then ...set it and forget it ... and recreating a sound, hendrix, srv, animals as leaders, no problem, a little tweaking, some play time and bammmm all set from 1969 to 2024 ... and all in between, pickups are for clarity , sustain, nuance ... it's all in the board ... and how many players in interviews ALWAYS SAY THEY NEVER TOUCH THE TONE KNOB, .... EXACTLY

[@greekfreak1980]

@@hur1kane The fact that a band like Metallica, who is one of the biggest touring acts out there, is using a digital modeler like AXE FX, speaks volumes. It's not like they can't afford lugging big tube amps around on tour or something. They went digital, because it's more practical, cheaper and gets the job done.

[@SLASHMPI]

QC

[@bradleystereoguitaramplifi9616]

Stereo is the only way to play!

[@fretnote2680]

miss the hair too.. 😊

[@shaharbar]

Did brother forget how to shred?

[@MikeMcAdam623]

No.. he grew up :)

[@telecaster643]

Yo Dude!!! How the hell are you!!??

[@user-eh1og1ci7h]

Who knew Blues Saraceno would be so well spoken? I always assumed he would be an incoherent pothead.

[@delprestonroadie6606]

No, spend any time digging a bit deeper and you’ll find that both him and his Dad Alex come across as fiercely intelligent, in a mad scientist sort of way. Great sense of humour, verbally and musically.

[@Utube-g3g]

He does the music for movies and tv shows. Not sure what f we use. I imagine ads and I’m guessing. But it’s a dream job. I don’t like performing but you have to be great at it. And play many styles.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

I still don’t understand the product

[@seymourduncan]

Let me know what is confusing and I'd be happy to explain it.

[@Utube-g3g]

It’s the power for the quad cortex and they made one that’s stereo.

[@Utube-g3g]

@@seymourduncanI read in Guitar Player magazine yrs ago that Seymour got his start in the town I grew up in. I have since moved to the city but I got my first playable Fender strat there. It said he would wind pick ups on an old record player. Still have the strat. But I had not idea.

[@mrsnakepit]

Yeah, the speaker cabinet too big

[@gitarman666]

NP, I’ll be dead by then

[@castanonw]

Never herd of this guy seems basic and boring 😂definitely not Inspiring like the younger generation shredder Players