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Your Favourite Wah Wahs on Record

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DesVegasDesVegas Frets: 4530
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We all love Voodoo Chile right? And Shaft but this is my favourite wah on record, what's yours??

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  • UnclePsychosisUnclePsychosis Frets: 12897
    25 seconds in. Oooooft. 




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  • chrisj1602chrisj1602 Frets: 3965
    White Room
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  • dogloaddogload Frets: 1495
    Steve Hillage on this


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  • WoodenheadWoodenhead Frets: 123
    Anything from the Beastie Boys - In Sound From Way Out instrumental album, Sabrosa would be my pick
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  • springheadspringhead Frets: 1590
    Voodoo Chile for the win, but if that's out of bounds then this:



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  • tekbowtekbow Frets: 1699
    edited April 2021
    Crazy Mama by JJ Cale



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  • mudslide73mudslide73 Frets: 3071


    Still Jimi but he really makes it talk here.. you can see were the idea for Vai's Yankee Rose intro came from.
    "A city star won’t shine too far"


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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30290
    mudslide73 said:


    Still Jimi but he really makes it talk here.. you can see were the idea for Vai's Yankee Rose intro came from.
    He was a terrific guitarist but lousy at miming.
     :) 
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  • menamestommenamestom Frets: 4701

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 72315
    Not sure if it counts, since I don't think it's technically a wah - Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells II and The Songs Of Distant Earth.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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  • CookiemonsterCookiemonster Frets: 883

    1.24 onwards

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  • clarkefanclarkefan Frets: 808
    Billy Duffy, The Cult, Phoenix.

    Robbo, Lizzy, Don't Believe a Word.
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  • MagicPigDetectiveMagicPigDetective Frets: 3023
    This is a song by Gruff Rhys’ band before the Super Furry Animals. I love the breaking up, throaty wah, used throughout the song.

    https://youtu.be/hJKOderCsmw 
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  • VoxmanVoxman Frets: 4723
    edited April 2021
    Wishbone Ash - 'The King will come' - one of my favourite 'Ash' tracks and IMO 'Argus' was their best ever studio album.  And this is how a wah should be used!  

    Intro at 20 secs and main solo at 3:20 - great playing and wonderful tasteful use of the wah!




    And live at 40th Anniversary concert 



    I started out with nothing..... but I've still got most of it left (Seasick Steve)
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  • BGGBGG Frets: 689
    Anything by Brian Robertson.
    #thebatesmotelband
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3307
    edited April 2021
    BGG said:
    Anything by Brian Robertson.
    Amen to that and reference Live and Dangerous and Scott Gorham, too
    Gary Moore on the solo from 'Back on the Streets' - listen from 1'50"


    Santana on Moonflower.

    Rob Harris of Jamiroquai on 'Starchild'

    Dimebag
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  • menamestommenamestom Frets: 4701
    edited April 2021

    The best wah to my ear is when the pedal isn’t rocked up and down to the beat.  Sounds so much better when the timing is varied to clever effect.  Some good examples of that on this thread.
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  • ColsCols Frets: 6997
    The solo to Like Suicide by Soundgarden.  Absolutely blistering work by Kim Thayil.
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  • Jimbro66Jimbro66 Frets: 2427
    Something really ancient but significant because it was the precursor of the wah pedal, the De’Armond volume and tone pedal. Big Jim Sullivan on lead and Jimmy Page on rhythm.

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  • MagicPigDetectiveMagicPigDetective Frets: 3023
    edited April 2021
    Cols said:
    The solo to Like Suicide by Soundgarden.  Absolutely blistering work by Kim Thayil.
    Damn I should have said that..... possibly my favourite solo. Kim is a master of the blistering, barely in control but melodically interesting solo, many examples on record. 

    Another great wah solo, Mike McCready on Go. Fire.
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