Chords for Robin Trower on how he gets his psychedelic blues tone

OK, well this is a signature model, this is my signature model Strat which
_ vendors build for me and available in all good stores _ and _ the thing about that makes
it individual to me is is the fact that it's got _ a _ _ 50s neck pickup or reissue _ 50s that's a 60s
reissue and this is called the Texas Texas Special I think it's called so that's a little bit higher
gain _ I use quite heavy strings I'm tuned down a tone so that the strings are looser and I can
use heavier strings [Em] and I have a high action to get more sound out of it and _ locking tuners _
maple neck jumbo frets _ that's the combination of [E] stuff _ it's a five-way switch on the on the
pickups and obviously based on a 70s 70s model yeah I chose to have a bigger headstock _ because
I thought a bit more wood you might get a bit more resonance _ _ that's the only [Abm] reason I went for
the bigger headstock on it [N] yeah but you went for the locking tuners yeah oh yeah just simplicity
yeah yeah with a whammy bar you know you need all the help you can get keep it in tune absolutely
yeah absolutely yeah now my pedals are all by Fulltone of California _ and Mike Fuller has been
making pedals for me for a long long time since 92 I think was the first one I got from him
and just recently he made this one for me asked him to make
_ _ a wah _ that you could set in one position right right so that's what that that control [D] is for so
_ right so that's like yeah half oh yeah that's right yeah so it's already pre-set _ this is the
wah obviously _ [C] _
_ [Dm] _ this is the Deja Vibe which is sort of the bridge of size sound _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ this is the
Robin Trower Overdrive signature Overdrive _ _ _ that's been that's been around for a while now
this is an actual fact the the prototype which is why the writing is all hand done on it okay yeah
and the Fatboost which follows that I was using an original four driver that is that silver box there
yeah and so that was the basis [Bb] I you know because he knew how much I love that that sound so
he went on from there and he made one it wasn't quite right and he kept adapting it until I was
happy [Ab] with it basically so [G] yeah yeah do you use the mainly the Overdrive from the from the pedal
or do you use the the amp as well as a sort of a I think it's a combination I like to drive the amps
yeah because that's you know you can get _ sustain or what have you out of pedals but really you
you don't get the real singing sound unless you drive the amps a bit you know _ so _
[D] _ on this for instance I haven't got any drive on it's just a volume boost but it does change it
changes the tone _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ oh yeah gives it more thrust as it were a bit more middly [C] _ and then that this one's
another boost again but that that's not a drive Overdrive it's not [D] a distortion pedal _ _ it's just
[Ab] more drive basically right okay so if the amps were up at sort of concert volumes that would
really give them the yeah give them the push it's needed um yeah I think I think what what I do with
this pedal is it sort of takes the guitar sound which on the neck pickup which is what I use most
of the time it _ _ puts it you know into more of a mid-range takes out all that bottom end that's
unusable really yeah on the neck pickup you know yeah yeah I noticed the bit of bit of wood on the
bridge of size is that that's that's at a tempo for the for bridge of size right I see so that's
absolutely that's good otherwise it gets knocked _ live you know I mean and you've got the wrong speed _
[G] so yeah that's that's that's a good good idea to keep it at the right [A] setting that's a good old
sort of yeah way of doing it a bit of wood a bit of wood yeah there's nothing better um going up
to the amps [Ab] now yeah um you said the earlier that these were new yeah I mean I've had that I suppose
a _ year 18 months this is brand new I've only just had it a few weeks [Abm] now
_ and this is the Blues Master Blues Breaker _ and I love it it's great
_ _ [N] hand-wired it makes a hell of a difference really really pure sound yeah and the other
amp is the that's the 50 watt um I'm not sure what what the number is I think it might be 1989
or some name 87 87 is it yeah it is yeah yeah anyway um _
_ [E] that's a 50 watt and that's that's
a sort of a straight amp as well it's got no preamp on it so you know you have to crank it
to get it to really sing yeah and they're very loud they're very very loud these 50 watts yeah
and you run them together in concert they're both I haven't used them live yet _ _ I haven't used that
combo live as I've only just got this right so I don't know but in the studio that I'm running them
together you know it's a great combination so so is your live rig actually different or will you be
I'm going to try I'm going to try this yeah I just see if it's got enough oomph
in a bigger place you know what I mean yeah it's a great tone but you know I rely on
a bit of oomph because when you're in a three piece you know it's