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Andy Timmons - Cry for You, Strawberry Fields Forever, & Headed for the Ditch (Patreon)

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2025-07-06 15:00:09
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College educated, lives in McKinney, Texas and plays musically and in different styles? This was a fun dive!

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Andrew Hellebrand

Andy still lives in McKinney and occasionally plays small local gigs sitting in with bands or playing solo at short notice as well as more formal shows (often for album releases) and masterclass type clinics at The Guitar Sanctuary (awesome looking local music store/venue you might not be familiar with, looks like the kinda place I'd love to visit one day). Speaking of Ibanez, in the first two videos Andy is playing his old faithful guitar built for him by the USA custom shop in 1994, between the first and second performance there's probably a good 20yrs of visible wear and tear. They did a very limited run of replica signature models of this guitar in '99 as the AT100; before introducing a regular production model version, the AT100CL in '09, that's been available ever since. He's had several other signature models with them in the intervening years (I have a soft spot for the AT300 from '04-'07 he was playing when I first discovered his music), but all of them have been variations on this type of super-strat guitar design. With the Fender Telecaster, beyond the body shape the pickups and bridge construction are also very different compared to a Stratocaster. For regular Tele models the body is a slab design without the contouring of the Strat, so is slightly less comfortable and has a reputation of being more of a workhorse guitar in terms of its image. The bridge pickup is mounted directly to the metal bridge rather than a pickguard or the guitar body itself and has a lot of 'spank' to the sound, some examples can have an almost 'ice pick' level of treble response depending on the amp settings. Whereas the neck pickup is much more mellow sounding and has a following amongst jazz guitarists who don't want to play hollow body guitars. Then depending on the year & model the strings can either go through the body and be anchored in metal retainer ferrules on the back of the body (like with Andy's here) or be top-loaded where they just anchor through holes in the back of the bridge, both approaches affect the sound and immediacy of the note attack in different way. I believe the example Andy is playing in this video is a vintage model from 1968. The foam under the strings behind the nut is to prevent any unintentional open string resonating that might get picked up whilst playing, for live purposes it's normally not too noticeable & just blends into the background, but in the studio when you're wanting a cleaner recording it's more often taken into account (especially in more distorted rock/metal situations). You've actually seen the opposite of this when you saw Rolling Quartz live, in the instrumental band intro part they do at the start of the show before Blaze, Hyunjung strums behind the nut on her blue Suhr briefly mid-twiddle for a flashy squawk effect.

Glenner7

I don't think I'd refer to Strawberry Fields Forever as an "ordinary" Beatles song. Maybe give the original a listen some day...

NittPicc Reacts

Oh no! I wouldn’t say it’s ordinary. Even listening to the cover I heard in that movie I was thrown off because it wasn’t the usual Beatles songs I had heard from their early era. Sorry if I said it that way in this video! 😅

NittPicc Reacts

I need to see if I can run into him sometime since he’s local. It would be really cool to have an opportunity to see him play live! …and thank you for all the knowledge! It’s interesting to read the history and builds of the guitars because I have very limited knowledge.

Glenner7

NP I was in no way offended, it's just that that is one of their most epic song productions.

P in D

I always think of the tele is something you buy if you can't afford a strat ... much like buying a Tudor instead of an actual Rolex :p ... although if you are not going to use a feature, why pay for it I guess ;) . Doesn't Dany of The Warning also use the technique you describe of strumming behind the nut in Automatic Sun?

Andrew Hellebrand

That was the idea with Fenders back in the day, but nowadays provided there's very little difference in price between the two, unless you don't need Fender on the headstock, at which point there's a lot more in the way of more affordable strat copies on the market. Just checked out a live video of Automatic Sun and Dany does use a similar technique to Hyunjung, though with the guitar being heavily downtuned it's got less of a squawk and the tempo of the song makes it less flashy and more used for the unsettling tonal effect. From what I've read it appears to be a 27" baritone tuned to drop A, I'd probably find that a bit flappy with the scale length extension a bit on the lower side of things. For my baritone electric it's a 28" scale tuned A-a and that still feels on the shorter end compared with my acoustic.