All you smooth jazz cats, Jeff Golub isn't a detached name to you. Mr. Golub is one of the most captivating guitarist when it comes to all things smooth... I first saw him in an early '90s Hamer guitar advertisement & after checking him out, discovered he wasn't the shredder type but his command of the instrument was really absorbing.
Mr. Golub's clean Strat tones are very likable to me; it's not an excessively bright voicing but the twang retention was there to behold. There's actually a very simple formula at work- a rosewood fretboard Strat. Mr. Golub's prized possession is his '65 as seen above. He is a bold & respectable player in my books because he showed no hesitations to modify his instrument to suit his needs. While the rest of the Fender world would deem this a grave perversion, especially in view of how much a '65 article would fetch today, the practical player is more than willing to turn his instrument into a sensible enhancer. As evident above, the original bridge made way for a Wilkinson replacement & a Duncan Lil' Screamin' Demon humbucker is resident in the bridge position. The other invisible mod here are the Sperzel tuners & Mr. Golub fancies a set of D'Addario .009s in there with the G-string lowered to a .015 (default: .016). This only heightens my desire to acquire a rosewood fretboard Strat. Darn.
