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Kay guitars ... that's awesome!
The guitar I first learned on was a Kay that my Dad owned. I was around 8 years old when I started plunking on it. All I really remember about it is that it had 2 seagulls on the pickguard. When Dad started teaching me some basic chords, the songs he used were "Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore" and "Four String Winds". A few years later I discovered Jethro Tull, and our musical tastes went separate ways.
Thanks for that great memory, Strummerboy!
Pendragon "Breaking the Spell" Poland, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BItp37gKtAo
This is jaw-dropping great work on a Stratocaster, by guitarist Nick Barrett. Pendragon have been around since 1978 in various incarnations, with Barrett being the common thread throughout the whole time. This track has solo work beginning a couple minutes in, and it just keeps building and improving until the end of the song. They've never had a pop hit or anything like that, but really kicked the group's awareness into high gear when they started touring with Marillion in 1982. They'll be a featured act this coming July at "The Ramblin' Man Fair" in Kent, England. Enjoy Nick's guitar work ... it's amazing.
Hey Kev ... that's really well done. Great voice you have, and I love the energetic rendition.
So this is starting to get complicated (and potentially expensive). The C9 and the B9 have different menus, and each of them has one tone that I dearly want, which isn't on the other (grrrrrr). The C9's "Lord Purple" is awesome, but the B9 has the "Cathedral" setting for a pipe organ, which is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98u-MDTKAWU (listen at the 4:50 mark)
Be nice if they had a single unit that combined both, but the B9 gets close to Jon Lord's tone in the "Octaves" setting. And I suspect the "Classic Rock" setting run through the "Lead" channel on my amp will do something similar.
P.S. The voice-over clip at the start of the demo is hilarious!
Great job, Russell! It sure doesn't take you long to figure out how to put new gear to good use ... nicely done!
Happy NAD, Graham! I've never played a Line 6 amp, but they certainly have a great reputation ... it should serve you well.
Since Dino has dubbed Badeye and myself as "The Brady Bunch", we obviously couldn't be happier with last evening's performance.
But the real story is Packers - Seahawks game, which kept us all glued to the TV set. Wow ... didn't see that coming!
Great catch, Uncle Joe ... thank you! I've changed the link in my post, and you got the exact one I'd selected.
Five stars, Badeye! I really like the percussive use of the mouth organ behind the vocals ... great feel to this one!
Ridiculous cold here in the Valley this morning, eh? Good day to stay in and strum.
Steve Hackett "Blood on the Rooftops" Budapest, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKEGfjmcso
I was on the classical guitar practicing this piece last evening, so thought it'd be a good entry for this week. I certainly can't play it to perfection all the way through, but it's passable. This song was from the second Genesis album after Peter Gabriel left (Winds & Wuthering), and Phil Collins did an excellent job on the vocals. After Hackett left the group, the whole "flavour" of Genesis changed to pop music and I completely lost interest. Yet their album sales increased from that point on, with their only Platinum albums coming after they went pop. The point: musicality does not equal popularity, but most of us at Chordie already know that.
Trivia Notes: The whole song is about violence on TV, with some cultural references that are interesting. For example, one line states "The trouble all started with a young Errol Flynn". I read years ago that the original "Robin Hood" movie (1938) is the first time actual bloodshed was shown in film, when Robin kills Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) in the final sword fight, and blood trickles from the corner of his mouth as he dies. Quite benign by today's standards!
Topdown ...
Is that a "Rainsong" or "Composite Acoustics" all-carbon guitar you're holding? I've never seen one personally, and have been very curious about their sound. You like it?
Interesting what you said about the humbuckers, Russell ...
I noticed that also, and quickly coil-tapped the LP to get rid of the boominess (is that even a word?). What I was really impressed with was the real time sound of the C9. A lot of guitar synthesis gear requires a 13-pin guitar > synth connection so the signal path is instant, but the C9 doesn't.
For the setup part, I didn't have my ME-80 there to try things. The guy at the store recommended that I continue with the Guitar > ME-80 > Amp setup that I use, and if I get a C9, to run it separately through the effects loop. He said something about the signal boost going into the pedal board creating too much load at the input stage. I don't understand most of that stuff, but it seemed to make sense.
King Crimson "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" Japan, 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUIYskCHrEI
King Crimson were another one of those Prog Rock pioneers, who quickly developed a cult following because of their originality. Although the band members changed throughout the years, the consistent influence of Robert Fripp (white jacket, glasses, stage right) formed and maintained KC's signature sounds. King Crimson certainly isn't to everyone's taste, and sometimes their prolonged use of dissonance can actually be hard on the head. However, there's no denying their talent (drummer Bill Bruford is one of England's best) and the fact that they pushed the envelope within a very creative genre. Robert's "Frippertronics" became the basis for many of the synth guitar effects in use today.
Hey Russell ...
I just played with one of these C9's this afternoon ... whatta a blast! I couldn't stop grinning the whole time, at just how authentic this gadget sounds.
I had a guitar identical to my Epi Les Paul plugged into a Traynor YCS90 amp (90-watt, 2x12", all tube) quite similar to my Peavey (100-watt, 2x12", all tube). Everything I did with the C9 sounded better than I could hope for, and since there were no other customers in the shop, they let me crank it up. On the "Blimp" setting with the "Click" knob almost fully off, it got that cool sound for "Child in Time" which is perfect for guitar (G-G-A bass run, then improv, followed by the F-F-G bass run, more improv).
In short, I've got G.A.S. for a C9 as bad as I've ever had for a guitar ... pennies being saved!
Gave me a good laugh, Dino ... the Brady Bunch!
Way back when cable TV was luxury, the only NFL broadcasts that reached Canada's east coast were from the Boston area. To this day, there are still a lot of Nova Scotians who are Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and Red Sox fans. What little coverage made it our way always featured these guys as the "home team", so it kinda stuck with us. I was a huge Sam "The Bam" Cunningham fan in those days, as well as Mosi Tatupu.
Fretfull ... you must be looking at one of Fender's "Modern Player" series of Tele's. There are lots of positive reviews online about them, and it makes me wonder how much lower in price they'll go before it starts affecting their entry-brand "Squier", which are almost in that same price range. I had an Ibanez "Tele-copy" back in high school days (early 70's), and whipped the tar out of it with overuse. Fun guitar to play.
I'm with Badeye ... go Patriots! That was gutsy, never-say-die win yesterday.
I know it's pretty simple for someone to make a "knock off" that is cosmetically similar. But when I looked at the electronics and specs for these two, they're also identical. $400 is a big difference when the country-of-origin is really the only factor.
Welcome to Chordie, Micky!
We don't see too many Tanglewoods in my neck of the woods, but what I saw online about them is very positive. I had also never heard of ASG (Artist Series Guitars) until I looked them up. Looks like you've got yourself a quality instrument, and like Dino said: if you like it ... that's really the final word.
I was comparing some Stratocasters at a local shop yesterday, and ran into these two:
Fender Roadhouse Deluxe ($650): http://intl.fender.com/en-CA/guitars/st … apple-red/
Fender American Special ($1050): http://intl.fender.com/en-CA/guitars/st … apple-red/
They have all the same hardware and electronics, the same pickups (single-coil Texas Specials), and they looked, played, and sounded identical. Can anyone give me some idea as to why one is $400 more than the other? They only thing worded differently on their website, is that the latter is touted as being "US-made" whereas that phrase doesn't appear in the write-up about the Roadhouse. Is that really the only material difference? I've never owned a Fender, but they seem to have so many variations of their base models, that once you get beyond the various pickups and configurations, it gets a bit confusing trying to compare them.
Many thanks in advance!
Yes (Acoustic) "Roundabout" California, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5NRazwCu0
A different take on a classic piece from Yes, originally released on their 1971 album "Fragile" with electric / electronic instruments. Sometimes all of the electronics can blurr the music and musicianship behind the song itself, so doing an acoustic or unplugged version has a warm yet raw edge to it. This was "live in studio" broadcast from 2004, which was sent out to a couple dozen theatres across the US. I've got the DVD and enjoy watching it often. It's interesting to hear how a group will interpret their own music with different instrumentation, and I think they've knocked it out of the park with this one.
Hope you enjoy it!
Terrific post! Always honorable when a son steps up to honor their father.
Love the name "Lord Purple" for that #5 organ mode ... the late Jon Lord would have been proud that an effects company would seek to capture his signature tones. A number of Deep Purple tunes come to mind where that gadget would be fun (Highway Star, Space Truckin', etc.) Will it do a clean organ sound like "Child in Time"?
A friend of mine as a POG2 that Electro-Harmonix makes, and it does some cool keyboard effects also. We once jammed along to "No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin), and he did the organ part while I did the sliding fuzz guitar stuff. Sounded pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Russell, that's another neat looking piece of equipment. You're building a formidable arsenal in your home studio, and (more importantly) I'll bet you're having a blast using it all. I assume it mounts on a tripod?
Another good use for a capo is to offer an alternate finger shape to play in the key you want. For example, the shape for a normal D is easy to make with 2 fingers (index barring top 3 strings at 2nd fret, with middle finger on the second string in the 3rd fret. Now if the song you want to play is in G, you can capo at the 5th fret, and play the D shape above that. You then have your ring finger and little finger free to do other things, to liven the tune. This would can be more versatile than playing an open G in the first position. Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) does this a fair bit.
A trigger-style capo can also be used to do an instant "drop E" tuning, by capoing the top 5 strings at the second fret (capo upside down) leaving the bottom E string open. Bruce Cockburn and Tom Cochrane do this on occasion.
It's a nice simple tool that can add options to a lot of tunes. Have fun experimenting with it, because your imagination is really the only limitation.
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