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  1. I still have a guitar I bought when I lived in a dorm.  Bought new in 1982.  A 12 string even.  Just spend extra for a hard shell case.  If he appreciates the guitar, he will take care of it.  Plus, the hard shell makes taking it back and forth to the pawn shop a lot easier.  

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  2. I guess I'll leave this on the guitar thread since most here might get a kick out of it.  

    JR was working on some musical that Dolly Parton was in it.  The Gatlin Brothers also had a small part.   Dolly gets there and asks JR for the script.  It was the first time she had seen it.  She takes it back stage and in a couple of hours she gives it back to JR.  He tells her she can keep it.  She said, "No need honey".   

    JR is watching at they run through the thing for the first time.  He said it was evident that not only had she memorized her part but she also knew everyone else's lines.  They were all looking to her for prompts.    Then a week later, at the first performance as they are about to go on stage and JR is on the board in the back of the auditorium, she tells JR from the stage.  "The two Gatlins have the wrong mics.   They are were supposed to be blue/left and white/right but someone switched them so you will need to change the tape on your board to match what they have".   She not only knew everyone's lines, but she knew the lighting and the sound set up.  After reading the script once.

    JR said she is the smartest person he has ever met.  Not only from a business sense but also from a memory angle.   I'm guessing he has worked with her probably over 100 times.  

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  3. 29 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    I heard some of those Bowie songs with SRV on them, and...  I dunno, it wasn't a great mashup, imo.  SRV was SRV and Bowie was Bowie and the whole was somehow less than the sum of both their talents.  Both were probably better off for that falling apart.

     

    I can see that and completely understand.  At least from the rehearsal stuff, I thought Carlos Alomar did a good job of blending SRV's sound with Bowie's.  In most of the stuff, SRV really stays our of the way and just does the solos...mostly pretty much like the original recordings...just with the SRV tone.  SRV knew next to nothing about Bowie's music and in a very short time, he meshed with them.  In the recordings, there are couple of times where Carlos really bitches at the Simms brothers and after reading and hearing recordings of what they said, fuck those guys.   They can go sit in the corner with Paul Simon.

    On an aside, I have a buddy who has engineered some of the most famous records every recorded.  You have all heard his work.  I get to talk to him twice a week.  Each time, he tells me a new story.  His SRV story:   I'll call him JR.  JR had recorded SRV at some live gig around the time that he first started playing Superstition.   (JR still has the tape and I got to hear it).  Again, this is early on.  JR sends the tape to Stevie Wonder to let him hear it.  Wonder calls JR back and asks how many takes.  One.  How many guitars?  One.  Wonder couldn't believe it.  He told JR, "I used 11 different keyboards to make that song and he did it with one guitar".  

    He also has great stories about Bowie/Alomar and Dollie Parton.  I really should write all of these down that he tells me.  It always begins, "You'll appreciate this....."  or "You'll love this....."

     

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  4. 2 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    I always heard that he quit on Bowie because Texas Flood was blowing up. Who knows the real story.

    And holy fuck about getting hired to play Mick Jagger’s birthday party. I had never heard that. Jesus Christ what a gig. It’s one thing to just know you even belong at that gig. But just imagine walking into that party, plugging in, and knowing you are about to blow THAT room away. Damn.

    Serious Moonlight tour started in mid May of that year.  Texas Flood was released in Mid June.    They were purposely holding off releasing Texas Flood until after the Bowie tour ended in Dec. 83.  Different stories on why he left.  From what I remember from that time and read afterwards, these seem to be the main two.   And fuck those Simms brothers and their bullshit stories.    You can go on youtube and listen to the full rehearsals and hear that SRV was doing fantastic in that band.  Just listen to Cracked Actor and the way he hits that key change in the middle of that solo.   

    1.  Skipped rehearsal to go to Muddy Waters funeral and didn't tell anyone when/if he would be back.  (early May)
    2.  He wanted to be paid like a headliner, not scale of a touring musician and Bowie's team wasn't budging
     

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  5. 16 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    That’s what I’ve always understood.

    Always been a big Jackson brown fan. Not only does he have great songs. He gave us fucking Stevie Ray.

    Though in fairness someone else would have done it if he didn’t. But still.

    SRV got booed at Montreux in 82, but apparently Browne was there and offered the space, then John Hammond heard it and they remastered those to make Texas Flood.  Also around that time, Mick Jagger hired SRV and the band to play his birthday party.    That is how David Bowie met SRV and asked him to join his band for the Serious Moonlight tour.  Bowie was practicing with that band in Los Colinas and Dallas was going nuts about it. (The recordings are a ton of fun to listen to).  Texas Flood still hadn't been released and here was the hometown boy about to tour in Bowie's band.  Tickets sold out for Bowie's Dallas show VERY quickly, back in the days of having to stand in line at the Ridgmar Mall JC Penneys.  

    Then Muddy Waters dies in May; SRV skips rehearsals;  stories differ here but Bowie brought in Earl Slick and left for the tour.  A month later, they released Texas Flood.   I thought him leaving that band was going to be the end of his career.  They held off releasing it because of the tour, then when that didn't happen, I thought the label was going to shit-can that record.  

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  6. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    He died 7 months later.  Man.

    First time most people had seen him after rehab.  There was a lot of talk about where he would be able to play again...they whole muscle memory/playing while wasted.   Can he do it sober?   After the first 2 seconds, it was obvious that question was answered.  I still lost my breathe just watching that again.  

    They seem to have removed that most of the performances from Youtube.  That version of Pride and Joy.........wow.  

     

  7. Interested to see what that Guild 12 string goes for.  To me, that is a very important guitar in music history.  SRVs, refreshed and sober, simply destroying a 12 string, acoustic guitar.  Solo.    I've mentioned before, but that Sunday night, I was sitting on the couch, playing my 12 string and that Unplugged came on.  I put that guitar back in the case and didn't touch it for over a year.  I mean, what's the fucking point.  

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  8. Did someone mention camping?   Evan Dando weighed in a few years ago.

     

     

    Always had a roof above me
    Always paid the rent
    But I've never set foot inside a tent
    Can't build a fire to save my life
    I lied about being the outdoor type
     
    I've never slept out underneath the stars,
    The closest that I came to that was one time my car
    Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night
    I lied about being the outdoor type
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    Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for
    I lied until I fit the bill god bless the great indoors
    I lied about being the outdoor type
    I've never owned a sleeping bag let alone a mountain bike
     
    I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
    What if somethings on tv and its never shown again
    Its just as well I'm not invited I'm afraid of heights
    I lied about being the outdoor type
     
    Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight
    I lied about being the outdoor type
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  9. 21 hours ago, Goredho said:

    I love that chord shape for D.  Sorta similar, I'll often drop the D played by the pinky on the 5th string and just play open A with the 3rd inversion D triad over it, maybe adding the 2nd F# on the first string.  It is more often considered an A6sus chord, but it works anywhere a D can be placed as the low A is also in the D triad.

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    If you do it in drop-D tuning, it is so big and beautiful. Like a Vic Mackey match.com pairing.

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    @Goredho  Where are you grabbing these images from?  

  10. 39 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Thanks man. I do try to make it sound good. It’s always surprising to me how many folks I see who do what we do that don’t sound that great.

    It’s not super complicated. Signal chain is Larrivee with LR Baggs Anyhem pickup, going into the pedal board below. Then into a Electrovoice EV 30M tower array (way better than Bose, built in mixer we run with the iPad). Also using an additional QSC 8.2 as a second main.



    Pedal board is boss eq into LR Baggs Venue preamp. The TC Helicon boxes are for vocals and they are magic.

    Thanks.  I have that Duplicator and LOVE it.  

  11. Good Lord @tbone_  That sound is incredible...and her voice on "Tumblin' Dice".  Good grief.  (about the 2:41)

    What are you running the guitar thru?  Sound is amazing..especially considering the outdoor environmen.

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  12. Oh, I could never own a custom.  I feel stupid being seen with such a guitar.  Looking at the electrics on my wall>

    Mex Nashville Tele:  Used for $200
    Epi 339:  Used for $170
    Gretsch hollowbody:  Used for $500 
    Epi Century (1962):  Traded a rarely play 2014 LP Standard Honeyburst.   About $2100 value.  The tag from Carter's in the Epi case listed $2,600.

    My 2 acoustics were bought new.  
    I feel bad being seen with the Gretsch because it is the Falcon color scheme.  Very gaudie looking.  Just too good of a deal to pass up. 

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  13. 10 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

    Just got this 1973 Les Paul Custom. It’s better than my R9 and not worth as much.  Pickups are the only thing not stock and they are 1970’s DiMarzio Super Distortion….. but as soon as I can find a good set of T-tops or Patent Sticker humbuckers I’m going to fix that.

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    Black pickguard and knobs takes me back to when I first fell in live with LPs.  I still kick myself for not buying that White Custom in 1977.  

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  14. On 4/14/2023 at 10:01 PM, Carl Spackler said:

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    That first Marshall Crenshaw album still gets a lot of play around casa de hulla.  Same for Everywhere At Once.  Oldest Story In The World is a top 10 song for me.  I've seen Peter Case a bunch of times, and he's never played that song.  My brother says every time he see Peter, he plays it.  I once saw him play back to back sets.....only repeated one song and he never played Oldest Story.  

     

    Peter's album, Full Service No Waiting doesn't have a bad song on it.  Same for his 1986 debut album. 
    I LOVE this one from Full Service.  "Going out tonight, way downtown. Where my friends who died still hang around"  Wow. 
     

     

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