martykl
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| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... I own one 'Strat style guitar (a Tokai lawsuit guitar with Lace single coils). It looks great, is very playable, and sounds pretty damn good. I almost never touch it. I just never took to Strats. I do love me my Richard Thompson, tho.BTW, Bdp, I s... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... BTW, I'm also a big fan of Union Station. I haven't seen them in a while, but Jerry opened the last show I saw with an amazing solo set before settling in to play with the band. I'd agree that he is a singular talent. | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... I don't play a ton of electric guitar anymore, but 80% of that time is spent with a Telecaster. I play almost entirely blues or rock n roll and the Tele does yeoman's work for me. It will twang if you want it to, but won't if you don't. One or ano... | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? Rockpile was such a great live band! Even when performing as a duo, Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe (with a rhythm section) never seemed to have quite the same energy as they did when performing as Rockpile. Maybe it was just the luck of the draw, but ... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Bdp,I have Barden's on my Tele for that precise reason. Yet somehow, I still don't sound quite like Danny Gatton. | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... BB King also had a tendency to play in a pentatonic minor/blues scale hybrid box just below the 12th fret on the B and G strings. Mainly just four notes plus bends, etc. He got a ton of mileage out of that little box and Peter Green would often li... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Tostado,Personally, I hear Freddie's influence in all of the above, tho clearly at different levels. I certainly understand the influence that BB had on Green's sound (and, for that matter, the difference that choice of hardware and expanded techn... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... I truly love virtually every version of Fleetwood Mac that's ever seen a stage or tracked a tune. (The "faux" Mac stand-ins who toured in the mid-70s per some contract dispute might be excepted). IMO, Peter Green was arguably the best of the Fredd... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... I'm a huge fan of both Dave Edmunds (particularly with Nick Lowe in Rockpile) as well as Marshall Crenshaw whose playing skills matured over time in a very impressive fashion.As to old Mac vs New Mac, I'm a guitarist and songwriter who has studied... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Sorry if I offended.My point was that your characterization of Mac's music as interesting until the "bubblegum team " reflects a rather limited view of both Mac's music prior to Buckingham Nicks and after their arrival (for the specific reasons st... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... In my book, Fleetwood Mac has produced some great music in every configuration. The purest straight-up pop (or bubblegum, if you prefer) tends to come from Christine MacVie, rather than Buckingham or Nicks and was present in the band's catalog pri... | |
| How did you contract "Audiophilia" I was a big music fan in high school in northern NJ and record listening sessions with friends were a weekly event. Eventually, that included a friend who had a high-end system. Five minutes into my first listening session with that system and I w... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Bdp,I'm basically a cult band guy, too. Richard Thompson, Los Lobos, Feelies, Bongos, Matthew Sweet, Kid Creole, Rebirth Brass Band, James Booker, Don Dixon/Marti Jones, etc, etc. Some have had their brief moments on the charts, but as a whole, th... | |
| The Feelies update Max,Thanks for the heads up. Feelies are a top ten all-time band in my book, especially live. I lived in Hoboken during the 1980s and was fortunate enough to see a ton of their shows. I'm looking forward to both the Mercer stuff and the band's spr... | |
| I screwed up Just curious here: Are you using the room correction function on the HK? |