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On 3/13/2023 at 2:52 PM, Whitefang said:
You mean country players like: or......
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Hank Williams Lester Flatt Ernest Tubb....?
Those look like Dreadnoughts to me.
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But then too..... There's Taylor And Stills
James, Stephen and even Paul Simon didn't move to concert or "parlor" styles until much later in their careers.
Whitefang
Yes Whitefang James Taylor along with others did play Dreadnought guitars but fashion moves slowly. In the picture you put up James Taylor plays a Dreadnought he also has hair and no beard. He is most likely wearing bell bottom trousers but I'll bet he's not wearing them tonight or playing a Dreadnought guitar!!!.
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Styles in guitars move slowly but if you take the acoustic guitars Dreadnoughts were in fashion for a long time from Beatles in the sixties to into the seventies you only saw a Concert shape on the country players just not cool if you were in a rock band. Slowly the Concert shape took over starting with the likes of James Taylor and C S N.
Today you never see a Dreadnought, just not cool all players use Concert shape but also Parlour shapes are becoming fashionable thanks to Ed Sheeran.
The only fast fashion guitar I can think of was the Ovation, many sound holes and a rounded back, big in the 70s never see one now.
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I've just discovered Taylor Goldsmith and his band Dawes. Sort of Dire Straights meets The Eagles with the
songwriting of Paul McCartney. Can't ask for better than that!
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Fate has introduced me to Taylor Goldsmith. I have their Nothing Is Wrong album which I have enjoyed immensely so if you are a Neil Young fan I'm sure you will too. But if you already know them perhaps you can guild me to their back calalodge. Thanks guys.
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Has any member come across a Harpejji, it's a cross between a guitar and a harp, makes a great sound?
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The reason your guitar hasn't got a pick guard is because the builder designed it to be without one. The guitar is built for finger picking or light plectrum work.
So may me this is the time for you to change your style to fit the guitar rather than changing the guitar to fit you.
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On 3/13/2022 at 11:40 AM, Murph said:
This.
They haven't made any money with that property in decades. You'd have to be a wealthy heir to keep it as it was.
It's still sad, and Gillian saw this coming long ago.
Thanks Murph I like it. I think Joni Mitchell had a go at this theme with Furry Sings the Blues.
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Keef is the Cockney way of saying Keith. Londoners pronounce th as f.
Macca is Scouce , Liverpudlians shorten all names so McCartney becomes Macca.
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Hofner is a greatly underrated guitar maker mostly because they were all you could get in UK before 1960. I had a Hofner Verthin like a Gibson 330 but lighter, great guitar, wish I had it now.
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Start with alternating bass using your thumb, then add in a treble string finger one then another finger two then a third finger three. Easy!
The first twenty years are the worst!
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Here in UK second hand car prices are going up and up and the price of new cars is coming down. All supply and demand.
Food and clothing prices are up too. The stores blame the pandemic, shortage of supply due to shortage of staff as all the East Europeans have returned home since we came out of the EU. Well the answer is ...with democracy you get the government you deserve. We spent years trying to get into the EU then forty years latter we want to be out. It's our children who will suffer but then they should have got out of bed and voted.
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Can any members help me with a boom problem please.
I record with Cubase. When listing to one of my tracks I discovered that there was a booming sound on some of the notes that was not there before. This is a voice and guitar recording done about ten years ago. I have discovered that the boom is on my speakers but not when I listen through headphones. The speakers are about six months old.
I would be most grateful for any advise.
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I was with some other people so we only saw the one set. I remember it wasn't long. He wasn't that big a star in UK then, the fist time I heard him I was in Montreal and he was promoted by the Canadian government.
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I saw Neil Young in UK at the BBC he was fantastic and I've been a fan for many years but there's a time to 'get off the stage' for everyone and this is now for Neil.
I was, basement studio, BBC Upper Regent Street.
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I saw Neil Young in UK at the BBC he was fantastic and I've been a fan for many years but there's a time to 'get off the stage' for everyone and this is now for Neil.
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I have played in the same band for twenty years, we used to play weekly but with health and family commitments sometimes a couple of months go by before we play together again. Certainly we are very rusty and it is usually towards the end of the set that we start to sound anything like we were.
I have been recording solo for over ten years, the other day I was asked about a song, Oh! yes said I I remember that I have it recorded somewhere. Sure enough I found the recording I made nine years ago, it sounded good but when I picked up my guitar there was no way I could play that song with either the dexterity or the speed of the recording, time has taken it's toll. So what I'm saying is enjoy it now as nothing lasts for ever.
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It may come as a surprise to you but John Mayer has a new album out called Sob Rock. Well the title didn't excite me so I thought no more of it but hearing from a friend that I should give it a try I did, and yes I like it so thought I would share it with fellow members.
Some of the tracks are John Mayer meets Mark Knopfler and some John Mayer meets Phil Collins and some John Mayer is still hug up on Katy Perry but having said that there is soul in this album even if it is his. Then of course there is his guitar playing which is wonderful, not only is it clever and tactile it is also musical and sympathetic to the cor of the songs. Mayer is a superb song writer and musician but the enjoyment in this album is there in bucket loads for us all to hear.
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Yes sad news the passing of Don Everly. The Everly Brothers were a great duo and a great influence on many bands including The Beatles who strangely enough never covered them. Of the original 50s rock n rollers I think only Jerry Lee Lewis and a couple of The Crickets are still around.
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I own one too. Mine is Rosewood with ebony fretboard. I think these are very underrated guitars. They are so like Martins 00028 which have been available since pre WW11 or maybe WW1 It seems to me there is an unexplored market here for Gibson
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I am always suspicious of damaged labels so you can't expect to sell it for big money but if it is Matsumoko made it's a nice guitar and if it plays well you have a bargain.
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These are different guitars
The ES 335 is a semi hollow guitar whilst the Casino is completely hollow. These guitars give different sounds but as to playing the Casino is much lighter.
For me if I could get a 70s or 80s Japanese Casino I'd go for it.
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Sorry Forthyearspickn what I was meaning is that as our fellow member has a problem with the size of the guitars he should look at a small body guitar as J45 and SJ200 are about the same size. I can't say that the size bothered me during my J45 years but I was introduced to a small body guitar by Doyle Dykes and I was sold.
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Well SJ200s are played by many players including the ladies too. If you are used to a J45 you will be good with a SJ200. I played a J45 for years but then I was introduced to small bodied guitars, never looked back.
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Mine, the same as Bobouz no cut away. Great guitar.
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Gibson gets into the used guitar biz
in The Gibson Lounge
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It's not only vintage guitars that are selling. Here in UK a Gibson Firebird once played by ( yes played by ) Chuck Berry sold for £21000. I could see it if it was a Gibson ES in red and owned by Berry but a Firebird ! the worlds gone mad.