blindboygrunt
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What was the astoundingly good bourbon Dan ?
And then back to the roy smeck......
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All ya hear is how good the pickups are in the matons
If one came up for sale here I'd be tempted to check it out for my little gigs .
But I'm yet to even see one in the flesh
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To each their own and all that , but this sort of thing baffles me ...
Theres no lacquer on the inside of the guitar , so really how much does 'breathing' come into it .
Guitar sounds good
Guitar doesnt sound so good
That's about it ....
And, please , I mean no offence nor am I interested in an argument in anyway , just a little confused
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I know a lot of you are big fans of this guy
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You're not the first man to have to do that
Friends guitar was the same
At least it's an easy fix
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Monkeypod 🤣🤣
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On 8/31/2019 at 1:48 PM, 62burst said:
Getting used to that bridge yet?
Me neither.
No ,
It sounds fantastic, but just get stuck on those bridges
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Its stuck inside of Mobile with the memphis blues , sheesh , back to school for some of you guys 🤣
Beautiful guitar that
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Thomson was here in ireland a couple weeks ago , hes on fire , hard to believe his age it really is
Was solo show here zomby, same thing over there ?
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I cant read the article without creating an account for the NY times
Is it available anywhere else to read ?
Bug fan of Neil's, more acoustic but hes one of my favourite electric players , I like sloppy . It's all feel and emotion.... to me anyway .
Down by the river is easily in my top ten solos ...
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12 hours ago, Jinder said:
Thanks for giving the song a listen! Oddly enough I wrote it the day after seeing RA play in Bournemouth back in 2017, in my head I wanted to write something that sounded like Tracy Chapman had written it for RA to cover (if that makes sense!), not that I would consider myself anything close to an equal of either of course.
Amp wise, I play a lot of smaller shows and house concerts for which my Alto TS112 powered speakers are overkill at 800w a piece. They're also heavy and cumbersome, so for the smaller shows I find an amp is a good solution. I used Fishman Loudbox Performers for a couple of years but had issues with failing op-amps in them and managed to kill three before giving up on them and going back to my Altos.
The thought of a light, powerful and compact amp has always appealed though, something a bit further up the ladder quality and durability wise than the Loudbox, that would be road tough and dependable.
It's been a journey of trial and error but I think the AER Compact XL is the one. I've done two gigs with it now and it's a very good sounding unit. It's GREAT to sing through, with my Sennheiser condenser and the subtle and very musical compression that the amp has it's vocal heaven for me. Warm but with exceptional clarity, present but never harsh. The Domino I had before was more sibilant and less refined at the top end, probably due to the twin cone speakers of the Domino being fundamentally different to the driver/tweeter configuration of the XL.
The XL works very well for guitar too, and has a surprising amount of headroom for looping and similar. It really puts out a great deal of high quality sound for such a small box. Projection and dispersion is remarkable too.
It's early days but I like it a lot so far. Certainly more so than the Rosette and the Domino, although the latter was very good too.
Sounds very cool , my point , which perhaps I wasnt articulate about , was why some guys swear by a speaker rather than a pole/column system ... when the poles are designed specifically for solo acoustic performers.
Does an amp have something over these pole/column/array systems that I dont know about ?
Have you tried using a column system and didnt like it ?
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Good luck with the amp jinder
Gave your latest tune a listen this morning as it popped up on my suggested spotify new releases, interesting tune . Heard ryan Adam's prisoner album in the 80's ish production and overall sound .
Im wondering about your amp here though . Why do some artists choose an amp over the speaker array systems on poles, which is surely the most fitting solution for a guy like yourself who performs solo ?
Is it a case of having it when the band is also playing? A best of both worlds scenario?
I know I'm not at your level where people actually come and listen to you perform as opposed to me , sitting in the corner of a bar running through a few cover songs background to the drinking and chatting ....
My Fishman soloamp is superb and I love it , but I'm just trying to learn things I may not be seeing due to my inexperience playing out .
Good luck with the new songs
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I hope not
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https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/748289553/david-crosby-the-lighthouse-band-tiny-desk-concert
Not sure what I thought watching this , some nice guitars , but their version of Woodstock is great at the end
And it has a j45 (and a lovely martin)
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29 minutes ago, Boyd said:
I really love the old Dylan stuff from the 1961-1964 period and have dowloaded or purchased everything I could find - my playlist is about 17 hours long. That's actually about all I've listened to for the past year or so. "Roll on John" is one of my favorites and so is "Moonshiner", although I'm not familiar with "Moonshine". 😉
If you find a track that you like online, download it while you can because tomorrow it will probably be gone, this stuff gets taken down frequently. Just about all my favorite YouTube links no longer work. I also get "video unavailable" from the link in the OP here. However, this could be a country-specific thing, because copyright laws are different depending on where you live.
Well spotted , fixed
Phones are too clever , thinks it knows everything
Also , just to clarify, I meant I play dylan doing moonshiner , not me
Went down the dylan rabbithole about 15 years ago , maybe more , always liked him but was obsessed for a while , bootleg exchanges etc etc
Read all the bios
Amazing stuff , hes one of a kind
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Anyone who tells me dylan cant sing , and it happens from time to time
I'll play them moonshineR and ask them to have a shot at it
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2 hours ago, jchabalk said:
It looks like the video got yanked.
Works for me
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2 hours ago, ThemisSal said:
Funny thing... I bought a nice cowboy hat. I figured maybe for music and gigs.
I put it on, and my family guffawed. The berating and taunting would have immpressed Monty Python.
Anyone want to buy a hat?
I played last night for the first time ever with no hat on
A woman there had assumed I was bald all these years
She said my hair was gorgeous 😏
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I must be missing the point here ....
All I see is an ad for a Gibson stool which has been around forever
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2 hours ago, Fidalgo said:
Norman Blake...his tone, timing, touch, and ease getting around the fretboard is a thing of beauty...just the right amount of notes, never too many and never too few.
I also like, in no particular order: Charles Sawtelle, David Rawlings, Molly Tuttle, Bob Minner, Billy Strings, Presley Barker, and Jack Lawrence. And Doc Watson and Tony Rice are pretty good too.
Have a listen to Kenneth patingale from milk carton kids
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I seen a guy playing that song 6 or 7 years ago in a pub in donegal
When i asked who wrote it he didnt know, or couldnt remember at the time
I wanted to steal it
Thanks for posting !! Fantastic song
And I'm gonna steal it now
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Well , fair enough , if you've got to the point where you have 'stage lights' then I'll agree that you should , and probably have anyway, learned your songs completely and utterly
It is possible to use a book / ipad / whatever without sitting staring at it the whole time , in fact it's possible to appear not to be using it at all . To just sit and read would be a little amateurish for sure
My point is just that , there are plenty about who have full time jobs and families etc and yet enjoy entertaining at the weekend without the time to dedicate to learning 100's of songs inside out
They shouldn't be made to feel they are in some way 'not doing it right'
I've seen more musicians that were from unentertaining to downright rubbish and none of them had a songbook or an ipad
And I've seen plenty that were great using their crutch
Never, ever ever seen anyone sitting staring at their notes . Not once
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5 hours ago, ndx202 said:
no
That's very definite
I hope you're happy with your guitar
I mean that with the utmost sincerity
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I hate this 'I never needed any help , I learned the songs before I gigged' stuff that arises every time someone asks about a songbook or an app
A weeks wages say that when the electric guitar appeared there was a long line of people saying 'never needed one of those when i was gigging'
Do your own thing and let others do theirs
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