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    Abigail Ybarra, the woman behind the most famous guitar tones in music.

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    10 hours ago, slimt said:

    So that defines hand wiring? 

    Yes, the bobbin or pickup core ss loaded on a autowinder , then the operator guides the wire over the metal cowl onto the bobbin,  if you don't look close you would mistakenly think she isn't doing anything,  watch again, she is guiding the raw wire between her thumb and index finger, the wire is very fine, the camera barely picks it up.

    Abby is a legend in the Fender company, 

    Abigail Ybarra, the woman behind the most famous guitar tones in music.

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    She deserves recognition by everyone who loves rock and guitars, 

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    For 57 years, Ybarra worked at Fender, where she hand wound pickups, many of which undoubtedly found their way onto guitars played by some of the most important guitarists of our time, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck.

    Dubbed “the queen of tone,” Ybarra is legendary among guitarists, who treasure the pickups that she wound by hand. (Units she wound bear her signature; those whose work she oversaw bear her initials.)

     

    Though Ybarra retired in 2013, you can see her at work in the video above, where she winds an Esquire bridge pickup for a Fender master builder. Unlike machine winding, hand winding produces “scatter winds” that are irregular. The wires are not placed as closely to one another as they would be with standard machine winding.

    https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/watch-fender-pickup-artist-abigail-ybarra-hand-wind-an-esquire-bridge

     

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    Monkee farewell tour

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    3 hours ago, cookieman15061 said:

    I don't know. He's been an extremely successful producer of movies, music and videos along with his songwriting. I'm not buying the being a Monkee was a curse BS. Of course when your Mom invents White Out and becomes a millionaire it softens any career missteps you might have made

    He is a talented producer as well.  Nobody took the Monkees seriously each member struggled to overcome the image of a talentless group that had to have studio musicians do all the work on records while they were still learning to play.   This method was perfected buy the Beach Boys long before the casting call went out for the Monkees tv show 

    Monkee farewell tour

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    Nesmith is a good song writer and IMO was the most musically talented member of the Monkees.  The success he had as one ofbthe cast of the made for tv band did more damage to his music career because many people thought, mistakenly that none of members were capable musicians.  

    He wrote Different Drum,  Linda Ronstadt's first hit, and well over 20 songs that as many artist recorded.  

     

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    I Ain't Drunk

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    47 minutes ago, Whitefang said:

    My reference to The Beatles was also (as it was followed with "and etc.") inclusive of all the other "British invasion" bands that, as also stated, soaked up our musical culture, breathed new life into it and brought it back home.   Like The Beatles doing covers of Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins,  Wilbert Harrison and even Buck Owen tunes.  As well as a lot of their own American rock inspired originals.  [wink]

    Armstrong is entitled to his opinion, and I respect it, but you well know you're not going into any shop where you can still buy recorded music and find everything in the bins listed under one label("folk music")  [wink]  I don't care HOW much you misspell "defer".   [cool]

    Whitefang

    The topic is Blues,  and as George Harrison  credited Big Bill Broonzy as one of his inspirations,  so there is a bit of blues influence in his playing,  as for Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, and Wilbert Harrison  they weren't Blues artist,  and I believe you were the one who was ragging on others about the difference between R& B and Blues. And Buck Owens? Not even close to Blues. 

    Now let's get down to the core of this cherry you seem hell bent to pop, I don't know you from a knot hole, i dont owe you jack squat,  everyone else comes here to have friendly chats about music, Gibson Guitars and guitar stuff in general and sometimes to share a little humor or videos about music, and you take it upon yourself to agitate , insult, and inflame others,  . Where I come from we call people who do that bullies.

    I hate bullies, because they are small minded wimps, usually the kind of miscreant who hurt small animals,  children and women,  and online bullies are just d I c k less punks who have to belittle others to make up for their miserable existence.  

    We are done here. 

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    1 hour ago, Whitefang said:

    Rhythm & Blues and Blues aren't really identical, and then too,  there was a strain called "jump blues" that's believed to be the precursor to rock'n'roll, in which THIS major influence to Chuck Berry was a major proponent ......

    And of course, "folk" blues was well loved and listened to and played among the early '60's "folkies",  but still not a major genre on the American market at the time.  And sadly enough, leave it to the British( like The Beatles, Stones and etc.)  to sponge up OUR musical culture, breathe new life into it and bring it back home!  [wink]

    Whitefang

    The Stones yes, but the Beatles?  I wouldn't consider any of their work as Blues in any form.

    If we are to get technical  I will defere to  Louis Armstrong,  " all music is folk music, "

    I Ain't Drunk

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    Even before the American Blues Festival toured Britain Clive Davies and the R&B All Stars with John Baldry were playing to packed houses,  the band was created in 1962

    Before Clive started that band he was a member of Alexis Poker's Blues Incorperated , this is from 1962

     

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    The American Blues Festival which toured Britain and other European countries for several years starting in 1964 was the ignition point for the Blues resurgence. 

    Here is a video about the beginnings of the tours, look in the audience,  Clapton,  Richards, Jagger and a bunch of other future  future rock gods are being schooled.  But, in Britain,  the Blues had already had a following that began during WWII when black American soldiers brought it with them.

     

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    13 hours ago, Whitefang said:

    If that were true, Johnny would have been in that mix.  [wink]   Blues a "hard sell"?  Sure.  Last few decades maybe.  Remember, in the mid to late '60's blues became real big among the white kids(hippies).   But from then on it's been pickers( like we here in forums like this) that's been keeping the faith.  And any specialty programs on college and public radio stations.  I've loved the blues since I was about six or so and knew too it never was always about the guitar.  Since my Mom was a huge Woody Herman fan, Me and my brother grew up often hearing this tune on the "phonograph"  [wink]  Some of those "licorice stick" runs would sound good on guitar.

    Whitefang

    Woody Herman , yeah, that's the Blues! Thanks for posting that,  it ties in with our other discussionon the history of the electric guitar , your point is right on the money,  the early guitar players were copying clarinet solos and of course using their own expressions, Woody was just beyond cool. 

    Count Basie a d Duke Ellington could get down with the Blues to, and they always had the best musicians playing with them., 

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    3 hours ago, Mr. Natural said:

    I'm a big Wolf fan.  He was still working until his auto accident and subsequent death in '75 or '76.  Sonny Boy Williamson (the second) recorded with the Animals and the Yardbirds in the '60s.  But all of these guys, including Albert King (and with the possible exceptions of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker) saw their time pretty much over by the end of the '60s.  BB King was a little more radio-friendly and younger; he lasted longer.  I'm a big BB fan, too.  I saw him in Vegas in the '70s and in Dallas in the early '90s.

    We were really lucky to have had  the chance to see those gentlemen,  Skip James is another great, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins were six years apart in age, they were the young guys in the 1950s and 60s,  Brownie McGhee was a great blues player too,  he and Sonny Terry were two great piedmont blues men, the lineage is fun to follow, Brownie McGhee was was a student of Blind Boy Fuller, born in 1904, Brownie,  born in 1915 was a mentor  and teacher to Happy Traum , born in 1938, he  along with his brother Artie were collaborating with the likes of Bob Dylan  and Phil Ochs in Greenwich village in the early 60s,  the thread binds it all up together,  

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    I Ain't Drunk

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    22 minutes ago, Mr. Natural said:

    Yeah, I saw Albert King at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in '90.  He was kind of surly and *****ed at his band occasionally, but he still was impressive.  He said he was retiring soon and did retire.  But, then I heard he had to go back touring and performing because he needed the money.

    Funny you mention Albert King,  the first rock concert I attended was  Iron Butterfly,  with Albert King as the first act, he burned the place down! That would have been 1966 or 67,  I had been to other rock shows where there were several bands but they each did two or three songs before the next band was up,  

    Howling Wolf did petty good for himself with the Blues resurgence of the 60s,  the Stones took him on tour but the music scene was so different then,  you made your money from record sales and royalties from radio air time back then.   We think of the biggest act of the 60s,  The Beatles,  the most they ever made from a live show was 25k each, and that was on their last tour,  just three years later Jimi Hendrix was demanding and getting 175k per show just for his cut.  In McCartney's  book he writes that he became a millionaire in 1965, and they were doing two to three shows a day, plus radio interviews and tv shows and two movies . 

    When I saw Mance Lipscomb with Big Mama Thorton in 1969, the tickets were $3.50.  Same as for Steve Miller with Box Skags,  that same year I saw Blind Faith on their only US tour, I paid $6.50  for good seats.  

    I Ain't Drunk

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    20 minutes ago, Whitefang said:

    If that were true, Johnny would have been in that mix.  [wink]   Blues a "hard sell"?  Sure.  Last few decades maybe.  Remember, in the mid to late '60's blues became real big among the white kids(hippies).   But from then on it's been pickers( like we here in forums like this) that's been keeping the faith.  And any specialty programs on college and public radio stations.  I've loved the blues since I was about six or so and knew too it never was always about the guitar.  Since my Mom was a huge Woody Herman fan, Me and my brother grew up often hearing this tune on the "phonograph"  [wink]  Some of those "licorice stick" runs would sound good on guitar.

    Whitefang

    Of course, there should have been 20 or 30 Texas pickers on stage for the 1989 Presidential inauguration ball, maybe Jonny was a Democrat,  or perhaps he was touring. 

    And yes, I remember well the Blues resurgence of the 60s,  it was good for the old blues guys till about 1964. After that they were relegated to touring college campuses,  while young white players took the spotlight.  Only a few blues players ever made bank.  BB King, and try to name the others. 

    Taj Mahal doesn't count as he was not an "old blues guy " he was in his early twenties .  Buddy Guy was the young guy in the Chicago blues scene then, the young gun. 

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    45 minutes ago, Whitefang said:

    Don't mind me.  I have this thing about dumb slang.  Like "My bad", which sounds like baby talk to me.  And I suppose "the bomb" isn't as bad or dumb as using "phat", which you can't see how it's spelled when you hear it.    I think of the poor, slow witted young man who, when his girl asks him how she looks in her new outfit forgets himself and says, "Oh, baby... you sure look "phat" !"    And as you can't see how it's spelled when you hear it, all she hears is he thinks she looks fat.  And any young man who tells his girl she looks fat is gonna get it.  Or worse, he won't!  [wink]

    Back to Albert-----

    Shortly after groovin' to the newly discovered BEATLES,  my stepsister treated me to THIS........

    I SAID he was a long time favorite!  [wink]

    Whitefang

    Great recording,  I am a long time fan of Albert too.  He never got his due, Blues was and remains a hard sell for air play ,. 

    But it is a fact that both Vaughn brothers attributed their love of blues to a few players, and Albert was high on their lists.  Those Texas pickers stick together. 

     

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    Even after becoming well known in the music business Albert had to work  construction  to support his family,  he worked  on Neil Diamond's house! His wife finally insisted he go back into music full time, by then he was 39,  the lost years,  

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    57 minutes ago, Retired said:

    Very talented players and having fun doing it.  Those are the concerts I love attending.  Although, I never got to see them play. 

    That's for sure!  Albert was the headliner but he shared the spotlight with his band members,. He must have been a blast to work with.

    Listen to this Ike and Tina Turner record,  The Hunter,  Albert is playing lead on the album, 

     

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    I Ain't Drunk

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    Albert  was a great showman, as witnessed in this video, hard to envision him playing a high school prom, but, yeah, he did!

    He used F sharp tuning with a capo at 5, 6, or 7th fret, the sax player is Jon Smith,  Collins jams with Roy Buchanan are legendary,  both left us too soon.

    Thanks for posting this video,  it brought back memories,  

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