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Stan Ellison

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  • Birthday 03/29/1947

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  1. Interesting thread. It rescued me from almost an hours worth of TV. I was well into page two before I got that it was about Angie and not Anji. As a finger-style player the Davey Graham tune was what came to mind first. Incidentally even though it was played on the third fret and sounded like Cm most guitarists will think of it as being in Am because it uses Am 'shapes'. I actually tried playing it in Cm without a capo. It would be possible but I don't need that much work, or grief, right now. The first version of Anji I heard was by Bert Jansch, and I saw him playing it on video just last night. He said Davey Graham told him he played it too fast and with the wrong notes. I suspect more people have heard Jansch's and Paul Simon's versions more than the original. So much for the composer's intentions.
  2. Hello. I got my first Gibson in 1968 or 69. I don't know the model. It might have been an LG 2 or 3. Small body, cross braced, mahogany back and sides and spruce front. It had a narrow rectangular bridge and no varnish. Someone had sanded the front down 2 or 3 mill in places and I know now that it needed a neck reset. Years later I sold it and ended up with a Martin 00028. I sold that too later. I miss that Gibson more than the Martin. I now have two LG0s, both originally had plastic bridges. The first one had the bridge replaced with a rosewood bridge and the second one got a complete new spruce front. Thats the one I play most today. Also have a single pickup SG melody maker that had been converted to left hand and then back again. You might have guessed that I'm not all that bothered with original condition. I do like to play them. Cheers Stan.
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