BluesKing777 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Here is my solo acoustic/vocal version of Neil Young's "Long May You Run", played on my 2002 Martin OM18v. 5,000 posts of dribble, apologies! [biggrin] https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/longmayurun1 The tune might be on my new album - "Sunburst Avenue" BluesKing777......
blindboygrunt Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Terrific . A nice ode to your ,now running again ,car.
flatbaroque Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Beautiful. Congratulations on your contribution to the forum.A most enjoyable part of the life pulse here.
aliasphobias Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Beautiful. Congratulations on your contribution to the forum.A most enjoyable part of the life pulse here. You got straight to the heart of that one BK and the Martin sounds great. How about a standing O for 5001?
j45nick Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 BK, your posts have been consistently witty, entertaining, and enlightening, whether the topic is dogs, beaches, guitars, old bands, old cars, odd places, bad neighbors, or.......music. And your music is the greatest. Long may YOU run!
BluesKing777 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Posted January 23, 2016 Many thanks for the kind words! Yes, I read NY's book a few years back and the song is about one of his old cars. Why record the tune with the Martin OM18v, they ask? For starters, I have trouble getting the true(ish) sound of a dread recorded, which would be the first choice normally for NY songs, especially a D28, D18 or J45. Need better EQ expertise than I. Secondly, I had the OM18v in Open Dm tuning for Skip James tunes I was learning and put the guitar back in normal tuning and couldn't put it down. It has reached that stage where it is 14 years old, the Elixir PBs are about 3/4 through their life, and the weather here has been hot and dry but now gone really humid and the guitar is come to life, for one of those reasons. My J45 has breathed to life as well, but still sounds a touch newish at 5 years old. All inexplicable, eh, but we take it as it comes - I would have said acoustic guitars clam up in humidity, but apparently not for these two! So thirdly and lastly, the OM18v is really easy to record with its mahogany and sitka in a balanced size. What you hear on the track is how I recorded it with no further efforts to the eq bizness. One mic in the middle for guitar and vocal (Neumann KM184). And on a total other note - I just finished watching "The Martian" just released on iTunes movies.....future multiple Oscar winner if it hasn't won already. Wow, what a great movie .... Ridley Scott does it again! BluesKing777.
EuroAussie Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 And a lovelly way to bring up your 5000th test run BK. Dashing sweep all the way to the boundry. Btw: Twangers do have a lovelly LG-1 that i managed to spend some time with. Worgh a trip..
BluesKing777 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Posted January 23, 2016 And a lovelly way to bring up your 5000th test run BK. Dashing sweep all the way to the boundry. Btw: Twangers do have a lovelly LG-1 that i managed to spend some time with. Worgh a trip.. Thanks EA - some nice cricket terms! (which appears to be finished early for the year?) No mention of any LG1 on the Twanger website, EA. Are any of those nice pictures real guitars? An old school friend of mine bought an iPhone, or was given one by his kids to keep contact, and of course if you ring it there is no answer, no message bank and often not even a signal or charged. Only way of contacting him is to go there, sound familiar? Luckily, I have an LG1 already! Don't want to break down at Kiki in the desert again if driving there. Last time I went to Adelaide, I flew and it took longer than driving because I got to the airport in the regulatatory these days, 90 minutes before the flight...very convenient, to get the message that 'all flights are delayed'. And while I am grumbling, Adelaide Airport is the weirdest one I have ever been to. I mean how far do you need to walk with our bags in all those zig zags to the terminal at the furthest end. Should have taken my bike. Which I am going to ride right now! BluesKing777.
EuroAussie Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Mate, half the guitars there are not listed on the website .... which is why you need to go and have a beer with Terry in person. Get a cheapo Tiger flight and youre set ... could even do a day trip Thanks EA - some nice cricket terms! (which appears to be finished early for the year?) No mention of any LG1 on the Twanger website, EA. Are any of those nice pictures real guitars? An old school friend of mine bought an iPhone, or was given one by his kids to keep contact, and of course if you ring it there is no answer, no message bank and often not even a signal or charged. Only way of contacting him is to go there, sound familiar? Luckily, I have an LG1 already! Don't want to break down at Kiki in the desert again if driving there. Last time I went to Adelaide, I flew and it took longer than driving because I got to the airport in the regulatatory these days, 90 minutes before the flight...very convenient, to get the message that 'all flights are delayed'. And while I am grumbling, Adelaide Airport is the weirdest one I have ever been to. I mean how far do you need to walk with our bags in all those zig zags to the terminal at the furthest end. Should have taken my bike. Which I am going to ride right now! BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Posted January 23, 2016 Mate, half the guitars there are not listed on the website .... which is why you need to go and have a beer with Terry in person. Get a cheapo Tiger flight and youre set ... could even do a day trip Moot point anyway, EA - the guitar fund is empty, and I am probably not alone with that at this time of year..... I have a few guitars to keep me playing..... I suppose Terry doesn't know how to pack and send urgently if he doesn't keep the website up. He is missing out on those nutcase impulse online buyers, don't know any, do we? All in all, a good thing he has no list and no prices and....and......because if the fund was flush in the future and a guitar that was needful appeared, I could be on that doorstep before they open. BluesKing777.
philfish Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 Nice 5,000 post, song for me to listen to after shoveling 30+" of snow. While your Aussies chrome hearts are shining in the sun B)
BluesKing777 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 Nice 5,000 post, song for me to listen to after shoveling 30+" of snow. While your Aussies chrome hearts are shining in the sun B) Thanks, but not much sun shining on the chrome heart at the moment - in this part of the country, we get this dark cloud that moves in, quite often, and for weeks we just get cloudy with drizzle and humidity. Not cold, not hot, not sunny but glad I don't have 30 feet of snow to fight out of! More on the OM18v - Martin brought out the OM18 Authentic which has similar spacings as my OM18v, but is more 'responsive' for a number of reasons that cost about 4 times as much as mine. So mine has the dreaded and feared Mod V neck, 1 3/4" nut and 2 3/8" bridge spacing but Sitka top instead of the Adi on the Authentic. I have played the Authentic at a shop a couple of times, but there was too much going around me to get right in to it. It sounded sensational really and would probably be ideal for the stuff I play, but I wouldn't know until both OMs were living together! And they want $7,999 here! Phewy, Louis. BluesKing777.
MissouriPicker Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 5000+ posts and they keep getting better........Always enjoyed this song of Neil's. You do it well. Looking-forward to the next 5000 posts. You are a true asset to this forum.
BluesKing777 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 5000+ posts and they keep getting better........Always enjoyed this song of Neil's. You do it well. Looking-forward to the next 5000 posts. You are a true asset to this forum. Thanks MP! It has been lots of fun, well most of the time, add a few dramas. The guitar and all its branches of knowledge is amazingly represented here in the forum in all its glory! Thinking on it, I don't know how I even functioned before signing on. I mean nut measuring and sizing and bridges and saddles of plastic, bone and all the others, guitar woods, neck woods, frets, pickups, tuning machines, tuners, torrefaction and toneriting, videos and rock, pop, blues, country and folk......and various guitar collections.... Did I use to go to the guitar shop without knowing any of this stuff? Was that brave or plain foolhardy? BluesKing777.
j45nick Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 Did I use to go to the guitar shop without knowing any of this stuff? Was that brave or plain foolhardy? BluesKing777. We all did it, yet we somehow managed to survive.
MorrisrownSal Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 I enjoy nearly anything you post BK. Sweet
BluesKing777 Posted January 25, 2016 Author Posted January 25, 2016 I enjoy nearly anything you post BK. Sweet Thanks Sal! BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted January 25, 2016 Author Posted January 25, 2016 We all did it, yet we somehow managed to survive. I am not sure if they were the good ole days or not. Blissful stupidity. But as I play a guitar or 2 I bought, I see I had some 'feel' for what was needed for the style I play - they still hold up to this moment. AND... I bought the Gibson Blues King L-00, then later joined this very forum where EVERYBODY was just Shi######canning the poor Blues Kings like it was the worst guitar ever to come out of the Gibson factory. Hmm, not so sure anymore, why did I buy this lump of....?, but then I played the thing and it is a GREAT guitar. A friend played it last year for what seemed like all day and then went out feverishly to hunt a Blues King L-00 down and came back weeks later with a mahogany b/s version from the darker days of the 'laminated bits' era, but his seemed to have all faculties! And he is very happy. BluesKing777. Edit: The Blues King is called the Gibson L-00 Standard now - I must have put them off. (The English call a toilet a 'Loo' - you know, in English accent: "Back in a minute, Luv, I am just popping to the loo") So now they see it as the Loo Standard the place to be!
j45nick Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 I am not sure if they were the good ole days or not. Blissful stupidity. But as I play a guitar or 2 I bought, I see I had some 'feel' for what was needed for the style I play - they still hold up to this moment. AND... I bought the Gibson Blues King L-00, then later joined this very forum where EVERYBODY was just Shi######canning the poor Blues Kings like it was the worst guitar ever to come out of the Gibson factory. Hmm, not so sure anymore, why did I buy this lump of....?, but then I played the thing and it is a GREAT guitar. A friend played it last year for what seemed like all day and then went out feverishly to hunt a Blues King L-00 down and came back weeks later with a mahogany b/s version from the darker days of the 'laminated bits' era, but his seemed to have all faculties! And he is very happy. BluesKing777. Edit: The Blues King is called the Gibson L-00 Standard now - I must have put them off. (The English call a toilet a 'Loo' - you know, in English accent: "Back in a minute, Luv, I am just popping to the loo") So now they see it as the Loo Standard the place to be! Before I bought my L-OO Legend, I was looking at the BK models because of the price on the used market. Then I splurged on the Legend (thank Dog) Nothing wrong with the BK.
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