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Post by PistolPete on Dec 9, 2022 14:11:36 GMT
A friend asked me to write a song about dinosaurs, so I decided to make him do it 😉
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 7, 2022 16:19:40 GMT
I bought this CD when it came out, John Miller was involved its fruition. It really is an important release, as well as being a great album. I hadn't heard that - I know Gayle Dean Wardlow made the original recordings
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 6, 2022 9:23:23 GMT
Congratulations on the new guitar Martin - I hope you enjoy it. I also like open D & open G for slide (you can always capo up to learn things originally done in open E or open A). I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to try tuning 16s up to standard - but I might attempt to do some stuff in standard-tuned-down-a-bit 🙂
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 2, 2022 17:57:01 GMT
That's one hell of a long release date! According to Stefan Wirz's site one track turned up on a 1998 compilation. I'm sure there's still reams of stuff out there in the collections of the rediscovery guys who went out into the field during that era - more of it seems to be coming out now that it's possible to digitize and restore the audio from the original tapes.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 30, 2022 19:49:03 GMT
I hadn't heard of this guy until last week - but I've been really enjoying his one & only album (recorded 1967, released 2017) and I wondered if anyone else had come across him? Apparently he was a friend of Charley Patton.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 28, 2022 13:53:21 GMT
I saw Stefan Live in Sydney 10 years ago and his banter and performance was great. I’ve also attended two of his workshops which improved my playing no end. I’m waiting for my copy of this to land down under. I supported Stefan at a blues club in Scotland in 2015 - I agree his patter was excellent, although I was amused there were some chunks of it I'd heard him do on YouTube in film from 1981, or on the 1973 live album of his I own. Stick with what works I guess! He was an absolute gentleman though. The sound engineer's 11 year old grandson was around during soundcheck and when Stefan found out he played he had Stefan's guitar thrust in his direction for a quick lesson. I had a little Google afterwards and the Stefan Grossman signature Martin would have been about £10k at the time. We had dinner together before the gig and he was kind enough to sign my copy of his Delta Blues book afterwards, although he expressed great displeasure that the publishers of the edition I own had changed his tab.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 24, 2022 12:30:40 GMT
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 23, 2022 14:07:32 GMT
I can’t understand why you don’t market this as a kit of parts with assembly instructions; with a nifty bit of packaging you would clean up Would that really save you much time/effort over just acquiring your own supply of scrap wood? I could probably make up some plans if that would be helpful for people, although I would imagine there are plenty out there already!
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 22, 2022 12:03:42 GMT
Since I know everyone here is itching for an update, this stompbox was partially dismantled and glued and re-screwed this morning after two of the corner joints worked loose. 4 years is three years longer than I've used any previous stompbox, including the two commercially made ones I've owned, and I remain very pleased with the tone of the thud that this one produces.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 16, 2022 10:37:52 GMT
According to his YouTube bio he's "regarded as one of the greatest luthiers of our time". I don't profess to be any great authority on hand built guitars, but I must admit I hadn't heard of him.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 7, 2022 14:04:11 GMT
It occurs to me that your could have bought a Shubb C1 for the same amount as you spent on those four cheap capos. I do have a Shubb - not sure which model, but it has a little wheel, which I prefer to the rubber thing that always went missing - and it's my main one for personal use, but I like to have a couple of extras to lend out when I'm teaching or emceeing at an open mic night. For some reason the lever/screw Shubb mechanism seems to confuse people.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 6, 2022 10:28:38 GMT
One of these, Forget about owning it though, I'd just like to see one in person. That is a very lovely looking & sounding guitar, but I don't recognise what it is?
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 5, 2022 11:25:06 GMT
My dream guitar tends to change quite regularly, although at the moment it is a fairly standard Brook Lamorna but with a tobacco burst top Robbie I'm a bit like that. I've realised my approach to guitars is one of serial monogamy - I find my "forever" guitar, grow gradually dissatisfied with it as I work out it's great for X but less suited to Y, then 5-10 years later I find the next "forever" guitar.
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 5, 2022 11:22:41 GMT
That's definitely aiming high, and I appreciate that!
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Post by PistolPete on Nov 4, 2022 17:25:06 GMT
I'm curious if people here have a dream guitar that they aspire to owning?
Alternatively, do you own the guitar your teenaged self was cutting out of Guitar World to pin on the wall? Is it everything you'd hoped it would be?
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