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Post by ocarolan on Apr 7, 2013 13:53:23 GMT
Here's a great set of tunes from Steve -
Lovely playing, though the percussive thwacks in the last tune are a bit wearing after a while and too loud(ly recorded) for me. However, didn't spoil it for me thank goodness. What do you think?
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Post by davewhite on Apr 7, 2013 14:07:53 GMT
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 7, 2013 14:13:07 GMT
Ah, sorry to remind you of that again Dave, albeit inadvertently - you can at least console yourself that Steve seems oblivious to the fact that he is playing a guitar whose shape is totally unsuited to that style of music!   Keith |
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Post by thecorner on Apr 7, 2013 14:39:36 GMT
Lovely tunes and great playing. I agree with you totally, Keith, about all this percussive stuff - there seems to be so much emphasis on it these days that you often lose the beauty of the tunes, especially gorgeous celtic tunes. The odd bit of tapping I can put up with (even do a little bit myself sometimes!!), but in general I'd rather do without it and just listen to the playing. Old or what!!  Eric |
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Post by andrewjw on Apr 7, 2013 15:19:37 GMT
I thought the best part of his playing was his accuracy and great sense of rhythm and tempo  ...as if he was attached to a metronome. Re tone I thought [on phones] the tops sounded pretty harsh , mids nice and the bottom end a bit thin...given that he is a pro? and thus the recording is presumably pro also. Refreshing though to see that you don't need an "instrumental" guitar to play instrumentals.. |
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 7, 2013 15:30:09 GMT
I think I'm with you there Andrew re tone - the mids came off best! The tinselly top end made the thwacks harsher too probably. Actually, reading the Youtube blurb, it seems that the vid was an extract from a DVD, so maybe the sound suffered a bit in the transfer, though that was done by the same company that made the DVDs. Who knows? Anyway, the music still shone through!
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Post by brianr2 on Apr 7, 2013 22:03:27 GMT
My HB2 attempt at "Boney Crossing the Alps" ended up in "The Hecklers' Corner" I love Steve's version. I have struggled with this tune for some time but my feeble efforts are not even worthy of "Hecklers' Corner". You got there in the end; I have yet to get close. But it is this sort of challenge that makes playing so compelling. I shall keep torturing the strings till they succumb... |
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...as if he was attached to a metronome. Re tone I thought [on phones] the tops sounded pretty harsh , mids nice and the bottom end a bit thin...given that he is a pro? and thus the recording is presumably pro also.
Jo whoever he is.
