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Post by delb0y on Feb 18, 2015 7:51:38 GMT
Great review. I've long hankered after a Furch/Stonebridge. Maybe a dread, maybe the G23. There's one in my local shop I keep going back to play :-)
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Post by delb0y on Jan 31, 2015 8:07:00 GMT
I've just started experimenting with using an acoustic amp as a monitor. It's way better for me than going straight into the PA - I can adjust the volume and tone to just how I want them, and also send a clean signal to the PA so the sound man (my duo partner) can do what he needs do to make the out front sound nice. I find I can play much better with this set-up. I use a cheap Cort acoustic amp. It's physically quite big but was cheap and as this was an experiment I didn't want to fork out too much.
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Post by delb0y on Jan 11, 2015 21:44:10 GMT
What 007 said above I'm a huge fan of country music. Much of what I play and listen to I consider country music - Steve Earle, Asleep at the Wheel, Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, The Tractors, Johnny Cash, David Grier (and all the flat-pickers... that bluegrass is pure country), my all time fav guitar player Jerry Reed, Elvis... Not always keen on Country and Western, mind.
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Post by delb0y on Sept 24, 2014 6:38:29 GMT
Tremendous! Well done, Mark. It looks and sounds lovely. Jealous down here in the West Country!
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Post by delb0y on Sept 24, 2014 6:26:44 GMT
Love Eric Bibb! What a tremendous voice, he has? I have a couple of CDs tucked away - must get them out again. It's been a while. I also have an album called House of Guitars by Ed Gerhard where he plays a whole bunch of very cheap guitars (with very old strings) and makes them all sound wonderful. As you say, it's all in the fingers (and the recording technique)!
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Post by delb0y on Sept 22, 2014 6:33:06 GMT
First gig, I ever went to. Still love Canadian Pacific.
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Post by delb0y on Sept 4, 2014 18:46:52 GMT
Just posted a DADGAD tune in the key of G over in the Plucky Duck.
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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 19:18:19 GMT
I downloaded the relevant pages and was able to read them perfectly - and discovered that the interview is actually a video that is clickable from the original link and I didn't need to read any text at all. This modern world, eh? Whatever will they think of next?
Haven't watched the multimedia stuff yet... Something to look forward to later!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 12:21:04 GMT
Cool. Not seen Guitar Interactive before - it looks good. Except the standard view is too small for me to read and if I zoom in it's too close and I'm having to scroll up and down and left and right for every few words. Is there a way of controlling the zoom, do you know?
Regarding Pierre, Ben and Susan, I'm still enjoying the three CD Encore set, although it does range from the brilliant shiver sending utterly moving and scarcely imaginable imagination to the "Hmmm...probably won't be playing that one again!". Luckily the former more than make up for the latter!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 20, 2014 19:00:20 GMT
This is a truly wonderful book. Having read just a few chapters I wrote my first DADGAD tune which I'm sure I've posted here before: I've just been lucky enough to pick up a gorgeous used (but you wouldn't know it) Tanglewood TW40 at a bargain price which might well become my DADGAD machine. It's got a beautiful ringing shimmering tone and the intonation is spot on - both key for DADGAD. Also based on a Doug Young arrangement is this short version of Down By The Salley Gardens played on the new guitar: soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12892259Doug's Young's CD are well worth getting too. I'm not sure there's anyone who both plays and records an acoustic guitar so well. I'm a Doug Young fan you can tell! Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Jun 7, 2014 19:08:32 GMT
Only this morning I watched this documentary on the Toob: I love Django, and the whole gypsy jazz sound. There are some amazing players around these days. Kind regards Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 21, 2014 11:37:53 GMT
I have lots of all-time favourite guitar players - my top 10 or 20 fluctuates depending on whom I'm listening to and what style I'm aspiring to at any given time. But one chap who's always up there hovering around the top spot is David Grier. Not only is he technically brilliant, but melodically, too. He conjures up melodies and improvisations that really hit the spot. He's funny as hell, too. I'd recommend getting on over to the Fretboard Journal site and spending an hour watching their interview with David Grier (and when you're done, watch the one with Pete Huttlinger!).
Anyway, I did a search of the Café and lo and behold no results popped up...so here he is playing a tune that I think is just about perfect:
Kind regards Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 18, 2014 21:23:43 GMT
I can't say I'd recognize a Mumford and Sons if it jumped up and bit me on the nose. Don't think I've ever heard them. From reading that review and this thread, I guess I'm lucky.
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Post by delb0y on May 14, 2014 9:02:27 GMT
Thank you, kind sir.
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Post by delb0y on May 13, 2014 21:08:23 GMT
I love this video and have listened to it many times over the last month or so. Today is my birthday and one of my presents was Pierre's 3 CD "Encore" set. Can't wait to get into it :-)
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