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Post by banjo on Oct 6, 2019 12:48:50 GMT
From that article:
"I don't think Led Zeppelin filled the void that Cream left, but they made a lot of money,"
Hmmm. Yeah OK Ginger.
He walked hard and carried a big stick (literally). He was in the right place at the right time and left an indelible mark. Personally, I didn't really find him that remarkable but I couldn't argue with his achievements. Although it would be obvious to quote the likes of Billy Cobham, Buddy Rich, Matt Cameron and even Steve Gadd, I'd go for Thomas Pridgen or John Theodore as superlative exponents of the art both of whom are in a different league TBH. It's only an opinion!
Back in the middle 1970s I played in a three piece jam-fest collective (as in hardly anything rehearsed and couldn't really be described as a band!). The drummer was a useful player and he lived in Shepperton, Middlesex. After annoying his parents for a few hours we decided to go for a pint. The drummer suggested that we go to The Bull because the doorman at Shepperton Studios used to suggest that watering hole to celebrities as a place they could go and perhaps not be harassed, so we might well see someone. Sure enough, there in The Bull was Ginger with Adrian and Paul Gurvitz of The Baker Gurvitz Army. They had been taking advantage of The Who's facility at the studios to rehearse. Our drummer spotted him straight away, and after pointing him out to us he began to tap out the "Toad" solo on the table in a very conspicuous manner. Ginger didn't rise to the bait. We left them alone.
I think it was Ginger that "died" on the internet a few years ago, but it could ironically have been Rod De'Ath because he suffered that too. Well he made it this time!
Thanks for those two heady years Ginger and rest in peace mate.
e&oe...
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Post by sleepyjohn on Oct 12, 2019 10:20:04 GMT
Steve,can you enlighten me on the difference between a tele and a strat neck,apart from the obvious headstock.
On the Ginger Baker tribute last night,Eric was playing a tele with a strat shaped headstock (Blind Faith) and it looked very o dd (to my eyes!)
I've never played a tele,and I know that you do,so is it a massive difference in radius or something, or is it another case of perfectionist Clapton?
Just interested........
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Post by banjo on Oct 12, 2019 13:22:17 GMT
Steve,can you enlighten me on the difference between a tele and a strat neck,apart from the obvious headstock. On the Ginger Baker tribute last night,Eric was playing a tele with a strat shaped headstock (Blind Faith) and it looked very o dd (to my eyes!) I've never played a tele,and I know that you do,so is it a massive difference in radius or something, or is it another case of perfectionist Clapton? Just interested........ Good afternoon Dave. A Tele neck (apart from the obvious headstock design) has a "square" end that fits into a similarly shaped pocket on the body. The Strat has a radiused end which also fits snugly in a Strat pocket. I'm willing to bet that a Strat neck will fit into a Tele body but not vice-versa because of that radius. The sharper corners of the Tele neck would mean the Strat neck pocket would have to be routed to suit a Tele neck. Regarding the Tele with a Strat neck, that is most likely a Telecaster Custom. Did it have two humbuckers? The Telecaster Deluxe also had one hummer, but I think it had a normal Tele neck? (Apologies if I have those two back to front but you get the gist?) There's a hollow body Tele with an "F" hole too (ooh-er mrs!) but I cannot remember whether it's a Deluxe or a Custom (or both?) All this stuff I could look up but where would the fun be in that? The 90s Brit pop wagon train seemed to go for Deluxes and Customs quite a bit. I reckon Keef and Beck set the trend, and Leo jumped on board? When I was a young turk, I had no time for Teles because the Strat was much more racy in its lines. With age, I began to appreciate Teles and despite having five S-types, I prefer my T-types now. I'm willing to forego the "in-between" positions on a Strat in favour of the neck/ bridge combo on a Tele. It would be all the same if I played them much anyway, but these days I generally grab my acoustic. Old age means I can't stand the noise for very long! e&oe ... |
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Post by sleepyjohn on Oct 12, 2019 14:22:36 GMT
Thanks Steve..  |
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Post by sleepyjohn on Nov 6, 2019 8:57:51 GMT
I'm not Jeff Beck's greatest fan,...in fact I don't really like him that much, but you have to be impressed by his control in this video,which is from 2010, but I hadn't seen before. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXIVMdXsVUI know that Jimi used 5 springs on the whammy bar,instead of usual 3, but there must be 10 on that guitar to get that level of control. |
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Post by banjo on Nov 6, 2019 17:12:43 GMT
I love Jeff Beck Me. I used to think he was just "Hi Ho Silver Lining" but not anymore. I'm not sure about springs count, you could be right though because it's necessary to have a floating bridge to enable <pitch-up> as well as <pitch-down>. I use 3 springs cranked up tight to keep the bridge sitting on the body for pitch stability. To play in the way he does Jeff's bridge has to be floating which has implications for tuning so that's why you need lots of inertia in those springs. I think! Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scott's is my favourite. Too many pieces to link to in that performance (and maybe too few peeps interested). On that one he does "A Day In The Life" and I can't think of anyone else that might attempt it as an instrumental. If you ever get to see Ronnie Scott's Dave, keep a close eye on the audience. "By Invitation Only" by and large I'd say. e&oe ... |
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Post by sleepyjohn on Nov 8, 2019 10:12:02 GMT
Found a couple of different viewpoints of that Ronnie Scotts gig on utube
Hadn't seen it before....excellent!
Had a go with 5 springs yesterday,and it does give you more control than 3, at my level!!!
All I can say is that he must have a great technician looking after his guitar/guitars, although he always seems to use the same strat for those whammy control pieces.
Notice that it has a rosewood fingerboard,where everyone else uses maple?
Also have you noticed the nut is a bit special?
Edit..found the nut as a Wilkinson roller nut,new to me,so I'll have to look it up.
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Post by banjo on Nov 8, 2019 12:07:45 GMT
I love that bit right at the end where Jeff takes some talc and blows it up in the air. I reckon it's a nod to the fact that you no longer have clouds of fug in venues. That's a good thing in most folks' view, but some of the atmosphere is lost.
Roller nuts are intended to stabilise vibrato equiped guitars. Good ones will have miniature bearing races. I didn't know it was a roller nut but it does make sense. Usually whammy guitars have locking nuts, but those tend to have two bolts going through the neck at its weakest point. Instead of a locking nut, I have Sperzel Locking Machine Heads on around five of my guitars and they are fantastic. The engineering is superb and strings can be changed in seconds. I have a set of Gotoh locking posts on a Tele I made because they look closer to Kluson originals. They are an alternate take on the idea and are good but not in the league of Sperzel. Other manufacturers such as Grover and Schaller market locking tuners but Sperzel are rhe best (IMHO of course).
I used to think that Jeff's nut was an Earvana compensated job but a closer look dispels that notion. Now I'm wandering on to nut compensation! Check out Buzz Feiten compensated nuts and the associated Feiten offset calculations. This stuff gets a bit obsessive and wallet draining, but it goes a long way towards explaining why sometimes the G string refuses to tune sweetly. I first heard of nut compensation in the mid 1970s by way of a maker / writer called Stephen Delft. Buzz Feiten may have been formulating similar ideas back then and in truth there's nothing that new under the sun. My ultra mega wonga acoustic had nut compensation but I asked the maker to remove it because the instrument wouldn't tune up in the C tuning I use a lot.
e&oe ...
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Post by sleepyjohn on Nov 8, 2019 18:22:52 GMT
Speaking of great guitarists,when a certain Mr Lennon was saying that "girls don't play guitars" I was sitting on a wet disused railway station in Chorlton, Manchester, watching this.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAQATKRBN0What is amazing is that a 50 year old lady,dressed like your auntie going to church,should strap on a Gibson and blow the place away...... Playing outside on a railway platform... I'm the pouring rain.... With a valve amp.... And not be electrocuted. Everything Keith Richards does, she does without a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, while wearing high heels. This is 1964....and middle aged ladies didn't do that |
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Post by banjo on Nov 8, 2019 21:42:31 GMT
You use your time very well Dave. I've seen that many times and it's brilliant.
e&oe ...
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Post by sleepyjohn on Nov 9, 2019 10:11:20 GMT
The youth club leader at our church was a cameraman with Granada,and he told us about the gig.It was supposed to be for university students only,but 3 of us gatecrashed it.
Didn't know who was on,but the above was definitely one of the highlights,along with an old coloured bloke,walking along the tracks,carrying a suitcase,and looking like a hobo,who turned out to be Muddy.
Unfortunately they haven't put out the whole thing,but most of it is on utube in various guises.
Oh,and that's where I first saw Sleepy John Estes.
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Post by banjo on Nov 10, 2019 10:13:58 GMT
<ENVY>
e&oe ...
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Post by sleepyjohn on Nov 17, 2019 17:16:45 GMT
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Post by sleepyjohn on Dec 4, 2019 18:27:50 GMT
Well,whilst going through a box of bits I recently bought,(just to get a tortoiseshell back plate)I have come across a complete Floyd Rose tremolo unit.
Unfortunately it's a licenced copy,not an original,so I haven't quite won the lottery,but I've never used one mainly because of the cost and also because they sound like they're a %*# to set up.
So it looks like it's going back on eBay after Christmas, ..... or I might be tempted to try to fit it if I can find a suitable strat that I can spare!
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Post by banjo on Dec 4, 2019 21:07:26 GMT
Ouch. Surgery required?
e&oe ...
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