Christmas is coming up. :-)
Posted on 10/18/2021 1:00:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase
"Stairway to Heaven, but as if Mark Knopfler had written it. 1:24 video here.
Youtube text:
"I tried to incorporate a lot of Knopfler's playing style. The double stops, the raking, hammer-ons, and the iconic, wild vibrato bends.
Had a lot of fun making the backing track for this. For the drums I looked a little at the beat from 'Once upon a time in the West' by Dire Straits, to get a Dire Straits vibe for the song, instead of copying the beat from the original Stairway to Heaven."
That has been my mantra. I have a couple Larrivées, a couple of G&Ls, a Seagull and a smattering of other smaller brands. In addition, I almost always buy used. I've only bought two guitars new: A Larrivée all-solid Rosewood dread, which was my main guitar for years, that I bought for $850 and a Martin D-18 I bought for $3k a couple of months ago. I'd be hard-pressed to claim that the D-18 is significantly better than the Larrivée.
I had to look and see if it was a thing, and I found this...this guy is not nearly as talented as the person I saw (not to say he doesn't have talent) but you get an idea how suited the song is to this medium...
If you can’t listen to the whole 40 minutes, just listen to Cat People. The album version with the guitar solos. Unmistakably SRV.
I could be mistaken but it was a tumultuous relationship. Bowie respected SRV’s talents. And he did play guitar on the entire album, even though it was sort of pop (1983) with lots of sax and keyboards. But there were management issues and IIRC Bowie’s people wouldn’t let Double Trouble open on his tour.
Could you do “Stairway to Heaven” Neil Sedaka style?
I was in a used guitar shop near my dad’s house about 8 years ago. We walked in. They had a Gretsch of no import it just looked great. I tooled around with it for 30-40 minutes and it played great. I couldn’t decide if I wanted it. My dad asked “how much is it” and the clerk said $300. My dad said “what’s the problem, just buy it”. I love that man.
Some guitarists prefer the Fender Squier Stratocaster guitars that were made in Japan in the 1980s, that were a reissue of the earlier Fender Stratocasters from the 1950s and 1960s.
Other guitarists buy a Fender Squier knowing they're going to swap out the pickups, potentiometers, capacitors, bridge, etc. I've heard some pretty sweet custom jobs whose looks were very deceiving.
It could also be a sponsorship deal where he's playing a Fender Custom Shop modded guitar but advertising the Squier to the kids as there's more markup in toys for kids than there is in the tools for the pros. You see a lot of ads for Epiphone (Gibson) and Squier (Fender) in the guitar magazines.
That was great. Phil X for the win! (EVH's solo).
Christmas is coming up. :-)
Holidays in my family have become a little ridiculous. It’s basically just “pass the gift card to your left”. So I told them all either give the money to charity (which some did, and I am grateful), or buy me a guitar center gift card. So now I have about $2500 worth of GC gift cards accumulated over a decade or more of birthdays and holidays from a dozen or so different family and in-laws. I also cashed in some credit card points for GC gift cards so it’s not all family.
I am still the ambivalent little twit so I can’t really decide how to spend them. Though a couple of years ago I happened across a Native Instruments salesperson hawking what was then a brand new Machine MK3 personal recording studio. I really wanted it but didn’t know if I had the time and discipline to learn how to record music. This year I may just go ahead and drop all those gift cards on that Machine and keyboard.
Wow. If I were in your shoes I'd use them sooner rather than later. GC has been teetering on the edge for years.
BKMRK.
Yes I understand you. But California (where I was born, raised, educated and still live) has a law that makes gift cards valid forever. So as long as GC exists here, they have to honor it. But I hear you. I have enough guitars and enough guns - they all seem to fit in the same cases too lol - so I might as well plunk them down and get something.
I did record a few songs on a 4-track decades ago. And I have been a computer guy since the 1980s. So I might as well go for it now. The gift cards are still sitting in my bedside nightstand. Better to try than to be stalled by indecision.
Thanks for that. I love LZ and Heart is also fantastic.
To be a rock and not to roll. Hard to rock out in a tuxedo and rainbow ribbon medallion.
I saw John Paul Jones in a very small club here in LA. He did his own stuff but he’s so talented, I got a hug from him because that is all I wanted and he was willing to give. I also saw the Black Crows with Jimmy Page at the Greek Theater. I think you can get one or two of those live albums on the stream. Arguably one of the best concerts I ever saw.
I saw them in 1969 at the Fillmore West concert in San Francisco.
After all these years, still the best concert ever.
“Why’s a guy who plays that well playing a Squier?”
‘Cuz maybe — just maybe — you actually CAN get blood from a turnip?
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There has been a movement for while now in the modern New Grass bands to do covers of rock classics.
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