Someone made a bit of a rude comment about my shitty, cheap, off-brand, in-authentic resonator. AND I cleaned up all the pedals and cords and power supplies for my electric guitar set-up. So, this is what I came up with:
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And here’s that Resonator Chrome G with the Holy Stain
Here’s the new Dean Resonator Chrome G, tuned to open G and played through the Electro Harmonix Holy Stain with some overdrive and some tremolo. The amp is my old Lab Series solid state L5 on a pretty clean setting. The pickups are almost 50/50 magnet/piezo with a slight bias toward the magnet to reduce high end noise and unwanted distortion. A lot of the guitar’s characteristics are lost when playing “plugged-in”, but the Holy Stain adds its own ambiance and the result, I think, is quite pleasing.
It’s going to be a bluesy 2010.
The Dean Resonator Chrome G. It may be fake, but it’s a pretty nice fake. When you can’t afford the real deal, fake it til you make it.
Blogerantz is being neglected!
In light of my result at trial, I’m thinkin’ a little blues would be appropriate.
Three GREAT Jewish Blues guitar players
I’m going to find out if there are more, but these guys are BIG time – these are three no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famers:
- Peter Green
- Michael Bloomfield
- Ronnie Earl
I think I need to start an appreciation society or something.
A Little Love For Roy Buchanan
Most people never heard of him. Hmmm… let’s see, oh yeah, he was Robbie Robertson guitar teacher back with Ronnie Hawkins. He played the blues so bad it hurt. He lived them to, allegedly committing suicide while in jail for drunk driving. In 2009 he would have been 70.
Beardfish makes me happy
Best. Band. Ever. These guys are in their mid 20’s and they play this insane pop-zappa-prog-blues-rock. AND they’re from Sweden, but the lyrics are (almost entirely) in english and they’re actually quite good. I’m shocked that I’ve found a band that’s so great and so young. And when I say ‘I found’, what I really mean is Dr. Starr found and told me to listen to. The new record is Sleeping In Traffic, Pt. 2. GO BUY IT NOW!!! This video is from 2006 and will give you some idea of the pure joy that is Beardfish!
Clapton
We can slag this guy all we want. We can say he went soft in the 80’s. We can say he never did anything new or special of different, or at least not after Cream. But, you know what? This dude can play the blues – FOR REAL. And he’s been doin’ it pretty much non-stop for, like, 45 years. He hasn’t stopped because it appears that he can’t. I think a lot about the blues lately. It’s something that speaks to me in a very direct fashion. Even when I was young, I could feel it. there was no intellectual aspect. It was all emotion. When I was too young to know how vital it was to be able to express emotions so that they didn’t back up on me and create havoc (or more havoc) later on, I knew that I could play blues music – simple, almost infantile, expressions of a feeling that is so important and so universal. I think I learned a lot of this from Clapton.