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"I would challenge anybody to come up with a better design for a guitar. The Stratocaster is as good as it gets."
Eric Patrick Clapton
"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box."
George Harrison.
Back in my racing days Late 60s-Mid seventies
Knew the senior Not crazy Not Evil Just a master showman
The likes of Buffalo Bill or Pt Barnum
Evel Knievel lived in the next county over in Clearwater. I remember his liver transplant at Tampa General Hospital. Even near death, he took it as it came. A class act.
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"I would challenge anybody to come up with a better design for a guitar. The Stratocaster is as good as it gets."
Eric Patrick Clapton
"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box."
George Harrison.
Hmm, is this thread dead? Looks like it's been a while since anyone posted a vid, so here's a recent one of mine. This was a very intimate and special session for me, taped during the recent beatlefest. I am astounded that my falsetto held up (I'm doing the high part as well as the lead vocal), as my voice was quite hoarse by this point from all the singing, shouting, and craziness that went on throughout the weekend:
Hmm, is this thread dead? Looks like it's been a while since anyone posted a vid, so here's a recent one of mine. This was a very intimate and special session for me, taped during the recent beatlefest. I am astounded that my falsetto held up (I'm doing the high part as well as the lead vocal), as my voice was quite hoarse by this point from all the singing, shouting, and craziness that went on throughout the weekend:
As usual, Ringo was kept off camera.....
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"I would challenge anybody to come up with a better design for a guitar. The Stratocaster is as good as it gets."
Eric Patrick Clapton
"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box."
George Harrison.
Hmm, is this thread dead? Looks like it's been a while since anyone posted a vid, so here's a recent one of mine. This was a very intimate and special session for me, taped during the recent beatlefest. I am astounded that my falsetto held up (I'm doing the high part as well as the lead vocal), as my voice was quite hoarse by this point from all the singing, shouting, and craziness that went on throughout the weekend:
Nope, tread not dead
Thanx fer the clip, oh yeh and the song
Soon's I gets a camera, I believe I'm ready to do dee ting
Norwegian Wood - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Although not on a Strat these were actually recorded in a bar that is in the original Fender factory in Fullerton!
The entrance is where you used to enter the service dept.
Pretty cool vibe to the place.
I did an experiment with a friend of mine. We live 700 km from each other and I asked him if he could record a video of him playing the drums and I will try to do some music to it. Well, here you can see how it came out.
I did an experiment with a friend of mine. We live 700 km from each other and I asked him if he could record a video of him playing the drums and I will try to do some music to it. Well, here you can see how it came out.
Since you use the whammy bar a lot, I wonder if you may have some tip regarding how
to keep it in tune. I have seldom succeded to get my strats to stay in tune.
Yes. I can keep a vintage strat tremelo bridge in tune. It requires a number of techniques.
1. Stretch your strings when you change them. I mean really stretch them. You'll know when they are fully stretched out..... they fight you when pull on them.... and they don't drop pitch on extreme string bends. Keep stretching and checking with your tuner. Takes me forever to change strings, because the stretching phase takes so long.
2. I use a floating trem setup..... just slightly angled. I get about a half step raise when I pull up on the arm. I tried the stop trem style, where the bridge comes down onto the body of the guitar and you can't pull up. But I couldn't keep it in tune. Seems to come down on the body weird on trem use. I gave up on it and went back to floaty style.
3. Pencil lead in the nut slots and under the string tree. Not plane old number 2 pencil lead either. I buy art pencils......6B or 8B even better. Real soft lead.
4. Playing technique. I don't dive-bomb. It sounds corny to me anyway. I bend the arm down very little, distance wise. I can get a very dramatic effect by bending down slooowwwwly. And the same for vibrato...... a little wiggle. Small distances.
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Music is sharing the **** that made you smile when you heard it and smiling when that sound in your head is found, played, and made someone else smile!!!
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I will try that.
