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Folk Alley have just posted an interview with Tim O'Brien, along with 4 videos - two of which show Tim on his arch top Nugget Octave Mandolin: http://www.folkalley.com/music/extras/tim-obrien/
Some real nice quality stuff there!
John.
greg_tsam
Feb-16-2009, 7:07pm
Thanks for the link. I love Tim. Megna's reminds me of the produce vendors in Greece.
Eddie Sheehy
Feb-16-2009, 8:49pm
Does that mean he's selling his Giacomel zouk?
Does that mean he's selling his Giacomel zouk?
No idea, I doubt it though, I think Tim can just about manage OK with more than one 'zouk :grin:
John.
foldedpath
Feb-17-2009, 12:23pm
He mentions on his Octave mandolin instructional DVD that the Nugget was a longer scale OM, and he got the shorter scale (20"?) Giacomel because it was easier to play. The implication was that the Giacomel had replaced the Nugget as his main OM, although he didn't come right out and say that (and I imagine he'd be keeping it anyway, just to have a different tone flavor).
Maybe the video clip was from slightly before the Giacomel arrived? I don't know which came first; that DVD or the video clip here.
steve V. johnson
Feb-17-2009, 2:38pm
In another thread someone mentioned to me that Tim O'B got his Giacomel OM in late '03 to early '04, and I saw him with it at a show in Chicago in early March of '04.
If I had those two I'd sure be playing them both, choosing between them depending on how the mood struck me.
stv
Maybe the video clip was from slightly before the Giacomel arrived? I don't know which came first; that DVD or the video clip here.
The video clip is new - sometime in the last few months I believe.
John.
Several years back, before I started playing mandolin or even appreciated Tim O's music, I met him at about 1 am in a camp site at Rocky Grass. I was tired and about 1.5 sheets to the wind. I looked over to see him playing this cool archtop guitar but with 8 tuners on it. My mind could not resolve this in the state it was in. It wasn't until later, after learning more about TO and the mandolin family of instruments, that I realized that I must have been looking at the nugget.
sloanypal
Feb-18-2009, 8:28am
When I saw him last summer in Iowa, he played the Nugget. I don't think he even had the Giacomel with him. Maybe he uses it more for recording?