...it's what you do with it!
Cool story about a Tone Poets - type project involving a $100 guitar bought on eBay: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...0-mile-odyssey
...it's what you do with it!
Cool story about a Tone Poets - type project involving a $100 guitar bought on eBay: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...0-mile-odyssey
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I must be a musical sassanack, I've never heard of any of those bands or musicians!!!
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I love that! But, as much as I'd like to say this has changed my perspective on what I really need to make great things happen, I still want expensive stuff that way overshoots my abilities. Now we just sit and wait for people to chime in with "that ain't no part of nothin'", eh Cat?
Wow. Some of my favourite guitarists involved in this project. Fred Frith being top of the list. And no not exactly bluegrass although Frith also plays a mean fiddle.
Pretty cool story. Reminded me slightly (oh, so slightly) of the mandolin project where cafe-ers took an old, messed-up mandolin and had a bunch of top-line luthiers rebuild it. Musicians are a pretty enterprising bunch when given the chance.
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Well we all like spensive stuff. But, I'm sure many of us also have that vision that compels us to "speak with whatever we have in our hands" (in this case, it helps that they can plug it in ; )
BTW, WRT this (and not particularly cynically)--I haven't read nor listened to what these guys actually did with the guitar...but, all of them (Sharp, Frith and Cline) are known for their "outside" deconstruction of form and technique--a la Keith Rowe, Derek Bailey school...another beater guitar is another instrument to "prepare" in whatever fashion moves them...Lindley keeps a quiver of Hora bouzoukis, for example
FWIW, for a "bluegrass" take, see Eugene Chadbourne
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There are a lot of parallels here, not just what can be done with a cheap instrument, but what can be done with a baby-simple pentatonic scale song in the hands of a bunch of different people. I really do love the basic concept here, hot the music's in the head and hands, not in some piece o' wood, even if it can be plugged in.
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Let's get a Rogue and start the $50 mandolin project.
FYI Bluejay...I just listened to the 7:19" NPR piece. And now that I've actually heard the piece, I've nothing further to add: the musical contributions made by those mentioned in that piece--Fedder, Marston, and Starobin--are not only congruent with my intuition, but was confirmed explicitly by Mr Marston--namely, that the guitar lacked quality and therefore inspired/required a more ascetic, "deconstructionist" approach
Just thought you'd like to know ; )
Well.... with a good pro setup you can make even a cheap electric, solid body instrument play reasonably OK. Then, you just have the pickups to worry about, and if you push those through enough FX by the time you've finished, you can't hardly tell anything much about what the thing really sounds like. Just saying. Not quite so easy with an acoustic instrument recorded using a mic.
There are some very decent sounding 'cheap' instruments around these days, though. Many more than there used to be. Does not mean that's all you are ever going to want, or need.... Oh, yes, Dec 21. I forgot about that and went a bought a set of extra long-life batteries yesterday
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Yes, that's exactly what one of them (Fedder or Marston I believe) did--adding the chorus/chimes/envelope FX; which was my point that--with a pickup--there is tremendous capability for even a $100 guitar (especially if one is given to this sort of approach in the first place, as these guys are...I'm sure some of them busted out the steel, so that horrible set-up wouldn't even be an impediment)
Maybe that helps explain why this holiday season appears especially stressful for some...I've noticed motorists on the road lately particularly aggressive/hostile/vacant
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Guitar culture is has a lot of that mostest with the leastest stuff. Young hot shots showing off on guiatars they claim to have found in the men's room Port Authority Bus Terminal with a jute chord for a strap and a used pillow case for a case. I make six figures programming operating systems, but l play the blues, on a crappy guitar for authenticity.
Dave Lindley could have done better with it.
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