Results 1 to 20 of 20

Thread: Prohibition Swing Club

  1. #1
    Mostly Harmless Tommcgtx's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Location
    Martinsburg, WV
    Posts
    327

    Default Prohibition Swing Club

    Saw this posted on a Facebook group.....


  2. The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Tommcgtx For This Useful Post:

    + Show/Hide list of the thanked


  3. #2
    but that's just me Bertram Henze's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    0.8 mpc from NGC224, upstairs
    Posts
    10,054

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Looks like Howard Wolowitz playing the slide guitar
    the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world

  4. #3
    Registered User DavidKOS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    North CA
    Posts
    5,020

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by Bertram Henze View Post
    Looks like Howard Wolowitz playing the slide guitar
    What slide guitar? I saw a pedal steel, though.

  5. #4

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidKOS View Post
    What slide guitar? I saw a pedal steel, though.
    Sigh... I think 100% of us knew what Bertram meant....

    What a cool clip! Thanks, Tom... I enjoyed that. Pretty neat when Euro bands "adopt" an era of American history/music... They had the name, the look, and the feel. Makes me feel better about imitating Django in Pittsburgh, lol!
    Northfield Big Mon
    Royce Burt Fiddle
    Martin D-18

  6. The following members say thank you to Jstring for this post:


  7. #5
    Registered User DavidKOS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    North CA
    Posts
    5,020

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by Jstring View Post
    Sigh... I think 100% of us knew what Bertram meant....

    What a cool clip! Thanks, Tom... I enjoyed that. Pretty neat when Euro bands "adopt" an era of American history/music... They had the name, the look, and the feel. Makes me feel better about imitating Django in Pittsburgh, lol!
    Slide guitar is no more pedal steel than a mandolin is a banjo. NOT THE SAME!

    Sorry.....a pet peeve.

  8. #6

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    I knew we had bluegrass police.... I didn't know we had pedal steel police!!

    Just joking, David... I enjoy your posts and wisdom.

    I think when most of us say "slide guitar", we're referring to the technique, not the instrument...

    The Wikipedia page says:
    Slide guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the normal manner (by pressing the string against frets), an object called a "slide" is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length, and pitch.....This same technique is used to play pedal steel guitar and the "Dobro" resonator guitar used in Bluegrass music.

    But I do understand your angst... If one more person comes up to me at a gig and asks to see my ukulele, I'm going to snap!
    Northfield Big Mon
    Royce Burt Fiddle
    Martin D-18

  9. #7
    Registered User DavidKOS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    North CA
    Posts
    5,020

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by Jstring View Post

    I think when most of us say "slide guitar", we're referring to the technique, not the instrument...

    The Wikipedia page says:
    Slide guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the normal manner (by pressing the string against frets), an object called a "slide" is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length, and pitch.....This same technique is used to play pedal steel guitar and the "Dobro" resonator guitar used in Bluegrass music.

    But I do understand your angst... If one more person comes up to me at a gig and asks to see my ukulele, I'm going to snap!
    That Wiki definition is somewhat misleading.

    Slide is played in normal guitar position, with the guitar held normally, and the slide or bottleneck fits over a fretting finger and sounds the notes. The guitar can also be played by fretting notes too. Often simple open tunings are used.

    Although the concept is the same, the lap steel/Hawaiian guitar/pedal steel family all use a bar or steel, held in the hands, the instrument sits in the lap or on a stand, has very high action and fretting is impossible. The bar can be slanted, and many more complex open tunings are used.

    I play both - that's why I differentiate them.

    Sorry to be a curmudgeon.

  10. #8
    but that's just me Bertram Henze's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    0.8 mpc from NGC224, upstairs
    Posts
    10,054

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidKOS View Post
    Sorry.....a pet peeve.
    Made you post
    I know now how it feels to be a layman. I am simply classifying along words' semantic:
    - it looks like a guitar
    - it has a very high action
    - it has unneccessary frets
    - it is played with a piston
    Isn't that how you recognize a slide guitar? - But I guess that, just as with CBOMs for instance, all the available words are already bound in an illogical system and freedom of interpretation is nil.
    the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world

  11. #9
    Registered User DavidKOS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    North CA
    Posts
    5,020

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Slide:



    Steel:



    Many sources lump them together incorrectly.

  12. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to DavidKOS For This Useful Post:


  13. #10
    Full Grown and Cussin' brunello97's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Ann Arbor/Austin
    Posts
    6,281

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by Bertram Henze View Post
    Isn't that how you recognize a slide guitar? - But I guess that, just as with CBOMs for instance, all the available words are already bound in an illogical system and freedom of interpretation is nil.
    I suppose if your goal is to be completely unintelligible, you ought to feel free to interpret / reinvent meaning as you see fit.

    Mick
    Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
    ______________________

    '05 Cuisinart Toaster
    '93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
    '12 Stetson Open Road
    '06 Bialetti expresso maker
    '14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig

  14. #11

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    I found a collection of vids of this very fun band here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0u...c5QBEkegMkenj6

    It's helping me get through an otherwise dreary day at work.

  15. The following members say thank you to Scot63 for this post:


  16. #12
    Registered User Paul Cowham's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Location
    manchester uk
    Posts
    495

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Thanks for the comments folks, I'm the mando player in this band.

    The pedal steel player is a fantastic musician and just after that video was shot went on to tour the world playing with Billy Bragg so sadly only plays with us occasionally now (but we are all really pleased for him). We have now added a dobro player who sings harmony vocals and also a trumpet player and gig reasonably regularly (about a couple of gigs a month) usually in the Manchester area.

    The singer and driving force behind the band works in tv in his day job, and managed to call in a couple of favours to get a professionally shot video.

  17. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Paul Cowham For This Useful Post:


  18. #13

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    I've really enjoyed your music. Are you planning on recording anything? I'd love to have a CD or a download!

  19. #14
    Registered User Paul Cowham's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Location
    manchester uk
    Posts
    495

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by Scot63 View Post
    I've really enjoyed your music. Are you planning on recording anything? I'd love to have a CD or a download!
    Thanks Scot, we've got about 10 tracks recorded and will probably aim to do another 3-4 and then may release an album. Here are another couple of videos, hope you like them The first is with the current line up (ps sorry for the mando playing, am gradually trying to improve my technique!)




  20. The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Paul Cowham For This Useful Post:


  21. #15
    but that's just me Bertram Henze's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    0.8 mpc from NGC224, upstairs
    Posts
    10,054

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    My hat is off to whoever did the editing of the Big Butter video. If it were'nt for sunlight and shadows I'd have a hard time telling how it was done.
    I see the pedal steel was replaced by a lap steel (is that correct David???) but the overall acoustic appearence of the band is hardly changed at all. It's all not only good but excellent.
    the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world

  22. The following members say thank you to Bertram Henze for this post:


  23. #16
    Registered User Charles E.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Saint Augustine Beach FL
    Posts
    6,633

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Very nice! Oh, as to what the "slide instrument" is on the Big Butter tune, Waldo Otto (from Red Knuckles and The Trailblazers) called it "the electric table".
    Hope this helps.
    Charley

    A bunch of stuff with four strings

  24. The following members say thank you to Charles E. for this post:


  25. #17

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Hey, Paul, actually you're mandolin playing and the repertoire is what attracted me in the first place. Please keep us all posted on the recording—I want one, and I'm sure a bunch here will, too!

  26. The following members say thank you to Scot63 for this post:


  27. #18

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    i'll weigh in.
    LOVE your lead singer. Sometimes the editing is really distracting, sometimes it's awesome. My personal preference would be to take the editing down a notch, but keep the good parts. Of course, that's what everybody wants! Good luck. Plug on!
    Just want to add this> In case you're not sure: this is GOOD music!

  28. The following members say thank you to pointpergame for this post:


  29. #19
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Location
    Albany NY
    Posts
    2,065

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    I like it very cool stuff, reminds me of Pokey Lafarge somewhat.

  30. The following members say thank you to tmsweeney for this post:


  31. #20
    Registered User Paul Cowham's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Location
    manchester uk
    Posts
    495

    Default Re: Prohibition Swing Club

    Quote Originally Posted by tmsweeney View Post
    I like it very cool stuff, reminds me of Pokey Lafarge somewhat.
    Thanks - actually Dominic (the lead singer in the band) introduced me to Pokey Lafarge's music and we went to see Pokey when he came and did a gig in Manchester last year

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •