If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

sgs4u · Post by **sgs4u** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:38 pm

My mentor Robbie King, died 5 years ago. He was as great a Hammond player as there ever has been. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TOsnMGIY3Y

billg · Post by **billg** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:16 pm

cool clip Steve.

tomaragon · Post by **tomaragon** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:46 pm

Nice Playing Ern!!! I don't claim to be a Hendrix expert but I'm pretty sure he just turned a right handed guitar over and reversed the order of the strings so they would still be in the correct position for left handed playing.Someone like Albert King on the other hand took a right handed guitar and flipped it over but never switched the strings which made the playing positions completely upside down.Albert pretty much played solos as playing chords upside down would be difficult at best.I did read somewhere that even though Jimi played left handed he wrote right handed.Strange huh?As far as his thumb goes, it seemed to cover a lot of ground.Many times it would emulate bass lines while the middle fingers played rhythm and the smaller fingers could solo simultaneously.Jimi had unusually long fingers which lent to this more rhythmic or percussive approach to playing.I've never seen him play a traditional bar chord with the index finger lying across the strings.His fingers were long enough so the thumb easily wrapped over the neck to play his chords that way instead.When Hendrix hit the scene in the 60's I decided to stop trying to to emulate my guitar heroes any more. Besides, I didn't have a clue as to what he was doing back then ...... Took me about 10 years to fully appreciate what was going on.In 1982 I created a little homage to the mellow side of Jimi on this simple guitar track. It's just a guitar into a chorus pedal going direct into a 4 track cassette Portastudio. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=6730785

allends · Post by **allends** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:12 am

Jul 22, 2008, 7:46pm, tomaragon wrote:In 1982 I created a little homage to the mellow side of Jimi on this simple guitar track. It's just a guitar into a chorus pedal going direct into a 4 track cassette Portastudio. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... 730785Very sweet, Tom. You're definitely channeling Jimi on this one!Thanks for posting.-Al

ggalen · Post by **ggalen** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:18 am

Tom,Impressive playing! You are playing the bass, rhythm and lead all at the same time with the guitar? No overdubbing?

tomaragon · Post by **tomaragon** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:26 am

Jul 23, 2008, 5:18am, ggalen wrote:Tom,Impressive playing! You are playing the bass, rhythm and lead all at the same time with the guitar? No overdubbing?Glen:I wish! The guitars are overdubbed.......Most of the time there are 2, or 3 guitar parts going on.I transfered the track the other day from an old cassette and added the subtle xylophone type of little pings in there.I didn't use an amp.Here is the guitar I used. It looks like a custom Tele but in reality thee isn't one Fender part on it. It has a Boogie Bodies Wenge wood neck.Warmoth body with a walnut center and Quilted Maple top and back. Original Floyd Rose pre-fine tuners. Emg pick-ups with a pre-amp. Nice versatile sounding guitar with one drawback.It weighs 12 pounds!A guy by the name of Dan Torres in Saratoga Calif. built this for me in 1979. It's still the guitar I play.

ernstinen · Post by **ernstinen** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:42 am

Jul 22, 2008, 7:46pm, tomaragon wrote:Nice Playing Ern!!! Thanks, Tom! That's about as wild as I ever got --- I recorded that on a Tascam 8-track. The drummer was in a HUGE room with about a 40-foot ceiling! I had overheads at around 15 feet above his kit.Quote:In 1982 I created a little homage to the mellow side of Jimi on this simple guitar track. It's just a guitar into a chorus pedal going direct into a 4 track cassette Portastudio. Tom, that's really sweet! Sensitive and ethereal. A Portastudio, eh? Reminds me also of a Stevie Ray Vaughan show on Austin City Limts where Stevie Ray channeled that side of Hendrix. Good stuff!Ern

davekershaw · Post by **davekershaw** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:38 am

Yes, nice track Tom, and enjoyed your playing too Ern.

elser · Post by **elser** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:15 am

Hey Kouly, that wasn't a slam on Vegas, hell, I live in Reno, kind of a Vegas wannabe. I just meant that I think unfortunately Elton is sounding like a cheap imitation of himself lately, kinda like the 'Legends' or 'American Superstars' version of Elton. If he had died after completing 'Yellow Brick Road' I think he would have been revered as much as any of the others who we regret having been taken from us. Anyway, sorry to interrupt the course of the thread, just had to say that. Elser

elser · Post by **elser** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:34 am

Hey Ern, regarding Hendrixes thumb, he used it more than his little finger, he would use it for playing bass notes, listen to Little Wing and he's using his thumb to play all the bass notes. And in the Voodoo Child video he's using it mostly for damping, you can hear him playing a definite half note on his E string and then stopping it( I doubt he was thinking of it as a half note, but that's what it turns out to be). His hands were so huge it came pretty naturally to him I think but alot of jazz guys do that too.Don't know who the percussion gnome is.Elser

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