Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: tomjackson on November 01, 2008, 11:13:55 PM
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The main clean guitar has Stormy Monday's, the distorted guitar at the end is a strat with mothers milk.
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Sounds great! I'm taping my foot to this one. The guitars sound really nice, great playing too!
:D
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Very nice, those stormies really sing!
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Those stormies sound sweet.
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I really enjoyed that Tom. :D
You kept a lovely swinging groove going in all components of the track. Although it did not sound derivative, It evoked very pleasant memories / flavours of J.J.Cale, Wes Montgomery, Marc Ribot ( the Tom Waits sessions ) - and of course Mark knopfler.
Were they Alnico II or IV Stormys Tom ? - and in what guitar ? VERY sweet indeed. The somewhat addictive and 'grin inducing' ( in the best possible way ) nature of this track almost made me forget to listen to the B.K.Ps !
Very deft playing Tom, it just flowed together so seamlessly - and yet full of character. Nice one ... 8)
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Hi Fourth Feline, glad you like the track. Well spotted with the influences, you’ve got a few of them spot on there. I’m not familiar with Marc Ribot but I will check him out…..
The pickups are A2 Stormy Mondays in an all Mahogany Gordon Smith GS2. When I got the guitar I, paid extra for the thicker body so with the SM’s and a thick slab of wood, it does tend to sound very sweet. Not the best for cut in a 2 guitar band but lovely for Jazzy and bluesy soloing, especially clean and breakup sounds. The amp was a Laney VC30 BTW, on the clean channel fairly quiet.
Nothing wrong with a grin inducing track :D
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Hi Tom, :)
Thanks for the detailed info about the equipment used. I also am a fan of Laney gear for this kind of work, having gigged a lot in the past with a Laney LH50R-II head. I also used a Fender 'Twin Amp' - but the Laney with N.O.S valves represented (as you so eloquently demonstrated ) - a great sounding amp for the money, and a tone machine in it's own right.
Re: the sessions that Marc Ribot did for the enigmatic Tom Waits, check out the album 'Rain Dogs' for a good example. I felt that the other 'flavours' where represented more vividly, but there where stylistic flashes of this ( other ) very inventive guitarist in your approach to my ears.
Overall though, It was an enjoyably unique track. As you understood, a grin inducing track ( in my terminology ) is a great thing indeed - consisting of moments where one thinks " I wish I had thought of that " - and " now that's just plain good ".
Cheers !
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Very nice,
Before I knew it my foot was tapping along. That sounds great nice work.