Stormy Monday / Mothers Milk clip

[tomjackson]

The main clean guitar has Stormy Monday's, the distorted guitar at the end is a strat with mothers milk.

[Johnny Mac]

Sounds great! I'm taping my foot to this one. The guitars sound really nice, great playing too!
 :D

[hunter]

Very nice, those stormies really sing!

[38thBeatle]

Those stormies sound sweet.

[Fourth Feline]

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)

[tomjackson]

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

[Fourth Feline]

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 !

[roland_rat]

Very nice,

Before I knew it my foot was tapping along.  That sounds great nice work.