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Your favourite listenings......

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 27 Dec 2017, 15:50

It's been miserable here in Bournemouth over Christmas - either pelting it down or that miserable freezing cold drizzle that seeps into your bones (although we have been lucky compared with oop narth).

Saw the elusive sun symbol on the forecast for this afternoon so I made myself a flask of coffee (fortified with a wee nip to keep out the cold) and some sandwiches and headed off down the beach for a walk with the trusty old ipod on shuffle. It's just ten minutes walk from my house and in the winter it can be virtually deserted. It was beautiful down there today, with just a few hardy souls braving a cold wind.

I was just sharing a smoked salmon sarnie with the seagulls under a lowering grey sky and enjoying the view when the skies began to clear and the sun appeared:

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and then this popped onto the ipod:

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It was a nice moment. Happy New Year to all.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Rod » 27 Dec 2017, 16:14

Nice photo
We had some snow, after strong winds and rain, this morning but it’s just about melted now.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 27 Dec 2017, 17:12

Nice post, Terry.

I've got Fogerty's best of album. Nothing like a good bit of Swamp Rock at Christmas! ;)
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby techauthorbob » 12 Jan 2018, 16:10

AAAH! Nothing as good as the Birdy Song is there when you are trying to finish sand some rails!

(True recent experience!). Seriously though I like most things 60's, some classical stuff if I am pondering about something.

If I want to be loud I put on Stones or Final Countdown by Europe - old but good riff.

If I want to giggle I play Because I Got High by Afroman - utterly silly record but it always makes me feel cheerful!
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby techauthorbob » 12 Jan 2018, 16:23

Willing to bet that you are either going

la la la la la la la, Dooby do waa OR looking up Afroman on line...

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 12 Jan 2018, 22:09

I've been commissioned by a mate to make an SG double neck copy from a kit. I'm up for that.

I wonder if it'll sound the same as Jimmy Page's did in 1975!

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 16 Jan 2018, 16:09

A new slant on a Fleetwood Mac favourite.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 05 Feb 2018, 16:12

Well, it's colder than a witch's wotsit in the workshop today so no turning again. Instead, as is my usual Plan B, I made myself a sandwich and a flask of coffee, cued up a few albums on the trusty old iPod, and headed off down the beach.

You know what they say about British weather - "if you don't like it, wait ten minutes" - well, it was glorious down there for the first half hour, if a little chilly (hovering above 0degC):

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Had the beach pretty much to myself - just a few hardy, well wrapped-up souls down there. Hard to believe it will be RAMMED with grockles in a few months (bless them :mrgreen: )Then the cloud rolled in:

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Pretty spectacular, and only ten minutes walk from my house. Some days I just count my blessings....

Happy as Larry, sharing my sandwich with the seagulls and enjoying the view, here's what was cued up on the iPod:

JJ Cale - from the "Troubador" album:

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Rory Gallagher = from "Rory Gallagher":

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Rod Stewart - from "Every Picture Tells A Story":

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Feb 2018, 16:19

Nice.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 05 Feb 2018, 18:47

Malc2098 wrote:I've been commissioned by a mate to make an SG double neck copy from a kit. I'm up for that.

I wonder if it'll sound the same as Jimmy Page's did in 1975!


Sorry I missed this...

Jimmy Page and the Gibson SG doubleneck are synonymous, and the Gibson is a great sounding guitar, but a bit of a backbreaker for live work. You need to tell your customer to get a wide strap for it!

It's an overlooked fact that Page actually preferred a Fender Electric XII, and that's what was used in the studio for that track. I think the Fender XII is best exemplified on Zep's "Thank You". I absolutely love the guitar on that track.

[youtube]QELQB8LpSiY[/youtube]

I'm lucky enough to own a 1966 Fender XII, and gigged with it for many years. I have played many electric XIIs, including the iconic Rickenbacker, and I prefer the Fender. My Fender Electric XII It absolutely nails "Thank You".
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Andyp » 05 Feb 2018, 19:00

I think we need a video of you playing one of those beauties please Terry.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby DaveL » 05 Feb 2018, 20:07

I don't know about one, several is in order. Nice to see 12 strings in there not many people play them which is a shame.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 05 Feb 2018, 20:24

Andy, I don't have any video of me playing my Fender XII, but I have some (sorry, not great quality...) video of me playing my all-time favourite guitar, my cherry red Gibson ES-335, just like my hero Chuck Berry used to play. It's from a gig filmed a few years ago of the last band I was in. Sadly now defunct due to old age. The drummer was over 70 back then!

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Feb 2018, 20:25

I suspect I might be a tiny bit older than Terry. I really do like the folky sound of the 12 string in the '60's, Roger McGuinn etc, even the Seekers and John Denver!

I might be tempted to build a 12 string Rickenbacker lookalike, but I would really like to make a 12 string acoustic. I haven't seen one in the good American kits yet.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Feb 2018, 20:29

selectortone wrote:Andy, I don't have any video of me playing my Fender XII, but I have some (sorry, not great quality...) video of me playing my all-time favourite guitar, my cherry red Gibson ES-335, just like my hero Chuck Berry used to play. It's from a gig filmed a few years ago of the last band I was in. Sadly now defunct due to old age. The drummer was over 70 back then!

[youtube]SNxFElOy0zg[/youtube]



The sum of the winter fuel allowance on that stage would keep a small country going for a decade!!! :D :D :D

Nice tune!
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 05 Feb 2018, 21:28

Malc2098 wrote:The sum of the winter fuel allowance on that stage would keep a small country going for a decade!!! :D :D :D


Haha!

Those guys, from the Farnborough area, were a gigging band back in the late 1950s! They were a pro band ("Mike Raynor and The Condors") all through the 60s, made a couple of records, got radio plays and toured all over Europe. They broke up in the early 70s and reformed for a charity gig about ten years ago. They decided they'd like to do some more gigs but their lead guitar player couldn't do it as he had a regular gig so they asked me. I drove up and had a try out with them and we played our first gig the next weekend. I had played in covers bands for 30 plus years so I picked up their set very easily.

We played every few weeks up until a couple of years ago when old age and arthritis got the better of them. It was great fun and they were an amazing bunch of old geezers - they played support for many of the big names back in the day - Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Who and on and on. They had a wealth of absolutely hilarious stories about gigging back then, many x-rated!. Imagine having a season at a club in Denmark in the mid 60s - all those randy blonde Danish girls. A musos dream gig!!

It was an honour to be asked to play with them. My wife had died from cancer the year before after a long and very painful illness so they pretty much brought me back to the land of the living.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Andyp » 06 Feb 2018, 09:37

Thanks Terry. I'd pay to listen to that. Thanks
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Rod » 06 Feb 2018, 09:50

Great playing

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby DaveL » 06 Feb 2018, 10:31

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 09 Feb 2018, 17:01

I rather liked this.




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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 09 Feb 2018, 18:19

Nicely done!
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 19 Feb 2018, 22:20

Time for some blues!

A lively and amusing version of W C Handy's St Louis Blues, with a little Italian dramatic interpretation.

I'm a rubbish guitar player, but I can sometimes make a tune sound reasonable. However, I am in absolute awe of what people can do with 8 fingers and two thumbs on a piano!!

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby selectortone » 20 Feb 2018, 20:34

That was great! And it brought back memories too - my Dad was an excellent jazz pianist and could play that boogie-woogie twelve-bar style. St Louis Blues was one of his many party pieces.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Malc2098 » 20 Feb 2018, 21:25

selectortone wrote:That was great! And it brought back memories too - my Dad was an excellent jazz pianist and could play that boogie-woogie twelve-bar style. St Louis Blues was one of his many party pieces.



My fave version would be the march from the Glenn Miller Story!

If anyone can find that clip from the film, I'd be obliged.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 23 Feb 2018, 22:19

Here's a bit of Flo 8-)

Haven't heard this in ages - brilliant song. So much energy. Love it.

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