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Post by TKennedy on Apr 20, 2023 21:41:21 GMT -5
Caution - Fender content. Marty I think you’d like it.
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Post by John B on Apr 20, 2023 22:21:49 GMT -5
Looking forward to watching this when I have the time. I'm looking forward to seeing Kenny (and Marty, and the rest of the band) up close and personal on June 3!
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Post by howard lee on Apr 21, 2023 6:31:28 GMT -5
For anyone unfamiliar with Jimmy Bryant (mentioned in the above interview) and his longtime picking partner, pedal steel guitarist Speedy West, here's a sample.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 21, 2023 8:10:26 GMT -5
Jimmy Bryant was new to me, so thanks, Howard. Wow, what a player, and quite a life, ended at age 55 from lung cancer.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 21, 2023 8:10:48 GMT -5
Caution - Fender content. Marty I think you’d like it. He's got big teeth, don't he? I was at a CD release show on Sunday. Three acts performed. The second one was a woman on keyboards, Emily Hurd, and she had a Tele player with her. He was great. I was talking to him after their set. He says he has a lot of guitars, but he keeps coming back to the Tele. It's a stark sound and hard to control at first. But once you bond with it, nothing else will be as expressive. I've tried to like playing a Tele. But I can't make it work for me. But nothing beats a good Tele player playing backup behind for a good singer. |
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Post by howard lee on Apr 21, 2023 8:16:48 GMT -5
Jimmy Bryant was new to me, so thanks, Howard. Wow, what a player, and quite a life, ended at age 55 from lung cancer.
You're welcome, Bill. Bryant was a heavy smoker. Ciggies will kill a person.
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Post by John B on Apr 21, 2023 9:47:30 GMT -5
Jimmy Bryant was new to me, so thanks, Howard. Wow, what a player, and quite a life, ended at age 55 from lung cancer. Interesting bit of trivia: Stratosphere boogie is played on a Stratosphere guitar, the first doubleneck electric guitar. The twelve-string neck is tuned in major and minor thirds, so what you're hearing is one take, not Jimmy double-tracking and harmonizing with himself. Here's TK Smith playing a Stratosphere. Note TK is looping, so he is accompanying himself, but each of the harmonized lines is one take. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgHFaCUAniW |
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Post by Dub on Apr 21, 2023 10:37:52 GMT -5
Jimmy Bryant was new to me, so thanks, Howard. Wow, what a player, and quite a life, ended at age 55 from lung cancer. Interesting bit of trivia: Stratosphere boogie is played on a Stratosphere guitar, the first doubleneck electric guitar. The twelve-string neck is tuned in major and minor thirds, so what you're hearing is one take, not Jimmy double-tracking and harmonizing with himself. Here's TK Smith playing a Stratosphere. Note TK is looping, so he is accompanying himself, but each of the harmonized lines is one take. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgHFaCUAniW When was the Stratosphere first made? Paul Bigsby made a double-neck solid body guitar for Grady Martin dated Oct. 1, 1952. |
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Post by majorminor on Apr 21, 2023 10:40:47 GMT -5
Love cousin Kenny
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Post by John B on Apr 21, 2023 12:56:40 GMT -5
When was the Stratosphere first made? Paul Bigsby made a double-neck solit body guitar for Grady Martin dated Oct. 1, 1952. Sorry, I should have been more specific. The Stratosphere was the first 12 string/6 string double-neck; a similar design was adopted by Gibson and popularized by Jimmy Page and Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner. The Stratosphere might have also been the first mass-produced double-neck, as I would consider most anything coming out of Bigsby's shop as a custom instrument. Semie Moseley also famously made some double-necks for Joe Maphis and Larry Collins, but I think the guitars for Grady Martin, Joe Maphis and Larry Collins were both 6-string necks, with one neck being an octave neck? |
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Post by Marshall on Apr 21, 2023 13:28:23 GMT -5
Didn't know you were related. |
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Post by Dub on Apr 21, 2023 13:31:01 GMT -5
… I think the guitars for Grady Martin, Joe Maphis and Larry Collins were both 6-string necks, with one neck being an octave neck? That’s nearly correct. The octave neck was 5-string.  |
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Post by Shannon on Apr 21, 2023 14:57:47 GMT -5
Kenny is a whale of a player. He always just plays the right notes, if you know what I mean.
I bet it is fun to be in Marty's band, too.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 21, 2023 15:14:39 GMT -5
So what model Gibby is that in the video, and is it old? His rig sure sounds sweet, although his playing may have something to do with that. Such a calm right hand!
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Post by david on Apr 21, 2023 21:21:29 GMT -5
Kenny has a wonderful touch. So accurate, clean and smooth. Especially impressive in a concert setting.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 21, 2023 21:42:15 GMT -5
Studying with Bill Frisell in Denver kinda shows doesn't it?
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Post by Marshall on Apr 21, 2023 22:07:46 GMT -5
So what model Gibby is that in the video, and is it old? His rig sure sounds sweet, although his playing may have something to do with that. Such a calm right hand! Probably an ES 125C. They had a single P90 and a trapeze tail. A plywood thin hollow body. Most of those were sunburst. I had one back in the early 90s. I suppose they made some blond top ones. |
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Post by millring on Apr 23, 2023 6:39:54 GMT -5
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