various musings of the day...
3 greatest country guitar players ever:
1. Clarence White
2. Don Rich
3. Clarence White
It has come to my attention that in the short life of this new site there have already been several coffee references,
to which my reply is, "and your point would be...?"
Back to guitars. I have to admit to a pretty significant attitude adjustment over the past 5 years regarding which acoustic guitars I will use for recording or playing out. I confess to having been in the past (and probably always will be) as much of an acoustic guitar snob as you might care to run into, and I had the guitars and debt to prove it. I have had guitars that cost as much as $,$$$, and was very committed to the rosewood/spruce dreadnought category. At one point I had a cedar topped rosewood body dred, before that your standard D-28, etc. But then I started to open up to mahogany bodied instruments. That started the trend towards different body sizes and shapes also. I had a 12 fret D-18 vintage reissue, which I was very partial to. It has since gone to stay with a new owner in North Carolina. I still have the first mahogany body guitar I ever got; a beautiful old sunburst Gibson J-35. That thing flat out cuts. It will not be denied.
Now I am fond of the 000, 00, OM sizes, especially the 12 fret slot-head versions. And, I also have developed the desire to have a lot of cool sounding cheap guitars instead of 1 or 2 retirement fund guitars. As far as these instruments go, I have recently picked up a new Blueridge BR-63, which is a 000-28 style guitar. It was inexpensive, but it will, without exagerration, truly frighten many very expensive guitars like those at the shop where I found it. And of course, I am always on the lookout for something else to add to the stable.
Some films that I can't recommend enough, for your consideration:
1. Hud - Paul Newman, early 60's B&W, character study kind of thing. I won't even try to convince you. Just rent it and watch.
2. Tender Mercies - Robert Duvall as a recovering C&W singer, early 80's.
Watch it couple of times. Quiet and understated conviction. If you have spent any time in "The 4", it will look very familiar to you.
3. Local Hero - Character/Comedy set on the coast of Scotland, early 80's. Great scenery, accents, dry humor. I am praying that RGNC get a gig in this town someday. Soundtrack by one Mark Knopfler; you can't do better than that can you? Again, just watch it, OK?
4. Milagro Beanfield War - Northern New Mexico scenery, David vs. Goliath plot, funny and gentle and pointed at the same time. A great line where a guy walks into his house and sees his kids watching tv again, and threatens to have it repossesed if they don't turn it off and go outside for a while. Sounds like something my dad would have said.
Peace.
3 greatest country guitar players ever:
1. Clarence White
2. Don Rich
3. Clarence White
It has come to my attention that in the short life of this new site there have already been several coffee references,
to which my reply is, "and your point would be...?"
Back to guitars. I have to admit to a pretty significant attitude adjustment over the past 5 years regarding which acoustic guitars I will use for recording or playing out. I confess to having been in the past (and probably always will be) as much of an acoustic guitar snob as you might care to run into, and I had the guitars and debt to prove it. I have had guitars that cost as much as $,$$$, and was very committed to the rosewood/spruce dreadnought category. At one point I had a cedar topped rosewood body dred, before that your standard D-28, etc. But then I started to open up to mahogany bodied instruments. That started the trend towards different body sizes and shapes also. I had a 12 fret D-18 vintage reissue, which I was very partial to. It has since gone to stay with a new owner in North Carolina. I still have the first mahogany body guitar I ever got; a beautiful old sunburst Gibson J-35. That thing flat out cuts. It will not be denied.
Now I am fond of the 000, 00, OM sizes, especially the 12 fret slot-head versions. And, I also have developed the desire to have a lot of cool sounding cheap guitars instead of 1 or 2 retirement fund guitars. As far as these instruments go, I have recently picked up a new Blueridge BR-63, which is a 000-28 style guitar. It was inexpensive, but it will, without exagerration, truly frighten many very expensive guitars like those at the shop where I found it. And of course, I am always on the lookout for something else to add to the stable.
Some films that I can't recommend enough, for your consideration:
1. Hud - Paul Newman, early 60's B&W, character study kind of thing. I won't even try to convince you. Just rent it and watch.
2. Tender Mercies - Robert Duvall as a recovering C&W singer, early 80's.
Watch it couple of times. Quiet and understated conviction. If you have spent any time in "The 4", it will look very familiar to you.
3. Local Hero - Character/Comedy set on the coast of Scotland, early 80's. Great scenery, accents, dry humor. I am praying that RGNC get a gig in this town someday. Soundtrack by one Mark Knopfler; you can't do better than that can you? Again, just watch it, OK?
4. Milagro Beanfield War - Northern New Mexico scenery, David vs. Goliath plot, funny and gentle and pointed at the same time. A great line where a guy walks into his house and sees his kids watching tv again, and threatens to have it repossesed if they don't turn it off and go outside for a while. Sounds like something my dad would have said.
Peace.
posted by mwc at 9:49 PM
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