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Archive for June, 2008

Journey. Yes, Journey.

Posted by admin in Thursday, June 19th 2008   
Topics: Les Paul, Neal Schon/Journey, Strat    
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I’m talking about the pre-Faithfully, pre-uber-ballad Journey, which toed the line between old-school rock, blues and just a little pop. To this day, Departure is one of my favorite albums — uh, CDs. The guitar work is great (Neal Schon, of course), the keyboards are great (Gregg Rolie — great), the vocal melodies are great, [...]

A Sofa, Chair and a Fish

Posted by admin in Thursday, June 12th 2008   
Topics: Funny Stuff    
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Here he is, the master of tone who articulated it so well: “They go to 11.” Learn from Nigel’s tone lab.

Look at all the movies they made sequels (and multiple sequels) to. Doesn’t Tap deserve another? Don’t we deserve another?
Funny Stuff

Scholz: One Amp No Good?

Posted by admin in Wednesday, June 11th 2008   
Topics: Marshall, Tom Scholz/Boston    
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Does Boston’s Tom Scholz have WoodyTone? Remember, we’re not talking about the songs here. We’re talking about his Les Paul >> NASA effects rack >> Marshall tone — though Marshalls are only used in the studio. Otherwise it’s all Rockman stuff. Anyhow, it’s the NASA part that might drop him out of the WoodyTone pantheon.
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Seymour Duncan On…

Posted by admin in Tuesday, June 10th 2008   
Topics: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Seymour Duncan    
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Not much, it turns out. You can usually count on PremierGuitar.com to find some cool stuff. Recently they posted four vids of Seymour Duncan talking about various things.
Going from top to bottom, the first one is interesting if you want to know about how Seymour got into winding pickups. The second one doesn’t have much [...]

Walsh All Funked Up

Posted by admin in Thursday, June 5th 2008   
Topics: Carvin, Hiwatt, Joe Walsh, Les Paul, Marshall    
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I’ve started looking into Tommy Bolin. I’ve heard the name for years, but never looked into him. Still haven’t much, but when researching Bolin on YouTube, I found out that he must have replaced Joe Walsh in the James Gang, and my reaction was: Wait a minute. Joe Walsh? James Gang? There HAD to be [...]

New ‘Snake

Posted by admin in Tuesday, June 3rd 2008   
Topics: CD/DVD, Doug Aldrich, Reb Beach, Reviews, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake    
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I’ve been asked a few times whether I’ve heard the new Whitesnake CD, with Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach on the strings. Yes, it’s in my car. Or was. I have it here in my office (along with a Tascam CD-GT1, a mostly-Warmoth Strat and, for no good reason, two flangers). Anyhow, here’s my review [...]