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johnny9fingersLunch with Steve @TPA Studios. Mmm, Prosecco with lunch: hic!
Bumped into Barrie Cadogan in Vintage and Rare. A couple of the chaps from Primal Scream are doing a charity gig tonight at The Whitechapel Art Gallery. Tickets only, I'm afraid.
We chewed the fat, as the saying is, even though we'd seen each other last week or so. The 'Scream' are (is?) a pretty big band, even now in these days of a sadly-diminished music biz; and Barrie has been with them a couple of years. He's a lovely player: rock 'n' roll and dulce too, if you catch my drift. I'll have to steal a few of his first-finger bends, as they're things I rarely use in my playing these days.
Flea* had bought an app for his iPhone: a Peterson Strobe Tuner. For less than a tenner. Blimey. They're normally one whole bunch of money, as the saying is. (Do you find you repeat yourself after a good lunch?) I'm getting one for my iPod Touch, with the adaptor, as it would be silly not to.
Barrie said he didn't have a tuner, that's why all of his guitars were out of tune. Says I: "Yeah, right. I reckon you wander about thinking 'I've got such good ears I'm always in tune, lah-lah'" and he didn't hit me. Must be careful about drinking at lunchtime. He fished a 345 off the wall and asked me if I'd ever had one. I informed him that, as he knew, I was a Strat aficionado, and Gibbos, though wonderful in themselves, etc, never quite did it for me in the same way. Then we discussed the advisability of using vintage instruments for pub-gigs (not really) and functions (not really too). We bantered until he had to trundle Whitechapel-wards.
Wandered home quite relaxed, as the word is; and am now domiciled awaiting SWMBO, where I'm rather hoping this evening I might get lucky.
I need to find a bassist and drummer. A three-piece with me on Strat, Marshall, and old-fashioned pedalboard.
May your day go as well as mine. May your geese turn into swans.
*The guy from Vintage and Rare, and a well respected guitar tech; not the bassist from the Chilis.
Bumped into Barrie Cadogan in Vintage and Rare. A couple of the chaps from Primal Scream are doing a charity gig tonight at The Whitechapel Art Gallery. Tickets only, I'm afraid.
We chewed the fat, as the saying is, even though we'd seen each other last week or so. The 'Scream' are (is?) a pretty big band, even now in these days of a sadly-diminished music biz; and Barrie has been with them a couple of years. He's a lovely player: rock 'n' roll and dulce too, if you catch my drift. I'll have to steal a few of his first-finger bends, as they're things I rarely use in my playing these days.
Flea* had bought an app for his iPhone: a Peterson Strobe Tuner. For less than a tenner. Blimey. They're normally one whole bunch of money, as the saying is. (Do you find you repeat yourself after a good lunch?) I'm getting one for my iPod Touch, with the adaptor, as it would be silly not to.
Barrie said he didn't have a tuner, that's why all of his guitars were out of tune. Says I: "Yeah, right. I reckon you wander about thinking 'I've got such good ears I'm always in tune, lah-lah'" and he didn't hit me. Must be careful about drinking at lunchtime. He fished a 345 off the wall and asked me if I'd ever had one. I informed him that, as he knew, I was a Strat aficionado, and Gibbos, though wonderful in themselves, etc, never quite did it for me in the same way. Then we discussed the advisability of using vintage instruments for pub-gigs (not really) and functions (not really too). We bantered until he had to trundle Whitechapel-wards.
Wandered home quite relaxed, as the word is; and am now domiciled awaiting SWMBO, where I'm rather hoping this evening I might get lucky.
I need to find a bassist and drummer. A three-piece with me on Strat, Marshall, and old-fashioned pedalboard.
May your day go as well as mine. May your geese turn into swans.
*The guy from Vintage and Rare, and a well respected guitar tech; not the bassist from the Chilis.
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Date: 2010-04-22 10:39 pm (UTC)True 'dat. That's what Fender Japan or a tricked out Squier is for. I can't really talk though, as the only electric I have is a tricked out Squier with a Fender neck. :|
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Date: 2010-04-23 11:35 am (UTC)You'd be fucking insane to do that sort of work to a vintage instrument.
I have a couple of other American Strats. All have been 'chopped' to some extent or other.
One real problem is carting kit about. A Marshall half-stack, blackface 'twin', and old fashioned pedalboard live in the studio. I keep my Blues Deluxe at home and about 11 or so of my guitars, but even so, these days I do no practise and it's all falling away....There is little or none in the way of work for studio musicians. Live stuff, tours the odd TV or Radio ad....and I'm too old and too married to live out of a suitcase: the upshot of which is that somehow scales lose their charm.
I may still have something to say with the instrument: I'm working that out at the moment.