Conference napalm::guitar

    I forgot to add that Hedges is on the Windham Hill label.  His latest
    is called 'Aerial Boundaries'.
    
    On his last album, he does an acoustic version of Hendrix'
    "Watchtower".  I never realized before that Dylan wrote that tune.
    
    Mike

    I *LOVE* Michael Hedges...  He's hot with that double necked
    bass/six-string acoustic.  I saw him at Great Woods (Or was it on the
    Common?) a few summers ago, and was *totally* blown away... Tapping a
    bass with one hand and tapping an acoustic with the other would impress
    anyone. Especially when it comes out sounding like this guy !! 

    He's a riot too.  He'll sit there and make jokes while he's pulling
    in a alternate tuning, then just start wailing away.  Live On The
    Double Planet is one of his better offerings I think.
    
    Anyone know his discography ?
    
    jc

I recently rented one of the Windham Hill concert videos that Hedges
is on.  It is the one recorded at Red Rock in Colorado.

Hedges' audio releases don't do him justice, I recommend renting one
of these videos!  They're Hi-Fi also, crank it through your stereo!

Mike

    Thats not the one where he's playing a double necked acoustic bass/six
    string is it???
    
    Those hammers he was doing are intense.  I've got "Live On The Double
    Planet" and I think it's the second track I saw a vid for.  The guy rox!
    
    jc

>    Thats not the one where he's playing a double necked acoustic bass/six
>    string is it???
    
    jc, that is the Harp Guitar.  It has 6 bass harp strings added
    onto a 6 string acoustic.  The song he does in the video with it
    is called, "Because Its There".
    
    In the video, he says that the Harp Guitar is made by Symphony of
    Minneapolis, circa 1920.
    
    Mike

    A rad guit for sure... And he knows how to play it !
    
    I wish I could !

    In the new issue of Guitar World, a lot of the big name guitarists
    submitted lists of their favorites from other guitarists.  It was
    interesting to see that both Joe Satriani and Steve Vai list "Aerial
    Boundaries" (by Hedges) as one of their favorite albums.
    
    Mike

    I've been listening to his live album recently and it's pretty
    incredible.  I'd love to be able to *see* how he pulls some of that
    stuff off.
    
    I also like the style of his writing.
    
    Greg

    I've got a Windham Hill "Live" Beta video tape of Michael Hedges.
    
    He plays a lot of stuff with his hand *over* the top of the neck.
    
    Pretty radical, but he's really interesting to watch.
    
    To me, he's like the Jimi Hendrix/Eddie Van Halen of the accoustic
    guitar - a real pioneer.
    
    cheers/mike

    I've rented "An Evening with Windham Hill" from the local Blockbuster
    Video.  They have a large selection of the Windham Hill stuff.

    On the above video, they spotlight Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Scott
    Cosseau, and Shadow Fax.

    The 20 minutes of Hedges is amazing!  Especially the opening tune
    (referred to in -1) "Silent Anticipations".  The guy does some amazing
    2 handed tapping on the acoustic.  He also does a tune with the
    double-necked harped guitar on there.

    Santa brought me 2 of his tapes.  Both are instrumental all the way
    through and are titled "Breakfast in the Field" and "Aerial
    Boundaries".

    BTW - I believe he doesn't use any effects at all, just amplification.
          He usually does the rhythm piece with the left-hand hammer-ons 
          and picks with the right hand to get the layered pieces.  No
          delay at all!

    Mike

    
    "Aerial Boundaries" has at least one track with severe tape
    manipulations, but it is credited as such in the liner notes.
    
    							Brian

    re: .10
    
    Mike, yes, that's the same tape that I have (An Evening with Windham
    Hill).
    
    What do you think about Shadowfax' "New Electric India".
    
    Quite a song!
    
    cheers/mike

    Yeah they definitely aren't your typical group.  I get a kick out of
    the electric clarinet and violin.  They must be MIDI'd to the max.
    
    Mike

    Hedges does a tune called Because It's There...
    
    I've got it on "Live From The Double Planet" (Which is live).
    Holy smoke Batman.
    
    jc (WHo sez scope it out !)

    re: .14
    
    Isn't that the song he plays with the Harp Guitar where he hammers
    the 6-string part with his left hand, and plays the bass notes with
    his right?
    
    cheers/mike

    Thats the one...
    
    It's awesome.  
    
    jc

    So Coop, how was the Hedges show back on January 15th?
    
    Is he on tour?

From: [email protected] (Bruce R. Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: Aerial Boundaries tuning (Hedges)

Howdy,

Does do any of you know what guitar tuning Michael Hedges
uses for the song "Aerial Boundaries".  I can't quite seem to
figure it out.

Thanks in advance,

-Bruce R. Miller

p.s.:  Here's a list of all the Hedges's tunings I do know:

=================================================
Guitar Player and Frets magazines published a joint effort magazine
called "more Hot Licks".  There's one short Hedges song there called
"Because It's There".  It was the song he wrote when he first got
his harp guitar.  The tuning is EADEAD and it involves continual
hammered on chords with the left hand while the right plays one-hand
harmonics.  Most of it can be played without the haro strings.

In the same issue was am article on alternate tunings.  "50 ways to
leave your standard tuning" it was called and next to each one was
a small list of artists who used that tuning at some point.  I'll
print some of them here.  Mind you, these are printed without permission.

Strings from lowest to highest:

E A D G B E (Standard)
I'm sure Hedges must have used this in at least on song. :-)

Standard Tuning Variations:

F A D G B E (Raise-F?)
Hedges, "Lenono"

D A D G C E
Hedges, "Baby Toes"
Open Chord Tunings:

Modal Tunings:

G B E F# A D (yikes! that's a *low* G there)
Hedges, "Happy Couple"

D A C G C E
Hedges, "Layover"

A B E F# A D
Hedges, "Hot Type"

Dissonant Tunings:

C G D G B C (ugh...)
Hedges, "Rickover's Dream"

B F# C# D A D
Hedges, "After the Goldrush"
Hedges, "Menage a Trois"

Unison Tunings:

D A E E A A
Hedges, "All Along the Watchtower"
[This is a *great* tuning, but it's really hard on the strings.
 Expect them to snap if you use this one alot...]

C G D D A E
Hedges, "Breakfast in the Field"
[This is a great tuning also because of the stacked fifths and the unison D's]


And a few other tunings for your edification:

D A D G A D (Dad-Gad)
Hedges, "Ragamuffin"
Page, "Black Mountain Side"
Bensusan, Just about everything...

C G C G C E
John Fahey, "Revolt of the Dyke Brigade" and others.
Page, "Friends", "Hats Off (to Roy Harper)"
Leo Kotke, "Crickle Creek" (played in B, down a half step)
[My personal favorite.  bright and resonant.]

C A C G C E
Page, "Bron-yr-aur"


-bruce
-devoted Hedges fan

    I've been listening to his new release "Taproot" this morning. 
    There is definitely some interesting guitar work on here.  If you like
    Hedges, you'll like this one too.  He only sings on one song and has
    Graham Nash backing him up on it.
    
    Mike

    Someone on USENET just recently started a Hedges newsletter to share
    info, tunings, tips, etc.  Here is the first installment.  If you want
    on the list, send mail to this address:
    
From:	PNO::DECWRL::"[email protected]" 30-JAN-1991 15:28:53.17
To:	[email protected] 
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Subj:	Welcome! 

 
 
Howdy Folks, and welcome to INFO-HEDGES.
 
A few thing to note:
 
I'm creating an archive of magazine articles, transcriptions,
tunings, and concert dates.  I'll post these things to the list
from time to time and if anyone has updates or corrections,
they should let me know, either by sending me mail at
[email protected], or calling me at (412) 268-7649.
Once I get a good collection of things together we can start
worrying about trading things.
 
Also, I'm moving to Santa Cruz in March so there may be
a few changes in the list, depending on whether they let me
run it from the TGV machines.  If not, Marc Shannon says
I can keep it on Drycas.  I've got one month to finish my
project before I leave so if I get bogged down with work
I may be a little slow responding to mail.  (this is my second
mailing list and there are only about 20 people on it.  My other
list has 430).
 
Well, that's about all for now.  And for you people who are
into buying ticket's early, here are a few MH concerts which
the woman at Windham Hill told me about:
 
May 24 in Yosemite (CA) at the Strawberry Festival (sounds like fun)
	Contact:  Charley Cram, (209) 533-0191
 
May 26 in Saratoga at the Montalzo Center for the Arts
 
You can call Windham Hill in Stanford, CA at (415)329-0647
and ask for concert dates for your area.  If you do, send me
mail and let me know what's up...
 
-bruce r miller
 CMU NetDev
 
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The quasi-canonical listing of Michael Hedges song tunings
--------------------------------------------------
 
Legend:
	[GP&F]		== Guitar Player & Frets magazines
	[GP]		== Guitar Player magazine
	[GW]		== Guitar World magazine
	[GX]		== Guitar Extra! magazine
	[JR]		== Jim Ross (my guitar teacher)
 
These are all of the tuning I happen to know.   I've collected them
magazines, teachers, people on the net, and assorted other places.
If you have any corrections, or additions, to this list, please let me
know!  You can contact me as follows:
 
Bruce R. Miller
UCC-135, Carnegie-Mellon University
4910 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
phone: (412) 268-7649
Internet: [email protected]
 
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#1 - Breakfast in the Field
=========================
 
1) "Layover" 					(2:32)
		D A C G C E	[GP&F]
		D A D G C E	[wls]
 
2) "Happy Couple" 				(3:23)
		G B E F# A D (yikes! *low* G) 		[GP&F]
 
3) "Eleven Small Roaches"  				(3:01)
 
4) "The Funky Avacado" 				(2:05)
 
5) "Baby Toes" 					(2:12)
		D A D G C E	[GP&F]
 
6) "Breakfast in the Field" 				(2:23)
		C G D D A E	    [GP&F]
 
7) "Two Days Old"				(4:44)
 
8) "Peg Log Speed King"				(3:20)
 
9) "The Unexpected Visitor"				(2:49)
 
10) "Silent Anticipations"				(3:19)
		D A C G C E	    [GP&F]
		D A D G C E	    [WLS]
 
11) "Lenono"					(3:55)
		F A D G B E (Raise-F?)	    [GP&F]
 
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#2 - Aerial Boundaries
====================
 
1) "Aerial Boundaries"				(4:45)
		C C D A G D	    [JR]
		C C D G A D	    [murakani]
		(those C's are an octave apart)
 
2) "Bensusan"					(2:30)
		D A D G A D (of course)	    [GP&F]
 
3) "Rickover's Dream"				(5:00)
		C G D G B C	    [GP&F]
 
4) "Ragamuffin"					(3:15)
		D A D G A D (Dad-Gad)	    [GP&F]
 
5) "After the Goldrush"/Neil Young			(4:10)
		B F# C# D A D	    [GP&F]
 
6) "Hot Type"					(1:31)
		A B E F# A D	    [GP&F]
 
7) "Spare Change"					(5:45)
 
 
8) "Menage a Trois"				(7:10)
		B F# C# D A D	    [GP&F]
 
9) "The Magic Farmer"				(3:50)
 
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#3 - watching my life go by
=========================
 
1) "Face Yourself"					(4:43)
 
2) "I'm Coming Home"				(4:14)
 
3) "Woman of the World"				(4:17)
 
4) "Watching My Life Go By"			(3:16)
 
5) "I Want You"					(4:00)
 
6) "Streamlined Man"				(3:46)
 
7) "Out On The Parkway"				(2:58)
 
8) "Holiday"					(5:14)
 
9) "All Along the Watchtower"/Dylan			(3:01)
		D A E E A A	    [GP&F]
 
10) "Running Blind"				(4:54)
 
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4) Live on the Double Planet
============================
 
1) "All Along the Watchtower"/Dylan			(2:59)
		D A E E A A	    [GP&F]
 
2) "Because It's There"				(3:13)
		E A D E A D	[GP&F]
	Stacked fifths.  Harp guitar.
 
3) "Silent Anticipations"				(3:01)
		D A C G C E	    [GP&F]
		D A D G C E	    [WLS]
 
4) "Ready or Not"					(3:52)
 
5) "A Love Bizarre"/Sheila E.			(4:30)
 
6) "Breakfast in the Field"				(2:17)
		C G D D A E	    [GP&F]
 
7) "Rikki's Shuffle"				(3:09)
 
8) "Woman of the World"				(4:28)
 
9) "The Double Planet"				(3:23)
 
10) "The Funky Avacado"				(3:20)
 
11) "Come Together"/Beatles			(5:10)
 
12) "Two Days Old"				(4:34)
 
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5) Taproot
==========
 
1) "The Naked Stalk"				(1:43)
		D A D E A B	    [GP]
 
2) "The Jealous Tunnel / About Face"			(4:20)
		D A D E A B	    [GP]
 
3) "The Jade Stalk"				(3:55)
 
4) "Nomad land"					(3:55)
		C G D G G G	[GP]
 
5) "Point A"					(1:33)
		Standard w/ TransTrem
 
6) "Chava's Song"					(3:14)
 
7) "Ritual Dance"					(2:17)
		D A D G C C	    [GP]
 
8) "Scenes"					(4:23)
		D A D E A B	    [GP]
 
 
9) "The First Cutting"				(3:02)
		D A D G A D	    [GP]
 
 
10) "Point B"					(1:57)
		Standard w/ TransTrem
 
11) "Song of the Spirit Farmer"			(4:45)
 
12) "The Rootwitch"				(2:29)
		D A D G C C	    [GP]
		B A D G C C	    [GW]
 
13) "i carry your heart"/e e cummings			(4:55)
		Bb F C Eb Eb Bb	    [GP]
 
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#) Random (Unrecorded)
 
"I Don't Live Today"/Hendrix
		Bb F C Eb Eb Bb	    [GP]
 
"Buffalo Stance"/Neenah Cherry
		Bb F C Eb Eb Bb	    [GP]
 
"If I Needed Somebody"/G. Harrison
		D(B?) A D E A B	    [GW]
 
"A Love Bizarre / Aquarius" / "Sheila E./Fifth Dimension"
		D(B?) A D E A B	    [GW]
 
"Eminence Front"/Townsend
 
"Gimme Shelter"/Stones
 
 
 
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    Looks like Hedges doesn't care very much for standard tuning ;-)
    
    Mike

Michael Hedges will be in concert on Feb. 2nd at the Maine Center for
the Arts in Orono, Maine at 8:00 PM...
 
Sorry this is so late... I didn't find out about the list until
today..
 
Michael R. Dow
[email protected]
 
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From:	PNO::DECWRL::"[email protected]"  1-FEB-1991 16:36:06.63
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Subj:	Nomad Land 

 
Howdy folks,
 
Just for kicks, I took the four bars of Nomad Land that appeared in
the October 1990 issue of Guitar Player, fleshed them out a bit and
typed in some TAB.  It's a fun song to play because a) it's got a groovy
(did I really just say that?) reggae rhythm and b) the top three strings
are all tunned to the same pitch.   You play the melody (1-3 strings)
with your left hand pinky and r.h. fingers.  Play the bass parts with
r.h. thumb and l.h. index  (generally).   The 12th fret notes are usually
harmonics which you can play the normal way, or by slapping the
12th fret with your right hand (strike it hard and perpendicularly, making
sure the string hit the fret metal).  The 5-3-2-0 decent in measure 4
is a series of chord pull-offs using the pinky, middle, and index fingers
to bar the successive chords.
 
To get to this tuning from standard:  tune 2  to the same pitch as 3.
tune 1 to the same pitch as 3.  tune 5 to G a fifth below 4 (7 frets).  tune
6 to C, a fifth below 5.  this tuning take a fair amount of tension
out of the neck, so you'll want to re-check the tuning off all the strings
again when you're done tuning the first time.  (1 is the lightest guage
string, right?)
 
My TAB's not very good, so you'll have to listen to the song (on
Taproot) in order to figure out what I was trying to do...  Plus, I typed
this in from memory, so there may be a few mistakes.
 
-bruce
 
 
Nomad Land
----------
Written by Michael Hedges
=========================
 
  Amin  /slide\            /slide-harm.      /slide\               PO PO
G |-----5-----7----|-------9-------12--|-----5-----7--|-----5-----3--2--0--| \
G |-----5-----7----|-------9-------12--|-----5-----7--|-----5-----3--2--0--| |
G |-----5-----7----|-------9-------12--|-----5-----7--|-----5-----3--2--0--|*|
D |--2-----0-------|--2-------0--------|--2-----0-----|--2-----0-----------| |
G |--2-----0-------|--2-------0--------|--2-----0-----|--2-----0-----------|*|
C |----------------|-------------------|--------------|--------------------| /
    >*               >*                  >*             >*         
 
      /slide\           /slide\   PO            /------- strummed -------\
|-----5-----7----|------4-----2----0--|------------------|------------------|
|-----5-----7----|------4-----2----0--|------------------|------------------|
|-----5-----7----|------4-----2----0--|---------5-5--5-5-|------------------|
|--2-----0-------|--5---------0-------|--0--5------------|--7-7-7---9--9-9--|
|--2-----0-------|--5---------0-------|--0--5---5-5--5-5-|--5-5-5---7--7-7--|
|----------------|--5---------0-------|--0--5---5-5--5-5-|--0-0-0---0--0-0--|
  *>                                       HO                   \sld/
 
Cmin           harm.               harm.               harm.             PO
|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|---10----7---0--|
|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|---10----7---0--|
|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|-----8---------12--|---10----7---0--|
|-----8---10--------|-----8---10--------|-----8---10--------|----------------|
|-----8---10--------|-----8---10--------|-----8---10--------|-8--------------|
|--0------10--------|--0------10--------|--0------10--------|-8-----10-------|
          HO                  HO                  HO              sld/
 
 
	>	Accent
	*	sticcatto
	sld	slide
	harm.	harmonic (may be plucked or slapped to taste)
	HO	Hammer On
	PO	Pull Off
 
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Guitar Extra (the acoustic version of GFTPM) has the standard and tab 
for "Breakfast in the Field" this month.

Mike

<< This is my first attempt to post to this mailing list, so I hope it works >>
 
Greetings!
 
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to catch Mike at the Park West in
Chicago, so I thought I'd fill you guys in on the show...
 
Songs that he performed (I think I've got them in order, but I'm not sure):
1st Set:
"Eminence Front" - that New Age classic, based on a bizarre guitar riff
"India" - a new song, complete with vocals!
"Buffalo Stance" - Hedges does rap (well, sort of)
"Because It's There" - played on his new, electric harp guitar w/ transtrem
"Ritual Dance" - the first song that really blew everyone away
"The Road to Return" - another new song, this one played on keyboards
"I Carry Your Heart" - from the new album, it looks playable!  Anybody tried to
		     figure this one out?
"Silent Anticipations" - the most impressive piece he played all evening
 
2nd Set:
"The Naked Stalk" - the only song that I could play (well, sort of)
"The Jealous Tunnel / About Face" - in the same tuning as Naked Stalk
"Point A, Point B" - first time I've ever seen a transtrem used.  It's sort of
		     like a tremolo bar that you can lock into place, which 
		     gives him a really innovative way to create new sounds.
Another Aerial Boundaries song - sorry, I can't remember the title
"The Funky Avocado" - once again, he astounded everyone
"She Drives Me Crazy" - the most entertaining song of the evening.  Everyone
		     was laughing, singing along to the 'oo oo' parts, and
		     marveling that this guy could play a Fine Young Cannibals
		     song on an acoustic guitar and make it work
"Aerial Boundaries" - he even through in a verse of "Inna Gadda Da Vida"
New Song - I didn't catch the title, it was sort of a Neil Young ballad song
"Love Bizarre / Aquarius" - a totally reworked version of "Love Bizarre", 
		    very different from the one on the Double Planet album,
		    and in a different tuning (I think).  I'm still not sure
		    how he worked in "Aquarius", but it sure was fun.
"All Along the Watchtower" - the big finale, played TOTALLY different than
		    I thought it was done.  Will I ever figure out how he
		    plays this song???
 
Well, that was the show (more or less).  Of course, it was an incredible 
musical experience.  And, of course, I left feeling like I'll never, ever
be able to play anything that sounds that good.  But, hey, that's what
this mailing list is for, to help us figure out how normal people like us
can play like that!  So, hopefully, with three new songs (all with vocals)
already finished, maybe he'll put out another new album before the end of 
the year!
 
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There was a fairly good transcription of Ragamuffin in
the May 88 issue of Guitar World.  In fact, here are all
the magazine transcriptions I know of:
 
February 1991	Guitar Extra!	Vol. 1 #4
	"The Sound of Three Hands Playing..."
	Interview with Michael Hedges
	Transcription of Breakfast in the Field
 
January 1991	Guitar World	Led Zep Special Collector's issue
	"Acoustic Thrash",  Interview w/ Michael Hedges
	No transcription.  Guess they didn't want to make
	Jimmy Page look bad, eh?
 
October 1990	Guitar Player
	Interview with Michael Hedges, "Acoustic Overdrive"
	A few pseudo-bars from Nomad Land
	Transcription of The Naked Stalk
 
Sept. 1988	More Hot Licks	from Guitar Player and Frets
	Short lesson by Michael Hedges
	First 14 bars of "Because It's There" transcribed
 
May 1988	Guitar World
	"Heavy Mental", Interview w/ Michael Hedges
	transcription of Ragamuffin by Dave Whitehill
 
If anyone's interested in those, I have them all here to copy.
Now sheet music in GIF format, that's what we need.
 
And I know of a few other transcriptions floating around.  I've
got a friend who transcribed Rickover's Dream and Happy Couple.
I'll be seeing him this weekend, so maybe I can make some photo-
copies...
 

Greetings,
 
  Masaki Murakami asks about Hedges' new TransTrem harp guitar.  It's not a
Steinberger, although it uses a Steinberger neck and bridge.  Here's what he
says about it in the interview in the October '90 Guitar Player (which is a
good interview, and an awesome cover picture of Hedges with the Klein harp
guitar):
 
  "[re: TransTrem] Finally, I have a guitar that can do what I want in
standard tuning.  I can't wait to get some kind of delay going and work out a
duet with it, where two chords on the two guitars move apart like diverging
trombones -- every time the pitch goes up, something else would bend down.  
And just think if you had a harp guitar with a TransTrem--and I do!  It's a
Steve Klein guitar with five harp strings.  But that's for the next record --
I didn't use it on _Taproot_, and I haven't finished writing anything for it
yet.  I don't want to record something right away just because it's fanciful."
 
  He goes on to say that he wanted to take the Klein on the road, so that he
could play his older harp guitar pieces, plus the TransTrem pieces (Point A
and Point B).  I saw him live at the Berklee Performance Center here in Boston
a couple of months ago, and that's what he had.  He had two acoustics and the
Klein.
 
  My only complaint with his show was that he spent an awful lot of time
retuning the guitars and adjusting his rack equipment (the delays, etc.).  It
might be nice if he had an assistant to retune the guitar he's not using, and
a technician to adjust the rack equipment (or at least some gear with
presets!).  The wait, however, was well worth it.  I really enjoyed the show.
I also enjoyed watching all the guitarists in the audience leave shaking their
heads.  I play bass, not guitar, so I don't get too upset about Hedges.
Michael Manring, on the other hand........  :-)
 
Cheers,
--Mike
 
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> Excerpts from mail: 15-Feb-91 Hedges' new Harp guitar
> [email protected] (1849)
 
>   My only complaint with his show was that he spent an awful lot of time
> retuning the guitars and adjusting his rack equipment (the delays,
> etc.).  It
> might be nice if he had an assistant to retune the guitar he's not
> using, and
> a technician to adjust the rack equipment (or at least some gear with
> presets!).  The wait, however, was well worth it.  I really enjoyed the
> show.
> I also enjoyed watching all the guitarists in the audience leave shaking
> their
> heads.  I play bass, not guitar, so I don't get too upset about Hedges.
> Michael Manring, on the other hand........  :-)
 
 
When he came here (to Pittsburgh) a few months ago, I went to see
him with three friends who also played guitar.  After the show we made
a pact to go home and burn our guitars.  And I'm going to soon, but I'm
still trying to figure out Layover and I need the guitar for that.  Soon
as
I figure that one out, I'm gonna torch the sucker.
 
I actually enjoy watching him retune.  Some performers take it off-line
and retune but he makes it part of the performance.  He'll talk to the
audience while he's doing it, or he'll play something to check the
tuning;
I'm sure it's part of the act.  When he played at CMU five years ago
(when no one had ever heard of him), he didn't fool around when he was
tuning.  He would just look at the tuning peg, give it a few twists,
strum
it once to make sure it was right, then go.  I like it.  It seems (to
me) to
remove the barrier between songs songs presented for a crowd and songs
played for the hell of playing songs.
 
He had the new harp-guitar when he came here (of course).  My friend
told me it was called a guitarp, but I'm not sure if he was making that
up
or not.
 
-bruce, # MH fan and aspiring guitarist, if only I didn't have this
 degenerative digital nerve disease...
 
 
 
 
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    from "Home & Studio Recording" magazine:
    
    Michael Hedges' studio, known as The Speech and Hearing Clinic, is
    nestled beneath an old water tower on his property in Mendocino, CA. 
    He named his studio in honor of his father, a speech therapist in
    Oklahoma.  "When I was a little kid, he took me to the clinic and let
    me play around with the tape recorders and the anechoic chambers.  I'd
    sit in there for long periods of time and listen to silence.  It had
    profound effect on me - it was like getting high."
    
    Nowadays, Hedges gets high writing and recording in his own soundproof
    chamber.  One interesting note: the 8 track can be controlled from a
    custom remote in the studio in addition to the normal controls.  Using
    a custom outboard meter bridge, outboard mic preamps, and the studio
    headphone mixer, Hedges can work completely alone when appropriate,
    although he usually works with an engineer or an assistant.  Here's a
    list of goodies:
    
    Tape machines                            Reverbs
    -------------                            -------
    MCI/Sony JH 110 1" 8 track               Klark-Teknik DN-780
     (w/8 channels of Dolby SR)              Yamaha REV-7
    Otari MTR 20 �" 2 track                  Lexicon PCM-60 (2)
    Otari MX 5050 �" 2 track
    Sony PCM 501 2 track F-1                 Other Effects
    Sony TCD-D10 Pro R-DAT                   -------------
                                             TC Electronics 2290 Delay
    Mixers                                   TC Electronics 1210
    ------                                      Chorus/Flanger/Spatial Expander
    Calrec "M" series 12x2 mixer             Lexicon PCM-42 Delay
    AMEK BC02 12x4 (12 stereo ins)           Orange County comp/lim/exp (2)
     for sub-mixing stereo effects,
     stereo synths, etc.                     Microphones
    Roland 240 line mixer (used as           -----------
     above)                                  Neumann M249B
    Soundcraft Series Two 12x4 located       Neumann M154 (2)
     in the studio to allow Michael to       Assorted Calrec mics
     create his own headphone mix            Assorted others (Shure, AKG,
                                              Sennheiser, Beyer)
    Mic preamps
    -----------                              Control Room Monitor System
    2 channel tube preamp by James           ---------------------------
      Demeter/Innovative Audio               E.M. Long ELF system incorporating
    2 channel Mic PreEminence by               the following:
      Studio Technologies                    ELF system crossover
                                             MDM-TA2 Time Align monitors
    Equalizers                                (powered by Bryston 3B)
    ----------                               ELF system sub-woofers (powered 
    Audio & Design Scamp rack: assorted        by Phase Linear 700B)
     parametrics, quasi-parametrics,
     compressor/limiter, de-essers            MIDI
    TC Electronics 1140 4 band parametric (4) ----
    Sundholm 1/3 octave graphic with          Mac Plus/Opcode Studio Plus
     notch filters                            Digidesign Sound Designer
    Sundholm stereo 10 band graphic           Mark of the Unicorn Performer
     w/notch filters                          Akai S900
    Orban 672A parametrics (2)                Casio CZ-101
    Assorted Rane graphics                    E-mu SP-12
                                              Oberheim Xpander
                                              Roland D-50
                                              Yamaha DX-7

    Michael is the cover story on the latest Acoustic Guitar magazine. 
    They show a photo of him with all his guitars, as well as some partial
    notation and tab for "Layover" and "Aerial Boundaries".
    
    Here are his 4 main guitars:
    
    Martin D-28
    Martin 0018
    Takamine (custom made)
    Trans Trem
    
    Mike

Well, here's what I have actual transcriptions of:
 
Ragamuffin
Aerial Boundaries
Rickover's Dream
Happy Couple
The Naked Stalk
begining of Because It's There
bits and pieces of other things
 
if memory serves (which is hard to tell these days), and some of
those things pending permission of the transcribers to redistribute.
But if anyone's interested they should send me a self addressed
8 1/2 by 11 (at least) envelope and I'll return any photocopies I can.
The self-addressed envelope is important.  (not so much because I'm
worried about the cost of envelopes, but more because it only takes
10 seconds to stuff a few sheets in an envelope and I have a seven
second attention span).
 
Send to:
	Bruce R. Miller
	330 Walnut St.
	Santa Cruz, Ca 95060
	(no phone yet)
 
I won't be there until the 15th of March, but I'm outta here next
Monday and I'm really busy until then, so Santa Cruz is your best bet.
 
-bruce
 
PS: If someone were to send me the Layover transcription mentioned
above then I wouldn't have to bother writing Santa this year...
 
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And to that list you can add a complete transcription of "Breakfast in the
Field", which I'll send to the above address.  (BTW, the tab for BitF is
in the most recent issue of "Guitar Extra!").  Good luck with the move,
Bruce - I know it'll be rough getting used to California weather, but I'm
sure you can tough it out! :^)
 
Jim Brede
 
P.S.  If anybody else wants BitF and doesn't feel like waiting the extra
couple of weeks, just send me your mailing address.
 
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    If anyone has any upcoming concert dates for this guy, please post
    them.  I will die a happy woman if he see this man just once.  And I'll
    probably die right there at his feet.  I rent the Windham Hill Videos 
    and tape the audio tracks.  The man's got some connection to the gods.
    
    Sandy  

    It will probably be a while, he toured for his lastest album last fall.
    
    Mike

I saw an ad for an appearance in Atlanta soon.  Don't remember the date.

Bob

    re: 1267.18 & 1267.21
    
    > "Bensusan"	D A D G A D 	(of course)
    
    Of course?!?  How about:  D A D G B E   with a capo on the first fret?
    It's much simpler, and makes more sense (Harmonically" speaking)
    
    How about these:
    	The happy couple	C G D G B E
    	The magic farmer	C G C G A D
    
    If someone can suggest something better, please let me know.
    
    As for the tuning D A D G A D, If any of you Hadges fans like Steve
    Morse, then tune down the G half a tone to an F#, put a capo on the
    first fret, and it will be exactly in tune for "Modoc" (from his 
    High Tension Wires album). 

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Hedges is playing the 13th in Richmond VA, 14th in Philadelphia PA, 15th 
in S. Amboy NJ, 16th and 17th in NYC, and the 19th in Washington DC.  There's 
a Michael Hedges music book coming out in 1993.  There is a 24 hour tour info
line (216-774-6000).  You can get on the mailing list (where I got all this 
information), I think, by writing to:
      ARG Tour Management
      MPO Box 0621
      Oberlin, OH 44074

Hope this helps.  If you need anything else I could provide, just e-mail.

-- 
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	TapRoot-The Michael Hedges mailing list is now open to subscribers.
Those interested should email to;

	[email protected]

and include the word 'subscribe' in the subject line.

    
         After a long recording hiatus, Michael Hedges returns
    with a new vocal-orientated CD on the Windham Hill label
    entitled "The Road to Return."  The CD will feature "Sister
    Soul," "India," and other tunes he's been performing on 
    stage in the recent past.
    
    Kev --
    

    sorry to hear he sings on this one...
    
_    /|            _    /|             _    /|            _    /|
\'o.O'             \'o.O'              \'o.O'             \'o.O'
=(___)=   Aack!!!  =(___)=   Aack!!!   =(___)=   Aack!!!  =(___)=   Aack!!!
   U                  U                   U                  U
    

    His voice is about 1000% better then Satriani's...

I'm with Mike

ack!

I hope it's better than the albummer I bought with the lousy cover of little
wing

dbii

    > His voice is about 1000% better then Satriani's...
    
    That's hardly saying much.  Barney the Dinosaur's voice is about 1000%
    better then Satriani's.
    
    	db

    No way dudes.  Hedges can't sing a note!

>>    That's hardly saying much.  Barney the Dinosaur's voice is about 1000%
>>    better then Satriani's.
    
    
    I wasn't impressed with Barney until I heard he does all of his own
    sequencing work.
    

>>    That's hardly saying much.  Barney the Dinosaur's voice is about 1000%
>>    better then Satriani's.
    
>    I wasn't impressed with Barney until I heard he does all of his own
>    sequencing work.
    
    Another area of superiority over Satriani.
    

    "Aerial Boundaries" was the last Hedges CD I bought.  "Breakfast in the
    Fields" isn't bad but not as good.  He sings on the live album so I
    didn't bother.  I was disappointed in "Taproot."
    
    Mike

   Latest rumor I heard was that we ("DIGITAL, with round dots please", that
   is) were bought out by the "Barney Corp", and we will soon be changing our
   corporate colors to purple and green.  Don't know what shape he (it's a
   "her", actually) prefers the dots.  The new corporate song will be along
   the lines of, "I love you, you love me, what a disfunctional family"...)

   (Parody stolen from some other notesfile source - sorry for the the lack
   of attribution.)

   -- Sam (in a strange mood these days - please understand)