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| 2122.1 | | PELKEY::PELKEY | Pelican's wings been clipped. Film @ 11 | Thu Feb 21 1991 11:19 | 3 |
| Do some Bonnie Rait sometime.
Holy smokes!
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| 2122.2 | | CRISTA::MAYNARD | Atlas Shrugged | Thu Feb 21 1991 14:50 | 4 |
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Does Bonnie Raitt use an open tuning?
Jim
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| 2122.3 | going nowhere fast | BOSOX::ONEILL | | Fri Feb 22 1991 10:08 | 7 |
| This may not be the right place but here it goes.
Would some one explain just what open tuning is. I tried playing
guitar for years (all self taught, a lefty playing right handed)
and never did progress much past basic cords, While I was
playing (again, my definition) I often heard about open tuning
but never knew just what it is/was. Im only familiar with relitive
tuning or useing an electronic tunner.
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| 2122.4 | | ICS::CONROY | | Fri Feb 22 1991 11:28 | 24 |
| It's tuning the open strings to a chord or a variation of a chord.
I think there's a bunch of these in that note about Michael Hedges.
He uses a lot of weird ones.
Two very common open tunings:
Just tune to an E major chord:
(This is used in Allman Bros. "Little Martha")
E - high E stays the same
B - high B stays the same
G# - tune open G 1/2 step up to G#
E - Tune open D whole step up to E
B - tune open A whole step up to B
E - low E stays the same
Open G:
D - High E down whole step to D
B - High B stays the same
G - G stays the same
D - D stays the same
G - Low A down to G
D - Low E down to D
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| 2122.5 | | CHEFS::IMMSA | adrift on the sea of heartbreak | Mon Feb 25 1991 07:51 | 5 |
| Slide playing and Ry Cooder are synonymous.
You cain't do one without listening to the other!
andy
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| 2122.6 | | DNEAST::BOTTOM_DAVID | victim of unix... | Mon Feb 25 1991 11:12 | 7 |
| re: Bonnie
She learned how to slide from the late Lowell George who IMHO remains the
most expressive slide player I've ever heard. She also uses a fair amount
of compression for slide work (as recommended by LG)
dbii
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| 2122.7 | | E::EVANS | | Tue Feb 26 1991 09:40 | 6 |
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I'll give my slide vote to Duane Allman. I am often stunned by how much fine
music he left us from such a short life.
Jim
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| 2122.8 | Often overlooked.... | STAR::DONOVAN | | Tue Feb 26 1991 10:01 | 14 |
| Another great slide guy, who is overlooked most of the time,
is George Harrison. Not so much in context of the Beatles,
but in his solo stuff, (My Sweet Lord) and on some of
the other Bealtes solo stuff, and with the Traveling Wilburys.
He tends to blend in with the songs...it's not really "in your
face" slide playing. But nice all the same.
Is slide coming back? Or is it a dying art?
I like Fred's slide playing!!
Brian
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| 2122.9 | Ry Cooder | LEDS::BURATI | | Tue Feb 26 1991 13:09 | 15 |
| I agree with .5
Listen to Ry Cooder's work on John Hiatts "Bring The Family" album.
I just watched a movie called Johnny Handsome set in New Orleans that
Cooder did the sound track for. I just wanted to close my eyes and
listen to the music track.
Also getting my vote is Sonny Landruth who as part of The Goners
backed Hiatt on "Slow Turning" and the subsequent tour (on which I
caught their show. F*CKINGGREAT!) This guy's unbelievable. I don't know
what else he's done but I heard that Guitar Player or maybe Guitar World
did a feature on him a while ago. Similar style to Cooder.
You want slide? "Bring The Family" and "Slow Turning", John Hiatt.
You won't be disappointed.
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| 2122.10 | Sonny! | FROST::SIMON | Birds can't row boats | Mon Mar 25 1991 12:21 | 8 |
| re: Sonny Landreth....
For more check out John Mayall's newest album... Landreth is all over it.
He's also got two solo records out on Blues Unlimited Records "Blues Attack",
and "Bayou Rhythm". Good stuff!
_gs
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| 2122.11 | Landreth | LEDS::BURATI | Infidel THIS! | Mon Mar 25 1991 13:42 | 7 |
| Thanks gs, I think Landreth's slide is even sweeter than
Cooder's. I could tollerate a lot of Sonny Landreth. First time
I ever saw a Soldano amp was Landreth with John Hiatt. He had about
8 Stratocasters. Changed between each tune except once. Tunings I
suppose. I look for his albums.
--rjb
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| 2122.12 | | DNEAST::BOTTOM_DAVID | victim of unix... | Tue Mar 26 1991 14:41 | 5 |
| Is landreth the guy who was on Austin City Limits a while back with hyatt?
Awesome slide player...and yes it was a strat...
dbii
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| 2122.13 | Landreth is (slide) god! | LEDS::BURATI | Infidel THIS! | Fri Apr 05 1991 14:37 | 10 |
| Well, I tell ya. I just put a working tape deck in my car and to
christen it, I grabbed my John Hiatt cassette on my way out the door. I
can only say that IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE SWEETEST SLIDE GUITAR PLAYIN'
EVER RECORDED (to my knowledge, which I acknowledge isn't that vast),
BUY JOHN HIATT'S, SLOW TURNIN'! I cannot more highly recommend it for
slide guitar fans, among whom I actually don't count myself. Sonny
Landreth sets a whole new standard for the idiom. It's even better than
I remembered it being when I first mentioned it in this topic.
--rjb
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