MartyGrass Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 Maybe they sound the best. Here are two veteran players with uber tone and style. The guitar is old, dinged up, modded, and comfortable. The saxophone is oxidized about 90%. My drummer once complained to me that his mother cleaned the marks off his snare, thinking he would like a pristine skin. He didn't. He said all of the years he worked to put those marks down are as if they never happened. That same woman cleaned my drummer's dad's pipes. The dad was furious stating it took years to build up that caking and break the pipe in. Anyway, enjoy the sounds from these old men and their old instruments. They have arrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkE9_eE3MMU&t=185s
yoslate Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 Bill Frisell is an iconoclastic genius. Tardy clearly gets him. Wonderful!
DetroitBlues Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 2 hours ago, MartyGrass said: That same woman cleaned my drummer's dad's pipes. Here I am thinking he's one lucky fellow. Got that wrong.
ElNumero Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 3 hours ago, MartyGrass said: Maybe they sound the best. Here are two veteran players with uber tone and style. The guitar is old, dinged up, modded, and comfortable. The saxophone is oxidized about 90%. My drummer once complained to me that his mother cleaned the marks off his snare, thinking he would like a pristine skin. He didn't. He said all of the years he worked to put those marks down are as if they never happened. That same woman cleaned my drummer's dad's pipes. The dad was furious stating it took years to build up that caking and break the pipe in. Anyway, enjoy the sounds from these old men and their old instruments. They have arrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkE9_eE3MMU&t=185s Jazz drummers were notoriously anal about NOT cleaning their cymbals. In many cases, they would bury them underground for a year thinking that it would "age" them quicker and give them more of a vintage tone. I'm not subscribing to that theory, however I don't clean my cymbals and I actually enjoy all of the fingerprints and smudge all over them. Now my guitars are a different story! I cannot stand a single mark, fingerprint or smudge on any of my guitars! Ask Detroit Blues, he played my HOC 137 right after it was bulit, and when it arrived their was some sticky substance all over the neck.....
rockabilly69 Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 I know a lot of guitar players don't like to change their strings, as they like the rolled off tone of the older strings. I know Brian Setzer is that way.
Gitfiddler Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 7 hours ago, MartyGrass said: Maybe they sound the best. Here are two veteran players with uber tone and style. The guitar is old, dinged up, modded, and comfortable. The saxophone is oxidized about 90%. My drummer once complained to me that his mother cleaned the marks off his snare, thinking he would like a pristine skin. He didn't. He said all of the years he worked to put those marks down are as if they never happened. That same woman cleaned my drummer's dad's pipes. The dad was furious stating it took years to build up that caking and break the pipe in. Anyway, enjoy the sounds from these old men and their old instruments. They have arrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkE9_eE3MMU&t=185s Awesome video!
bobmeyrick Posted September 3, 2021 Posted September 3, 2021 2 hours ago, rwinking said: Can jazz be played on a Tele? Absolutely! Although he uses an archtop these days, back in the '80s one of my favourites, Jim Mullen used a Tele and a Twin...
GuitarsGuitarsGuitars Posted September 3, 2021 Posted September 3, 2021 Quite a right hand technique with that guy .... Teles can play anything.
GuitarsGuitarsGuitars Posted September 3, 2021 Posted September 3, 2021 21 hours ago, ElNumero said: Jazz drummers were notoriously anal about NOT cleaning their cymbals. In many cases, they would bury them underground for a year thinking that it would "age" them quicker and give them more of a vintage tone. I'm not subscribing to that theory, however I don't clean my cymbals and I actually enjoy all of the fingerprints and smudge all over them. Now my guitars are a different story! I cannot stand a single mark, fingerprint or smudge on any of my guitars! Ask Detroit Blues, he played my HOC 137 right after it was bulit, and when it arrived their was some sticky substance all over the neck..... New Port Richey --- I'll be Damned ... I just Retired to Spring Hill.
bobmeyrick Posted September 3, 2021 Posted September 3, 2021 53 minutes ago, GuitarsGuitarsGuitars said: Quite a right hand technique with that guy .... Teles can play anything. Here's a more recent video where he explains how and why he plays that way, plus a few other words of wisdom...
rwinking Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 19 hours ago, bobmeyrick said: Absolutely! Although he uses an archtop these days, back in the '80s one of my favourites, Jim Mullen used a Tele and a Twin... I was actually joking about this. One of my all time favorite jazz guys is Ed Bickert, who played with Paul Desmond and made an age worn Tele sound like God.
bobmeyrick Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 4 hours ago, rwinking said: I was actually joking about this. One of my all time favorite jazz guys is Ed Bickert, who played with Paul Desmond and made an age worn Tele sound like God. I thought you were, but any excuse for some Jim Mullen...
ElNumero Posted October 28, 2021 Posted October 28, 2021 On 9/2/2021 at 8:18 AM, MartyGrass said: Maybe they sound the best. Here are two veteran players with uber tone and style. The guitar is old, dinged up, modded, and comfortable. The saxophone is oxidized about 90%. My drummer once complained to me that his mother cleaned the marks off his snare, thinking he would like a pristine skin. He didn't. He said all of the years he worked to put those marks down are as if they never happened. That same woman cleaned my drummer's dad's pipes. The dad was furious stating it took years to build up that caking and break the pipe in. Anyway, enjoy the sounds from these old men and their old instruments. They have arrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkE9_eE3MMU&t=185s Was your dad a singer? I can't sing worth a crap if I have caking in my throat!
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