LET'S MAKE CAGEY'S HEAD EXPLODE! (attn. Mayflour)
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Very nice. Ringo on drums, a cartoonist on that fat-stringed thing, I don't know who's playing guitar, but it looks like the future ex-Mrs. Wagner on pedal steel. Lotta talent. Plus, she's a babe. She's babelicious. If she was president, they'd call her "Baberaham Lincoln". My head didn't explode, though. I kept waiting for her to take off her top, but you know how YouTube is. Buncha prudes. How's anybody supposed to know what people really look like?
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That was pretty incredible. Very nice.
Every time Brent Mason, Paul Franklin and the rest of the Nashville studio mafia escape the studio, they run off and play bebop. But the mighty machine dictates that "the radio" want asshats in boots and, umm, hats, drawling and twangin' about how "country" they are - and if you were making +$200,000 a year in the studio, you'd play what they told you. Just like so-called rock n' roll, there is the radio, and then there is the real world where the good music lives.
I mean, melodic guitar players who don't play a million notes-per-second, like Robben Ford, tend to get called blues artists even when they're clearly not, and great songwriters tend to get called country regardless of what they thought they were. Unless they're girls, in which case they're either "folk" or "lesbian." Fortunately for US at least, the "country machine" is slowly following the rock machine down the tubes and the real stuff is getting easier to sniff out.
Kenny Chesney = Coldplay
Toby Keith = Nickelback
(If this is country, I want some of what he's having):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=rwoRZ02J1U4
I mean, melodic guitar players who don't play a million notes-per-second, like Robben Ford, tend to get called blues artists even when they're clearly not, and great songwriters tend to get called country regardless of what they thought they were. Unless they're girls, in which case they're either "folk" or "lesbian." Fortunately for US at least, the "country machine" is slowly following the rock machine down the tubes and the real stuff is getting easier to sniff out.
Kenny Chesney = Coldplay
Toby Keith = Nickelback
(If this is country, I want some of what he's having):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=rwoRZ02J1U4
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I'd change my name to "CashMoney" with some $$$$ at the end of it.... :laughing7:Mayfly said:
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I can't help but feel sorry for ol' Red. He hasn't spent anytime online in forums to know he needs noiseless pickups, compensated saddles, a compound radius neck, a true 24 fret neck, and contoured heel. All he did was learn to play guitar. How pathetic.
Redd has been an avid user and maker of partscasters for years, he doesn't care about vintage or not - he likes big baseball-bat necks, pickups that pick up, tuners that tune... of course by now he has legions of people who want to give him stuff, which suits him just fine. :laughing11: I'm sure there are a few Warmoth chunks in the old woodpile, but his sort-of current ax is a USA Custom body with a really custom-tweaked neck. There are a lot of guys in Austin with files and sanding blocks and such... From a 2009 post of his on TDPRI:
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So, quite the detail freak, just different details.
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"I haven't even built my Tele yet, so I can't be expected to know who all the pertinent hillbillies are."
I literally laughed out loud at that one, Cagey, and with your permission I will definitely use it (or a paraphrase thereof) the next time I'm in Nashville.
The average pick-up band in 'Nash Vegas' is deeply mortifying. I've seen Audley Freed play for whatever he got in the passed hat, and Reeves Gabrels does the same thing on a regular basis. Nashville is so full of monster musicians it's just not funny. But it is great if you're in the audience!
I literally laughed out loud at that one, Cagey, and with your permission I will definitely use it (or a paraphrase thereof) the next time I'm in Nashville.
The average pick-up band in 'Nash Vegas' is deeply mortifying. I've seen Audley Freed play for whatever he got in the passed hat, and Reeves Gabrels does the same thing on a regular basis. Nashville is so full of monster musicians it's just not funny. But it is great if you're in the audience!
I had the same experience in Austin '81 -'87. Every tiny little bar had some kickass guitarist or band playing so fine you'd forget to get drunk.... the last five years I lived a block and-a-half from this disgusting slimy little hole called the "Continental Club." It appears to be all cleaned up now for YouTube (and $20+ a piece!) but back then... the walls, ceiling and floors were "painted" black (I hope it was paint). The toilet might last till 10pm, and then it was the alley. When the breeze was right, you could smell it all up South Congress ave. At that time, the Fabulous Thunderbirds were the hot band and Jimmy Vaughan's little brother Stevie was a greasy little drunk who didn't even have a car to live in. There was some radio station or another with a "98" call sign and you could see SRV play for $1.98. Then he got a Grammy and bought a car and stuff. You could always find a band that needed a bass player, but you "play for the hat."
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Sounds like a band name: The Pertinent Hillbillies.
I may actually finish the green mahogany tele I'm building this weekend. Depends on how much I need to bounce my little baby boy on my lap. Maybe I'll figure out whether I, too, could be a hillbilly. Or pertinent.
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I may actually finish the green mahogany tele I'm building this weekend. Depends on how much I need to bounce my little baby boy on my lap. Maybe I'll figure out whether I, too, could be a hillbilly. Or pertinent.
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whitebison66 said:
We have just the opposite experience here in the Metro Detroit area. Bands are getting to be pretty thin on the ground. Between liability insurance, ultra-strict DUI laws with aggressive enforcement and all the various IP gatekeepers beating the hell out of the bars for licensing fees, they just can't even afford to let anyone play for free, let alone pay them to do so. There are a few over-sized yuppie bars that still do it, but not many. Plus, you can't drink, can't smoke, can't dance, can't raise hell. It's just no fun.
