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On a wholly unrelated note (vis-a-vis 8-string prog), I ran across this today:


http://www.fretboardjournal.com/blog/catch-day-1971-gibson-les-paul-custom-msa-pedal-attachment


Apparently the MSA thingy is a solid-body guitar mod that was sold in the '80s that allowed one to to bend EVERY string like a pedal steel player would.  The demo video has, among other things, a guy playing some seriously cool Lenny Breau harmonics with a pedal steel feel.  Very nifty.

Edit:  MSA markets regular ol' pedal steels as well (or used to, Stubhead can chime in for sure).  And they do precision machinery for aerospace, geophysics, and other scientific and industrial applications.  I find it amazing that they even came up with this product - I think Maurice Anderson must have really just wanted it for himself, because the return on the investment would be REALLY hard to come by.

 
Listening to the birds complaining about their neighbors. A pair of hawks are nesting in the backyard. Babies are hungry, and all the songbirds are just going nuts sounding alarm
 
Back to numbers so you can get your kicks next time you drive Route 66 and move yourselves,

90125

http://youtu.be/AgsGQBaijig
 
Cagey said:
Yikes! That is one fugly Strat! Good thing he knows what he's doing.
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Agreed its not going to win a beauty price. I think there might be a couple of Axe FX presets for the tone. Its a while since I had mine so I cant recall what they were called. The solo at the time was quite ear opening.
 
Cagey said:
Yikes! That is one fugly Strat! Good thing he knows what he's doing.
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Yeah, Trevor Rabin can play whatever the hell he wants.  I recall he was endorsing Westone guitars at the time 90125 and Big Generator were out, but I guess he was just getting paid to show up in the ads, since he favored his hand-decorated frankenstrat in a lot of the performance video I've seen.
 
King Crimson's "Three of a Perfect Pair" video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWZmBSJwY1Y


Holds up pretty good after thirty years, except for some of Bruford's electronic drum sounds.


I happen also to really like Adrian Belew's unconventional approach to extracting sounds from a piece of wood with wires strung acrost it.  Freaky stuff, but gratifyingly so.
 
That goddam Adrian Belew, not only singing long sustainy words but at the same time playing all the spastic diminished and whole-tone shifting arpeggios in 11/8 time... Fripp I can understand, sitting perfectly still and being able to count along in his head, I was totally into this band for a while and I even figured out how to do fakey semi-Frippisms. But NO human being could COUNT one thing that offwhacked and then SING something completely different at the same time? :icon_scratch: I saw these guys a couple of times, lest you think it trickery here's that goddam Adrian Belew doing it all at once by himSELF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ758xfIK4I

The first time I saw them was 1983 in Austin. You know, Austin - Texas? Where, like, Johnny Winter and Eric Johnson and Charlie Sexton and Ray Benson and Billy Gibbons and David Grissom and Doyle Bramhall and Stevie Ray Vaughan might possibly all qualify for a spot on most people's lists of the "50 Top Local Guitarists."

Longhairs were wandering around the hallway of the Civic Center, holding their heads and moaning. The only other concert that assassinatory was when Steve Morse opened for DiMeola, DeLucia & McLaughlin. Many notes were played.

 
Yeah, I've been to those gigs where I just felt humble and unworthy after the first salvo, and then just had to get over it.


Chick Corea's Elektrik Band with Frank Gambale did it do me back in'89 or '90 in Las Vegas.  They played this way-off-the-Strip nightclub for some reason, and just scorched the earth with their performance (except for one of Chick's slightly awkward key-tar excursions, but hey, it was the '80s, or had not yet let of of the '80s).  One thing that blew me away at the time was the PA mix being so clear and beautiful; and Gambale's guitar sound, which was coming off the stage straight at my head.  I mean, I was literally less than 10 feet from his cab, and this gorgeous overdriven tone that I should have expected to blow my head clean off was instead just perfectly mixed with the band.  Plus, of course, he can PLAY.  For reelz.
 
Today we bring you Angelo Debarre, master practitioner of le jazz hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTmwZsy8xbg&index=2&list=RD-2pxibC7K0Q
 
Budgie - Breadfan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2GGNJAO7U

This confused the heck out of me.

1) I've NEVER heard of them until like 3 o' clock this afternoon. I was actually quite shocked that anything this heavy was recorded this early in the 70s. (1973).
2) I'd consider that tone classic JCM 800, rather than plexi.
3) Floyds weren't actually invented in 1973
4) They're looking a little girthy for professional musicians from 1973 who I've never heard of.
5) Oh duh, this concert was recorded in 1999.
6) I actually found this looking for examples of  quintessential hard rock P-bass

Still...
 
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