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Location: atlanta | My daughter Kaki King played a gig at the MOCA in L.A. in August. The venue produced this 3 minute video of her sliding and looping her Gretsch lap steel:
http://tinyurl.com/n3v4q
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Location: NJ | interesting.
what does she use to loop? a digital or tape echoplex? or something else? |
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Location: atlanta | Al, although she has an Echoplex, at this show she used a Boss RC20XL Loop:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BOSRC20XL
She also used an Ernie Ball Volume Pedal.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | This what she used when I saw her. I really liked the looping and the lap steel. It adds depth to the sound.
She ended it differently when I saw her, it's pretty funny cause when she got to the end, she just lifted up her hands, as if to say, hey, mom look no hands! The audience laughed and loved it. This was a lot more mysterious. Still good, just different. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | That is pretty amazing! I really like the Conan O'Brien clip. |
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Location: NJ | I prefer the roland space echo 555 |
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Location: Tennessee | Great song ... it appeals to my surf music roots. Nice to see Kaki stretching out musically and tonally as well. She keeps getting better and better . There'll be lots more good stuff in the future.
Is there any way to get a digital audio version of this tune?
Thanks for the post Dave. Stay well! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Why is the Roland better? |
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Location: NJ | rick
I think the roland space echo 555 is the rolls royce of tape echos. I love the tape delay and it just works very well. I own other digital delays such as the oberheim (gibson) echoplex, original tape echoplexes. the guild copy cat and have owned binson echorec klempt analog tape echos along with boss, ibanez, digitech, etc digital delays.
there is just something about tape that has the warmth and vibe that I look for. digital is fine especially in performance situations.
did I answer your question? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Kaki Crush |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | OH THAT'S GREAT! And I'm not even going ask why you were searching Indie-Crush. Here's the copy ...
"Kaki King, musician. The remarkable Ms. King would already be on indie-crush lists everywhere if she'd only sing about gazelles on crystal hills or something, but unfortunately for crushless indie dudes all she does is shred the f*ck out of her sweet custom Adamas. Her fingerstyle technique turns my knees to jelly, and her near-invisibility on the indie radar seals the deal. She looks impossibly good in a plain red T-shirt. I am a little afraid of her. What use, after all, is an indie crush, if it isn't rooted in wide-eyed, cold-sweating fear? "
DEAD GOD ... oops, I mean DEAR AL, PLEASE GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO RESIST POSTING WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW I WANT TO POST ...
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Location: SoCal | Dave,
I noticed in your signature that now your daughter is giving you Ovation guitars. "Adamas Prototype Cutaway Classical".... what the story on this one? Any pics? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | StephenT and I are planning to see her in Denver this Saturday. I intend to buy the ticks tonight. Sure looking forward to it. |
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Location: atlanta | Paul, technically the guitars are here under a "bailment" from her (meaning I have legal possession of them but ownership remains hers). She is frequently in Atlanta and likes to keep a few guitars here, and the prototype classical is one of them. I think it's been here about six months.
I plan to take both guitars to the S.E. get-together being planned by Phil, and we'll get some pix then.
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Location: Upper Left USA | A lot of us parents have items on Bailment until our semi-moved out kids have room for them! :rolleyes:
Sounds like a good deal! |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Nice stuff Dave, We're looking forward to seeing it. What about the Strat. A good friend in upstate NY has an orig.'62.
I hav'nt forgot about the pics, I'll try again tonight. They keep coming out too grainy after resizing. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | "I think the roland space echo 555 is the rolls royce of tape echos ..."
Now I gotta get my mitts on one.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | an4340,
while Al is absolutely correct about the Space Echos for vintage gear (and I have owned my share although not all the brand varieties of Al), my current favorite is the Fulltone Tube Tape Echo.
FULTONE TTE
It is current production, no obsolete parts, easy to use tape container, multiple speeds easily controllable.....basically a fantastic unit without any of the headaches of vintage gear.
Also sounds fabulous on vocals! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | As the Professor mentioned, we will be hooking up this weekend to go see Kaki perform. Looking forward to it and it should be a lot of fun! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Mike, you gonna be in town this Saturday?
Maybe you could hook up with us at the show. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Stephan,
Could you take some pictures, and post 'em ... I'd be interested in seeing whether her gear has evolved.
Frankly, I loved the way she sounded when I saw her ... the compression was just right, the digiverb worked good, the wah added a nice touch and the looper was clear as a bell. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I think a lot of us are interested in Kaki's gear. Please keep us posted.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | You've seen my camera work...it sucks!! but maybe the Professor can take some nice pics and I can convert them and post them up for everyone. |
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Location: Fairfax, VA | Wow. I have the worst luck. I always find out about cool acts just in time to miss them playing in my neighborhood. I'll be picking up Kaki's recordings and looking forward to her doing another show in DC. Tell her to play the State in Falls Church, VA--it's a fantastic room. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'll be happy to bring my camera and shoot some pics if Kaki and the house managers don't object. |
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Location: PDX | Paul Simon.
Yep, i had to sit through a Paul Simon concert last Saturday -- the day Kaki was here in town. SWMBO'd drew the line -- her boss was going to the concert and she just had to put in a showing. With me in tow. No way out of it, and no room for negotiation.
What are you going to do?
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Location: closely held secret | Paul Simon was here last week? I gotta start paying more attention, I would have loved seeing him. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by gh1:
Paul Simon.
Yep, i had to sit through a Paul Simon concert
Was it that hard???
I would think that would be a good show. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Paul Simon was here last week? I gotta start paying more attention, I would have loved seeing him. Yep -- Rose Garden, Sept 30th. Did up in the "Theater in the Clouds" format. To make it more "intimate". We sat in one of those damn corporate boxes, Sheri works for US Bank.
If you like Paul's music it was a great show. I'm just not a fan of his stuff since he and Art split. Anyway, the crowd really did get their money's worth; one two hour set without break, crowd requests, six song encore, and a decent front act (which i actually liked more).
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Kaki sliding and looping in L.A.