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Location: USA | ok....
What exactly is he doing when he plays?
He always appears to be using a scraping swirling method? Does he use an ebow?
I am always impressed with what hes doing and the sound that comes out...
Also what exactly is that brown guitar he always seems to favor?
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Don't know what he's doing these days, but if it involves music it's gotta be good. His guitar playing is so creative both acoustic and electric. He never sounds like anybody, always an original. One of his most underrated talents is his recording ability. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by Styll:
What exactly is he doing when he plays? Not sure, but a few years ago I scratched out a fakey version of "Never Goin' Back Again". Its nothing like he plays it, but sounds passable. Absolutely slays the wannabe shred wankers in the guitar stores.
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Location: NJ | Doesn't use an eBow.
In fact, he doesn't use a pick.
Uses his fingertips.
I'm not positive, but I believe the guitar is a RickTurner custom job (I think it's got a chambered body). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's a Turner and he's used it for years. Probably has many of them. Has used Ovations and Adamas in the distant past. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Watching an older PBS special (where the USC band comes out and plays on a song) I was surprised to see him using his thumb to play most of the lead stuff. Looked like a nylon stringed electric if I remember correctly.
A very unique style.
Years ago I saw The Marshall Tucker Band a couple of times and the lead guiarist used his thumb to play all the lead stuff..... |
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Location: SoCal | He bases his playing on a a lot of banjo rolls. |
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Location: Oakton, VA | Yes, I think the banjo is fundamental to his style.
His acoustic pieces show a lot of Travis pattern picking, the thumb knocking out an alternating bass while the index and middle fingers pick upwards on the higher pitched strings. I do notice that when he plays electric leads you’ll see an occasional flourish with the elbow which looks a lot like clawhammer banjo, the middle finger being thrust downward against the strings. That’s perhaps the scraping movement you mention.
Years ago I saw a Kingston Trio fundraiser on PBS. Toward the end of the performance, Buckingham steps into camera view from the shadows where he’s been anonymously playing bass. He mentioned that he learned to play from Kingston Trio recordings, especially the playing of banjoist John Stewart. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Never paid much attention to Fleetwood Mac but Buckinghams "Out Of The Cradle" album was a tour de force!
Worked out pieces here and there, and it strikes me a mainly kind of freeform, stylized finger picking. 'Least that's what it is when I do it. But no one would pay me to see it twice! |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | I cut my teeth on "Bare Trees" and always liked "Mystery To Me", pre-Buckingham Nicks, post-Peter Green Fleetwood Mac.
"Bare Trees" is one of my favorite all time albums, albeit somewhat forgotten in the Fleetwood Mac lexicon...
Give me Christine McVie instead of Stevie Nicks vocals anyday...
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Location: Houston, TX | It is a Turner. Best I can tell, when he's not using various finger-picking rolls he uses the thumb for strums and single note leads like Stephen Stills does.
Very creative player, marches to the beat of the music in his mind.
I have to say this though, I saw the last tour and thought his dramatics were a little...hammy.
Wag - was Bare Trees the one with Bob Welch? |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Hey, you guys are talking about one of my favorite albums of all time, "Bare Trees". It's a masterpiece in my opinion. Bob Welch is an amazing artist and that record showcased his talent. Correct comments regarding Stevie vs. Christine, too. The Fleetwood Mac band of the last couple of decades is a mere shadow of the "real" Fleetwood Mac band which was a really great blues band with Peter Green. A really interesting listen is the boxed Fleetwood Mac set which has 8 cds. Lots of demos and out takes and lots of Peter Green playing. It's called "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967-1969".
Rick Turner is a genius with guitars and guitar electronics. He was one of the original Alembic family and went on to develop his own guitars, with Lindsey being one of the most visible artists. He also developed my favorite pickups of all time, Highlander which is what I use in my "non-Ovations". |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by Omaha:
Originally posted by Styll:
What exactly is he doing when he plays? Not sure, but a few years ago I scratched out a fakey version of "Never Goin' Back Again". Its nothing like he plays it, but sounds passable. Absolutely slays the wannabe shred wankers in the guitar stores.
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off topic...Lindsey Buckingham question...