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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | After listening for a few weeks to my new Beatles master mono collection, I spent three hours last night playing a vintage Gretsch Country Gentleman through a Vox AC30 and tinkering with all the adjustments on both guitar and amp to see how close I could come to replicating some of their sound. Of course, I don’t believe I came very close at all, except maybe Day Tripper. Regardless, I know that Beatles music doesn’t appeal to everybody, but I sure had fun trying to play it. |
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Location: Tennessee | Try playing the lead to "All My Loving". Bet you can nail that sound! Then try "Do You Want To Know A Secret". Got that classic George sound from the early days. :cool: |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Yep, those two songs for sure. The jangly sound from John's rhythm guitar on All My loving is also emphasized using the bright setting on a Janglebox pedal. |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Yep, those two songs for sure. The jangly sound from John's rhythm guitar on All My loving is also emphasized using the bright setting on a Janglebox pedal. And those triplets he plays are much trickier to keep up with than the solo. |
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Location: Tennessee | Need a Rick 325 to nail John's sound on that song. You won't get it from that Gretsch. |
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Location: SoCal | Here's how you play like Lennon....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFRsUydn2w4 |
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Location: Vernon CT | Interesting Video. Such a young guy who really appears to know his "Lennon" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Need a Rick 325 to nail John's sound on that song. When I want a Rik fix, I check out Buddy\'s collection.
Not bad for a drummer. Plus he normally brings the Rik to the 'front'. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Need a Rick 325 to nail John's sound on that song. When I want a Rik fix, I check out Buddy\'s collection
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Jack,
Where's your 360/12 OS? |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Jack,
Where's your 360/12 OS? It's a few light years away with the Ric acoustic. There was a very nice 360/12 WB on ebay for a great price a few days ago, but I managed to restrain myself. |
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Location: Tennessee | I had a 360/12V64 in JetGlo for quite a while. Ended up selling it when the value reached double my purchase cost. I found the nut width was just too narrow for my liking. A 660/12 in AmberGlo is on my short list, but for the time being my Deacon 12 is satisfying my need for 12 string jangle on a much more playable neck. But I do miss the unique sound from the Ricky 12 stringing method and can't figure any way for the Deacon12 to work.
Glad to see the VP option on the BlueBoy, Jack. I'm not a fan of the hi-gain pickups. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Glad to see the VP option on the BlueBoy, Jack. I'm not a fan of the hi-gain pickups. The VP and the high gains are 2 different animals. Actually the color is BlueBurst, the 2005 COY. Blueboy is a light blue. I'd love to get a 660/12 or 6.
Anybody ever play or hear a Ric acoustic live? |
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Location: Tennessee | Yeah, I was on the prowl for a Ric acoustic for a while. I finally found one in a shop in LA a few years back. I believe it was the Shiloh model... Spruce on rosewood. The checkerboard binding is real cool. Like all things Ric, the build quality was excellent. But to me, that particular guitar was really tight. Kinda like trying to talk while holding your breath. I decided not to buy it. It was a lot of money. It may have just been that one guitar. Someone told me later the maple ones were the ones to get. Of course, their mystique probably would have made it a good investment. Last I heard, Ric decided not to build acoustics anymore. I imagine finding one for sale would be pretty tough these days. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Yeah, I was on the prowl for a Ric acoustic for a while. I finally found one in a shop in LA a few years back. I believe it was the Shiloh model... Spruce on rosewood. The checkerboard binding is real cool. Like all things Ric, the build quality was excellent. But to me, that particular guitar was really tight. Kinda like trying to talk while holding your breath. I decided not to buy it. It was a lot of money. It may have just been that one guitar. Someone told me later the maple ones were the ones to get. Of course, their mystique probably would have made it a good investment. Last I heard, Ric decided not to build acoustics anymore. I imagine finding one for sale would be pretty tough these days. Actually one of their employees makes them under RIC license. You can get a jumbo or a dred, all hand built, whatever finish you want, etc, and it will run you about $6k. The used ones that I've seen have been around $5k. One went for $3600 a few months ago, but the seller had 2 of them and had ordered a third, so he was a little desparate to get rid of it. If you're interested I can forward you the link Paul sent me that shows a lot of his guitars and how he builds them. |
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Gretsch + Vox + Beatles = fun