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Location: Illinois, U.S.A. | I was surfing around and ran across an audio interview with Don McLean,of "American Pie" fame. In it, he tells how he prefers his guitars set up, choices when buying a new guitar, guitar care, guitar cases and traveling, and so on, and on. It primarily refers to his Martin guitars, but the message is transferable to any maker, really.
Don McLean audio interview |
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Location: chicago | The best Don Mclean song ever...Castles in the air,great tune and I think Jim Croce plays guitar on it as well. Jeff
www.guitarsoffire.com |
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Location: Chicago | Just listened to a version of "Castles" on YouTube--a much older Don... wow how time has flown. My personal favorite was his tribute to Van Gogh. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Castles has been on my list of songs to learn for years, but I've never even figured out the intro and never found a decent tab. When I saw the YouTube clip I noticed he capoed it up a couple frets, but never got much farther than that. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I'ver been a Don McLean fan for years.
First saw him on Oz about 30 years ago.
He's appearing here with John Fogerty in March.
Just bought tickets today. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Castles has been on my list of songs to learn for years, but I've never even figured out the intro and never found a decent tab. When I saw the YouTube clip I noticed he capoed it up a couple frets, but never got much farther than that. mark, for "castles", don is playing in a dropped D tuning (lower the low E string to D) fairly simple chord arrangement which can be seen in the youtube video. |
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Location: North Carolina | Only McLean songs I play are "If We Try" and "And I Love You So".
Do not, cannot, will not play "American Pie". Don't even ask. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | During the holidays, I'm going to finally tune one of my guitars to a drop D and start learning some of these songs. That was one of my excuses for having another guitar, but I've never done it. The 99 Collector's doesn't get used enough, so it'll be my drop D guitar. Then I can bore our friends who ask why I have so many guitars and they won't understand what I'm talking about, but it will sound like it makes sense. It's all in how you present BS. |
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Location: NJ | I always thought that whole "Tapestry" album was his best . . . |
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Don McLean on guitars interview
