Author Topic: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?  (Read 212804 times)

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1215 on: January 24, 2016, 09:14:22 AM »
@davehouck - Marbletown again, as played by some local folks... (well, local to us anyway) =)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCFUzO-EUw
 
I love how they took Knopfler's little bluesy hook and made it a more central theme to the tune. This is the best sounding carbon fiber guitar I ever heard. (ordinarily, Tim plays a 1934 Martin D-18... I've played it, and yes it's awesome!)  
 
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1216 on: January 24, 2016, 01:12:55 PM »
Nice!  I saw there was another video up of a bluegrass band doing Marbletown.  Is that tune in the bluegrass book?  Come to think of it, does bluegrass even have a book?

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1217 on: January 25, 2016, 05:53:30 AM »
 No, not in the book per se.  
 
Yes, there are a couple books, but Blue Highway chose instead to write their own book. Those guys have been together for over 20 years now, having formed in 1994. I saw their very first show together at the Down Home in Johnson City, Tennessee, as the band I was playing with back then was HQ'd in nearby Jonesboro. We all knew each other, as the bluegrass community is so comparatively small.
 
Tim Stafford (guitar player) built that band from the ground up after leaving Alison Krauss & Union Station, a tough gig to walk away from even then, as the Grammys had just started rolling in. They quickly established themselves as a one of the very few bluegrass acts to go mainstream. (meaning they actually make a living playing full-time)  
 
It's a little unusual for them to do a cover song like Marbletown though, as they are best known for doing all original songs from within the band. Tim is quite the student of music though (as well as a professor at East Tennessee State University) so it's not surprising he's well-versed in the music of Mark Knopfler. For whatever reason though, they made Marbletown the title cut of an album, next thing anybody knew, a bunch of other regional bands were covering Blue Highway, covering Mark Knopfler. The whole thing hit me funny.
 
Tim's also quite a natural comedian... one of his favorite go-to gags on stage is an impression of Ralph Stanley. First time I heard this laughed til my guts hurt, it's just so spot-on.  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCnqWCPWCs

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« Reply #1218 on: January 25, 2016, 02:59:36 PM »
Ah; I didn't realize that was Tim Stafford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmt1Is8RteI

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1219 on: January 25, 2016, 08:34:47 PM »
OK, I was just on Youtube and stumbled on something that scared me badly.
 
I won't post a link out of simple human decency, but - is there anything wronger than Judas Priest doing Diamonds and Rust?????
 
That is BAD!!
 
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1220 on: January 26, 2016, 06:50:01 AM »
Maybe the worst is that I knew JP's version first, when I was about 9 years old (Listened to their Unleashed in the East - Live in Japan album back in 1981, along with British Steel, on a single sit). But then, there's one in every crowd... :P

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1221 on: January 26, 2016, 01:39:26 PM »
Let me take you back one further Dave... I got to see this evolution happen in real time.
 
Before they were members of the AKUS video you posted, Tim Stafford, Barry Bales, and Adam Steffey were the core members of this band called Dusty Miller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz15zYz6m2c
 
(a very young) Alison met them between band members coming and going, and they just clicked. The only one who remains in Union Station today is Barry Bales on bass. Tim went on to start Blue Highway, and these days Adam Steffey plays with another decorated band called The Boxcars.  
 
It really is a very small musical community... fun to reminisce about those days. We were all coming of age at about the same time in East Tennessee... man, I was having a ball, fresh out of high school, running up and down the highways every weekend playing bass. Fun times! =)
 
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1222 on: January 26, 2016, 02:49:00 PM »
quote:This is the best sounding carbon fiber guitar I ever heard.
 
It's a Composite Acoustics Legacy guitar.  They're made in Peavey's old factory in Mississippi, by the way.  
 
I prefer Rainsong guitars, because I own one. I bought a WS1000 from John Decker when they were still made in Hawaii. It's strictly an apples vs. oranges deal, though. Your mileage may vary. Viewer discretion advised. (What the heck does that mean, anyway? Don't tell anybody?) There are lots of comparison videos on YouTube, knock yourself out.  
 
Rainsongs don't have braces. CAs use Martin X-bracing. Rainsong offers four different composites (including fiberglass/carbon fiber) in five (6?) body shapes and sizes.  
 
The closest to Marbletown's guitarist's would probably be the CO-DR1000 Dreadnaught (the N2 designation indicates a truss rod and slightly beefier neck).
 
There are quite a few companies making carbon fiber guitars (note the date of that article) mainly because they're so much easier to make than wood guitars. Some vacuum molds, an oven, line up some suppliers and watch the money roll in. In fact, lots of people are making their own.
 
Whatever you do, don't buy a guitar made with *sodium hydroxide.
 
 
 
 
 
 
* That would be a base guitar.

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1223 on: January 26, 2016, 03:27:38 PM »
Thanks Gregory; I was wondering how Union Station came about.

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1224 on: January 26, 2016, 06:52:57 PM »
Tonight it's a little Quintette du Hot Club de France in honor of St?phane Grappelli's 108th birthday.
 
Peter (Who maintains that the contemporary guitarist with the most overt Django influence is Willie Nelson)
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« Reply #1225 on: January 26, 2016, 06:57:50 PM »
* That would be a base guitar.
 
Which is often found in ensembles with a strumpet & a French whorn.......
 
Peter (Who's really ashamed of that...but not enough to refrain )
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1226 on: January 26, 2016, 07:52:33 PM »
Thanks for the Django & Grappelli!

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1227 on: January 26, 2016, 10:28:42 PM »
Here's Gene Simmons, placing himself in the hands of an older and very experienced woman . . . . I love it when she tells him to come over to the house and she'll show him how to do it.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15LqTowvhA
 
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1228 on: January 28, 2016, 02:27:05 PM »
Yesterday I had a young lady in my cab who turned out to be a pianist, vocalist, and activist who was in town for a sex-trafficking seminar.  As I tend to do with musician passengers, we chatted, and at the station she gave me her CD; today I listened to it.  
I'm not ready to follow her on tour, but I am ready to follow her home....
May I introduce you to Hana Kim?
 
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?
« Reply #1229 on: January 28, 2016, 05:05:49 PM »
Peter, you dirty old man.   She looks about 13 years old!
 
Bill, tgo (with tongue firmly planted in cheek).