Re: The Well XLVII: Hide your chickens, cause Butch is 'bout to start pickin!
Interesting that you like chicken pickin' but don't like country music: I'm the same.
-As a fusionhead and hybrid picker, have you ever heard any Brett Garsed?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBaofcg2ZA
here he is demoing his picking style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZWL38IDkw
-Ever tried a Suhr tele?
-Given an unlimited budget, what amp would you choose?
-what do you like and dislike most about your playing?
-ever get into 335s?
-what's the strangest thing you've eaten?
-got any good gig mishap stories?
Okay, let's see...
1. I heave never heard of Brett Garsed but I'm very glad you shared those clips. He's very musical and I love the genre.
2. I haven't tried a Suhr. I would love to have one that's built like a 52 or 51 Nocaster. I'm also afraid that if I do try one, I'm gonna be in trouble.:scratchch
3. As far as my dream amp, I would either get a Line 6 Vetta 2 stack, or an ENGL Steve Morse Head/cab and use it with a Vox AC-20 TB.
4. What I like about my playing? I can pretty much step into most any musical situation and keep up; but still sound and play like me. What I dislike? That I never really delved deeply into one style to master it.
5. When I was a RUSH freak in the early 80's, I had to have a white 355 like Alex Lifeson. Well, in those days, guitarists really had to scrimp and save for nice guitars like that. I saved about $700 and went to my local music store. This was long before the mega-music stores. I saw a new Ibanez AM-50 in Antique Violin finish. That guitar was 3/4 body size. Until I got into Teles, I thought I'd found the Holy Grail. In the mid 1990's, I was into a lot of Blues stuff like Robben Ford. I found a 335 in natural that was awesome; but I didn't have $3k. I opted for a natural Dot model and slapped a set of Duncan 59's in it. I gigged with it exclusively for a time. I also owned a Samick Royale. It's a thinline like a 335 but a little sleeker and with a single cutaway. I used that until I got back into Teles.
6. Calamari, I told you I'm pretty conservative...
7. Gig Mishaps? Not really too many. The craziest was probably where I was in a Blues band and we played a new place; at least it was new to us. We drove up and went into the bar. No one was there except the owner, his wife, and the bartender. We asked if we had been canceled. They said no and to set up our stuff. We did. Then, in walks a DJ with his stuff. We asked what was up. They said, "He plays while you guys are on break". Okay, sounds cool. We were to start at 10pm. It was 9pm at the time. We started our first set on time. About 20 minutes later, the college kids starting coming in in droves. It was like working at McDonald's and 4 buses pulled in. They just kept coming.
We played music. They all played pool. We took our first break and the DJ started up. All of the sudden, the dance floor is flooded with college girls. The college guys either continued to play pool or throw darts. The girls? It was a show I won't forget. They danced and danced with each other in ways I'd never seen or thought of. So, not a mishap, but I wasn't prepared for that....
