Both clips sound great Geoff
Finally! A true vintage Les Paul! 53 Gold Top
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Jethro Rocker
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So at the practice the singer had a migraine so the lads just did a bunch of stuff. We are used to having her voice in most of these too. None of it is rocket science but thought I'd post a short compilation using the 53. At the end of Summer Of 69 we did a little tear down thing to see how well I could palm mute stock. I was not expecting much but it worked surprisingly well. I really had fun with it!!
Plus old April Wine! I got a bit lost at first part of solo - no high E string!
NOTE - only the drummer had a wedge with vox the rest of us were in ears so vox are hard to hear, understandably, depending where Go Pro was.
Plus old April Wine! I got a bit lost at first part of solo - no high E string!
NOTE - only the drummer had a wedge with vox the rest of us were in ears so vox are hard to hear, understandably, depending where Go Pro was.
Palm muting is my nemesis. I can do it great….. for about two strums. Then it turns to junk. I keep trying. Maybe by the time I’m as old as Mr. Jagger I’ll have it.
Looks like fun ! Nothing like playing with other musicians. One of the things we work on in practice is playing through mistakes (or train wrecks), never stop.
Sometimes ya just gotta stop and start over. Was at a Gatlin Bros concert late 70s. They started and stopped a song three times. Seemed they couldn't get everyone into the same key. They did finally get it and finished the song.
Interesting side note: Opening act was this young lady. No stage presence. Just stood at the mic and sang. Very little engaging the crowd between songs. But holy cow could that lady sing. Ever heard of Reba McEntire?
Interesting side note: Opening act was this young lady. No stage presence. Just stood at the mic and sang. Very little engaging the crowd between songs. But holy cow could that lady sing. Ever heard of Reba McEntire?
Well true. The wife and I in 2016 went to this 3 day mega concert. Second night, Paul McCartney on stage, gets handed a mandolin and started a song (forgot the name). About 20 seconds in he STOPS ! Says into the mic, this thing is not in tune. Image being his tech, holy crap. A second one was in his hands lickity split.
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Jethro Rocker
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We stop and redo as required. This one was a get the rust off jam. Not many train wrecks considering.
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Put the new Mojoaxe bridge on. Has lower action and can palm mute better but need to give it a good go still.
I actually love it when the act acknowledges there's a problem. Stops. Fixes it. Then continues. Reminds us these guys are human as well.
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Jethro Rocker
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Better than playing out of tune. I will stop in any gig and tube as required, make a joke about it, nothing worse than just hammering on oblivious.
Yea, we’ll stop too, mostly on arraignment issues. We playing that chorus twice? I thought were repeating the first verse as the outro. The intro is 8 bars not 6, etc.
When I was on worship team we had a leader than 95% of the time never messed up. But sometimes she'd just so get into the song she'd..... skip a verse.... repeat a verse... skip the chorus..... and would have zero idea she'd done it till after the service and we'd tell her. We actually got pretty good following her. Might be a rough couple measures till we figured out where she was.... then we'd be fine. Always had a pretty good laugh about it.
Yep, that is basically what I’m talking about. Work through it in practice and when live almost nobody in the audience is gonna notice.
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Jethro Rocker
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So my jamming video clips have become about live playing mistakes! 
