Title: Best THREE MAN BANDS Source:
Your Sources URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K72P09J7un4 Published:Jan 16, 2011 Author:Multiple Post Date:2011-01-16 16:55:34 by abraxas Keywords:None Views:3328 Comments:96
Let's get this ball rolling with the Police and Rush.......mmmmmmmmm
I think you almost have to have played the instrument yourself to "get it", but listen to Knopfler's work on "Sultans" - the intricate finger work and lighting fast Picking that it took to make that solo riff come out is not lightweight guitar play. Knopfler, despite achieving fame with Dire Straits, gets overlooked and I think it is because he makes the fiendishly difficult look effortless.
Knopfler, despite achieving fame with Dire Straits, gets overlooked and I think it is because he makes the fiendishly difficult look effortless.
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For sure dude!
Da Boy Can Play.
Back in 1972, I was looking for a good 12-string acoustic. I found one for $50 in the paper, and went to check it out. A lady answered the door, and invited me in to look at the guitar in the living room. She said, "This is just collecting dust, I don't want it in the house anymore, and my son says he doesn't want to play guitar anymore. I just want to get rid of it."
It played like smooth butter, all 12 strings were crystal clear dreamy, and it hadn't bee played for years. I handed over the $50. On the way out, the lady said, "Oh, and Ricky Nelson gave that guitar to my son when we still lived in California. He used to play it a lot."
I handed over the $50. On the way out, the lady said, "Oh, and Ricky Nelson gave that guitar to my son when we still lived in California. He used to play it a lot."
I hope you still have it and play it. That is a collectors item and worth considerably more than what you paid for it IF you can prove it was one of Ricky Nelson's Guitars.
I've never played 12 string - I started out on a Monkey Ward's electric that was a hand me down from my dad, and I had his old National Triple Neck Steel till I traded it off to get a Browning Fly Rod. I wish I still had that Steel. That actually was the first instrument I learned, haven't played in years, but it was a Fender Single Neck Steel. The Triple Neck was my Dad's and it had belonged to the Steel Guitarist for the "Royal Hawaiians". My Dad bought it from him when he was down and out and wanted drinkin' money. I do still have an old Collector's Guitar, that needs work, that belonged to my Great Uncle Clarence. It's an early electric built on an acoustic body. Nothing famous about it's history - just a rare instrument.
Hawaiians can sure play a mean steel. They are naturals for that kind of music, and really pour their hearts into it. Beautiful voices too. Elvis loved them.
I went in the military in the fall of '72 to avoid being a ground pounder in the draft and sold the Harmony for $50 before I went in. I've kicked myself ever since. I've done some research on the one I had, and I'm almost certain Ricky owned it back in the 60's. No way of proving it, since I never recorded the serial #. Back then, I was into Cat Stevens, Ritchie Havens, James Taylor kinda sounds. Then I went to a Glenn Cambell edition Ovation acoustic with humbickin pickups. Traded it for a Martin D45, which I still have. Haven't played it in over 20 years, but amazingly I still have callouses on the first three fingers. I bite them off and they still come back - LoL. I gotta get that thing out and bang on it again.