Jump to content

woz70

Members
  • Posts

    731
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Caergwrle

Recent Profile Visitors

5,258 profile views
  1. Not gonna happen. He stopped signing autographs a looooong time ago. He rarely signs anything these days, even his own official products.
  2. He used it because he'd had it fitted with a 'B' bender that allowed him to do some pedal-steel style string bends. He obviously invested a fair bit of time learning how to use it well, and it became his main guitar whilst he was in 'The Firm'. In the early 90's he had a Les Paul fitted with a 'B' bender too, and since then that's had a lot more use than the tele... he must prefer the sound/feel of the Les Paul.
  3. 80% increase on investment after only 4 years. Those are pretty good odds. Who needs the stock market, eh?
  4. And this is what makes me quite sad about it. Jimmy's target audience for the last decade or so seems to have been rather wealthy collectors/investors, rather than the everyday people who bought and still buy his records. It all feels horribly cynical to me. I mean.. I'd put money on the amp that he used to play 'Rumble' being specifically sold at a premium (were talking silly money now) simply because it can be sold as an amp he'd played through in a live performance. It's not very creative, is it?
  5. So.... it seems that Jimmy's appearance wasn't just to honour Link Wray.... It was also an excuse to market his latest vanity project - a limited edition recreation of one of his stage amplifiers, courtesy of Perry Margoulef and Sundragon Amps. https://www.sundragonamps.com/ Obviously a very cool thing..... but... Interesting to see what sort of price they'll sell for. The first run of his little 35 watt Supro amp sold for £12,500 each...and this is a major step up from that. They're a lot of money, even for a boutique amplifier. Bit of a shame that he didn't do the performance simply for the love of doing it, but at least he actually did get up in public and play - something I genuinely thought we'd seen the last of.
  6. Tim Givens on Bass, according to Jimmy's FB page.
  7. Yup. The Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument) was one of the very first samplers, and a fully fledged digital synthesiser (and sequencer) - meaning you could not only create sounds from scratch, but record and manipulate sounds that had been recorded (sampled) into the computer. It meant that Jones - who obviously loves keeping up with the latest music tech - only needed two keyboard instruments on the stage - the piano and the Fairlight. No need for the unreliable mellotron, and a clavinet (and maybe something to handle organ sounds, and something else for the weird sounds at the beginning of In The Evening too) - the Fairlight did it all in one box that was a lot smaller and lighter than a Hammond B3, let alone the ridiculous weight of the GX1 (just under a ton for the full setup. The keyboard section on its own weighed 300kg, which is a serious consideration if you're touring). Because it was a sampler, it's more than likely he sampled his favourite string sounds from the GX1 to play during Kashmir/The Rain Song... which explains:
  8. The guitar is so fake it's almost funny. Firstly, the guitar is out of focus and the signature are clear and sharp - clearly an appalling photoshop job. Looking closer.... The whammy bar and part of the bridge has been cut off by the scratchplate, which doesn't match the shape of the actual scratchplate it's covering up. The guitar knobs and pickup selector are missing, but you can't see the posts they would be mounted on (and why would you take them off anyway? ). The guitar strings disappear behind the scratchplate! Run away!
  9. I think it may have been this place: https://www.salcombefarm.co.uk/the-recording-studio now available on Air b’n’b! Their FB page has some comments about ‘home of Led Zeppelin…’. I clearly remember some of the footage appearing on Antoine deCaune’s “Rapido” program… I may even still have the clip on a video somewhere.
  10. South Bound Saurez... without a doubt. If you listen super-carefully you can hear the hi-hat being hit open and closed simultaneously on a few occasions, and there are also a few two-handed snare fills that happen at the same time as hi-hat hits - impossible without either at least three arms, or by overdubbing. They probably decided that the driving hi-hat was a super important element of the song, and a natural playing style (coming off the hats to do fills etc.) spoiled that flow. Over The Hills and Far Away... I don't think so. There's a huge amount of drum separation on this song (I reckon they'd been listening to Steely Dan's 'Can't Buy A Thrill' album a lot, and that uses similar over-accentuated panning of drum kit elements. "Dirty Work" has very similar drum production), and I think the hi-hat is just very close-mic'ed and panned off to the left. It's not doing anything slightly odd, like in 'Saurez..'. To my ears 'Houses of the Holy' sounds like the first album that they'd properly experimented with close mic'ing instruments in the drum kit, rather than using the tried-and-tested Andy Johns technique (which in its most basic form only requires two mics, a good sounding room and an excellent drummer). 'Over The Hills...' is a great example where you can hear this - at the beginning the drums sounds close and dry (not really possible without close mic'ing), but as you get to the guitar solo they open up the room/ambient mics and the drums start to 'breathe' and sound far more live. Really interesting bit of production!
  11. Using demixing software, similar to this.... https://www.abbeyroad.com/de-mix
  12. Nice to see that they're concentrating so hard on the really important stuff... 🙄
  13. He's not played live in front of an audience in nearly 12 years. He's 79 and, by the looks of it, not terribly steady on his feet any more. He's turned down or ignored multiple opportunities to play live or record with others. His main guitars spent a significant amount of time displayed in a museum - meaning if he actually does any practise at all (as he claims.... I have my doubts), it's mainly been on the acoustic. He's done as a player. I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong.
  14. Aw shucks *embarrassed face*. Thank you. Have great weekend yourself.
×
×
  • Create New...