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Post by woody on Mar 4, 2006 16:50:30 GMT -7
I was wondering what Eric Clapton thought of your gear and setup when you both shared the stage with John Mayall? Was also wondering if he plugged into your Z? Lastly, were there any cool behind the scenes jams during rehearsals?
Joe
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Post by kc on Mar 5, 2006 6:29:05 GMT -7
I wondered the same too. I've become more of a Clapton fan since enjoying the Crossroads Festival and Cream reunion DVD's. Looks like BW is running around Europe for the next month or so - johnmayall.com/tour.html - playing every day. It may be that long before he finds time to check this site out again. He's busier than a <add appropriate expression>. kc
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Post by nickg on Mar 5, 2006 7:49:51 GMT -7
Lastly, were there any cool behind the scenes jams during rehearsals? Joe I hope buddy won't mind me saying this, but i read something about them jamming hideaway backstage, then clapton asked bw how the next bit went, which was very ironic since bw learnt it off eric. Something like that. May be wrong .
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Post by bluzsteel on Mar 5, 2006 11:20:12 GMT -7
I think BW most likly learned it around here , kinda of staple for FT Worth guitarist ,we all learned it from Freddie King ,same place Clapton learned it
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Post by nickg on Mar 6, 2006 10:26:28 GMT -7
Oh right, but wasn't he a big bluesbreakers fan when the beano album came out?
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Post by bluzsteel on Mar 6, 2006 12:33:02 GMT -7
not sure Nickg, I just figured it was the DFW connection. ask him if you run into him over there
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Post by woody on Apr 14, 2006 20:34:39 GMT -7
I see BW is back in town.....this was buried in page 3 so I bumped it back up...
Joe
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Post by kc on May 8, 2006 11:00:13 GMT -7
bump #2
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 10:34:13 GMT -7
Well, 'Hideaway', 'Sen-Say-Shun', 'Sidetracked', 'San-Ho-Zay,' ALL the Freddie "Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King' stuff has been played around here for years before I started tryin' to do it with John, by guys that have done it bettern' I EVER will! Check out Billy G on "Apologies to Pearly", they shoulda called that one "Apologies to Freddie" for its similarities to "The Stumble". Sumter and Stephen Bruton, Bill Campbell, Arvel Stricklin, Jerry Clark, Dave Millsap, Bill Ham, Johnnie Red, dozens of great players around DFW.. Joe Kubek, Smokey Logg, Bnois King, it's just kinda textbook, as I'm sure it is in other locales. That said, I guess I heard EC do it first, (via my big sis's records) just like I heard The Allmans do Stormy Monday before I heard T-Bone OR Bobby Bland. And that's how a LOT of people became aware of the originators, if you ask me. You know, I've heard it said in Chicago that Freddie got the 'Hideaway' lick from Hound Dog Taylor, but who knows? A wise man said"The key to originality is keepin' your sources concealed" (and I'll bet he didn't work for ASCAP or BMI.)
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Post by propellr on May 9, 2006 10:58:35 GMT -7
Keeping your sources concealed is the same for a visual artist, or for a journalist, for that matter.
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 10:59:22 GMT -7
I was wondering what Eric Clapton thought of your gear and setup when you both shared the stage with John Mayall? Was also wondering if he plugged into your Z? Lastly, were there any cool behind the scenes jams during rehearsals? ]Joe I WISH I could say that he plugged into my rig. There really wasn't a lot of gear talk, although I DID comment on his "Tweed Bassman" the first time I met him at one of his shows on the "From the Cradle" tour after our show in Frankfurt on the same night..He corrected me and said, "No, its a TWIN!" He had about 3 of 'em, 2 as backups. This was WAY before the reissues. We did all our jammin' onstage, we just had about 40 minutes at rehearsal and hoped the show would go OK. I showed him a Beano comic somebody left in our dressing room and he said, "yeah, I've been trying to escape that ever since" or words to that effect. Very down to earth, unassuming and made us all feel at ease. We were rehearsing "Hideaway" and EC looked at me and said, "How does this go?" (meaning, of course, the ARRANGEMENT, not the guitar playing..) I said, "You're askin' ME? I learned it from YOU!" Just one of those days that'll never happen again. I had him sign the headstock of my Lentz 'S' style, along w/ Peter Greenbaum and Mick Taylor, so now its a 'Bluesbreaker' model. (Guess I shoulda had a 'burst for that!) Lee Dixon, EC's tech, was also a quality human and very helpful. BTW, Peter Green was at the rehearsal, and I tried my best to give him my guitar and get him to play one, but he politely declined. OK, that's my 'Rock Star Story, now back to VH1's "Where are They Now?"...
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Post by billyguitar on May 9, 2006 11:07:59 GMT -7
BW: You know you're living all of our dreams, don't you?
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Post by billyguitar on May 9, 2006 11:08:58 GMT -7
BW: You know you're living all of our dreams, don't you? Eric didn't pay any attention to your Z's?
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Post by robt on May 9, 2006 11:09:22 GMT -7
BW, thanks for that bit of insight into EC. Was Peter Green just there to watch? His early stuff was/is amazing. Speaking of which, when I watch EC play, his right hand doesn't really appear to move much even though a flurry of notes is being played. Tony Rice the bluegrass genius is another guy with a similar right hand--I don't know how those guys do it, and I would include yourself in there as well after watching some video clips. Thanks.
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 11:09:48 GMT -7
Living your dreams?Yeah, maybe...so can y'all make my car payment?!;^) I'm still waitin' fer a 72 year old man to go back to work! (God Bless 'im!) Hold TIGHT, Bud, that's the GREENYBURST! (image property of Doug Fairweather) OOH, sorry about the SIZE o' that file, Lefty! I'm a BIG GUY, y'know...
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Post by kc on May 9, 2006 12:02:42 GMT -7
OK, I'm gonna 'fess up ... what's the significance of the greenyburst??? This ain't the LP that Clapton reportedly paid $300,000 for, is it??
kc
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 12:09:28 GMT -7
That's Peter Green's Les Paul, used w/ The Bluesbreakers and all through Fleetwood Mac. Pete sold it to Gary Moore for 90 English Pounds, who owned it and played it for years. Don't know what transpired next, but it was in Maverick Music's booth at the Big 'D' guitar show a coupla weeks ago.
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Post by robt on May 9, 2006 12:23:52 GMT -7
Wow. Wow.
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 12:54:14 GMT -7
Robt, I was a little nervous, but I just couldn't resist when asked to take a picture with it. I even tried to play the "Black Magic Woman" D minor at the 19th fret for the occasion, as you can see by my long, tapered, elegant fingers.
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Post by robt on May 9, 2006 13:18:24 GMT -7
Holding a piece of musical history...man. It looks light as a feather, and whatever PG did, he got some major tone out of it coupled with that vibrato. I won't even venture to ask the price...but I did hear 3rd hand that a sunburst sold at the show for $400K. Perhaps this was the one?
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Post by BW on May 9, 2006 13:33:51 GMT -7
Naw, That was MINE and it sold for 400 BUCKS. ;^)
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Post by zane on May 9, 2006 13:49:31 GMT -7
That pix ain't helpin' my Les Paul GAS;^)
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Post by woody on May 9, 2006 18:03:15 GMT -7
Wow thanks for the reply.....I thought my message was forgotten and ignored...but seriously the only thing I know of Eric Clapton or any guitar god celebrity etc...is what the media says or what the celebrity in question wants the media to say or print...having someone backstage sharing their experiences is as close as I'll ever get....
Thanks again
Joe
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Post by username on May 9, 2006 19:16:22 GMT -7
thanx BW for that very interesting info...
living the dream like billy said...yeah, I would say that's about right....
that's some serious piece of Peter Green Mojo in your hands eh...
thank you for all the great blues...
and thank you for this forum Doc
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Post by taswegian on May 9, 2006 20:15:52 GMT -7
Great thread!
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Post by Hohn on May 11, 2006 6:59:00 GMT -7
... D minor at the 19th fret for the occasion, as you can see by my long, tapered, elegant fingers. BW, I'll refer to those affectionately as "tone sausages" hehe. Gee, how come BW doesn't want a pic with MY guitar Oh, yeah-- because I SUCK:)
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Post by BW on May 11, 2006 11:28:52 GMT -7
Well Hohn, I ain't got but one tone sausage, but I sure could use a new 'un. "Old musicians never die, they just decompose." Jes' send me yer git-tar an' I'd be proud to take a pitcher w/ it! (and maybe do a few gigs too:^) By the way, I'm sure y'all noticed that the neck pickup is turned the 'wrong' way, but it sho' didn't sound 'wrong' when Greeny played it like that. He MIGHT have been the first 'out-of-phase' guy, purely by accident. He said he put some adhesive backed, shiny silver plastic covering on that guitar once (OVER the sunburst, YIKES!) and when he took it off he unscrewed the pickups from the top to clean the gunk off from the adhesive, and got the PAF in the neck position 180 out when he put 'em back in. Liked the sound that way in the middle position, though, so he just left it alone (for the good of mankind).
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Post by billyguitar on May 11, 2006 11:51:32 GMT -7
I read somewhere that the magnet had been flipped in one of his pickups giving the out of phase situation with both pickups on.
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Post by BW on May 11, 2006 12:01:49 GMT -7
Never heard that one, although that did happen to me once on a 335. Well actually an ES-340. Didn't keep it long, wish I still had it! Natural finish from about '71. Weird wiring,otherwise it was a 335. No varitone. Thought I'd RUINED it! Finally got it in the right way. When was the first time you remember hearing a STRAT in the 2nd or 4th position? (although there were only 3 on the switch back then, Ask a lotta guys and they'll tell ya there's STILL only 3!) I remember thinking the guitar was different sounding on Van Morrison's "Domino" on the radio, then Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes" with Jesse Ed Davis just flat tearin' it up. Then somebody showed me how to get that in between thang happenin'--MAGIC. An accident that was meant to be. Then I guess I heard Gibbons on 'Apologies to Pearly' making a rare appearance on the StaticCatcher. Leo was in control, but who was in control o' LEO?:^)
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Post by zane on May 11, 2006 19:07:18 GMT -7
Yep my brother had a 73 Strat ...he used the "tween" spot so much that it eventually "felt" like a 5 way switch...
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