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Time Has Come Today - Chambers Brothers

One quiet Sunday afternoon back in 1984 I brought my Mother by Westlake Studios on Beverly to give her a look at the place. Aged and unaware of pop music of the day she strolled up to a group of men seated around a table outside studio A and asked: oh my, are you boys musicians? --It was the Jackson...

Is it the 73 suitcase? -- similar to this:

Man; relaxed playing, soulful tone and top drawer intonation.

-- lovely ff amp tone after that 2nd interlude, then back to clean to take it out.

Very nice, Kay.

Thanks for posting.

Just got home from catching the gig; and man, Kayton, Chris & co. certainly were carvin’ it up.

Kayton was playing and swinging like nobody's business!

Ricky Ricardo?

Loren, Twayn, very nice indeed.

I use a Gibson (Oberheim) Echoplex.

A lonely little example cooked up earlier this year on a Ric B6, fretless bass and bowed upright can be heard Here

Rick, very expressive. Whole lotta heart and soul conveyed in these gems for sure.

Thank you for posting.

Have any of my fellow forumites used Echo products? James, I have used a pair of word-synced PCI card interface Layla 24's for almost 7 years now (model discontinued in 2004, I believe) without any trouble. Echo Audio makes a good product -- especially their flagship models, such as Layla 24 was , ...

A classic that occurred on a friend’s piano bar gig in Forest Grove, OR. Somewhere into the late evening, a nasty altercation erupted between a patron and the bartender. After a few moments of loud and aggressive shouts, threats and gesticulations, the patron stormed out of the club - much to the re...

I bought a 10 stringer from Emmett back in ‘03. Beautifully crafted and wonderful sounding and given the two hand piano-like playing approach very rich chord voicing are possible. A unique and creative instrument (IMO).

Have most of the good notes and sequences been used up? Interestingly enough Composer and Author Nicolas Slonimsky actually did seriously tackle that very question. In the introduction to his 1947 Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns he writes: “There are 479,001,600 possible combinations of th...

summer 1967, cruising around town in my 1960 Chevy Impala and hearing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” coming through through my car radio! In mono and likely through a small single speaker of dubious quality no less. - and sounding great! Hat’s off to George Martin and Geoff Emerick for realizing t...

The limited edition Wes Craven “B6 ghoul plates” always struck me as a rather unusual - if not disturbing - option for an otherwise uplifting instrument.

is the clarinet a bad partner for a lap steel? I’m inclined to say that Jeff’s groovin’ little Tommy Castro / Randy Oness Analani E example pretty well answers the question. Ah, another new (for me) gem to try and find for the music collection. - thanks -regarding the aforementioned influential sax...

I came upon the thread at the 11th hour where bidding stood at $500 and was pulling for Jude to get it. But, as Garry pointed out, he himself picked up a sound ‘37 for an additional 4 and change over closing price just a few months back. Fate seems to have a role in shuffling these instruments about...

We’ll see. Maybe he’ll snipe the ric yet. - my upright bass has had repaired broke-off neck, scroll, cracks and replacement tuners for at least 150 years now and continues playing / sounding like a dream.

Perhaps he'll snag and ressurrect this bakelite yet.

Dang, got to stay up past my bedtime and do some sniping Jude, It’s a bit late in the day, but if you're still watching the auction and it can make any difference to you at all, count me in for a $100 donation to a “help Jude restore C-1109” fund. I’ll be up after bedtime tonight myself. - doing so...

Is there any determination as to when Electro began introducing newspaper to the interior their guitars?

"he's a God in France"

Not yet - bureaucracy STILL has the official deification pending.

Always nice to hear a good band swinging in ¾.

Extra nice to hear the lead voice a steel.

Extra-Extra nice to hear that steel player shredding on a Fry Pan!

“Two thumbs Way Up”

Chris,

Great show - caught it in it’s entirety. Man, those tracks sound GOOD. Thanks for pulling out the vintage material and sharing insights and info.

Hopefully Cowboy will post the play list on the station archives.

Andy, what a Stunning instrument. I saw the additional images on your Silver Hawaiian post yesterday. Congratulations. If I may ask a couple questions regarding retrofit; 1. Looks like you may have recycled the original screws for fastening? (grovers have small phillips and yours looks like original...

On second thought, If the Waverly’s will work, could be time to repaint the faded / yellowed and scratched plates and half-gone fret outlines and re-chrome the hardware. Absolutely don’t want to run off the Mojo, but sure would be nice to refresh this "paid my dues" fine old gal. Oh Lawd, ...

Stewart / McDonald has a set of Waverly Ivorids that best visually match what’s on the Rick. Beautiful, -but a wee too Cartier.

Perhaps the Grover nickel ovals (also flattering) may be the way to go. Thanks Bill, for the info.