Joaquin Murphey's hands
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Joaquin Murphey's hands
Check out this Spade Cooley video - Joaquin gets a short chorus right near the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzSH3ygeTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzSH3ygeTM
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I've had a copy of this and other stuff for years - much of which Murphey had never seen. Once when Murph was living at my home near the end of his life,I played it for him. He sat there on my sofa with tears in his eyes and said "I wish I could just climb into the TV set and go back to those days and play with those guys one more time." At that point Pedro and Catus had recently passed I believe and Murph was actually the last surviving member of the band.
I don't think that is the exact same guitar that is shown in the old post that Andy linked to. The switch is missing and the pick-ups and bridge are different. Not to say that these things couldn't have been changed latter. But it makes me curious - as the old link talked about 2 lap steels make by Bigsby. I also wonder about the lap steel that is on the cover of the John McGann transcription book. Does anyone know what guitar that is.
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Don't those look like horseshoe magnets?
I have heard a bit of contraversy on weather or not Murphs first Bigsby had Ricky pickups....or a Rickenbacher "like" pickup. It looks like the pickup has a simmilar ( but different) raise and lower thumbscrews on either side of the pickup as Rickenbachers do. Anyways it's a beautiful guitar.
Todd
I have heard a bit of contraversy on weather or not Murphs first Bigsby had Ricky pickups....or a Rickenbacher "like" pickup. It looks like the pickup has a simmilar ( but different) raise and lower thumbscrews on either side of the pickup as Rickenbachers do. Anyways it's a beautiful guitar.
Todd
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Hi Mylos, Larkspur heh? I lived in Marin for eons, now in Sac, soon to be back...
Anyway, those aren't really videos anymore, they were converted to Flash movies. I don't think there is a way to grab them, but I'll ask my programmer son. There is a recording software that is used for writing tutorials and showing whats happening on screen but I think it has to plug into the program it's recording...not sure though, I'll check it out...stay tuned.
Cheers, Ron
Anyway, those aren't really videos anymore, they were converted to Flash movies. I don't think there is a way to grab them, but I'll ask my programmer son. There is a recording software that is used for writing tutorials and showing whats happening on screen but I think it has to plug into the program it's recording...not sure though, I'll check it out...stay tuned.
Cheers, Ron
Mylos, here is a way to capture te video.
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum12/HTML/002910.html
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http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum12/HTML/002910.html
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Chas, I do believe the guitar in the clip is the one in that Plainsmen photo, in other words the earlier of the two D8 laps Murph had. In the beginning of the clip you can see it briefly from another angle and it looks the same.
Speaking of Bigsby's records ( or ledger ), myself with few other Bigsby geeks have been compiling a list of his instruments, there are over a hundred now "documented" ( that's probably a too fancy word ). Most of them lack serial #'s however and few of them ( but only a few ) are just "hearsay", but we're slowly getting additional info when these guitars pop up.
Speaking of Bigsby's records ( or ledger ), myself with few other Bigsby geeks have been compiling a list of his instruments, there are over a hundred now "documented" ( that's probably a too fancy word ). Most of them lack serial #'s however and few of them ( but only a few ) are just "hearsay", but we're slowly getting additional info when these guitars pop up.
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As to Michael's thot that Murph was the last of the Caravan to go, that distinction may actually belong to guitarist, Benny Garcia, who just left us quite recently.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p al</p></FONT><font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Ron Whitfield on 02 March 2006 at 03:55 PM.]</p></FONT>
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