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Topic: Joaquin Murphey clips |
Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Paul DiMaggio
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Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 8:59 am |
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| Wow! He plays with such ease and freedom,almost as if his hands are floating! Incredible!! |
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Todd Clinesmith
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Lone Rock Free State Oregon
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 9:09 am
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| Great footage's. There is no other like Joaquin ! |
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Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 10:30 am
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| Indeed! That Bigsby sure sounds sweet too, although I bet he could've made any guitar sound good. |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 11:01 am
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| the more i listen to joaquin, the more i think he's 'the' guy! you can see why buddy emmons dug him and how this helped develop his own genius. |
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 19 Feb 2010 12:03 am
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| fleeting, precious, invaluable... thank you! |
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Kevin Brown
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England
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Posted 19 Feb 2010 1:50 am
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| Pricelesss ! haven't felt like this this since the first Robert Johnson photo was released, Iv been watching his thumb to try and catch him picking his plain 8th string, tuned to a 7th I believe, also interesting is what I thought were 'runs', were in fact just a stroke across the bar, making it a bit more 'do able' for any student of his work. Thanks Deke, great stuff |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 19 Feb 2010 7:07 am
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Joaquin is just flat out great. As good as players are today, nobody's quite equalled the excitement Murph brought when he came roaring out of the gate on an uptempo solo. His ballad playing is less celebrated but equally wonderful.
For newer formuites who haven't heard of it, John McGann still has some copies of the Murphey transcription book we did:
http://www.johnmcgann.com/joaquin.html
Seven classic Joaquin 78 rpm mp3s (including his amazing solo on Drowning My Sorrows):
http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/2009/10/joaquin-murphy-extras.html |
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 5:04 am
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| Kevin Brown wrote: |
| Pricelesss ! haven't felt like this this since the first Robert Johnson photo was released, Iv been watching his thumb to try and catch him picking his plain 8th string, tuned to a 7th I believe |
I don't think he came up with that until a little later in his career so that tuning most likely wasn't on the lap steel clips and I don't believe he played the back neck on either of those T-8 clips and I think his back neck was C6. I know he often changed tunings but anybody want to take a guess at what tunings he was using on those T-8 clips? |
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Jon Nygren
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 5:35 am
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According to forumite Micheal Johnstone, he had the c6/a9 on his triple neck from '47 on(I think this is what Joaquin told him- please correct me if i'm wrong Micheal) This was the tuning with the plain major 7th on the bottom(B) and the bottom c tuned up to c#.
Apparently, he used lots of tunings and would experiment from gig to gig. I've heard A6,A7, leons e13, f#9, a c6 with the third on top and the bottom string tuned down to f#. |
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Todd Clinesmith
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Lone Rock Free State Oregon
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 7:14 am
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I think Jay is correct. Early on I believe he used a C6 with out the high G as well.
Todd |
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Bill Ladd
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Wilmington, NC, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 7:56 am
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| Andy Volk wrote: |
| ...For newer formuites who haven't heard of it, John McGann still has some copies of the Murphey transcription book we did: |
Thanks. Just sent my order. |
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Todd Clinesmith
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Lone Rock Free State Oregon
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 8:00 am
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On the clip "plays his steel guitar 2", I think he has the F#9 on there.... outside neck
I'll check more out tonight
Todd |
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Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Pete Honychurch
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 23 Feb 2010 5:59 pm
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all I can say is......
WOW |
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Jon Nygren
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Wisconsin, USA
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