Originally posted by Alex:The "strange guitar" was a resonator guitar, just as you said. The most famous manufacturer of reso guitars is Dobro (which is a subdivision of Gibson nowadays). These guitars don't use the body as main sound source but a single- cone or three- cone metal resonator. This makes the guitars sound very metallic. In 99% of the cases reso guitars are used for slide playing with open tuning and a bottleneck. A lot of reso guitars are even factory- made with a square profile neck, so that you can only play them laying on your legs - similar to a lap steel or hawaii guitar.
Resonator guitars are often used for Delta Blues and other kinds of acoustic blues music. This works especially good when combined to a normal steel- string acoustic guitar and / or a bluesharp. I recommend listening to "Trimmed and Burning" and "Slow Burn" by Darrell Mansfield and Glenn Kaiser.
Alex
Because that same day I was in that store, before that convo went on of course. And they had a couple tonelabs in. They've NEVER had them in. I bet when they ordered (hopefully) mine they ordered a few, just to make something out of it. Yay! Hooray for tonelab! Originally posted by Alex:The "strange guitar" was a resonator guitar, just as you said. The most famous manufacturer of reso guitars is Dobro (which is a subdivision of Gibson nowadays). These guitars don't use the body as main sound source but a single- cone or three- cone metal resonator. This makes the guitars sound very metallic. In 99% of the cases reso guitars are used for slide playing with open tuning and a bottleneck. A lot of reso guitars are even factory- made with a square profile neck, so that you can only play them laying on your legs - similar to a lap steel or hawaii guitar.
Resonator guitars are often used for Delta Blues and other kinds of acoustic blues music. This works especially good when combined to a normal steel- string acoustic guitar and / or a bluesharp. I recommend listening to "Trimmed and Burning" and "Slow Burn" by Darrell Mansfield and Glenn Kaiser.
Alex
Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
Cheers for the response Alex, great stuff, really informative
Re. other Alex's question concerning Christmas etc., like I said earlier, with any luck I might be the recipient of an Epiphone Explorer (natural finish, I don't do 'ebony'!) come the 25th but I'm not expecting anything, I never do - however, it's the only thing I've actually answered with as far as ideas go whenever people have quizzed about whether there's anything specific I'd be wanting as a present for Christmas; I just know I'd be one step closer to dying happy if I were to get an Explorer sometime in the near future...
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yea I saw that a while back. Very cool clip. I always thought that wasn't the same sound he had on the vertigo tour though. It seemed a little more crunchy, almost with a little overdrive while on tour. Plus, as long as we're on the topic of explorers a little bit, here's a new clip with mine. Hope you guys like it, it's new york.
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Originally posted by AAV711:Superbly done. New York is one of my favorite songs. I've played along to it a couple of times with my Telecaster, but it's never sounded this good.
A question for those who know more than I do (which is all of you): in that BBC guitar series, Johnny Marr demonstrated his Rickenbacker/Fender amp sound. Any idea what kind of effect he is using? Is that just the sound of a Fender Twin Champ amp? It sounds so good!
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Those are nice!! Mark Knopler plays them on the "normal" way. Very nice!
Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:Mark Knoppler play a National Steel Resonator. Myles Kennedy's is a Dean. I didn't see anything that Myles did that was so out of the ordinary - looked like blues playing which resonator guitars are known for.
