Mike Dawes guitar master class

 Somebody That I Used To Know - Mike Dawes - Live At Cedars Hall

A bit didactic but hey maybe that was the point I don’t know so its fascinating anyway and he sure can play

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GUITARS! | DAVID GILMOUR (Pink Floyd - and SOLO) | Don’s Tunes

Photo:  Property from The Peter Jenner Collection

David Gilmour: 

It's always been different guitars, different amps and different effects. Sometimes you go in the studio and one guitar will sound great and you play well because it sounds great. The next day you go back into the same studio and plug in the same guitar into the same amp which has not been touched and it sounds awful. So you have to try a couple of other guitars and find one that sounds good on that day. 

All guitars are different from each other. Some I buy because they are old and beautiful. But the new Fender Vintage Series guitar I bought is probably as good as any Fender I own, old or new. There is something to be said for working in a guitar over time. They may be in my imagination but it seems to feel like that to me. I also tend to like guitars without the new sticky varnish on the neck. In fact I've had Charvel make me a few necks without varnish.  

: I usually go over my mistakes so I don't have to go back and cringe a few years later. On very few occasions have I left a clunker. There are some mistakes that you like. If there's a mistake that I don't like, I change it before it gets out. I've got to live with this for years, but a lot of solos come out of clunkers. I tend to go for a solo by just putting on a guitar without even thinking about the key or anything. I just hammer through it until it feels right. I try to get disoriented, if you like. That helps me find an approach which I refine and work on.  

I don't try to get it right at all -- I'm not interested in that. I'd much rather just be wild and forget any sense of getting it right. I have time to get it right later. Out of those wild moments come good ideas that I work on, so I punch in a fair amount. Most of the solos start with doing ten different tracks. I wind up taking parts from three of them and sticking them together. I look for certain moments and if these moments match up with other moments that are right, those are the bits I keep. I'm looking for feel and a sense of movement. I don't think about it, I just say what's right is right. Performing live you try to get it right and you also try to be brave. It doesn't matter if you drop a clunker. The record lasts, the performance is transitory. They have different priorities. I'm an enormous fan of Jeff Beck because he is not afraid to screw up. People who are tend to get boring. 

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David Gilmour - DW 

 Photos by Gijsbert Hanekroot.

+ 3 David Gilmour  Pink Floyd, Amsterdam Rock Circus - Olympisch Stadium Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 22 1972

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GUITAR! | check this from Michael Martino (Facebook)

 Saw a friend had posted this from Michael this morning and how sweet is this!?

Michael Martino 

GUITARS : AWESOME VOX guitar

 

So Eko made a Vox guitar for them and this is what it could do.  

My first guitar was and still is a 12 string Eko (bought with money left me by my paternal Grandmother) and they are/were great! Didn’t know they did work for other brands but the guy from Guitars etc says its so. Think he must be wrong on the dates mind you, 1967 is awful early for something that incorporated fuzz box, wah wah and built in tuner with such a range of controls but who am I to say he’s wrong ? . . . . Anyone?

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