Re: [Harp-L] fender bassman ltd again

["Bob Maglinte" <bbqbob917@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <TomEHarp@xxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] fender bassman ltd again


> i have to say this,i've only had it a week and i just can't get that LW 
> sound
> like i do out of me 1953 danelectro,i thought i would i don't get it.i 
> think
> its going back to the store.
>
>
> tommy
> in ct.

Hi Tom,
The only way to do that comes from your own personal ACOUSTIC tone and 
chops, and that ALWAYS has been the REAL secret, and it NEVER HAS BEEN THE 
GEAR!!!!! Many of those old blues masters, truth be told, really didn't give 
a crap about gear as long as they got their sound across. You''ll have this 
same problem no matter what gear you use, and relying on gear for tone is a 
HUGE mistake. Whenever I saw Walter Horton, which was at least 3 or 4 times 
a year during the 70's, all he was using was borrowed amps and NOT ONCE did 
he EVER fool with amp settings or anything else, and guess what?? He ALWAYS 
sounded like himself, and when I first saw him at the long defunct 
Bunratty's in Boston back in 1975, he got the same sound out the PA as he 
did out of the amp, which right then and there taught me a huge lesson that 
too many harp players flat out NEVER seem to understand, and he was a master 
of tone control and variety of tonal colors. I've seen people who have never 
spent enough time honing their acoustic tone and chops gripe so much about 
gear, and then when someone else plays that very same rig, not even making 
ANY adjustments to it, making the same gear sound amazing. As long as any 
harp player continues to believe the MISTAKEN notion that ANY piece of gear 
will ever make themselves sound like any of their heroes, the cold, hard, 
brutal truth is that it just isn;t going to happen without doing the kind of 
SERIOUS woodshedding necessary to achieve the real source of tone that comes 
from you, the acoustic chops and tone, and nothing else but.

Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
MP3's: http://music.mp3lizard.com/barbequebob/