----- Original Message ----- 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/
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