Re: [Harp-L] LW Tremelo

[Keith Dunn <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

?I?ve Had My Fun? has a classic Little Walter intro, good interplay/call and 
response between LW and Luther Tucker and the overall sound perhaps you could 
call more upbeat and more optimistic than ?Going Down Slow.? Notice the 
difference between the two titles. I do not know this for sure but this could 
have something to do with the fact that one was issued and the other was not. I 
personally love them both but have a soft spot for the ?blueness? of ?Going 
Down Slow.? In any event the fact that the two versions are so different from 
each other should be a good reminder to us all not to forget about the 
improvisational side of the music.

On what was one of my truly most bizarre gigs, I was playing at Rosa?s in 
Chicago with the recently departed Pinetop Perkins (may he rest in peace) and 
we were just about to go on when the now famous O.J. Simpson high-speed auto 
chase came on the big-screen; so much for that gig for a couple of hours. The 
good part was that I got to talk with Dave Myers, one of Little Walter?s guitar 
players for over an hour. One of the many things he told me was that the band 
would sometimes record a completely different version of a song then what they 
had been playing in the clubs up to that point. The Chess brothers could be 
rather conservative and would sometimes keep pushing until they got a 
more ?radio/jukebox friendly? in their eyes at least, version of a tune. Maybe 
this is what we are hearing hear.

As for the reverb/delay, tremolo debate, why debate, why not use them all. 
A '67 Ampeg ReverboJet is a great amp. If I had one, I would fire up that 
tremolo. 

Keith Dunn

Quoting john kuzloski <jkuzloski@xxxxxxxxx>:

"...Thanks for replies...Yes, I think the giveaway is the regularity of the 
pulse and  some other electro-sonic thing that I can't put my finger on that 
just doesn't sound "natural." Interesting that the track went unissued for so
long...I had never noticed an LW trem before and never heard any mention of it 
(on the web or in "the book").  The general consensus seems to be that tremelo 
is not as desirable as reverb/delay -- I suppose that's true, you wouldn't want 
to hear tremelo all the time!  But LW makes good use of it on that track, IMO.
>    
I have a tremelo on my '67 Ampeg ReverboJet.  I don't use that amp all that
much and never use the tremelo..."  

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