Re: [Harp-L] Re: Another Dylan Harp Question

[Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And... after my assertion that I couldn't remember any other amped
stuff from Dylan, I remembered "Pledgin' my time" where at the end,
he's going through some sort of tremolo.
Brad Trainham
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:05:48 -0600, you wrote:

>Dylan's harp on "Every Grain of Sand" is very likely amplified with what I 
>call "smooth distortion".  It's when you set the amp distortion to make your 
>playing sound very clean, yet not the same as acoustic.  I'm not a gearhead 
>at all, so maybe someone else can improve this description.  It also helps 
>that Dylan plays almost all clean single notes on this performance, which 
>makes it stand out from his usual harp playing.
>
>By the way, "Every Grain of Sand" is the BEST Dylan harp recording and is a 
>strikingly beautiful song in every way.  The harp solos are magnificent. 
>Unfortunately, it's an obscure song, but well worth the effort to find.
>
>Dylan has played amplified harp on other recordings, mostly during the 80s. 
>He uses an echo or delay effect on "Man in the Long Black Coat" and "What 
>Was It You Wanted?", both from the Oh, Mercy album.  The latter is played in 
>fourth position for a very ghostly sound.
>
>Jonathan Metts 
>
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