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"To understand Roy Buchanan's impact on the history of the Fender Telecaster you need to explore the guitar's origins. Leo Fender, a lap steel and amplifier manufacturer based in Fullerton, California began working on a solid body electric guitar concept in the late 1940s, essentially taking the design of his lap steels and adapting it into a six-string that could be played like a traditional Spanish guitar. Crucially, Fender didn't play guitar himself, he clinically approached the project as a problem solver.
Existing guitars had big, hollow bodies, they had a tendency to squeal with electronic feedback when amplified and their mahogany necks would likely as not snap if the guitar was dropped. Fender introduced a solid body to drastically reduce feedback and a bolt-on neck that could be replaced easily if damaged. Blues artists including Muddy Waters, Albert Collins and Buchanan himself soon discovered that this basic little guitar was a tonal chameleon. Many people still don't know that Jimmy Page used a '59 Telecaster on the first Led Zeppelin album, and not the Gibson Les Paul they assume they hear. Buchanan fan Jeff Beck pulled squawks, wails, and sitar sounds out of his '50s Tele with The Yardbirds.
Roy Buchanan's mined the Telecaster's lap guitar heritage, manipulating the instrument's volume and tone controls with his pinkie to emulate the sound of wailing country steels, he could simulate a phasing effect, palm muting along the strings, and would flip from aching long sustained bends to breakneck-speed blues runs in a split second, it's all there in Sweet Dreams, from the opening faded in D, E and F# notes to the nitro'd flourish just after the one-minute mark. Before guys like Buchanan, great guitar tone was really just a happy accident. He taught us to treat it like the Holy Grail." By Ed Mitchell
Photo - Frans Schellekens/Redferns
Existing guitars had big, hollow bodies, they had a tendency to squeal with electronic feedback when amplified and their mahogany necks would likely as not snap if the guitar was dropped. Fender introduced a solid body to drastically reduce feedback and a bolt-on neck that could be replaced easily if damaged. Blues artists including Muddy Waters, Albert Collins and Buchanan himself soon discovered that this basic little guitar was a tonal chameleon. Many people still don't know that Jimmy Page used a '59 Telecaster on the first Led Zeppelin album, and not the Gibson Les Paul they assume they hear. Buchanan fan Jeff Beck pulled squawks, wails, and sitar sounds out of his '50s Tele with The Yardbirds.
Roy Buchanan's mined the Telecaster's lap guitar heritage, manipulating the instrument's volume and tone controls with his pinkie to emulate the sound of wailing country steels, he could simulate a phasing effect, palm muting along the strings, and would flip from aching long sustained bends to breakneck-speed blues runs in a split second, it's all there in Sweet Dreams, from the opening faded in D, E and F# notes to the nitro'd flourish just after the one-minute mark. Before guys like Buchanan, great guitar tone was really just a happy accident. He taught us to treat it like the Holy Grail." By Ed Mitchell
Photo - Frans Schellekens/Redferns
Super Jam! Butterfield w/ Mayall @ The Carousel Club, Farnborough June 9 1968
Wes Freed, whose art graced the cover of most Drive-By Truckers albums as well as other records, died of cancer recently in his late '50s. Patterson Hood of DBT posted this memorial.
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I remember when the Crim were a trio. Now, they're bigger even than the double trio.
'69-'74 for me, seems the latter bands lost the good fairyI remember when the Crim were a trio. Now, they're bigger even than the double trio.
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My first Crim experience was in a 1961 Dodge with rusted out floor boards. I was the designated driver, driving back to Madison, WI after a day and evening of skiing. That car only had an AM radio, but at night, it could pick up the Little Rock, Arkansas radio station that was country during the day, and underground music from midnight to 5 am (Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford (Dale Seidenschwarz)). I loved that show! Anyway, the other three guys in the car were sound asleep (OK, passed out). Clyde announced that he had a new album he was going to play, both sides. It was "In the Court of the Crimson King". I was totally blown away. Even on AM radio, it sounded awesome. I gave up trying to wake my brothers and friend. I bought the LP the next day, and wore it out. Wowzers!
I'm sure that 2'' speaker in a rattletrap '61 gave the full KC experience lol we all remember our first!
Last week I ran into Edwin Outwater the Conductor of Metallica's S&M2 who was kind enough to pose with my concert ink. Since I was a 15 year old boy listening to S&M1, I've been dreaming about S&M2, that's why I have this tattoo.
Such a hottie.Toni Basil
She was 40 when her hit song Mickey was released.
In the video, she is wearing her cheerleading outfit from high school.
She is 79 years old now.
