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Great music recorded on cheap instruments

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swink said:
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This was filmed after he’d gotten his endorsement deal, which I already mentioned: it’s a product demo for Ernie Ball.

The message you’re responding to asked what Vulfpeck song was recorded using a Stingray prior to getting his Ernie Ball endorsement.
 
#202
Killing Floor said:
I’m not an Epi expert at all but they were a highly regarded brand back then before Gibson ownership. I don’t think they were cheap then.
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Right. Kalamazoo was Gibson's budget brand back then.

As for Fender, they made student/budget guitars under the Fender name, true, but their mainline instruments were not inexpensive at all. A late '50s Strat was priced similarly to a late '50s Les Paul.

David Lindley's "Win This Record" sound was mentioned earlier - he certainly did get a fabulous sound playing his oddball guitars, but his amp was a not-cheap Dumble.
 
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MDBass said:
The message you’re responding to asked what Vulfpeck song was recorded using a Stingray prior to getting his Ernie Ball endorsement.
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As you can see, the message I responded to is: Never saw him using a Stingray.
Please don't make assumptions and certainly don't put words in my mouth.
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Khruangbin has already been mentioned, but I"ll +1. Bassist Laura Lee plays a cheap-o SX Jazz bass (that sounds great). She also has a no-name Hofner copy as a backup. Guitarist Mark Speer plays a Fender Strat, but it's "Probably a 2001 reissue. It's not a vintage or anything." I was surprised to learn, from one of those "Rig Rundowns," that it was the only guitar he brought with him on tour--no backup.
 
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swink said:
As you can see, the message I responded to is: Never saw him using a Stingray.
Please don't make assumptions and certainly don't put words in my mouth.
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“Never saw him using a Stingray, what tracks did he cut with one?”

That’s the message you responded to, in a conversation about what basses Joe used before getting his Ernie Ball endorsement: you literally cut it in half :roflmao:

MDBass said:
Never saw him using a Stingray, what tracks did he cut with one?

Everything else on that list definitely fits the "cheap instruments" category: being remarkably good players and engineers definitely helped I'm sure :cool:
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-Asdfgh- said:
Weren't the drums of Rocket 88 or whatever it is called actually cardboard boxes?
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“Rocket 88” is what it’s called, regarded by quite a few as the first rock’n’roll record; Jackie Brenston backed by Ike Turner’s band, featuring early fuzz guitar from a damaged amp or dislodged tube. As for the cardboard thing, that was a couple of Eddie Cochran tracks I believe, with a tambourine on top…


Then a lot of drum kits in the 70’s sounded like cardboard; dead, dull, boring, I hated that trend.
 
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The Mountain Goats - John Darnielle & cohorts recorded six full albums and a ton of EPs on Panasonic RX-FT500 cassette deck Boombox. Can't imagine their gear was much more than a pawnshop acoustic guitar and bass.

All Hail West Texas is the last album recorded with the boombox before he got a "real band" went into a studio. It's a 10.

 

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