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Celebrating The New Gretsch Golden Age at WinterNAMM'10!

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Jan 17, 2010 1:02 p.m. Hermitt:

heavy gauge flatwound strings!
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Jan 17, 2010 1:09 p.m. Joe Hi-LoTron:

Giffenf said: The T-Armonds will cost $160 for the bridge, $155 for the neck. T-Armonds will be available in the familiar Dynasonic form factor. All the components are US-made.

Great stuff! Thanks for the update Giffenf! These were the most important questions I had in mind, and you've answered them all. (assuming they'll be available in gold hardware as usual). That's a lot less than SD, and a bit more than the Gretsch re-issues which I'd planned on using.

So it'll be up to the sound itself. And more mids don't do anything for me.
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Jan 17, 2010 1:12 p.m. fauves:

Would love the details on the BZ/ TV amp
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Jan 17, 2010 1:12 p.m. Geoff_Vane:

Flatwounds don't twang. He tunes an octave lower, with base guitar round wounds. (just a wild guess) His guitar has an elongated neck? Voodoo? Piano strings? Castor oil on the strings? I give up...
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Jan 17, 2010 1:30 p.m. will:

Hé guys,

you didn't miss this, i hope. The GDP-posse!
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Jan 17, 2010 1:44 p.m. DangerousMan:

What a cracker of a pic. Great stuff.
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Jan 17, 2010 1:45 p.m. sroux:

Who's that guy holding the guitar??

I keed I keed!
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Jan 17, 2010 1:46 p.m. giffenf:

I would like nothing more than to get you some soundclips of the T-Armonds, but I tried yesterday and the booth got busy, and TV politely declined my request. I don't have great recording equipment, but I'll do what I can.

BTW, great clip. Guess I missed the memo.

FG
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Jan 17, 2010 1:46 p.m. Geoff_Vane:

Look at those guitar slingin' cowboys...
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Jan 17, 2010 1:48 p.m. AndyJ:

I'm sure TV will have his own clips of the T-Armonds on his site soon enough . . .at least I hope so. Thus it makes sense he wouldn't let anyone else post clips first.
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Jan 17, 2010 1:49 p.m. will:

Yeah, look at the grins on these faces ...
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Jan 17, 2010 2:09 p.m. Joe Hi-LoTron:

@Andy J: but the sound clips on the TVJ website sound terrible. Can't hear the true sound from a mic of a camcorder 10' away from the amp.

All I ever hear from those, is the ambient room sound.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:10 p.m. Nobody:

Come on...come on.......
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Jan 17, 2010 2:15 p.m. Bear:

Man oh man, I wish I was there! I would really like to go to a NAMM show someday.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:18 p.m. Proteus:

Good morning, kids!

Where have I been?

To catch you up briefly, we went from the overflowing blow-the-doors-off amazement of Rancid's set straight to Guitar Geek – and the overflowing blow-the-doors-off triumph of Duane's midnight set there.

But Guitar Geek itself is a skinny-dipping dive into the deep end of pure guitar culture – but it's not a question of sink or swim, because you can just lay back and float the music. Imagine a room bustin' at the seams with people (I'd say "guys," but there were a lot of women) who know the difference between a Bigsby butterknife and a Merle Travis handle.

The music ranged from Rachmaninoff to 1917 blues through all of western swing, honky tonk, blues, jazz, surf – and TWANG – with stopoffs for Hawaiian slack key, space groove futuresteel, and the Ramones.

Plus Deke's portable guitar museum of guitars and amps you pretty much never see in the flesh, Sponge Bob Spare Pants singing Journey and Styx, Crazy Joe's Evil Electric Ukelele, and 17 electric 12-strings playing "Hey Electric 12-string Band, Can You Play in Tune for Me."

Sound wacky? Tongue may frequently be in cheek, but the players are serious, and it's all real live guitar magic.

The day would have been full without Duane's set – but it was far more than the icing on the cake. It will have been the first time many in the room heard The Twang live, and the effect was instant and galvanizing, like being connected to the dynamo.

Awesome is a word that gets tossed around pretty sloppily, but I don't think anyone who was there would deny it applies.

My day yesterday began at 7AM, and ended at 4AM today, after I got the pics, audio, and video at least transferred to the computer.

Then I overslept till 8, woke and tried to get my head around the stuff I need to post to tell the story. Tommy59 and his gracious wife met me at the hotel for breakfast, I made it to the Convention Center around 11 with a day's worth of work left over from yesterday and a day's worth coming today. Buddy & Suzy Dughi were already on the Kim stage, and I got some of their set.

Buzz Campbell's Hot Rod Lincoln plays at 1:00, and the lyrical Lynda Kay at 3:00.

I still need to visit TV Jones, and would like to see at least Chris DiPinto and check out a couple Reverends. Duane and I are supposed to sit down for an interview sometime.

Nother words, there's a long way to go and a short time to get there.

But hang around. It may take the rest of the week to get all the audio and video up (which is really the heart of this coverage, I hope y'all realize!), but I'll get'er done.

And, yes, prize games will be back when I can.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:19 p.m. bonedaddy:

So, the secret to Duane Eddy's tone?

It can't be gear. He played:

-6120DSV

-showman amp

-run of the mill Dunlop tremolo pedal

-9.5 gauge roundwounds

-monster cable

so the secret is, you need to be Duane Eddy

oh, and it was loud

much louder than you'd have suspected.

Pretty run of the mill gear, anyone could buy, right?
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Jan 17, 2010 2:25 p.m. Geoff_Vane:

Haha, good one Bone. It's good gear alright, but being Duane probably helps too.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:26 p.m. AndyJ:

Joe Hi-Lo Tron said: @Andy J: but the sound clips on the TVJ website sound terrible. Can't hear the true sound from a mic of a camcorder 10' away from the amp.
My mistake, Joe. I didn't know there were clips already out on the TV site.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:26 p.m. will:

Thanks Proteus,

i can't wait!
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Jan 17, 2010 2:30 p.m. AndyJ:

Gutten Tag, Proteus. Welcome back and thanks for the update! The Guitars Geek portion of the day sounds like it was super cool.
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Jan 17, 2010 2:31 p.m. Drew Morrison:

Will said: if it helps i can e-mail the pdf-catalogue 2009. just lemmeknow.

Will,

Thanks for the offer but I was looking for a hard copy.

Thanks again.

Yours

Drew
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Jan 17, 2010 2:32 p.m. Hermitt:

They 'do' always saay that it's all in the fingers! A crappy guitar player (like me) can make any expensive guitar sound really crappy.... but someone like Duane, Gilmour, Knopfler or a myriad of others can make a POS guitar sing praises!
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Jan 17, 2010 2:35 p.m. Geoff_Vane:

I have a spanish "Firewood" guitar. I put it at the office at work for fun, because I was convinced it was a (poop) guitar. Then this guitar guru came in. Picked up my firewood and made it sing...
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Jan 17, 2010 2:42 p.m. Blaydrnnnr:

True Hermitt, I once saw Gilmour play a "give-away" Guitar for awhile just so it would be a signed, played guitar by Gilmour.. sounded great thanks to his technique. Give it to me and it'll sound like ..well..a give away guitar. Geoff, happens to me all the time.. a friend who's a pretty damn decent 'billy player makes my Annie rock!! I just make it cry....
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Jan 17, 2010 2:48 p.m. Geoff_Vane:

Yeah, I took my 5120 & SCXD to work when I bought it. Turned out half the company staff could play it , except for myself and two other musically challenged persons.