Speaking of Astronaut's gear, our drummer knows Jim Gallagher, the drummer for the Astronauts, and has asked Gallagher about whether he would part with the gold sparkle set. The answer was a polite no, that the set is going to a grandchild. Luckily, our drummer has the same set.

Yeah and the killer part is that Jim keeps his drum set in the crawl space under his house!!!!!!!!
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Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

Check out this link for the 'nauts. No gear talk but some cool pics and some great background for the youngin's out there that ain't hip to them yet...

http://www.coloradomagazineonline.com/Music/The_Astronauts_Tulagi's/The_Astronauts_Tulagi's.htm

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Yes! I found the Pipeline interview, in which they talk about the instruments. The Montgomery Ward looks similar to a Les-Paul-shaped Harmony (as which I remembered it).
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I spoke with Bob Spickard this morning and discussed the gear used on the Pipeline recording. Amps were 2 blonde Bandmasters and a blonde Bassman at the time. Bob wrote Pipeline on his Barth guitar. Interseting that he mentioned he got the guitar and a Barth amp for his 15th birthday. His dad later told him it was the best $50 he ever spent! Bob still owns the guitar but the amp is long gone. Brian Carmen played his Airline made by Harmony and purchased at Montgomery Wards. The glisses on Pipeline were done on the Airline. Waren Walters played a P bass. The keyboard parts were done on Rob Marshall's Wirly. We didn't discuss Bob Welsh's drum kit.

About the time Pipeline hit some gear upgrades were in order and the Bandmaster were replaced by Showmans even for the bass. Bob bought a '62 Strat that he still owns, Leo Fender signed and now the Custom Shop built him a clone of. Rob got a Rhodes piano and I don't remember what Brian played other than a Strat.

Today the band mostly plays through Quilter combos. Bob owns a Music Man RD75 he giged with for years but it now sits in storage in favor of the smaller lighter Quilter.

Bob is one of the nicest guys I know. Alway willing to talk about the Chantays and whats happening. When I see him at shows, Chantays and others, he alway makes a point to come say hi as does Gil, Ricky & Brian if their around. I have an open invite to jam with that crowd any Tuesday afternoon I wish. Just way cool people. I need to get on that!

The rest of our conversation was of a more personal level so I can't share it here.

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Keep it Drippy Brothers and Sisters!

I didn't ask that specific question, sorry. Next time. Maybe next Tuesday afternoon at the Newport Beach jam.

Keep it Drippy Brothers and Sisters!

On the eternal pondering of this question and at the risk of re-awakening an old thread, I just can't help wondering if that drippy reverb is partly the result of a bit of treble-boost in front of the tank? (Like maybe from a rangemaster or something?) I have tried my RM cloney pedal (with a slight amount of treble boost dimed in) in front of my home-brewed tank, and it delivers a similar drip edge. I sort of imagine that this sort of thing could be what they used (since the RM was an effect that was around at the time)

Any thoughts on this line of speculation?

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IvanP wrote:

Did you ask about the pickguards on the Strats? If Bob had a replica built by Fender, and that's what he uses, then they were indeed black pickguards, judging by the video below. Mea culpa. I had no idea there were black Strat pickguards that early in Fender's history.

The pickguard in that video is tort, REALLY dark tort. Also, it isn't an exact replica as that guitar has the truss adjustment at the headstock.

JakeDobner wrote:

I doubt there were effects like that being used, any added drip/difference in tone is likely due to the mics, recording method, amps, guitars. These classic recordings don't necessarily have Fender gear on them, nor are amps being used in all them them. Plugging directly into the board gets some great tone and the drip sounds really great when you do that.

OFF TOPIC

I've wondered about that, guitars plugging directly into the board. I think I heard that Podolor was known to do that. My question is, did the boards have built in compressors, and thus the guitars were compressed in front of the tape? Also, did they plug into mic preamps, and can they have an effect as well?

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