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there's always plenty of room for vintage "country twang"
in the surf arena...just ask Morricone and Duane Eddy and
Nokie and of course DD.
-dp
--- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I guess Tele's can be "way surf" especially if ya
> slap a bigsby and heavy srtings on one. To put a break in
> an otherwise trad-Strat-reverb surf set, I threw on a
> Telecaster at surf gig a couple of weeks ago. I didn't
> want it to sound like a surf guitar. I took advantage of
> it's country qualities and applied them to a couple of
> surf songs. Mr Moto was played, but low on the reverb and
> high on the b-bender country twang. Well, I liked it
> anyway.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DP
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> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: SurfGuitar101 Member
> Compilation CD?
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>
> I could be wrong...but, I believe I saw a "vintage"
> photo
> of old Dave Meyers (& the Surftones)...he was playing a
> Telecaster back in 62-63...also currently, the hawaiian
> slide guitar guy in the Blue Hawaiians also doubles on
> some
> songs playing reverberated rhythm guitar on his
> Telecaster.
>
> And of course, I play the "Telecaster" P-Bass (1951 RI
> CIJ
> Precision Bass)...
>
> man, Telecasters can be WAY surf!
>
> Not to mention old Steve Cropper...dude... that guy
> could
> play in my surf band any day...
>
>
> dp
>
>
> --- Richard <> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- gert_sp <> wrote:
> > > played with a telecaster, which is of course not
> > very surf.
> >
> > Our tracks are played with a Telecaster with Texas
> > Special pickups. I think a Telecaster, while not
> > traditional (to this crowd at least), is very surf.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
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