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Thanks, Bill! Nice to have you back among the living!
Can't wait for the Sunday Surf Extravaganza @ the Hotel
Utah. Now if we could just get you into Messhugga Beach
garb trading dual baritone leads with Mel for a few tunes,
we'd really have something!!!! Mel, ya out there???
Oye vay!!!
Bob S.
--- In , "Bill Bergstrom"
<swingin_cat@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Bob!!! Here I am!!!!
>
> Sorry... digest mode makes things lag a bit at times.
>
> I do indeed play baritone on 4 songs, and we've added a slow tune
on
> which Rodd (our bassy Rat) plays it with a guitar melody. My
personal
> experience is it is FANTASTIC for lead playing (especially through
a
> 2x15 cab). Chording is tricky - certainly no open strumming kind
of
> stuff, but a little chunky ryhthm sounds cool with that low kick.
My
> personal favorite use is with tremoloed (in Fender terminology...
> vibrato to the technical folk)chords on slower spy stuff. Perfect
> example would be on the Blue Hawaiians' "Experiment in Terror" off
of
> Savage Night. It's one of those instruments that's great for sonic
> variety if nothing else.
>
> And since I'm here and pontificating, I may as well start plugging -
-
> see me play my baritone (and maybe Mel play HIS baritone) at the
next
> Suurfin' Sunday - April 2nd at the Hotel Utah in SF. Meshugga
Beach
> Party, Pollo, and The Lava Rats. Holy crap - what a good show!!!
>
> Sorry I've been in lurk mode a lot lately - school and baseball
have
> been CRAZY. That should all be changing soon enough.
>
> See anyone in Portland,
> ~Bill~
>
> --- In , "Bob Steingraber"
> <bobsteingraber@> wrote:
> >
> > I have no experience playing Baritone guitars live, but
> > I've heard Bill from the Lava Rats use a Danelectro bari-
> > tone that sounded AWESOME live. Hey, Bill... you out there?
> >
> > Bob S.
>
