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Dan,
You made my day! Thanks for the real story...
I hope I can come up with a cool question before the 16th.
thanks again,
Davee Pike
--- Dan Bartley <> wrote:
>
> Here's the real story...Brian ALWAYS uses a hollowbody,
> usually a vintage or reissue Gretsch, although lately he
> has been using the reissue version of the Gibson Scotty
> Moore played. Brian used to use a Vox AC30, he now plays
> through a reissue Standell. His tank is a reissue Fender.
>
>
> Reid Diamond, the old bass player from Shadowy Men ( who
> passed on a few years ago ) played a Gibson Firebird
> through a Traynor bass amp, probably a Mono Block. I
> recall one night back in 1979 when Reid's band Crash
> Kills Five was playing at a punk bar called the Edge in
> Toronto, he reached that long Firebird neck off the stage
> and flung the ashtray on my table across the room like it
> was a hockey puck! The singer in that band, Don Pyle,
> became the drummer for Shadowy Men.
>
> I have had the pleasure of playing on stage with Brian
> Connelly on many occaisions. Atomic 7 has opened for my
> rock'billy band The Royal Crowns a few times as well. My
> brother did a stint on drums for Atomic 7 for a year or
> so. As a matter of fact, Brian's going to be rehearsing
> with me on the 16th of this month. I'm playing lead for a
> country tribute show the next day and Brian is going to
> get up and do an instrumental version( of course! ) of
> Hello Walls. If there's anything you want me to ask him
> let me know. I'm serious. I understand that he's well
> known and respected in the U.S. He's very humble and
> would be tickled to know we're talking about him. I'm
> sure his ears are burning now...in a nice way.
> Cheers
> Dan
>
>
>
> DP <> wrote:
> Being that the SMFASP are Canadian...I would guess that
> they use either Premier or Traynor amplification and
> reverberage...but, of course it's only a hunch...
>
> I know that The Blue Stingrays (aka the Heartbreakers of
> Tom Petty fame) favour Premier equipment, and they have a
> very similar "Sadowy Men" sound ...also old Love Tractor
> had several pieces of Premier equipment in their line up,
> and they too possess a "Shadowy Men" sound charachter
>
>
> If anyone knows the real story, I'd love to hear it...
>
> DP
>
>
>
> --- Patrick <> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Being a big Shadowy Men fan (they were the band that
> > orginally got me
> > into instro music in the first place - being a youngin'
> I
> > didn't get
> > into the original innovators until much later), I was
> > wondering if
> > you guys might have any idea what kind of gear Brian
> > Conelly is using
> > on the Shadowy stuff and/or the newer Atomic 7
> releases.
> > I know he
> > seems to favor Gretsch guitars (seen pics with him
> > playing a 6120 and
> > a White Falcon) and in an episode or two of the Kids in
> > the Hall he's
> > playing a white Jazzmaster, but I'm more curious about
> > the
> > amp/reverb/echo setup. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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