- Adam Bopel
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Vintage Top utilisateur
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Adam Bopel le 24 Mar 2021, 08:20
"Johnny Bonanza on drums, Earl Eliot on bass, Mitch Ryder on vocals, and Joe Kubrick on ES-335 through a Fender Twin amp. I watched these guys and the sonic spread coming out of this custom hand-carved North American spruce, very porous, very breathable, and it's not as thick as the old Wes Montgomery Super 400 jazz guitars, but it had a rich bell, ring to it because it was a hollow body.
"And at these increasing volumes back in the 1960s, that would tend to encourage feedback and people would fight to stop the feedback. But I discovered when I got my hands on a Byrdland that the feedback when you marry - when you become a soulmate with the feedback with a Gibson Byrdland hollow-body guitar, you can make sounds and noises that pre-dated the sounds and noises of Jimi Hendrix.
"I mean, I was making these feedback outrages in '64 and '65 with the Amboy Dukes, and it has such a big, fat spread. It's a 3/4-scale neck, it's really ergonomic and playable, it was made by the greatest wood craftsmen luthiers at the Gibson guitar plant back in the '50s and '60s.
"In fact, on the very first Chuck Berry album there was a prototype Gibson Byrdland. Again, it's hollow-body, and it has a unique, breathable spruce top that's hand-carved and arched so that it actually creates a vocal chamber.
"And you can hear it when I open up 'Stranglehold,' I mean, that lick - there's no guitar sound in the world like that, and some of the feedback outrage on the live version of 'Hibernation,' I mean, flutists and saxophonist and organ players wish they could get that kind of noise.
"Yusef Lateef wishes and Miles Davis wish they could get those frequencies, but it's only available when you discover the relationship between your heart, soul, ball, scrotum, fingers, spirit, attitude, mind, and Fender loud amps, and that son of a bitch, it makes noises that are so cool and it's so sexy, it's so inspiring."
https://www.ultimate-guitar.co(...).html
"And at these increasing volumes back in the 1960s, that would tend to encourage feedback and people would fight to stop the feedback. But I discovered when I got my hands on a Byrdland that the feedback when you marry - when you become a soulmate with the feedback with a Gibson Byrdland hollow-body guitar, you can make sounds and noises that pre-dated the sounds and noises of Jimi Hendrix.
"I mean, I was making these feedback outrages in '64 and '65 with the Amboy Dukes, and it has such a big, fat spread. It's a 3/4-scale neck, it's really ergonomic and playable, it was made by the greatest wood craftsmen luthiers at the Gibson guitar plant back in the '50s and '60s.
"In fact, on the very first Chuck Berry album there was a prototype Gibson Byrdland. Again, it's hollow-body, and it has a unique, breathable spruce top that's hand-carved and arched so that it actually creates a vocal chamber.
"And you can hear it when I open up 'Stranglehold,' I mean, that lick - there's no guitar sound in the world like that, and some of the feedback outrage on the live version of 'Hibernation,' I mean, flutists and saxophonist and organ players wish they could get that kind of noise.
"Yusef Lateef wishes and Miles Davis wish they could get those frequencies, but it's only available when you discover the relationship between your heart, soul, ball, scrotum, fingers, spirit, attitude, mind, and Fender loud amps, and that son of a bitch, it makes noises that are so cool and it's so sexy, it's so inspiring."
https://www.ultimate-guitar.co(...).html
