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Brandon Finley’s drumtracks…
I’ve started doing stereo mixes of the drum tracks so various people (TBA) can add tracks at home and send them back. I can do some of the macro/preliminary guitar work now but really have to wait until the tracks are more complete to do any detailing. Right now, we’re hopefully looking at about 10 [...] -
SO WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON WITH ALL THE RECORDS????
OK, here the state of things musical: the drum tracks for the next Haskett/Finley release are in the can. Various guitars,basses and samples are yet to be tracked but it is coming along. The Haskett solo acoustic record is likewise due to start tracking in the next week or so. Elliott Sharp has graciously offered [...] -
PRS McCarty
Unquestionably the best electric guitar I’ve ever owned. When I first got it I was so happy I called Paul and I was so happily worked up that he actually thought I was mad about something. It is just super sweet. Better than any Les Paul I’ve ever had. It really, really sings (even moreso [...] -
Martin D-25 K2
This one’s a bit of an oddity. It’s a regular D-25 but Koa top, back and sides. Very dark sounding and not easy to incorporate with other instruments. It’s a little quiet for using live but it has a really lovely kind of bittersweetness which is perfect for those John Martyn moments… -
Kelly Dano
Rick Kelley from Carmine St Guitars made these. I generally don’t like playing with a middle pickup but this was such a bargain and so cool I couldn’t resist. It was also an incentive/reward for starting a new project. The string spacing threw me a bit but replacing the saddles with regular tele saddles did [...]
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Brandon Finley’s drumtracks…
I’ve started doing stereo mixes of the drum tracks so various people (TBA) can add tracks at home and send them back. I can do some of the macro/preliminary guitar work now but really have to wait until the tracks are more complete to do any detailing. Right now, we’re hopefully looking at about 10 [...] -
SO WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON WITH ALL THE RECORDS????
OK, here the state of things musical: the drum tracks for the next Haskett/Finley release are in the can. Various guitars,basses and samples are yet to be tracked but it is coming along. The Haskett solo acoustic record is likewise due to start tracking in the next week or so. Elliott Sharp has graciously offered [...] -
PRS McCarty
Unquestionably the best electric guitar I’ve ever owned. When I first got it I was so happy I called Paul and I was so happily worked up that he actually thought I was mad about something. It is just super sweet. Better than any Les Paul I’ve ever had. It really, really sings (even moreso [...] -
Martin D-25 K2
This one’s a bit of an oddity. It’s a regular D-25 but Koa top, back and sides. Very dark sounding and not easy to incorporate with other instruments. It’s a little quiet for using live but it has a really lovely kind of bittersweetness which is perfect for those John Martyn moments… -
Kelly Dano
Rick Kelley from Carmine St Guitars made these. I generally don’t like playing with a middle pickup but this was such a bargain and so cool I couldn’t resist. It was also an incentive/reward for starting a new project. The string spacing threw me a bit but replacing the saddles with regular tele saddles did [...] -
Hofner somethingorother
This is a gorgeous Hofner mongrel from the 50’s. The tag inside claims to be a bass body but it’s obviously a guitar. Too nice to travel, it lives in London. -
Harmony Monterey
I used to have three of these “pawnshop specials” and they were all playable in exclusively different parts of the neck. Now I’m down to the “slide” one. Great for country blues. Instant 78rpm lo-fi tone and it all comes from the spraypainted finish.. Not sure of the age of this. I’m guessing mid-50s. Anybody know? -
Epiphone PR5-E
As I’ve been doing a lot more acoustic playing lately, I’ve needed some reliable but not oh-so-precious guitars to drag in and out of clubs. I’ve settled on these for now as, if you weed through to find a good one, they really sing and also the new electrics are pretty damn good. The one [...] -
The BROWN one
The BROWN ONE. This is a very sweet guitar. Originally it was identical to the other two CEs except that it had McCarty pickups in it. It’s a naturally sweet sounding guitar. Very bluesy and the lower output of the McCarty [...] -
The WHITE one
This one is pretty much identical to the black one only white. OK, it’s not. It IS a 24 fret CE with identical electronics to the black one but it’s tonally and behaviorally a completely different beast. Paul initially resisted my wanting an opaque white finish because he said it wouldn’t allow the wood [...]