Quote from Forum Archives on January 7, 2008, 9:17 pm

Posted by: twheeler <twheeler@...>

Very cool (too bad about the sound guys though).

Wait till you get a chance to play a Scheerhorn...

You won't believe your ears. I've been fortunate enough to get to
play a little with Lou Wamp (friend of Jerry Douglas, has played with
AKUS, etc.). He has one that is just outstanding.

I wish the folks at our church would get into incorporating more
"traditional Appalachian" sorts of instruments. That sort of thing is
right up my alley.

All my best,

Trey

On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Kevin wrote:

> Our new bass player, who is really a guitar player but I can't
> convince him,
> got a dobro for Christmas. It is an inexpensive acoustic (no
> pickups). He
> taught himself to play Amazing Grace at home then brought it to
> practice. It
> sounded very cool. I convinced him to play it for the church the
> next Sunday
> and I would accompany him on acoustic. Sound check went great but
> during the
> service the dobro never got unmuted! All you heard was me strumming
> and the
> singers. It was still good but I felt so sorry for the guy. He took
> it well.
> I love his attitude - I hope it rubs off.
>
> That got me to wanting to tinker with the slide a little bit. I got
> out my
> old Washburn electric that was retired because of back bow. I raised
> the
> action and tuned it to open D. While I am not any good at it, it is
> a lot of
> fun. Mostly I am impressed with how good that old guitar sounds. The
> guitar
> is a $200 beater intro guitar to which I added Carvin Humbuckers. I
> don't
> know what you guys think of Carvins but at the moment I think they
> blow the
> Dimarzios on my Parker away. They have kind of a classic 70's
> Gibson sound.
> I've been working on Where Could I Go. If I ever get any good at it
> maybe
> I'll make an attempt at getting unmuted!
>
> Other than the dobro fiasco, Sunday's music rocked at our church!
> While I
> know the goal is changed lives, still as a musician it is refreshing
> personally to see people on their feet and hear them clapping (in
> time no
> less) and singing loudly along. Sort of makes you glad you bothered
> to tune
> up.
>
> Peace
> Kevin
>
> Parker NiteFly M/map
> Peavey Ecoustic E/A
> OLP 12-string electric
>
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