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Topic: Don Rich "Guitar Pickin' Man" |
Peter Freiberger
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Chuck Hall
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 9:31 am |
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I like it Pete. What model guitar is that? Looks like a hybrid Les Paul. Don't think I ever seen one quite like that.
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robert kramer
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 9:45 am
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*** Just want to correct an error in my post. Not sure if Emmons recorded with Sammy Davis, Jr. The SD Jr. song I was thinking of was "A Legend in my Time" which is Jay Dee Maness on steel not Emmons. So I've added three more artists Emmons recorded with in his LA period: Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt and Dewey Martin***
The Buckaroos' 1970 "Boot Hill" LP (Capitol ST 550) has the track "Cajun Steel Guitar" with steel by Buddy Emmons. "Guitar Pickin' Man" is also on "Boot Hill." - so it stands to reason this is also Emmons on steel and probably playing steel on the entire LP. It sounds like Don, Doyle and the guys are playing along to the track of "Guitar Pickin' Man." At this time, Emmons was working out of LA - touring with Roger Miller. He was playing bass with Roger while playing steel on sessions in LA for Judy Collins, Ray Charles, John Sebastian, Gram Parsons, Long Branch Pennywhistle, Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Dewey Martin - the list goes on and on and on...
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 10:00 am
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| - the list goes on and on and on... |
They both play on " Greatest Hits" by Phil Ochs. |
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Jerry Overstreet
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 10:08 am
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Chuck, that's a Les Paul low impedance pickup guitar. I think Les designed them for recording. There were a few models. This one looks like a LP Personal or a LP Professional model.
A friend of mine has one of the Les Paul Personals. Interesting guitars. |
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Edward Efira
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 11:07 am
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It's a Les Paul recording
From Wikipedia:
Don Rich used primarily Fender guitars and amps. In the early days, Don would play Buck's ’51 Telecaster through a Bassman amplifier. In 1964, Fender gave Buck Owens an endorsement deal and the band gained instruments. Don received a Telecaster that had both its body and headstock finished in champagne metal flake in addition to having checkerboard binding on both sides of the guitar's body. The band received Fender amplifiers as well, so Don played through a Twin Reverb amplifier.
Buck and Don received new guitars in 1966, a pair of Silver Flake Telecasters that were double bound in plain black. Also around 1966, Buck had Bakersfield guitar repairman/technician Gene Moles finish another set of guitars in Red White and Blue. Fender would also give Don a Gold Sparkle Tele in the late 60's that was bound in plain black. It had no finish on the headstock.
Fender's deal with most of their artists was that they would exchange their instruments for new ones every 7 years or so. Buck refused to return the instruments given to them by Fender, so Fender stopped giving them instruments. Gibson picked up on this and in the early 70's they struck up a deal with Buck. Don received an ES-335 as well as a Les Paul Recording Model.
Buck and Don would later go back to playing their Red, White and Blue Telecasters.
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Peter Freiberger
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 4 Dec 2010 12:04 pm
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http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/lprusers/lprusers.html
Some info on the low impedance guitars. It looks like a LP Professional to me. According to this site, the Recording model wasn't available until late '71. If the video date stamp is correct, it would not have yet been available.
The low impedance guitars were sometimes called recording guitars generically, so that may have been where the Wiki info came from.
Check out the pics. The Recording had a Custom style headstock whereas the Pro had a plain one such as shown in Don's video. Also the upper bout/horn had a slightly diff shape.
We all know that there were exceptions to all of the guitar history so who knows. I have no personal knowledge about them except for the one my friend has and, as always, I defer to the true experts on the subject.
Anyhow, back to Mr. Rich.....such an icon in country music pickers and singers. One many have attempted to emulate on both counts. A stylist and a individual for sure. |
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