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Topic: Chalker sounding guitar player |
Anne Giroux
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Pincourt, Quebec, Canada
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Zachary Walters
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Maryland
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 10:33 am |
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Maybe Curly crossed with a little Jeff Beck. Either way... makes me want to give up music.
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 4:15 pm
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I hope ya'll don't find this too nerdy or clinical, but I thought maybe a few of you would be interested in this CH info.
I first heard about Charlie Hunter on NPR. Then I got an issue of GP back in the 90's with some history on the man. Charlie was influenced by Joe Pass and Tuck Andress as a kid.
I think he's really a fingerstyle/jazz/fusion/funk guitarist who may have missed his organ calling.
He separates bass lines on the low strings from chords and melodies on the higher strings the way an organ player would do with the right and left hands. He cites Larry Young, Chester Thompson of Oakland's TOP and the great Jimmy Smith as organ master influences among others. You can hear that organ sound in the clip that Anne posted and see the fingerstyle influence as well. He uses bare fingers and thumb.
The 3 low bass strings of his 8 string guitars are E, A, D and the 5 highest guitar strings....A,D,G,B,E low to hi.
His guitars with the fanned frets were custom made by Ralph Novak. They experiment with different scale lengths, but the one in the '98 GP article ranges from 24 3/4" to 28 1/4" so that he gets a full guitar tone with a nice bass sound on the bottom.
There was a lot of talk and noise about the SF area phenom during the late 90's and early 00's, and I used to hear him quite a bit on public radio, but I haven't heard much about him lately. I think he moved to the east coast later on.
I have some of his music around here somewhere. It's an interesting style. I think I read somewhere that he used a Ross phasor pedal early on for the organ sounds and later on a Rotosphere.
Look for earlier music from the Charlie Hunter Trio.
Certainly a stylist, for sure.
I remember a thumbpicker at one of Tuck Raisor's pulls that had something called any Octa-bass with 8 strings. I think that was a different idea though, he played mostly Western Ky. thumb style Mose Rager, Ike Everly and Merle Travis stuff with an extended bass unlike Hunter's brand of jazz and fusion. |
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John Floyd
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 6:13 pm
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Back in The Mid 70's There was an Altec Rep in Nashville Named Bob Woods that would Come into Our Shop ,Sound 88 and Jam on a Micro Frets 6 String Bass Guitar that was for playing Tic-Tac Bass, Bob had Curly Nailed, and was One hell of a Guitarist. I sure Bobbe Seymour remembers him and Probably Knows What happened to him. A lot of talent walking around in Nashville in those days. I know there wasn't much work done when he visited.I remember Ronnie Prophet who wasn't any Slouch on Guitar standing there watching in amazement.
After becoming acquainted with the above mentioned plus Earl Erb, Greg Galbraith, Al Bruno, Rick Money Steve Wariner all the time wondering What the Hell am I Doing here.  I did last a little over 5 years Leaving with more money than I came to town with. |
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Herb Steiner
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Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 29 Jan 2011 5:57 am
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In the early 70's I knew a standard guitarist in CA named Danny Holder that you'd swear, if you weren't looking onstage, that Curly Chalker was playing steel.
He used a Gibson Barney Kessel jazz box with six Keith-Scruggs tuners, large plasic fingerpicks, a volume pedal, and a Bigsby tremolo touched very lightly and sparingly.
I lost touch with him decades ago, but he was impressive.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 3 Feb 2011 10:10 am
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| I've sen Charlie play from about ten feet away and I have to say his musicality and technique are really impressive. For my personal taste, I can't hang with his processed electronic sound; tonal mush. Per the comment above, he always sounds to me like he should be playing a B3. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 3 Feb 2011 10:18 am
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He is a helluva musician and guitarist, no doubt about it--always dug his playing. Love this clip, thanks for posting.
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