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Topic: Rig Rundown: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley |
Mark Eaton
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Posted 11 Feb 2023 12:31 pm |
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Premier Guitar online just came out with a Rig Rundown featuring Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, hosted by John Bohlinger who always does a great job with these videos. Some will recall they did one four years ago with Jerry Douglas.
https://youtu.be/aUQN9yh5E1U
In Rob's portion of the video he made a comment that I question - he said he had recently found out that Open G was the original lap steel tuning.
For decades I have been under the impression that low bass Open A was the original (EAEA#CE), as played by Joseph Kekuku and others beginning in the late 19th Century. That was the first tuning I was taught as a kid in the 1960's.
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Joe Burke
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Posted 11 Feb 2023 9:24 pm
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| That was in. Thanks! |
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 1:18 pm
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You’re welcome Joe.
Sometimes we start a thread here and though it might receive a bunch of quick views, with the exception of in this case Joe making a comment, it might go over like a lead balloon (balloon metaphors are appropriate in the past week 😉).
If I had started a thread with a subject like “my C pedal is sticky on my GFI” I may have had a couple dozen replies by now.
So I’ll help everyone out. Though I thoroughly enjoyed Trey’s segment on his guitar rig, not everyone will.
This being The Steel Guitar Forum, if you want to watch Rob’s segment of him going through his dobro rundown along with a couple of vintage Ric lap steels, it begins at the 37:50 mark in the video.
https://youtu.be/aUQN9yh5E1U
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Brooks Montgomery
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 1:42 pm
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Mark, I really enjoyed it. Especially Trey’s comments. I’ve known about Rob’s super-human playing for a long time now, and am pretty well familiar with his set-ups (his new-found hobby of collecting laps was a humorous surprise)—-and although I’ve listened to a bunch of Trey’s playing, and have had him blow my mind at live venues, his rig rundown was a big surprise. He is so much more than a lightening fast flat-picker, he is amazingly talented in blues, rock, chicken-picken, b-bender licks, and quite funny talking about his somewhat disorganized choice of pedals.
Thanks for posting the link!
Great rundown!
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Greg Forsyth
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 3:25 pm
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Mark
I also am enjoying the JB rig rundown that you posted. Trey Hensley surprised me with the type of pedals he's using for his acoustic guitars. Rob Ickes story about the prewar acoustic his grandpa bought from Montgomery Wards is an interesting go back in history by Rob. I admire his playing.
Blue Chip picks look to be big among pro players! Both of these men are using them. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 4:01 pm
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Though I’m only a weekend warrior player and not a pro, I’ve been using BlueChip thumbpicks for about 11 years now. I have no desire to use any other thumbpick. I also have a couple of their flatpicks. You can buy a a small wooden box with the BlueChip logo on top to store the flatpicks, I think I paid about five bucks for it a few years back, and the BlueChips are the only ones allowed to live in there. It’s a “high rent district.”
Rob has changed from the Jerry Douglas Aura pedal to the Fishman Aura Spectrum unit. I’ve never thought the dobro “images” were quite as good in the Spectrum in comparison to the Douglas pedal, but apparently for his gigs in a bazillion different venues he thinks the Spectrum is better at taming feedback.
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Marty Broussard
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Broussard, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 4:25 pm
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Thank you, Mark. Always curious about reso rigs.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 13 Feb 2023 4:42 pm
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You’re welcome Brooks, Greg, and Marty!
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