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Damn straight Anthony-he is SUCH a nice guy and treated me SO well on the 2 gigs I supported him on last September-not only is he gr8 musicwise but he's SO godamn funny-man, my jaw was ACHING-seriously-after watching his set in Newbury-total entertainment-you'll getcha monies worth I tell you.
Bob Log for Prime minister!
Thought I'd post this in this strand because it keeps all the Seasick Steve talk under one heading. At the fest in Birmingham a couple of discussions got around to the tuning Steve uses on his "3-String Trance Wonder". Part of the plan for my Cohiba CBG was to try using Steve's tuning and string arrangement. According to a post in the forum on Steve's own website he uses an open G tuning of G-G-B. That's a low G, another G an octave up and then a B four semitones up from that. This seems to be born out by a couple of YouTube tutorials by a guy who does some good renditions of Steve's tunes. (Check him out at http://www.youtube.com/user/DT8230)
I also followed the information I had about Steve's string gauges, which is that he uses pretty heavy strings - eg. the low G is an 'E' string from a medium gauge set tuned up three-semitones, the high G is a 'D' string tuned up five semitones and the B is 'G' string tuned up four semitones.
Another feature I tried was copying Steve's pickup placement. I observed from photos that he taped his pickup on at a position that's about the same distance from the bridge as the third fret is from the nut. I reckon that isn't totllay a fluke and that he found there's a kind of sweet spot there where you get a good combination of harmonics.
Yes, you are rght about that pickup position. It is about the same place as the middle pickup on a Fender Strat or Burns Marvin - and many other guitars also. One of my guitars has just a single magnetic pickup which sides on rails between the bridge and the end of the fret-board, and there is a strong 'presence' to the 'voice' of the guitar when the pickup is at about that position.
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