Western swing on the Epiphone Broadway Elitist

[Greentone]

Wes played a solid-state Standel, while Chet, Merle, Hank, and others played an early Standel 25L15 tube model with a 15" JBL D130 speaker. Bob Crooks, the founder of Standel, went back into business in the '90s with some folks and started putting out the 25L15 again. If you look online you will find a company site still, but I don't know if they are yet producing amps...Crooks has passed on, at this point.

Whoa! I didn't realize how important creme shoes were to the Nashville production style/sound until I saw the picture of Garland above with his Stromberg. Gotta get me some creme shoes, quick.

[neatomic]

Whoa! I didn't realize how important creme shoes were to the Nashville production style/sound until I saw the picture of Garland above with his Stromberg. Gotta get me some creme shoes, quick.

now you're being silly..actually hanks wearing black shoes..everybody knows creme shoes are for rhythm!! haha


cheers

ps- tho the idea of dressing like your musical idol is nothing new! check these

bill de arango-wide pinstripe suit



charlie christian



inspiration comes from many directions..not just copying guitars or amps

cheers

[pingu]

incredible man !

is that pick and fingers ?

i can't even imagine the work involved to
learn that tune .... well played !

[dingusmingus]

Really great playing! (For what it's worth, I thought the tone fit the tune well.)

[Klatu]

Yah organ isn´t your common western swing instrument... But it might work. Would it be frowned upon in a band called "Best Western Swing" (this is a project I´m currently working on)?

Honestly, I'm not digging the name "Best Western Swing"; it sounds like the product of a well known American hotel chain.

The way I see it, you've been playing the globalized American art form of jazz for quite some time in far off Norway, now you're embarking on a project to play an exotic niche subcategory of an already relatively obscure genre. In fact, your project sounds like worldwide efforts to play gypsy jazz. A common naming device for such projects is to take the name of the Parisian Club that was home to Django and make it their own; resulting names include Hot Club of San Francisco, Hot Club of Detroit, Hot Club of Saratoga, etc.

Along these lines, you could go with a play on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and name your group Asle Roe and the Norwegian Playboys.