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Saw this video on Quora, Dobie Grey doing his (1?) hit Drift Away. And in the band is afinger picking sunburst ES-175...cool!
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01-26-2021 12:02 PM
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Beautiful song , great rendition
That Geetar player ..... he's GREAT
and the part is wonderfull
Who is that geetar player ?
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Reggie Young was in his studio band, and played on the original single, but he doesn't look like the guy in the video Reggie Young - Wikipedia
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Originally Posted by jazzkritter
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tommo for a classical player I’m not real picky, only on my nickel flats)
Rob no there’s no pix I could find of Reggie that looked anything like that player, so yea, doubt it’s he. This is a great research test!
So I dug through the IMDb, tv.com, and a couple of rock history sites trying to find mention of a house band for Midnight Special but none are listed that I could find. They prided themselves as a no- lip syncing zone (pretty rare in ‘73).
My guess is since it was an LA show and LA was then the capital of on call studio musicians (Wrecking Crew type players) that band may have been a pickup?
A clue on Wikipedia is that DG worked with the studio set (one of his first recordings was with Carol Kaye) so since he was familiar with them.. maybe? “ "See You at the Go-Go", recorded with such top session musicians as Kaye, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel,”
BTW The guy doing the intros was Wolfman Jack a famous (and seminal) late night radio DJ in LA. He paved the way for DJs to get pretty crazy. (“Are your peaches fuzzy baaabee?”)
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these guys liked the tune too
drift away- the rolling stones
cheers
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Wow, I never would have thought that sound was from an ES-175. I used to play that song a lot back in the day, and always liked the guitar parts.
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Nice warm fat tone.
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ps- someone in youtube comments says the guitarist is ben bonay...not much on him via google..but he was a guitarist of that era
the dobie gray original had reggie young on les paul and troy seals on tele
cheers
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great , thanks guys
thank i have a go at it tonight
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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Apparently did studio work, along with doing..... sad...
It’s only when my co-writer of “NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU ON A LUDE”, studio guitarist Ben Benay, dies of a drug overdose, do I re-examine the direction my own life is taking.”
Artie Wayne.
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Eric Gale of the 1970s band Stuff. Probably more R&B than Rock, but he did play with a heavy gain, sometimes overdriven sound using a L5 and 400. Also took the pickup covers off at one time.
Eric Gale is a huge influence for myself. I'm not really a Jazz player but I love archtops. Personally I thnk what Gale is doing here is the natural progression of the original Charlie Christian sound.
I like this sound and I have moved away from a CC pickup to humbuckers.
Last edited by icr; 01-26-2021 at 07:50 PM.
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Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
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^ and don't forget this guy...jim hall...his recording & gigging guitar for near 20 years!
cheers
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...and this guy (sorry, couldn't find a larger and better pic):
That's John Fogerty. He mentioned in his autobiography that he used an ES 175 a lot on the first few CCR albums until it got stolen and he bought his black Les Paul Custom.
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