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Robben Ford sounded absolutely wicked on a Super 400 playing blues with Jimmy Witherspoon!
I've never tried one, but it's such an elusive dream guitar for me. There's something about it that's just like a grand piano. I'm 28 this week so still young!
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05-07-2024 03:21 PM
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Nice, but if I only listen I'm just hearing electric guitar.
Originally Posted by Enlightened Rogue
Yeah, indeed, the thread title doesn't say it's about young people who discovered the jazz box ... to play jazz on...Louis Nowak is a talented young guitarist who plays an acoustic archtop often.
Olli Soikkeli is another young guitarist who plays archtop guitars regularly also.
Two of my favourite young
archtop players using a somewhat different kind of box outside the box:
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Turned 29 this year and I suppose 'young' is a relative term (I feel old, or at least 'older') and I played strats for the longest time. When I got into Joe Pass and got my first archtop I found I played it all the time simply because I'm lazy and don't like plugging it in or dealing with the amp and signal chain. I love the sound of archtops and there is really something about having a big mass of wood vibrating against your torso as you play
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Good vibrations indeed (esp. in "classical position"
Originally Posted by chris32895
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Not exactly a full jazzbox but almost – and the artist-composer-producer SANNI is definitely not jazz! She is one of the most succesful Finnish pop artists in last decade.
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And the counter to this trend is that all the rock/blues guys who are brand new and have only heard jazz once in their entire life all think that a Telecaster is a jazz guitar.
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But a telecaster...never mind.
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No, they think big jazz boxes are jazz guitars. They think Telecasters are "old man" or "Grandpa" guitars
Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
(Also, "the guitar the lead singer who only knows 3 chords plays to look cool" )
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yeah i know....Ed Bickert....right....
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Guns n Roses had an ES 175 on stage and on their album.
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Oh man, Appetite for Destruction is almost 37 years old now.
Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
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Guns N’ Roses is definitely old people music.
Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
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People born the year the first album came out are middle aged.
Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
Isn't it remarkable how things have slowed down?
Originally Posted by ThatRhythmMan
23 years between the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and Appetite.
Listen to popular music from 2001...sounds just like popular music from 2024.
I feel like my generation is the first that isn't scared by their kids' music. That sucks.
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The algorithm is wise and mighty. The algorithm will reach a musical singularity where one song is all songs and no one will love or hate it.
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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I have a friend who calls it "The Blandening." I think that's pretty spot on.
Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Can I just say here that I absolutely hate the term "jazz box"?
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I think when the whole point is to scare your parents, something gets lost. How far can it go? I know a lot of parents (now in their 50s) who listened to stuff like NWA in their youth.
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Maybe the biggest change is that music no longer means much in a cultural sense, one way or the other….
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Almost as much as I hate "chord melody."
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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"I got a standard box. I don’t never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else’s.”
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
— Wes Montgomery
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I do too…..but “axe” is worse.
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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Axe isn't guitar exclusive when talking about instruments.
Originally Posted by customxke
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I understand, but I wouldn’t feel any better if someone referred to my oboe as a “sweet axe”.
Originally Posted by wintermoon
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+++
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
It's an instrument you grind and get chops with
Originally Posted by wintermoon
Esp. when the box isn't a box at all?
Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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He says as he plays an L5 valued at or over $10k today.
Originally Posted by wintermoon
I love Wes and I'm kidding, but only a little.



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