I enjoyed this.
Daniel
I enjoyed this.
Daniel
U. Srinivas is outstanding.
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I love this stuff. I especially love electric mandolin in the context of Western Swing. If I am not mistaken, there was an Asleep At the Wheel album that had a cut or two of Marty Stewart, playing an electric mandolin.
From the perspective the general public, the mandolin itself is such a minority instrument, the electric mandolin is a genuine obscurity. I doubt if there are many followers of this stuff that aren't also players. I would bet the most prominent electric mandolin player in the general public today is Michael Kang, and I would bet most if not all of his fans think he plays guitar.
It is difficult to find a context for electric mandolin that isn't electric guitar envy. But, that said, electric mandolin is so much fun to play.
I won't do the research right now (it's bedtime here in Dubai), but the music as the final credits roll in a western that stars Brad Pitt is definitely (to my ears, at least) a bone-dry Fender mandocaster.
I may have the wrong movie, maybe it was a way-too-long Billy the Kid thing – it's been a long day
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I experienced this very phenomenon last summer. A friend of mine who has seen the band live several times invited me over to watch an SCI/Keller Williams livestream and it took a couple minutes' convincing before he was willing to accept that Kang didn't play 'a tiny guitar'.
Playing 5 string I am really enjoying the low end of the instrument. I've probably always been a natural mandola player, but one has to arrive at these things in stages I guess.
Bb is one of my new favourite chords. It's so fat on my G5. F major and G minor are two of my new favourite keys.
And I have noticed myself using ii chords more when writing.
Daniel
Ricky Skaggs on 5 string emando with a Parsons-White bender:
And here:
...and now I want a bender.
Daniel
I would definitely check out Tiny Moore's playing on all the Billy Jack Wills recordings you can find. Super swingin recordings with a great band!
Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0de_KnLHQs
Lot's of great boogie, standard western swing, and just super simple melodic lines that swing like crazy with the band.
Johnny Gimble plays an electric mandolin solo at 34:36 on Fiddle Sticks. The tune starts at 33:02.
Interesting to compare it to his solo on Rose City Chimes.
Niles Hokkanen is on this one, probably some others as well. It’s a pretty dense recording but you can hear him.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...4r_PVdFXPUbYuW
Does Johnny Gimble play some electric mandolin/mandola on the early Asleep at the Wheel records?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByfT-RAtbM
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Check out Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Melinda" where Mike Campbell plays an electric Rickenbacker (may not be a real Ric) with a whammy bar with some delay effects.
Definitely not a Rickenbacker.
http://www.emando.com/players/Campbell.htm
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I interviewed Don Stiernberg (another great electric mandolinist) a couple of months back, and my feelings (and his, of course0 about the album are in here...
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That was great! Very rich playing and arrangement! He reminds me of 1985 Eddie Van Halen's guitar style and Mark Knopfler's fashion style, all done in Brazilian style.
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I'll just post this for now, posted by Marcus CA on another thread, while I go in search of more. Sierra Hull takes quite a nice ride on this in the last minute. And the opening figure is really nice, too. This is a side of her music with which I was unfamiliar.
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