Re: We the Kingdom Rocks Freebird, My Girl, Coldplay and Chris To
OK, so ... It's neither a mandolin nor a mandola, but a half-neck guitar, which Gold Tone calls a manditar or mando-guitar. An octave higher than a guitar. So smack dab in between the two in terms of pitch. But no double strings? I swear, for $20 more, he could have had a 12-string, with the ringing double-string sound. One of the guitarists in Lucinda Williams used to play an electric half-neck guitar, in order to have that sound without learning another instrument. Same reason guitarists play a guitjo, for the banjo sound.
They're good, and fun, all right. But couldn't someone take a lead now and then? I get bored with bands that are nothing but strum-and-sing. One of the most boring shows I ever saw was an acoustic one by The Cranberries (sorry, Dolores) - four rhythm guitars, no lead. Became seriously tedious rather quickly. Got to mix it up!
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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