vintage58
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Which 'burst is he using in that lip-synced Beat Club footage of them doing "I Feel Free"? Is that the Summers 'Burst?
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Crazy expressive tone, the best I've heard on record. I thought for decades it was the Firebird... it's on the back cover of the Live album so I stared intently at the album jacket photo while listening as a teenager believing I was hearing a Firebird... but Sleepy Time is the Fool SG.
I totally agree. I've always thought it was the very best tone of all --- SO powerful and sweet. I did exactly the same thing when I was a teenager, too. How well I remember sitting on the couch looking at that cover every time I listened to the album on our console stereo, thinking all those years and many more beyond that I was hearing that Firebird Clapton was playing on the cover. Then I finally found out not too terribly long ago that it was indeed the Fool SG.
Crazy expressive tone, the best I've heard on record. I thought for decades it was the Firebird... it's on the back cover of the Live album so I stared intently at the album jacket photo while listening as a teenager believing I was hearing a Firebird... but Sleepy Time is the Fool SG.
And 5 years later...
Do you think Clapton is playing his FB on the recording of Badge? The solo in particular.
Are there anay current pictures or recordings of that guitar?
I assume it is still in ECs posession?
Gibson should really reissue a regular CS or CC version. The success of the Bonamassa Epi FB1s shows that there is a demand.
I feel like J45 would know the answer RE: Badge, but I don't know if he posts here anymore.
Annoyingly, I can't get any closer to the epic swirling bridge riff (despite hours spent experimenting with various amp/cab/pedal combinations) but the rest is sort-of in the ball park (I think).
You know the bridge is a guitar through a Leslie cab, right?
Here's a cover (guitar parts only) that I made in Garageband with a Firebird this weekend. Annoyingly, I can't get any closer to the epic swirling bridge riff (despite hours spent experimenting with various amp/cab/pedal combinations) but the rest is sort-of in the ball park (I think). Sadly, I don't have a 335 to do a comparison.
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I just can't imagine being able to get close to the record without a real amp and an actual Leslie cab.
Which 'burst is he using in that lip-synced Beat Club footage of them doing "I Feel Free"? Is that the Summers 'Burst?
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Although I have read many of the posts on this thread, which now is over a hundred, I have not read them all. I am most curious about the bridge on EC's Firebird. In the 60's Gibson's "lightning bolt" wraparound tailpiece was compensated for a wound G string, not the plain string used by the rock players of the late 60's and now, of course. From every photo I have seen to date EC appears to have been using the stock tailpiece of the FB1. His intonation on the live recordings, and when I saw him at the Forum in '68, sounded spot-on. Does anyone out there have any knowledge as to whether or not the tailpiece was modified or not? Am I the only one that has wondered about this? I owned an FB1 for a few years and am quite familiar with them. Thanks!