Dark was the night, cold was the ground

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This is a traditional tune, loved Sam Mitchells version so thats what inspired me. I took Michael Messers/Kiwi's advice and stripped the paint of the bridge on my tricone. Its definitely opened it up more - loving the tone even more... so here it is warts and all, its only a couple of minutes so please listen and comment if you can, I'm hoping I'm getting better everytime I play/record and I'm quite proud of this one. Its a single track, about take 3 or 4, wish I'd saved the first one, isn't that always the case ;) Ta!

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great tone, interesting take on the tune.
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One of my favourite tunes of all time, and you haven't ruined it for me which is a big compliment :thumbup:

this is my favourite version...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g[/youtube]
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yeah thats a cracker alright
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sizzlingbadger wrote:One of my favourite tunes of all time, and you haven't ruined it for me which is a big compliment :thumbup:

this is my favourite version...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g[/youtube]
Same here.

Wonder why more "Christian" music is not as good as this.
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dotted eigths... but yeah gospel music is absolutely fecking awesome :) I think things went so badly wrong around about the time of 'Hes got the whole world in his hands' ;)
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Thats sweet BG, can't believe how the clarity really increases with a simple thing like removing that paint, definitely sounding great. I was dubious when I first read that on MMs site. Only comment on the playing maybe a little more vibrato on the held notes. Otherwise, my kind of music BIG thumbs up. :clap: :clap:

I swapped out the tuners on mine for Grover Statites yesterday, much better they feel sturdier and are easier to bring to tune.
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Yeah you're right, I need to concentrate on my vibrato. Past week I found myself using my whole arm which was causing a bit of cramp in my bicep, so I'm tring to use just my wrist again. But not enough :)
That was a great mod, took about 10 mins and a string change, definitely sounds better. Cheers!
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BG wrote:Yeah you're right, I need to concentrate on my vibrato. Past week I found myself using my whole arm which was causing a bit of cramp in my bicep, so I'm tring to use just my wrist again. But not enough :)
That was a great mod, took about 10 mins and a string change, definitely sounds better. Cheers!
Apparenty Ry Cooder took a half hour warmup to be able to play it, but his vibrato was just totally nutso
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I like it.
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Very pleasant, lovely tone

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ah cheers dude :) sounds like you're turning into Jon Lord anyway :D

jvpp, its my Republic Tricone Resonator :D or Buster as I like to call it ;)
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"Snicker: Buster". About time you put another pic of that bad boy up then, always like a nice guitar pron pic :D

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All'my gats are named after cats, else they'd get jealous :p
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