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Post by tasteliketape on May 17, 2016 21:33:19 GMT -6
LA Freeway , Desparado waiting for a train ,
My favorite and telling my age BLACK DIAMOND STRINGS with Emmy Lou If your old guy you'll remember Black Diamond Strings
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Post by donr on May 17, 2016 21:40:41 GMT -6
When I started playing I bought Black Diamond strings one at a time, to replace the one I broke. I didn't replace sets 'till years later.
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Post by donr on May 17, 2016 21:52:39 GMT -6
I was gonna post that before I listened, but I listened first and had to laugh when that lyric came round. I haven't thought of Black Diamonds in a couple decades. I used to have an E and B Black Diamond spares in my guitar case. They'd be the ones that broke.
The other four were wound until the late '60's. Another guitar player told me James Burton (played/recorded with Elvis, Ricky Nelson among others) used a Banjo string for a G that was unwound. I was intrigued, is that how he got that twappy sound on the Ricky Nelson guitar leads? My first unwound G was a heavier gauge B string. Seems most strings were sold individually in the day.
*Just read Burton's wiki page, it said Burton didn't play the leads on the Ricky Nelson recordings, Joe Maphis did. Maybe Maphis was using the banjo string G.
RIP Guy Clark, that wheel keeps turning, someday no one will remember Black Diamonds.
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Post by tasteliketape on May 17, 2016 22:06:53 GMT -6
When I started playing I bought Black Diamond strings one at a time, to replace the one I broke. I didn't replace sets 'till years later. Almost a direct quote from the song |
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Post by winetree on May 17, 2016 23:03:13 GMT -6
In the late 1990s I went to visit my in-laws in Germany.
I was surprise to see my Father-in-law had taken this acoustic guitar with him. He bought the guitar as a kid back in the 30’s.
It was an arch top, f- hole Gibson, with the small G, but I had never heard him play it. I had played the guitar over the years, but I never thought it sounded that good.
I asked him how long the strings had been on it and replied they were the original strings that came on the guitar.
No wonder it didn’t sound very good. I asked him if I could change the strings and he said I could and that there was an extra set in the compartment of the guitar case.
Upon lifting the flap on the compartment, I was a little taken back. There was a new set of Black Diamond strings. I remember I had not seen a set of Black Diamond strings since the 1960’s
But, I was in Germany and I didn’t know where to get another set, so I re-strung the guitar.
I later asked him about the extra set of strings and he replied that the Black Diamond set was the extra set that he bought when he bought the guitar.
Had I known that, I would have saved them and bought another set.
The re-strung guitar did sound a lot better.
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Post by ericn on May 18, 2016 7:32:26 GMT -6
It's been a very rough year. Sad to lose another great one, but the songs shall live on.
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Post by Randge on May 18, 2016 17:55:47 GMT -6
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Post by Martin John Butler on May 18, 2016 22:18:03 GMT -6
Sad news. This has been by far the most difficult year ever when it comes to the number of great artists passing and in my personal circle, family death, friends finding cancer, injuries, terrible accidents, pets becoming ill. I don't know much about astrology, but I'd bet whatever's up lately ain't good.
Range, I agree with you. I just began watching a documentary on sugar, and if you want to take a look at foods that can lead to harm, start right there.
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