Lowell George's open A tuning...

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David Mason
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Post by David Mason »

Jeez, Jerry, combine that thing with a Hipshot Trilogy and you'd be dangerous....

There are some awkward "dobro capos" that mutate pretty huge in slide guitar context, but you can get the same trick of capo + string elevation by putting a little strip of... something underneath the strings and then a normal Schubb capo over it. Slightly flexy but hard polyethylene works, like milk bottle plastic only thicker... peanut butter jar lids?

INTO THE WEIRD:

But if you could only find a strip of plastic with a little ledge to go up directly over the fret, you wouldn't have to yank on strings trying to get them back in tune! ...while the drummer tells jokes!* :cry: There is a brand of kittie litter called "Tidy Cats" that comes in big yellow buckets, several sizes, you don't want the one with a single mono-lid, but the one with a two-section lid where one section hinges up. 37 lbs? 35 lbs? I forget, but anyway the plastic pullstrip from those lids has a section in each bucket-corner with a perfect little ledge.... four capo-bunnies in all! Baby-blue or bright red, depending. There are better kittie litters, but those buckets kick ass. I could also tell you minutia like "replace the soft rubber sleeve on your Schubb cape with the hardest plastic tube that still flexes that you can find" but then what would you have left to figure out....

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Hi fella's, He was huge here in UK, had many fans, me n all my mates amongst em. What an artist ! singer,writer player, raised the bar on all counts, couldn't resist posting this, you'll have to wait till 2nd verse to get it, might make the thread qualify fer non pedal section, done on my supro 8 string last year, think it was an E 7th ish tuning done around the 5th fret.
http://soundcloud.com/kevin-brown-music ... -of-lowell
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Post by Ray Minich »

The A tuning was the original Hawaiian tuning for lap steel.
It's what I cut my eye teeth on in 1963.

It's also what you have on strings 10, 8, 6, 5, 4 and 3
open strings with A and B pedals down (although it's an in inversion as in C#, E, A C# E, A from strings 10 to 3).

Made my life easier in the transition, but not by much.
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Post by Mike Neer »

Kevin Brown wrote:Hi fella's, He was huge here in UK, had many fans, me n all my mates amongst em. What an artist ! singer,writer player, raised the bar on all counts, couldn't resist posting this, you'll have to wait till 2nd verse to get it, might make the thread qualify fer non pedal section, done on my supro 8 string last year, think it was an E 7th ish tuning done around the 5th fret.
http://soundcloud.com/kevin-brown-music ... -of-lowell
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Post by Joachim Kettner »

I've just discovered this. Maybe he was just hired to play the solo at 2:13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrl-nj9sag8
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don't forget to look into this pedal for the Lowell sound:

http://www.origineffects.com
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