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pinkfloydthebarber
why two capos? only one of 'em can do anything
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open-g
The second capo is to mute the unwanted sympathetic drone behind the capoed frets
it doesn't have anything to do with bashing those string!
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pinkfloydthebarber
why two capos? only one of 'em can do anything
The second capo is to mute the unwanted sympathetic drone behind the capoed frets
it doesn't have anything to do with bashing those string!
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Palace Revolution 2000
Is Keith playing slide here?
One capo to shorten the neck, the second for a new voicing ?
I myself have done just that; but I have also used two capos (esp, those older types) just to get extra hold.
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Palace Revolution 2000
Is Keith playing slide here?
One capo to shorten the neck, the second for a new voicing ?
I myself have done just that; but I have also used two capos (esp, those older types) just to get extra hold.
Yes he's playing slide which means he was playing "Happy". I don't think he was using the second capo for another voicing. It was probably just that extra reinforcement. It's worth noting I think that Keith usually played several songs ("Happy", "Tumbling Dice", "Jumping Jack Flash", "Street Fighting Man", Rip This Joint", etc) in open G capoed at the 4th fret which made the live versions of those songs in the key of B. By at least 1976 they had started playing some songs in the of Bb with Keith capoed at the 3rd fret ("Tumbling Dice" from Love You Live is in Bb, so is the version from Live In Texas as well as "Happy"). It's my guess that on the '78 tour, Keith might have kept a capo on the 3rd fret of one of his Tele's for the songs in Bb. When they played "Jumping Jack Flash" or any other song they wanted to do in B, he would just add another capo on the 4th fret. Just a guess.
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crumbling_mice
but what is the next song in the set list?
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NoCode0680
I don't think it has to do with one song being capo'd on the third fret and the next on the second. I would take all of 1 second to move the capo from the 3rd to 2nd fret. Just about as long as it would take to remove the one on the 3rd fret in the first place. Either it's for, as somebody else said, dampening the strings or something (I've never tried it, so don't know if that works) or some other trick, or one of the capos is a partial capo. Or maybe it is because the next song is on the 2nd fret, and Keith's guitar tech didn't trust Keith to remember where to put the capo, so they set it up ahead of time. Who knows.
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Palace Revolution 2000
Is Keith playing slide here?
One capo to shorten the neck, the second for a new voicing ?
I myself have done just that; but I have also used two capos (esp, those older types) just to get extra hold.
Yes he's playing slide which means he was playing "Happy". I don't think he was using the second capo for another voicing. It was probably just that extra reinforcement. It's worth noting I think that Keith usually played several songs ("Happy", "Tumbling Dice", "Jumping Jack Flash", "Street Fighting Man", Rip This Joint", etc) in open G capoed at the 4th fret which made the live versions of those songs in the key of B. By at least 1976 they had started playing some songs in the of Bb with Keith capoed at the 3rd fret ("Tumbling Dice" from Love You Live is in Bb, so is the version from Live In Texas as well as "Happy"). It's my guess that on the '78 tour, Keith might have kept a capo on the 3rd fret of one of his Tele's for the songs in Bb. When they played "Jumping Jack Flash" or any other song they wanted to do in B, he would just add another capo on the 4th fret. Just a guess.
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tomk
As for 2 capos, it's gotta be for reinfocement 'cause there's no song in the list in the key of A. I'm sure he had more than one Tele available on that tour. Is that the same one he used on ADTL and HTW on that tour? And I'm sure his guitar tech had more than two capos available. Although that type of capo was the standard back then, they were pretty unrelaible and you had to fuss with them a lot, until some better ones came along. If you just put a capo on nonchalantly, you can put your guitar out of tune.
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Tumblin_Dice_07
The one reason I would completely rule out is that the second capo is a partial.