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KeithNacho
Mesa boogie and black tele 72 custom standard tuning
That's my Keith Richards
A nice concert grand Steinway of course in white but I would also settle for traditional black . As I write this I know there is no snowballs chance in hell of this happening . When Stu was alive and touring with his friends he used a real piano and I think it was a baby grand and not a full size concert grand piano and they would have to have a piano tuner come in to each and every tour stop to tune the piano which is very time consuming and expensive and thus the plinky plinketey plink of the Casio continues . P.S. I have grown and evolved where I am directing my what ever you may call it on Casio and not Chuck Leavell .Quote
dcba
"What guitar or amp would you like to see Keith bring back?"
None but I'd like Mick to gift Chuck with a real piano on the next tour...
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The 5 strings Zemaitis aka "macabre"guitar and the Ampeg amps like in 75 were not so bad.
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Nikkei
Keith has more that once shown that he is willing to play one song on a novelty guitar. The silver-pink tele from 02/03 was also sort of cool
Wasn’t that a gift from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons?
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Keith has more that once shown that he is willing to play one song on a novelty guitar. The silver-pink tele from 02/03 was also sort of cool
Wasn’t that a gift from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons?
It was.
I always thought Woody made him do it as he also had a silver strat for the encore
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5strings
The 5 strings Zemaitis aka "macabre"guitar and the Ampeg amps like in 75 were not so bad.
Yeah he used a Zemaitis replica for Sway in 2005/2006, but put it through the Twin reverb as usual.
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Keith has more that once shown that he is willing to play one song on a novelty guitar. The silver-pink tele from 02/03 was also sort of cool
Wasn’t that a gift from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons?
It was.
I always thought Woody made him do it as he also had a silver strat for the encore
Also a custom made Bolin.
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AmpegVT22
Cyril from the Flaming Groovies has an early model Ampeg perspex guitar. He insists that only the first 90 made have superior wiring and better tone.
His is a beauty and immediately produces a recognisably 'period' tone. Had it not been nicked, I imagine Richards plexi would have seen use in further decades.
Which one was constantly out of tune ? The Dan Armstrong Plexiglass ? ( great for slide but if you bend there goes the tuning , has to be something on the bridge saddles or nut ? )Quote
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Cyril from the Flaming Groovies has an early model Ampeg perspex guitar. He insists that only the first 90 made have superior wiring and better tone.
His is a beauty and immediately produces a recognisably 'period' tone. Had it not been nicked, I imagine Richards plexi would have seen use in further decades.
It was constantly out of tune, though
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DandelionPowderman
Yep, the plexi
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Yep, the plexi
This is always quite perplexing for guitarist -the infamous battle between the nut and the bridge saddles . On the Dan Armstrong Plexiglass the nut is genuine Ivory . So I would have to think that a tiny bit of sand paper on the sides of the nut slot , and the danger is not to go down and deep as that would trash the nut . On the bridge it's not like it's a Gibson ABR-1 ( as I trashed one of those in the past from the dreaded pinging sound, and they are easy enough to replace ) (lest I forget the going out of tune and having to constantly retune ) and the old file(s) must be used ever so gently to get that string from hanging up either in the saddles or the nut . An issue that can make you scream and really better left to a tech with the touch of a Heart Surgeon .Quote
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Yep, the plexi
Listen to 69-71-shows. He had trouble keeping it in tune.
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TheGreekThis is always quite perplexing for guitarist -the infamous battle between the nut and the bridge saddles . On the Dan Armstrong Plexiglass the nut is genuine Ivory . So I would have to think that a tiny bit of sand paper on the sides of the nut slot , and the danger is not to go down and deep as that would trash the nut . On the bridge it's not like it's a Gibson ABR-1 ( as I trashed one of those in the past from the dreaded pinging sound, and they are easy enough to replace ) (lest I forget the going out of tune and having to constantly retune ) and the old file(s) must be used ever so gently to get that string from hanging up either in the saddles or the nut . An issue that can make you scream and really better left to a tech with the touch of a Heart Surgeon .Quote
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Yep, the plexi
Listen to 69-71-shows. He had trouble keeping it in tune.
That's one that I know about , I just have never tried that one . Also Big Bends Nut Sauce works also .Quote
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TheGreekThis is always quite perplexing for guitarist -the infamous battle between the nut and the bridge saddles . On the Dan Armstrong Plexiglass the nut is genuine Ivory . So I would have to think that a tiny bit of sand paper on the sides of the nut slot , and the danger is not to go down and deep as that would trash the nut . On the bridge it's not like it's a Gibson ABR-1 ( as I trashed one of those in the past from the dreaded pinging sound, and they are easy enough to replace ) (lest I forget the going out of tune and having to constantly retune ) and the old file(s) must be used ever so gently to get that string from hanging up either in the saddles or the nut . An issue that can make you scream and really better left to a tech with the touch of a Heart Surgeon .Quote
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Yep, the plexi
Listen to 69-71-shows. He had trouble keeping it in tune.
To pour some lead in the nut is another trick.
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TheGreekThis is always quite perplexing for guitarist -the infamous battle between the nut and the bridge saddles . On the Dan Armstrong Plexiglass the nut is genuine Ivory . So I would have to think that a tiny bit of sand paper on the sides of the nut slot , and the danger is not to go down and deep as that would trash the nut . On the bridge it's not like it's a Gibson ABR-1 ( as I trashed one of those in the past from the dreaded pinging sound, and they are easy enough to replace ) (lest I forget the going out of tune and having to constantly retune ) and the old file(s) must be used ever so gently to get that string from hanging up either in the saddles or the nut . An issue that can make you scream and really better left to a tech with the touch of a Heart Surgeon .Quote
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Yep, the plexi
Listen to 69-71-shows. He had trouble keeping it in tune.
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I have an early 1969 with a low serial # and it has been confirmed that it is a genuine Ivory nut , you could tell from looking at it as it looks funky and unlike any other nut and the size of the nut is quite large . It is very well documented and easy to prove as there are countless sources that can verify it and the utmost expert who helped build these models in the 2 years that it was manufactured was Dan Armstrong young apprentice Matt Umanov who personally sourced the Brazilian Rosewood boards used for the fingerboards and the Genuine Elephant Ivory from Chinatown in lower Manhattan a mere stones throw from Dan Armstrong workshop where the prototype #1 which went to Keith and was later nicked in Nellcote in 1971 to the early production models including mine in 1969 until at some point either in late 1969 or early 1970 production was moved across the river to NJ Ampeg factory site where the run was concluded and when Dan Armstrong grew disillusioned with the corporate atmosphere of Ampeg led him to call it a day with Ampeg . Oh Mathijs you were so right about the early models having the thick chunky D-profile neck along with the maple being quarter sawn and really nice flame figuring as well . This is quite the mind blowing guitar and a really sonic treasure for the ears as this guitar has tons of tone and the Bill Lawrence design pickups are equally mind blowing as well . I thought that because they are technically single coils that it would be a Fender type sound and it is more like a really hot vintage Gibson PAF pickup sound . I can clearly see why Keith loved this guitar so much !