Sierra & Justin Moses, shreddin' on geetars the other night...






Sometimes they do a little mandolin duet thing too...

That's some serious mando action! I recently picked up an electric mandola, and it's a blast. I use it in more of a guitar way, but the 5ths tuning takes away all your familiar fingerings, etc., so that sparks new ideas. I can barely pick it up without spontaneously coming up with a new riff or song idea. Kinda funny cause I've always said the same thing abut my 8 string bass. Something about those double courses... My next adventure will be a 12 string guitar/mandocello hybrid. Mandocello low strings - cC gG DD AA, with the top two tuned to regular guitar BB EE. I tuned my 6 string like this for a few years back in the 90s and really liked it.

Quote from: gearhed289 on September 12, 2023, 08:10:47 AM
I use it in more of a guitar way, but the 5ths tuning takes away all your familiar fingerings, etc., so that sparks new ideas.

Reminds of a string ad in Guitar Player some decades past; forget the company, but the endorser was Tommy Tedesco, who it said "plays 33 different stringed instruments*

*All guitar tuned"

Which made me think "He plays 33 shapes of guitar, not 33 instruments".

Peter

Justin wrote this little instrumental a few seasons back called "She's Crazy", Sierra picked up the mandocello and went to work on him with it.





*hat-tip to Ethan Jodiwiecz on bass... that's really crazy!

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on September 12, 2023, 12:07:52 PM

Quote from: gearhed289 on September 12, 2023, 08:10:47 AM
I use it in more of a guitar way, but the 5ths tuning takes away all your familiar fingerings, etc., so that sparks new ideas.

Reminds of a string ad in Guitar Player some decades past; forget the company, but the endorser was Tommy Tedesco, who it said "plays 33 different stringed instruments*

*All guitar tuned"

Which made me think "He plays 33 shapes of guitar, not 33 instruments".

Peter

Wasn't there a story about Tedesco in the Sklar interview?

Quote from: pauldo on September 12, 2023, 06:24:50 PM

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on September 12, 2023, 12:07:52 PM

Quote from: gearhed289 on September 12, 2023, 08:10:47 AM
I use it in more of a guitar way, but the 5ths tuning takes away all your familiar fingerings, etc., so that sparks new ideas.

Reminds of a string ad in Guitar Player some decades past; forget the company, but the endorser was Tommy Tedesco, who it said "plays 33 different stringed instruments*

*All guitar tuned"

Which made me think "He plays 33 shapes of guitar, not 33 instruments".

Peter

Wasn't there a story about Tedesco in the Sklar interview?

I do believe you're correct; not the first time I'd heard that one, either - nor the first source (I do believe the tale was told in the _Wrecking Crew_ documentary - which is well worth the watch).

Peter

Fleetwood Mac, 8/29/77, Inglewood CA.

The only existing footage of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and the Quintet of the Hot Club de France.  Django shows up at about the 2:30 mark. Man, what that guy could do with, essentially, only two fingers!

Bill, tgo (who is wondering if this was the first 3-guitar band!)

Sweet!  Thanks, Bill!

Les Paul once said that after he saw Django play, he didn't touch a guitar for 6 months.

Peter

Amazing. Thank you for sharing!

Another new release from East Nash Grass-


This one is original from within the band, inspired by someone they know from their regular Monday night gig at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge.

Bob, Joan, John, And Jer: https://youtu.be/ViBJLUJ4fDQ?list=RDcPJOmkDOFcQ

Peter

We are on page 420.

Quote from: pauldo on September 26, 2023, 05:37:16 PM
We are on page 420.

Then, appropriately, here's a relevant video that includes an Alembic!

Bill, tgo