Thanks for the kind words guys, I was hoping
they had taken that off You tube! That was the last time I brought a big rack
full of stuff to a gig, I was using both the Looperlative and the repeater at
the time and the Cheesy Tablas were courtesy of a Roland Gr30 arpeggio I wrote.
I have since stopped using the repeater and the guitar synth live as I was
wanting to delve deeper in to the Looperlative, and simplify my rig. I think I
might have still been using a Vox amp modeler as well.. The Lap steel is an
original, first run Ben Harper model, made by Asher guitars in LA. It is a
chambered body 6 string lap guitar with a very warm woody sound. It was
probably in a minor tuning as I was playing in harmonic minor on the improv.
I also may have been in a sus 2 tuning which I like because its more neutral and
I can move in either a harmonic or natural minor direction as well as the
major, Lydian and mixolydian modes and create great sounding full bar sus
2 chords any where on the neck.. In D the tuning is DADEAD but I also do the
same R5R25R tuning in C and E as well. I can’t say I’ve explored
any of the more conventional western swing C6 and Dobro G major tunings, yet
but every once in a while a new tuning comes across my radar that I will
explore.
I highly recommend taking up the lap steel. You can
find cheap ones on line and put a better pick up in them if needed. I recently
acquired a new gretsch Electromatic lap steel and put a nice TV Jones pick up
in it. It sounds fantastic and is small and light weight. I think the Chinese
made Gretsch and Korean made PRS guitars make great fixer uppers, not too
expensive and for a couple of hundred extra bucks worth of quality
pickups they can sound like guitars 3 and 4 times the price.
Bill
