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Post by marit on Jul 2, 2017 11:41:03 GMT
I just found this performance of Neil with Emmy Lou Harris, her guitar looks a lot like the one Neil's playing on that show; Is this the same guitar, where she's playing it in a solo show? i.ytimg.com/vi/cLP7ANPyYC0/hqdefault.jpgIt could be that it's her guitar, but it could also be his, this performance with Neil is from his Heart of Gold DVD, and everyone was playing his guitars throughout the show. Emmy Lou also played on her own J-200 (or whatever smaller model she has). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2017 12:50:14 GMT
Now that one looks more like the later SJN that I posted. The 'guard is more like a naked Hummingbird one and less J200ish. You're better at spotting sloping shoulders than I am marit so that's your call. |
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Post by marit on Jul 2, 2017 13:31:24 GMT
Now that one looks more like the later SJN that I posted. The 'guard is more like a naked Hummingbird one and less J200ish. You're better at spotting sloping shoulders than I am marit so that's your call. That's true. Apparently there's talk of a "Southern Jumbo" (aka the SJ in SJN) and Country Western Gibson guitars. It's all a bit confusing. To me, in the video where Neils playing the Gibson, it doesn't look like the sloped (round) shoulders, but it doesn't quite look like a standard dreadnought either. And true @defjef, that looks like the one you found. |
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Post by marit on Dec 31, 2017 10:38:12 GMT
So it seems Neil has more Gibson acoustics than was previously known... He released the album "Hitchhiker" this past September with recording sessions that were done in 1976, and he said he was using a Gibson J-45 there that was from the guy recording the tracks. After that, he never saw/used it again. Then I also found out that for hotel noodlings, he uses a Gibson J-50 from the 1950s, which is a J-45 but in natural colour. I thought for a bit it may be the J-50 that he's playing here, but that has dot inlays.
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Post by dodger on Jan 2, 2018 0:36:10 GMT
marit although Neil has the best sounding Martin guitars around it doesn't matter what he plays (to my ears) - I love his playing and he could make a plywood €50 guitar sound amazing. Maybe even our HB41se guitars...
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Post by dodger on Jan 2, 2018 0:37:24 GMT
And he's a genius and all round great fella too
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Post by marit on Jan 3, 2018 12:26:04 GMT
That's true dodger, I bet he'd be impressed by our CLD-41SE  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 22:00:13 GMT
 I knew I'd seen Thom strumming something similar. |
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Post by salteedog on Jan 7, 2018 22:28:36 GMT
Lol at first glance I thought that was Willie Nelson. |
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Post by salteedog on Jan 7, 2018 23:01:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 23:50:54 GMT
  At first glance I thought that was Pocahontas.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 9:16:33 GMT
I always wonder how it is possible to wear a hole there. OK he's played it since the seventies and I hear that it is because of the ferocity of his strummming with a pick on a nylon strung instrument, but the area of the guitar that's gaping seems to be where no pick would hit a guitar regularly - under the strings. I strike the guitar from time to time and it would be at the end of a flourish somewhere further down the lower bout, away from the strings. It seems as though Willie plays through the strings - and a heck of a lot.  |
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Post by salteedog on Jan 8, 2018 10:00:30 GMT
Maybe some road damage too? Another guy who plays a worn-through guitar is Glen Hansard:-  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 11:50:06 GMT
Glen seems to have a few of these. I'm wondering if he does it on purpose. I mean, look at this one. There's no excuse.  |
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Post by salteedog on Jan 8, 2018 12:01:59 GMT
Must be playing with a metal pick?
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At first glance I thought that was Pocahontas.