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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 12:07:03 GMT
I'm surprised his strings last for a whole song.
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Post by dodger on Jan 8, 2018 12:47:10 GMT
Love Glen's version of Young Hearts Run Free
Tried it myself on Saturday night (our crowd is usually 40 or 50 somethings)
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Post by marit on Jan 9, 2018 10:45:44 GMT
What's up with these terrible pictures of broken guitars! Surely that's no good for a solid top sound  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 11:03:28 GMT
It's plugged in most of the time marit. Then it sounds like this: |
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Post by dodger on Jan 9, 2018 12:03:45 GMT
That's the one @defjef - a lot of people say Takamine has the best pickup system - sounds very natural.
Looks like a cedar top which are more prone to dents and scrapes as the wood is way softer than spruce
Think the chord he is struggling to find is a Dadd9 (XX0230) - that's what I play anyway...looks a lot different to Outspan from the Commitments!
He's a great singer - puts everything into it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 12:19:53 GMT
I saw him playing another with a hole under the strings and he seemed to hook his finger inside it when playing. I still don't see how these guys achieve such damage by accident. I've heard of sweat dissolving plastics and metal over time but for him to have at least three guitars with this kind of damage seems a bit odd. He's not even a guitar top basher in the style of Newton Faulkner.
I gather he really regrets his involvement in the Commitments as it is all he seems to be known for and, as such, people seem to think he's another of those actors who had a bash at a music career. But he is highly respected by all in the industry and seems to have played with and supported many of the greatest names.
Funnily enough he is now also known for his involvement in a second movie, Once, which was a great showcase of his sort of music and probably did a better job of boosting his career. When I'm feeling soppy I watch that movie and always hanker for a different ending...and that's the way it should be. It would have been unremarkable if it had ended in a pat Hollywood way.
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Post by dodger on Jan 9, 2018 12:38:29 GMT
Once was brilliant @defjef and I was glad it ended the way it did - well not glad but it made it more realistic and believable.
Some great music and the 2 leads were very good - semi-autobiographical?
Glenn really gets into the songs in that film too.
The ending reminds me of a great line in The Paris Match by the Style Council - "I'm only sad in a natural way and I enjoy sometimes feeling this way"
I love The Commitments - big soul fan and also a big Roddy Doyle fan too - his Barrietown trilogy is pure class.
Sing Street is another brilliant Dublin film - especially if like me you grew up in the 80s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 12:50:58 GMT
That's the one @defjef - a lot of people say Takamine has the best pickup system - sounds very natural. Looks like a cedar top which are more prone to dents and scrapes as the wood is way softer than spruce Think the chord he is struggling to find is a Dadd9 (XX0230) - that's what I play anyway...looks a lot different to Outspan from the Commitments! He's a great singer - puts everything into it. Do you mean at 1:00? Looks and sounds like good old Fmaj7 to me although we can't see where his index finger is. That would be the most logical in this progression. Check out the placement of his ring finger and middle one. He (eventually1) seems to place ring finger on the D at the third fret and the middle finger on the G at second, thereby playing an F and an A. The rest is supposition but my leap of faith says index finger on the B string at fret 1 (playing a C) and the top E open. I quite like that shape without the C making it an Fmaj7 with a flat fifth. Love how it hangs there tonally more indefinite. I've been a bit obsessed with flat fifth chords recently as they are great for transitioning and less obvious than just a seventh chord. Just popped one into a short instrumental break before a bridge I'm writing for our Bentonite song, Here in the Morning. Fb5 with an E in the bass (XX2201)squeezed in between a Bm and the beginning of the bridge in Dm is a lovely sour sound. Even more sour as an Fsus4 with a flat fifth (XX3301). I'm vacillating between the two at the moment to decide on the effect I'm trying to create. |
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Post by salteedog on Jan 9, 2018 12:57:20 GMT
The late great Jeff Buckley was Hansard's guitar tech/roadie for a while in New York.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 13:12:18 GMT
Perhaps he was responsible for those holes. "Where's the soldering iron Jeff?"
"I think I left it on the...ohmychrist!"
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Post by dodger on Jan 9, 2018 16:17:06 GMT
Aye @defjef - looks like he is thinking of the chord and can't remember it and settles for a Fmaj7 or Am/D (x00210) - that's a nice transition chord too and I like Dm7 then going to the same chord without the A on the G string (XX0011). I like those sour sounding chords that you mentioned - a 9th thrown in now and again to an ordinary pattern sounds great - Weller does it all the time - thinking the likes of Hung Up which is in C but the second chord is an atonal Bb9 (110111) which gives it a wonky off kilter sound but works great.
Still think Glenn should be playing a D or a derivative at that part after listening to the original song...
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