X-rated Bob, the unplugged one-chord wonder wrote:
Keira WitherKay wrote:
CH2 is the right name not H2O heheheheh but they really impressed me....... and i'm not easily impressed after living in spain and hearing the flamenco there.... but they did impress me no end on their cd...
Keira, this is interesting to me because one of those guys plays a Mervyn Davis guitar that is one of the ancestors of the Smoothtalker. Already it has the very solid sides and the small, elliptical soundboard. How does he do the percussive stuff that Flamenco requires?
yeah i know one of em has a smoothtalker........ unfortunately i was never in CT long enough to get to know them and in fact only got to be aware of them when a flamenco venue up here played one of their cd's ...........so i'm not even sure which one of the two has the smoothtalker ........???
since remember they a duo so one would solo and one would accompany ...and normally it's the one who accompanies whodoes the percussion thing...ala Rodriguez y Gabriella .... so maybe the smoothtalker is just used to solo on.........
ALSO NOTICE IF YOU GO TO THEIR WEBSITE .THEY OFFICIALLY SPONSORED BY YAMAHA.......... so i gues the yamaha's do most of the work at the major gigs or at least the visual ones.sure that must be in their contract........ for sponsorship....... so maybe they don't use it too much or only on the less percussive songs.....
and lastly Bob you very familiar with me doing the percussion thing ,,,,, but a lot of players do so much less.....and only use the strumming percussion on the top........ where i kinda take it a lot further than i seen by most players and actually replace a percussionist .....and use the back and sides and the headstock even .......... and i play world music so rather than just the one percussive tone ,,,, i want to use brush's and the sides ect to get different pitch's to mimic say tabla's in the eastern ones...... but for the traditional flamenco rythmic style one ussually just uses the top ......... so maybe that too........
but hey i'm sure if all i had was a smoothtalker i could find enough places to get percussion sounds out of it......... heheheh maybe with the thicker sides i would use a drumstick or a ring (or rings) on my finger to get a sharper louder tone.......
many ways to skin a cat i think...
anyway for me i could never (unless by absolute default) use the smoothtalker for doing percussion like i do.......and find the lighter classicals/flamenco guitars to be better ..... than the weightier ones.......
i must say the weight of the smoothtalker (which includes the bulk) puts me off too..... prob the same as a strat player not liking the weight of a les paul...........
but i guess horses for courses......... and yeah just cos i can't use a smoothtalker in my style i'm not slating em...... cos Bob in reality mervyn's making guitars for the playing of guitar..... what i do is already such a hybrid percussion/guitar style that yeah kinda makes me unique enough to be in only a small group of people who do this so my guitar needs need to be very specific......... definitely more so than the traditional flamenco player ......... damn i mean i also use both feet for bass drum/cowbell/tamborine ..... all the time.......trad flamenco players don't do that either .......
( ah and slightly off the topic....i found a way to move the cowbell to the floor and use a foot on it when i need it.. think last time you saw me i had just added it and was playing it with the stick....)
peace and light
keira
