Keira WitherKay wrote
yeah it was a great day and thanks once more to Bob our host who allowed the 'acoustic crew" to invade his castle for the day........
the playing/performing was fabulous and ran smoothly
the schedule ran like an open mic with each artist just playing 3 songs .........
Bob played some amazing fingerpicking/storyteller type songs from the likes of richard thompson and used both his morgan , which i love dearly plugged in but even if i wanted to get that guitar i would be abouth 6th in line as it's promised to a good few before me if bob ever sells.......which just shows how awesome this guitar is ... both in looks and sound , and his smoothtalker was used on the 1st song ...... i'm truly enjoying Bob's performances and think we'll be paying money to see him live in near future
You're too kind.
Only one Thompson song. Followed by Pink Floyd (Brain Damage) and the Bee Gees (New York Mining Disaster - but I claim an arranger's credit for that one ?).
I used two guitars because the first one (1952 Vincent Black Lightning) required a tuning of CGDGBE and I didn't want to spend too much time retuning between songs.
The "tonewood shoot-out" got interesting because we had three Larivees with the same construction and differing only in woods. These were
LV05 - Sitka spruce and Honduras mahogany (mine)
LV09 - Sitka spruce and east indian rosewoood (Fingerpicker's)
Fingerpicker's custom LV which is all Koa.
No clear winner IMO. They each do different things. Rosewood seems to have a more distinct bass, and a generally darker sound. The other two had more mid-range punch and more "sparkle" in the top-mids and tops. I thought the koa had really good tops. I think the mahogany and the koa might do better in an ensemble where they would cut through more.
But that's all IMO. This makes for a good, never-ending argument because there is no outright winner. However it was clear that the woods do make a difference - but I wouldn't say that one combination trumped the others.
My Morgan, which Keira speaks well of, is sitka spruce and east indian rosewood. But a different body shape than the Larrivee's listed above, and the construction differs in that it has a heavier top. That said it had more similarities with the
LV05 LV09 than with the other two. Being able to compare those three Larrivees (we sat in a circle and passed them around) was very interesting.
