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Pat Hawley

Post subject: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:38 am

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How often do you go into a guitar shop and hear some kid playing "Smoke On The Water"? Here's a version that won't make you groan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmu816MWIAI

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RusRob

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:25 am

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That typifies what I hate about Taylor guitars. I just can't understand why people like them they are tinny and thin sounding...

I think I may have liked it if he had been playing it on a Gibson. His rendition of it was great.

Sorry to be a downer but the only thing that was missing is if he had been playing a Kazoo to add to the tinny sound of that guitar.

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jfmckenna

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:24 pm

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YEah that was a very cool way to cover that song. In all fairness the the guitar, it did sound a bit brash, but Youtube is probably not very guitar tone friendly either.

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WaddyThomson

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:51 pm

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Odds are, though, that it was professionally recorded, which should improve the quality of the normal YouTube. Taylor must be happy with the sound. It did sound like a guitar!

Really nice arrangement though, but still repetitive, which I guess is hard to hide.

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Lonnie J Barber

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:10 pm

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I liked that better then some kid with a Strat turned up to ten and shaking the windows down. Thought he did a nice job. Not going to knock the guitar. Probably all he can afford.

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SteveSmith

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:11 pm

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It is a GS MINI which might account for some of the tinny-ness. Definitely an improvement over the usual music store sound.

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dzsmith

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:49 pm

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Stairway denied.

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Lonnie J Barber

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:16 pm

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How many guitar pickers does it take to play "Stairway"

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Kamusur

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:24 pm

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Depends if they are standing in a line all along the watchtower or not Lonnie.

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Lonnie J Barber

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:37 pm

Koa

Actually I think the answer is all of them

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Haans

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:29 am

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Lonnie J Barber wrote:

How many guitar pickers does it take to play "Stairway"

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About the same as the number of fiddlers to play "Ashcan Farewell".
There are those tunes that just won't go away...

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dzsmith

Post subject: Re: Smoke on the Water

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:14 pm

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqY-zvdESQ
The bass player moves his head in a no no no fashion.

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