Hi, I was watching the DVD of the 2004 Japan tour last night and I noticed something on the head of Nokie's Hitchhiker. At first I assumed it was a capo, but I...
Hi Les. I think the attachment on the head of the guitar is a tuner. It picks up the vibrations off the guitar body. I also think think Nokie uses a drop D...
Ian, You make a good point in that their most recent studio albums have not had the "wow" factor of the past, such as the Wild Again recordings. I've enjoyed...
Seem that the Nokie HH guitar not having this problems of higher strings pull out the bridge or broken strings!!!.He surely got the 00 or 01 serial#. Ed and...
Hi Rev, Nokie use the D drop on is low E key since long time ago. There a little bar below the E-key tunning so, if you pull the bar on the right side, The E ...
Marty, They screech a little when you bend the strings, indicating to me that the valley of the groove is too wide for the smaller string diameters. Its a...
Sometimes Nokies leaves his electronic tuner clipped to the headstock. He uses a banjo tuner instead of the normal low string tuner; one costs a couple of...
Marty & Co. If I'm not mistaken, there's a nice stereo mix of "Batman" on the Televentures CD that EMI had out in the states in the 90s. Was it an alternate...
Hey Keith, We're referring to the Batman album as opposed to the tune. The recording of Batman has indeed appeared in excellent sound quality on a few...
Yeah, That's a special electronic tuner designed to be clipped to the headstock. Concerning Nokie's E string tuner, its called a Keith tuner (after melodic...
Re: [undergroundfire2] HitchhikerMichel, Your thinking of a detuner that Nokie used I think on his Tony Hunt guitar in the '80's. On the HitchHiker, it is a...
Ah, very good, thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I know what ya mean. -Marty ... From: tom_ott_ventures To: undergroundfire2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,...
I thought the last Ventures album, J-Rock Summer Wind, started off with a goodly amount of the wow factor, for the first 4 or 5 tunes anyways. Then it got...
Marty, you are mostly right about WA I & II, but I think the greatest thing about the albums was the energy...both albums were a return to the powerful...
Marty has it correct. The tuner has 2 adjustable stops, one for the high note and one for the low note. The stock tuner does not allow enough adjustment to ...
What I would really like them to do is a gutsy instro album featuring the Wilson Bros guitars. Real instro tunes and not the current weak wristed stuff - "Love...
I am appreciative of a tune. Some of the stuff off the last album just didn't have a melody unlike Bob Spalding's "Blue Dawn" which we all weren't familiar...
Marty, Thanks for clearing that up. I couldn't tell if you were initially talking about the individual track or the whole album. The thread certainly drifted...
Ian, For the most part, I love the stuff that Spalding has had a hand in writing and playing and I especially like the work he did on the "Stars On Guitars" EP...
Couldn't agree more. The drive and excitement of the "Stars On Guitars" medly had an instant effect on the listener with Mel's drumming keeping it all...
I just don't like medlys. I feel I'm being cheated. I want complete songs. And the Ventures haven't been particularly good at arranging medlys. Much of the...
The only Spalding tune I really dug was Spindrift. A lotta folks like Blue Dawn but it never grabbed.me. As a result, I didn't have a very high opinion of him...
Yeah Keith, 00-711 is just awefull on the SFM and Japanese Batman albums. I think even Batman the title track has problems. Now that suggestion for a Sunset...
that would be a good idea. Nokie had his "Hitch Hiker Heals Hearts" album. The Ventures could have "The Wilson Bros. Tear it Up". -Marty ... From: Ian Finlay ...
I was happy to receive the new series of Ventures mini lp's in my mail box today (thanks Takashi!). Here's my review. Packaging on this latest edition of mini...
When I wrote the review below, I was in a hurry to get to a practice and I see that my haste made much spelling and grammatical waste. Below is the corrected...
The WA and WA2 CDs utilized an outside producer (Neil Norman). THAT'S what they need again. I'd love to see someone like Don Was or T-Bone Burnett decide to...
Dave: And yet, MOR is definitely where the Ventures began. I love the first 4 Dolton albums, don't get me wrong, but for every "Walk, Don't Run" and "Yellow...
Ian, It's the second side of "Stars On Guitars" I really love, especially "Blue Dawn" and "Spindrift". Keith ... instant effect on the listener with Mel's...
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