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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm not a regular reader of "Guitar Player" mag, but I happened to pick up the January 2003 issue and thumbed through it. Ovation had a full page ad on the back cover for the 2003 Collector and inside was an interview with David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) who just did a few acoustic gigs. There was a full page color photo of him playing an older Custom Legend. Nice going to the guys at Ovation for getting some pub. Dave
PS - Sadly in the Gilmour interview they asked him what his favorite acoustic guitar was and he said a D-35. Hopefully most readers will only look at the photos. |
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Location: NJ | Dave;
If you look at the strings on that pic, you'll notice that he has the bass strings strung an octave higher. In his acoustic concert DVD (which is AWESOME!! - I highly recommend it) he uses this guitar on (and sadly, ONLY on) "Comfortably Numb" as this is the very guitar he wrote and recorded the song on. Throughout the concert, he predominantly plays Schmaylors, the Ovation (on the one song), a Gretsch electric, and a really nice lap steel. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yes Cliff, I noticed that. In the article it says that all six strings are unwound. I'll have to get the DVD. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | Nashville tuning? |
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Location: Scotland | If I remember correctly Gilmour tunes all six strings to the same note for that song.
A couple of UK guitar mags are carrying reviews of Ovations this month, including a CVT, 03 collectors and a Tangent. The reveiws are tempered by typical predudice, focus on the electronics rather than the acoustic sound & in a nutshell say "fine if you want to plug-in but if you want a real guitar look elsewhere" Do these people actully listen?
The Tangent came off pretty well |
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Location: NJ | No, it's "Nashville".
I watched his chord fingerings.
One of the great "extras" on the DVD is a feature called "extra digits", where they replay the video of some of his more prominent solos but at a different camera angle and is "zoomed in" so that the entire screen is comprised of a close-up of his left hand fingering.
On another note: a lot of the stuff that he plays he does on a couple of Taylors. While they seem to be nice looking/playing guitars (and Dave plays 'em brilliantly!), on some of the quieter passages, I noticed a lot of inherent outide "noise" (like when he moves his arm/hand across the top, etc.). Sure as HELL wouldn't get that with an "O"! |
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