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Location: CT | I saw this clip posted on another music forum site and thought it might be of interest here. Looks like he is playing a 12-string Ovation, but It sounds like a six string. Could Glen have been good enough to use just half of the strings available to him, or is it an overdub?
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| Looks like a 6 string to me. It's very clear starting at about 3:31 or so into the video. |
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Location: moline,illinois | Cool vid,it looks like a custom 6 string adamas to me,love to know the history of that guitar.
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Location: Indiana | It's a custom classical SSB Adamas. Glen used it a bunch in the 80's. Comes up here every now and then.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thanks for that info Jonmark...
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Location: Texas | NM duplicate post
Edited by jay 2017-01-08 9:16 PM
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Location: SoCal | The steel string version of that guitar, last I heard, was up in Canada.... |
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Location: Indiana | That's the one with "Glen Campbell" in script font on the face... no? |
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Location: Indiana | This is a bad screen grab of the steel string version. You can just make out that "Glen Campbell" is stenciled over the pick guard/snot blob area. Also interesting, not only does this have the same type of volume wheel through the face but also EQ faders as well. Anyway, cool guitar.
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Location: SoCal | Crappy sounding tho' unless plugged in.... |
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Location: Indiana | I had 2 SSB classics built and, yeah, pretty thin. But great on stage.
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Location: Texas | Jonmark...how did the nylon ssb's compare to the ea63? |
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Location: Indiana | Sorry Jay, never played a 63. My Viper is a 68 steel string. Plugged in, I would expect the 63 to be a lot like the Gibson CA-Chet Atkins chambered sound, which is a great working instrument. I've had some experience with that guitar on stage.
Unplugged, obviously, SSBs can at least be heard in a living room or acoustic round. Viper's are pretty worthless. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Yes, still it's still here, Paul!
Wayne
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I would like to offer to shoot whomever thought it was a good idea to add those inlays to the that GCA gut string, though. |
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Glen Campbell in "El Paso" sighting
