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  • January 19, 2007 at 9:26 pm #24035
    Tim
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujm7UshfVk0

    Saw this guy on the night but wasn’t sure if the wine/vodka/beer had rose-tinted him somewhat…not at all, I have a new hero! (got Weller nodding too!)

    Would taking three strings off a guitar eventually twist the neck? (as you may know I like hacking my guitars, I think the SG is next 😀 )

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    • March 28, 2007 at 5:31 am #67812
      Tim
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      Man, wish I could’ve been there, you southerners get all the luck 😆

    • March 27, 2007 at 9:40 pm #67768
      glw
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      Fantastic gig! What a character he is.

      Interested to see that he plays the guitar with his fingertips – no picks at all. And he didn’t play slide as much as I thought. He played really old battered guitars – one was an old parlor guitar with a pickup screwed into the soundhole. The body was actually cracked in places, but it had the most amazing sound.

      He also played an old Danelectro (or Silvertone) U1 guitar, and a one-string diddley-bow. And of course, the Three-String Trance Wonder.

    • January 24, 2007 at 2:48 am #67805
      glw
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      I’m going to see him play the Borderline, London, 24 March.

    • January 21, 2007 at 6:45 am #67777
      glw
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      What Seasick Steve is doing with his 3-string guitar is not dis-similar to the techniques used by some cigar-box guitar players.

    • January 21, 2007 at 3:02 am #67770
      Tim
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      Cool, thanks for the info!

      I wanted a 4 string setup like my Framus (old thread) https://www.guitarsite.com/hotlicks/viewtopic.php?t=1086&highlight=, but the spacing wouldn’t line up with the pole-pieces of the pups so I was thinking a three string setup using every other straddle would work better.

      For what I do I’d be fine with 3 strings and I don’t get on with conventional string spacings, being a bassist and all.

      Tim.

    • January 20, 2007 at 6:59 pm #67797
      glw
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      Here’s a close-up of Seasick Steve’s guitar from his website:

      #http://www.seasicksteve.com/Pictures/002.jpg

      Check out the video on there too: http://www.seasicksteve.com

    • January 20, 2007 at 6:34 pm #67636
      glw
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      Which three strings?

      I have a three-string guitar which I put together from parts and styled on the now legendary “guitbass” as played by The Presidents of the United States of America.

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/glw020204_guitbass.jpg

      See this page for more info on how you too could have one: http://www.inthequeue.com/guitbass/

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