Ric guitar sound

[polly_mathis]

>>>Gotta be Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Classic jangle sound, no?

Funny you should mention, I recently played a Paranoid, War Pigs and Planet Caravan set with my 360 at the high school where I teach in Osaka (I'm a "special advisor" to the Live Music Club, gotta love my job!)...

First Rick-sound songs that pop into my noggin, though, are early (well, any, really) R.E.M., esp 12-string numbers from the Reckoning era: "Pretty Persuasion," "So. Central Rain," suchlike.

[ozover50]

You stole my thunder, Noel.... definitely "When You Walk..........."

[octagon]

How about "Can't Explain" by Love(1st album)?

[stubby]

The theme from Zorba is indeed a bouzouki-at least the main melody riff that everybody would recognize is played on a bouzouki. I play a flatback Irish bouzouki though, different in many ways from the classic Greek bouzouki of Zorba's theme. Firstly, the Irish guys chopped off the back and made it flat like a mandolin. (Most) Irish players tune their bouzoukis to GDAD instead of to C like the Greek players.

And, to confuse things even more, my bouzouki is not actually a bouzouki at all-it's a custom hybrid instrument that has the scale length of an octave mandoloin and the body dimensions of a bouzouki with extra depth for increased low end. On top of that, the internal bracing tends more to a guitar's bracing than a mando's. It sounds like a cross between a mandolin and a guitar capoed on maybe the 3rd fret. It's a fantastic instrument as you can flip seamlessly between straight melody work and rhythm - it's equally adept at both but its nature allows you to jump between them without that empty feeling/sound you can get when you try to do so on a guitar.

If I can get my hands on a digital camera, I'll post some pix sometime.

[ozover50]

That would be cool, Bill. I'd like to see it.

So what's the Gaelic term for a bouzouki?

[karl_teten]

Some of my favorite RIC 12 sounds are...

The WHO - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

The Turtles - It Aint Me Babe

The Beatles - You Can't Do That

The Beach Boys - She's Not The Little Girl I Once Knew

The Byrds - It Won't Be Wrong

[stubby]

Don't think there is one Howard. It's actually a fairly new instrument. The flat-back Irish bouzouki only came about as a result of the Irish folk revival of the 50s and 60s. If you want to know more, check out this webpage:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.speek/bouzouki/

[jingle_jangle]

Digital Bouzouki, anyone?

[polly_mathis]

Bill, the picture at that URL won't load on my machine for some reason. Your 'bouzouki' sounds pretty cool. Does it look anything like this?

(from Frank Ford's www.frets.com)

[ozover50]

I clicked on the white box with the red cross in it and it came up, Andy.

Looks great!

[polly_mathis]

Thanks Howard, I'd been trying the 'load missing image' route to no avail.

Now THAT is a headstock!
Bill, does your luthier happen to make electric 12-string guitars by any chance?

[ozover50]

BTW, Andy. "white box with the red cross in it" is a fifth generation technical term that is "for your ears only". I'm currently negotiating with Gatesy on a world wide embargo on the "WBWTRCII" acronym while we work out the finer details, so don't let on, OK?.

I reckon it's worth a few million, don't you??

[drathbun]

Jerry Koger said: Opening chord for "A Hard Day's Night".


That chord would be G7sus4 or: 353533

Love that chord!

[shamustwin]

I listened to the fabs way before the Byrds (as many did) and two stand out: "I Call Your Name" and the solo in "I Should Have Know Better". At the time, I didn't know what a 12 string was, but I remember just digging the metallic sounds of those guitars

[polly_mathis]

Howard, your secret's safe with me, don't worry. Besides, we've got a Mac at home and my work PC is running 6-yr-old nihon-go Windows that's unlikely to be upgraded, or even patched, ever.
Whatcha gonna do with your millions?