Mickey Baker The Wildest Guitar

[kenposurf]

Not the household that Chuck or Bo are, Mickey has influenced countless slingers..

[lennon211]

If I'm not mistaken, that should be the same Mickey of the Mickey and Sylvia "Love is Strange" duo, no?

[peewee]

If I'm not mistaken, that should be the same Mickey of the Mickey and Sylvia "Love is Strange" duo, no?

Yup and of Louis Jordan's Tympani Five. KIller guitarist! Wonder if there are any of those Mickey Baker Guitar Method books still around??

[jingle_jangle]

This is one of my favorite instrumental guitar albums, cut in '59! George gifted me with it. He claimed he didn't like it then...

It was stolen out of my car, and it took me a few weeks to locate another copy; everybody I found was OOS.

Love the ping-pong echo. Pure schmaltz.

[kenposurf]

This is one of my favorite instrumental guitar albums, cut in '59! George gifted me with it. He claimed he didn't like it then...

It was stolen out of my car, and it took me a few weeks to locate another copy; everybody I found was OOS.

Love the ping-pong echo. Pure schmaltz.

It was the mix on some tunes I didn't care for....on some, the rhythm guitar is louder then Mickey...don't know if that was him overdubing or...btw: Paul..bring that cd to me so I can copy it!

[sir_andrew_of_left_coast]

Mickey Baker (writer and producer) is shown in the last 6 seconds of this...

[jingle_jangle]

This is one of my favorite instrumental guitar albums, cut in '59! George gifted me with it. He claimed he didn't like it then...

It was stolen out of my car, and it took me a few weeks to locate another copy; everybody I found was OOS.

Love the ping-pong echo. Pure schmaltz.

It was the mix on some tunes I didn't care for....on some, the rhythm guitar is louder then Mickey...don't know if that was him overdubing or...btw: Paul..bring that cd to me so I can copy it!

That is Mickey overdubbing, and that's how he wanted it to sound...the energy is contagious. Makes me want to play hemidemisemiquaver Am9 chords all day long...or sumthin'...

[jingle_jangle]

[quote="sir_andrew_of_left_coast"]Mickey Baker (writer and producer) is shown in the last 6 seconds of this...

...with a gold-top Les Paul...and I thought he was into "clean" sound...

[peewee]

Very cool clip, Andrew! Those fellas sure had some fancy foot work

Don't forget Paul, Mickey played that modified triple pup LP Custom for a long time as well. I think that was the guitar he used with Mickey & Sylvia, IIRC. He had the guitar wired like an ES-5 with a master tone control where the toggle switch would normally be. I seem to recall that Gibson did a limited run of those guitars @ 1999.

[peewee]

This is the only pic I could find of him with the Custom.

[jingle_jangle]

Very cool, Mike. Of course, Mickey would, like any really groundbreaking soloist, be constantly redefining his "sound". That LP Custom sounds like the nuts, from a gearhead standpoint!

[sir_andrew_of_left_coast]

Very cool clip, Andrew! Those fellas sure had some fancy foot work

Les Mustangs = French Shadows.