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I was reading through some Johnny Marr interviews and I found a few Ric-related tidbits I thought I would share.

Firstly, here he describes his 'workhorse' as a 330 with a bigsby, which is strange because I have never seen a photo of him playing any Ric with a bigsby, or even playing any Ric live besides his 330 JG. I guess it's an error, but the rest of the interview is accurate, so it's odd.




Here's how he came to buy Pete Townsend's '62 RM 12 string:



And here he describes recording with 2 more of Pete's Rics :



And here he talks about his Ric which was previously owned by Roger McGuinn, which I didn't know about at all until I read it tonight.

Thanks for the info!

Hah!

Very cool, glad you pulled out the articles, it totally validated my earlier post elsewhere!

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...also like how they fudged the year of his RM in the photo caption....but that's just me being an anorak.

If anyone wants to read the full interviews, they are all listed on the sidebar at http://smithsonguitar.blogspot.com.

And a more expanded gear section is here: http://smithsonguitar.blogspot.com/2008 ... -gear.html.

Clapton is Johnny Marr.

Superb content on this thread! Thanks for posting.

Oh, I didn't know Manzanera played Ric! Tried to google it, but the only bit of info I could find is from official Ric forum:
"Phil Manzanera hired a 330 12 FG to use on the Roxy Music album Country Life in 1974. It is all over the record and he uses it in quite an unorthodox way -playing dirty leads and some lovely textured stuff. Prairie Rose and All I want is You benefit from it especially."

Does anybody know more?

Anyway it's nice to know that Roxy Music isn't offtopic around here

That's it, I need to get into The Smiths.

Collin and/or Wes, this question is for one of you guys:
What is a good Smiths album to kick off a Smiths CD collection with?

JakeK wrote: What is a good Smiths album to kick off a Smiths CD collection with?

"Louder Then Bombs" or "The Queen Is Dead".

You do know they came out after 1980, right Jake?

Always come back to "Strangeways, here we come" a tremendous LP. A 3 minute opener like "A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours" blew a hole in the 80s at a time when music in the UK was yawning.Trouble was the rest of the eighties music that was delivered thereafter was still in a yawn.Naturally that is MHO.
Remember seeing Marr playing when he was in Electronic ( Glasgow and Manchester) and thinking how effortless and amazing he was at the same time.

sloop_john_b wrote:"Louder Then Bombs" or "The Queen Is Dead".

You do know they came out after 1980, right Jake?

I thought they were '78 or so. I like '80s music.

I think it was about 1982????

I like Johnny Marr

Rickygirl wrote:I think it was about 1982????

I like Johnny Marr

Yeah, the Smiths formed in '82.

I know what you mean about Johnny, Sarah, although Morrissey was never my cuppa, musically or otherwise ...

I like to refer to him as Morississey...

I really like the Smiths but Morrissey is the least appealing part of the group for me-all that moping about and bunches of flowers...

JakeK wrote:That's it, I need to get into The Smiths.

Collin and/or Wes, this question is for one of you guys:
What is a good Smiths album to kick off a Smiths CD collection with?

As a starter, I would also recommend either Hatful Of Hollow or Meat Is Murder. Hatful is an early album of b-sides and radio sessions, many of which are better than the album versions IMO.

Meat Is Murder is just such an awesome guitar record.. The Headmaster Ritual, Nowhere Fast, I Want The One I Can't Have etc... just great overlaid guitars, crazy tunings, and byzantine riffs.

egosheep wrote:I was reading through some Johnny Marr interviews and I found a few Ric-related tidbits I thought I would share.

I finally had some time to read this - thanks for sharing - ace!



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