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..nel documentario "WIngs for wheels" del cofanetto BTR Bruce parla della sua prima chitarra e di come è "composta"
Da LOAHD forum e più precisamente dall'esperto Tele65 (Fabio) qualche dettaglio, ma non il solo (altro a seguire):
1) è una partscaster ottenuta da un manico Esquire del 1957 circa (il profilo del dorso e la posizione della decal non lasciano molto spazio ad altre possibilità) e da un corpo Tele di data non meglio precisata (c'è chi dice 1953)
2) la tastiera è stata 'spianata' dall'originale raggio di curvatura di 7,25' a 11' (molto più piatta consente una action più bassa, tipo Gibson) e monta tasti a profilo triangolari ideati da Phil Petillo (www.petilloguitars.com) di OCean, NJ che poi aveva venduto la chitarra a Bruce
3) monta pickup customwound di Petillo ed ha la parte elettronica completamente inglobata in una colata di resina per renderla impermebile al sudore ed all'acqua che Bruce ama tirarsi addosso durante i concerti.
4) Le meccaniche non sono le Kluson deluxe originali ma sono sostituite (orrore) con delle moderne Grover
5) altro orrore, recentemente il ponte originale a tre sellette ha dovuto lasciare il posto ad un orribile ponte a sei sellette come sulle Tele contemporanee
6) Il battipenna che originariamente era un tre strati ad 8 viti è stato ora sostituito con un monopezzo di bakelite a 5 viti.
7) tramite una modifica era stata resa stereo
La cose incerte
1) i pezzi che compongono il corpo (io cono scettico sul monopezzo)
2) la data del corpo
Una personalissima opinione: non sono d'accordo con molte delle modifiche che sono state apportate alle chitarre di Bruce uso del ponte a sei sellette in primis ma anche con la modifica del manico a raggi più alti di curvatura: una Fender è una Fender: ha il manico tondo...
...to be continued....
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..nella sezione BTR 30th ANNIVERSAY c'era anche una richiesta rimasta "inevasa"...... fatta il 4.12.05...
la rimetto qui, chissà mai che qualcuno abbia trovato la soluzione..:
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una amica fan (Paperbat dei Travelin fans appunto..) ha notato che le foto di copertina del cofanetto sono MOLTO nitide. Niente di male
Da qui però ha notato qualcosa che SICURAMENTE è già stato detto da qualche parte, ma io non ho la risposta, la chiedo anche a voi (l'ho chiesta su LOAHD perchè là c'è molta più gente.....
), vediamo magari se QUI DA NOI siamo più bravi o veloci...:
cito la domanda iniziale:
...Ma una cosa mi ha colpito... la fotografia. Non quelle del libercolo, che non e' che mi dica molto, ma quella della copertina: e' molto, molto piu' nitida di quella dell'LP, e del vecchio cd.
Tanto che (penso di poterlo dire dato che ormai bene o male lo avete visto gia' tutti) si scorge che la placca della Telecaster di Bruce e' istoriata!! Lo avevate mai notato??
E allora sorge spontanea una domanda, prima che la faccia il Manzo (poi lui chiedera' che cosa tutto cio' significhi...) :
"cosa c'e' disegnato secondo voi sulla placca della Telecaster di Bruce"?
Rispondo io per prima (e probabilmente anche per ultima): secondo me c'e' un uomo appoggiato ad un lampione sotto un cielo stellato e con la luna piena, accanto ad una casa con una finestra illuminata.
Che ne dite?
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.....ora la domanda non era COSA C'E' DISEGNATO (si vede benissimo), ma PERCHE', COME MAI, DA QUANDO, CHI L'HA FATTO.... etc etc etc
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..dato che la chitarra attira ogni tanto le attenzioni, ecco ad esempio il forum di backstreets dove l'argomento torna di attaulità.
Si citano messaggi del 2004 e articoli anche vecchiotti, copio qui, a voi trovare le notizie che vi "sconquifferano"..
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That Fender Europe write up is an interesting piece of fiction.
Actually, that is a bit harsh, it is just repeating the rumors that have been floating around the 'net for years. I'm actually surprised that Fender is repeating them as it would be just as easy to look back on thier own history to come up with the correct information.
There is research being done on the Fender Esquire and some interesting information has been uncovered and is continuing to be uncovered. What is very interesting is that there statements made by Bruce in various articles that have contridicted some of the more commonly accepted stories on the history of the Esquire.
The research is being done for an article for Backstreets. It is slow work as every question that is answered opens up more questions....
However, what I will say is that the purchase date of 1969 is questionable.. if anyone has any photographic evidence of Bruce using the Esquire live prior to 1973, I would LOVE to see it!!!
The other issue is that the Esquire was a factory second. There is no reliable evidence to support this (as well as some factual information that totally discounts this). Also, it cannot be proved that in the 1950's Fender actually sold factory second guitars... there is a school of thought that Fender never sold factory second guitars at that time (this is still being looked into).
The truth will come out soon...
poi ci sono alcuni richiami di articoli, presi dal sito ora in disuso LUCKYTOWN.ORG:
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http://www.luckytown.org/misc/equipment.txt
4K Info on Springsteen's guitars & equipment
The following information is taken from an article "The E Street Band's
Equipment" by Dave Marsh, "Musician" No. 30, February 1981.
Guitars:
1954 Esquire, modified with extra Telecaster pick-up (THE guitar);
1956 Telecaster (spare);
1954 Telecaster (spare);
Ovation six-string acoustic;
two Rickenbacker 12-string electric,
1958 Gibson J-200 Acoustic guitar (this is the same guitar as Elvis's original, and was a gift from crew members Mike Batlan, Marc Brickman and Bob Chirmside).
The Fender Esquire is modified with a battery operated impedence transformer for long cable lengths.
Information supplied by Mike Batlan, who also notes that there is an asterisk in front of the Esquire's serial number, indicating that is was a factory reject, probably originally sold as a reject.
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The following information is taken from "Musician" Magazine, No. 169,
November 1992. It was an insert box accompanying a Springsteen interview
by Bill Flanagan.
...His main guitar is a 1953 Fender Esquire.
Onstage he also uses Telecasters from '54, '58 and a new acquisition from '63 with a decal of a naked oriental woman on the back.
That one was rented as a prop for a photo shoot in New York.
Later on Bruce couldn't get it out of it his head, finally telling Kevin Buell, his guitar tech, "I don't know what it sounds like but it felt great." Unfortunately all Bruce knew about the guitar was that it was "a black Tele with a naked lady."
It was tracked through the photographer to the shop where it was rented, but it was already sold. Bruce bought it back from the guy who bought it....
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..mi rendo conto che l'argomento non è dei più "cruciali", ma a me interessa.....
Su BTX forum si sta dibattendo sulla data di provenienza/acquisto della mitica Fender ESQUIRE che è stata utilizzata sin dalle origini per molti molti molti anni, "QUELLA" Fender che tutti abbiamo imparato a riconoscere dalle foto dell'epoca, che non vedeva ancora il web consentire questa valanga di info /vere o flase poi diventa una questione più complessa)
Ebbene: 1969 o 1972???
La domanda sorgeva dal fatto che non esisterebbero foto che provino l'uso di questa chitarra nei primissimi anni con gli STEEL MILLS (un po' anche per il genere musicale che, almeno ai tempi, era automaticamente legato GIBSON)
Qui il msg di un "neutrale" che cerca di trarre le conclusioni "senza certeze" riconducibili a chi effettivamente ha venduto il "pezzo" a Bruce in quegli anni...:
msg di Hard2BaSaint dalla Pennsilvania :
With respect to the core question - "When precisely did Springsteen obtain his famous Fender Esquire-Telecaster guitar (the one on the BTR cover)...the answer is......IT'S STILL SHROUDED IN CONFUSION.
The truth is knowable....I'll try to explain why it's shrouded in confusion.
There seems to be consensus that Springsteen's famous Fender Esquire-Telecaster was purchased from Phil Petillo (of Masterpiece Guitars) sometime between 1969 and 1972. It's a matter of narrowing down this 4-yr period. Petillo goes back a long way with Bruce (seemingly 1968-ish) and Bruce still uses him a lot. Petillo has confirmed that he sold Bruce that guitar. The problem is when precisely did this event occur.
There have been several interviews with Petillo about Bruce. In the Guitar World interview conducted by Robert Dye the year 1970 is mentioned by Dye as when the guitar was purchased by Springsteen from Patillo. It would seem Dye asked Petillo the question or the subject of the date somewhow came up....but Petillo is not actually "QUOTED" on this precise point.
The Newark-Star Leger once conducted an interview with Patillo and the year 1969 is mentioned as the purchase date , not 1970. The Asbury Park Press conducted an interview with Patillo in the early 1980's and "the early 70's" is noted as the date of the purchase. However Petillo, although interviewed, is not actually quoted on this specific point in these two stories either. The lack of quoting on a point in artcles that are otherwise interviewing and quoting someone....this makes me nervous.
I've never seen any article where Patillo is actually quoted on this precise point. So one does not really know what Patillo actually said to these reporters. Was Patillo confident of a very specific date or was he just providing a broad-brush date. Patillo has been in the business since since the 1960's and a shitload of transactions have come and gone. Patillo (or Springsteen) may need to be cross-examined with some veracity to get to the kind of accurate date that many fans would like to know.
The fact that there is no photographic evidence of the existance of the famous guitar in Bruce's hands prior to 1972 is significant because of the wide scope of photos of Bruce from the 1969-71 era that have surfaced in recent years...not only photos from paid gigs, but photos from Challenger rehearsals and photos from the Upstage. It's hard to understand why the famous Fender guitar doesn't show up in these photos if Bruce owned it at the time. This makes me suspicious of the 1969 or 1970 dates.
Regarding Bruce's Gibson Les Paul....I'm not sure where Bruce bought it from but the rest of the history of this guitar seems fairly straighforward. Springsteen obtained the Les Paul in 1968, either in the dying months of THE CASTILES or early in the lifespan of his band EARTH.
Springsteen got rid of the Les Paul guitar sometime in 1972 at Jack's Music in Red Bank and it was purchased by Albert Kahn from the store window of Jack's Music either in late 1972 or early 1973. Kahn loaned that guitar to the Asbury Park Museum in 1986-88 and it was also loaned to the RR Hall of Fame for awhile. Kahn put the guitar up for auction in 2003 at Christies in New York....there were plenty of bidders but it did not reach the $35,000 reserve price. I believe Kahn still owns it. According to Kahn he offered the guitar to Bruce in person some years ago and Bruce expressed no interest at the time in re-obtaining it.
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Metto il link dell'articolo scritto nel 1986 da Ermanno Labianca e dall'amico Sergio "wiz" Vizzari (mio maestro Jedi)
LOVE ME FENDER da "Chitarre" - N. 8 - Novembre 1986
Il tutto tratto dal bel sito di Gianluca:
www.springsteenbruce.net
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CITAZIONE (alebsp @ 14/1/2006, 14:23)Metto il link dell'articolo scritto nel 1986 da Ermanno Labianca e dall'amico Sergio "wiz" Vizzari (mio maestro Jedi)
LOVE ME FENDER da "Chitarre" - N. 8 - Novembre 1986
Il tutto tratto dal bel sito di Gianluca:
www.springsteenbruce.net
...grazie, me ne ero quasi "scordato", sinceramente....
, anche se ora ricordo di averlo visto a suo tempo, pur essendo del 1986 e quinidi non molto aggiornato (perchè tante cose sono state poi dette, contraddette e smentite, oggi incluso, su questa chitarra.. )...
Per quanto riguarda la data del 1969, anche in "questo" articolo viene data per scontata ma la cosa non risulta "quotata" dallo stesso Petillo sul fatto dell'anno preciso, viene riferita l'anno all'interno di una sintesi, cosa che lamenta appunto il tizio di BTX perchè non ha mai trovato una intervista dove il liutaio dicesse chiaro "ebbene sì, con certezza"...
Non che sia forse importante, ma il fatto che nessuna foto dal 1969 al 1972 riproti questa chitarra...
Invece per il BEL sito di Gianluca, che ricordo (
mica per niente) è doverosmente indicato nella sezione BRUCE LINKS, è nato con la dichiarata volontà di essere "PER CHI PARLA ITALIANO"...lo conosciamo bene noi due vero..??? Beh, tu sei amministratore e hai un conflitto di interessi "à la Berlusca" 
..è stato il mio "primo forum" dove mi avete accolto..... il mio primo "vine" ufficiale...
non è questa la sede, ma l'italiano resta una caratteristica lodevole ma limitante, per me, oltre poi all'inevitabile necessità di tenere sempre aggiornato e vivo il sito, cosa non semplice..... ci gemelliamo???
io continuo a chiamrlo Gianluca, tiene sempre il cell nel cassetto, in fondo...
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Riguardo alle chitarre di bruce ho trovato questo bel link francese al riguardo dove, con relativa foto, sono elencate "tutte" o cmq una gran parte delle chitarre che ha usato e che usa bruce
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CITAZIONE (SpiritInTheNight @ 15/3/2006, 19:26)Riguardo alle chitarre di bruce ho trovato questo bel link francese al riguardo dove, con relativa foto, sono elencate "tutte" o cmq una gran parte delle chitarre che ha usato e che usa bruce
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/city.lights/spirit...s/guitares.html
..GRAZIE MILLE!!!: sappi che "Spirit in The nigt forum" è collegato (o meglio è "accessibile") dal forum francese che ha tra i suoi iscirtti Margaud, nostra affiliata....... lo trovi in links, oppure qui:
LINK
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questo lo metto per quelli (nostalgici come me) che vogliono risentire ululare la vecchia tele
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOef8mfqoac
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CITAZIONE(SpiritInTheNight @ 16/3/2006, 14:32)questo lo metto per quelli (nostalgici come me) che vogliono risentire ululare la vecchia tele
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOef8mfqoac
per poco non mi sentivo male.......
Dici poco, l'intro di PROVE IT ALL NIGHT (che tra l' altro è la mia canzone preferita...
), è un peccato che Bruce abbia tolto l' introduzione nei successivi tour (mi sembra già dal tour di The River).
Se dovessi scegliere la famosa canzone da portare sull' isola deserta non avrei dubbi.
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..quet articolo di oggi da unionleader.com non è propriamente dedicato "alla chitarra" in senso tecnico/storico, però visto che si parla di chitarra autografata (presa ad un'asta di beneficenza) in regalo.....mettiamolo qui:
Springsteen strings makes 40th sweet
By RILEY YATES
Union Leader Staff 7 hours, 31 minutes ago
MANCHESTER – The big secret was kept for three months, despite what was no doubt the constant temptation to blurt it out.
But in the minutes before it was revealed, one man came mighty close to undoing the long drawn out and oh-so-cool revelation he was about to witness as Lisa Durocher opened her birthday present.
"I said, 'Hey that looks like a guitar," said John Coughlin, who got a slap for his comments. "When she opened it, I couldn't believe it."
Clutching the gift to her chest like a protective mother, Durocher yesterday displayed what will surely guarantee her bragging rights around anyone who went to high school during the 1980s.
Near the bottom of the Galveston electric guitar was the expansive scrawl of the Boss '" that's right, Bruce Springsteen '" surrounded by the signatures of six E-Street banders, including saxophonist Clarence Clemons, keyboardist Roy Bitten and bassist Garry Tallent.
"I can't think of anything else I would want on top of it," said Durocher, a letter carrier who turned 40 yesterday. "Except him in person."
Her mother-in-law chimed in: "Maybe when you're 50."
The guitar was secured by Durocher's husband, Doug, in June during a Kiwanis charity auction on WZID-Radio.
He kept it shielded in mom's basement since, where even his siblings didn't know about it. It was finally unveiled yesterday at a party at a friend's house on Hackett Hill Road.
"Nobody knew what was going on," said Sue Durocher, the mother. "We keep good secrets in my family."
The gift, donated to the auction by Manchester's Singer family, wasn't cheap: $2,750 after two hours of radio bidding.
Neither of the pair play guitar. And Lisa Durocher said she only became a super-fan in 1999, after seeing Springsteen in concert for the first time.
Decked out in a tie-dye Springsteen shirt, red trunks and a single earring, Doug Durocher said his wife once owned the autographs of Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa, until they got lost or thrown away.
Therein laid the germ of the guitar's purchase, he said.
The auction started at 7 a.m. and ended up in a bidding war between him and another person, he said.
"At 9:01 I was still on the phone with Mike Morin," the radio host, Doug Durocher said. "He told me it was mine."
Obvious after the gift was open, the party featured more than a few hints of what was in the works.
There was Doug Durocher's shirt, which was from a 2003 tour. There were guitar key chains. There was a cake with a picture of Springsteen.
The guitar will be hung in the in the front room of the couple's Granite Street home, or perhaps kept in the bedroom, Durocher said.
In June, an article ran in the New Hampshire Union Leader about the purchase and a mystery husband who planned to give it to his wife on her birthday in September. Durocher said a few people at work asked her if it was her, but she hadn't thought her husband was the guy.
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...non propriamente un articolo che parla de "LA" chitarra, ma una delle numerose aste dove si trova anche una FENDER firmata Bruce (qui in ARIZONA; Glendale), da AZCENTRAL.COM:
Auction features guitar signed by Springsteen
Sept. 29, 2006 12:00 AM
There is one more day to place bids on a Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by 29 musicians including the legendary Bruce Springsteen. The Glendale Arena is auctioning the guitar, donated by Fender, with all proceeds donated to the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix and to the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund. The money is going to music education. "This is what keeps our building alive," Glendale Arena spokeswoman Megan Curdy said. The current bid is $4,000 and moves in $100 increments. To place a bid, go to www.glendalearenaaz.com or call (623) 772-3200.. -
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the '53 esquire is wired with Petillo customwound pickups(15.6k bridge,8.5k neck) thru a custom preamp(output bosst/tone control expander)the hardware is titanium, made by petillo, the neck is a medium V with the contour extending all the way to the neck pocket, this is the neck that all of his stage guitars are reshaped to fit, the neck is finished front and back with a tinted sealer that protects the neck but feels like bare wood, the fingerboard is 14" radius...he uses Petillo Precision frets on ALL his guitars, they are triangle shaped and allow for both PERFECT intonation as well as easier bending and more sustain and clarity, the nut is bone, the string trees are custom made by Petillo out of aluminum, the jackplate is square and has holes drilled in it near the corners to allow drainig of the control cavity which freqently fills up with sweat/water during bruces shows...Bruce DOES NOT use bardens in the old 53 but does use them in 6 or so of his current stage guitars, there is a large space routed under the pickguard of the 53 as this guitar was originally outfitted with FOUR pickups and TWO output jacks(one of which was plugged years ago)
the decal was put in the wrong place....this guitar was originally sold as "second"....bought by a recording studio and fitted with 4 pickups and 2 output jacks.they used to charge the person who was "forced" to use it for the sessions and charge on a per track basis(the fee x 4 ) ....the studio was busted in a payola scandal and was forced to sell all of its guitars...Phil Petillo bought the guitar and several others.he sold it to Bruce in 1969 for
$185.00!!!!!!it has big rout under the pickguard a lil bigger than two humbuckers......the guitar is fitted with custom wound hot single coil
pickups(15k plus for the bridge) and active boost/tone controls.it has an ivory nut,schaller non locking tuners,custom made Petillo aluminum string trees(round),Petillo Precison Frets(triangle shape-space age alloy),Titanium
Bridge saddles&screws,Titanium Jack plate,the body is one piece and VERY light..original nitro finish which has turned almost completely gray on the back from sweat.The V shape of the neck extends ALL the way to the neck joint.he sets his action VERY low on this tour and strings with .010 guage strings(Petillos own brand-very bright long lasting stainless steel)
5teles:guitars are shipped whole to petillo just like they would be bought off the rack and he reshapes,refrets,rewires,routes etc etc at his shop..the fingerboard radius is done the same time as the refret as is the special neck finish,bone nut,special string trees,reshaping of the back of the neck to match the profile of the '53 Esquire
This info can be useful:
The following information is taken from an article "The E Street Band's
Equipment" by Dave Marsh, "Musician" No. 30, February 1981.
Guitars: 1954 Esquire, modified with extra Telecaster
pick-up (THE guitar); 1956 Telecaster (spare); 1954 Tele-
caster (spare); Ovation six-string acoustic; two Rickenback-
er 12-string electric, 1958 Gibson J-200 Acoustic guitar
(this is the same guitar as Elvis's original, and was a gift
from crew members Mike Batlan, Marc Brickman and Bob Chirm-
side). Amps: Four pre-CBS Fender Bassman amps, ca.
1958-1962; two Peavey Vintage amps (imitation Bassmans) --
one of each is used onstage under the drum riser. Also: a
prime time digital delay and harmonizer and an MXR distor-
tion box. The Fender Esquire is modified with a battery op-
erated impedence transformer for long cable lengths. Infor-
mation supplied by Mike Batlan, who also notes that there is
an asterisk in front of the Esquire's serial number, indi-
cating that is was a factory reject, probably originally
sold as a reject.
End of info from "Musician" No. 30, February 1981
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The following information is taken from "Musician" Magazine, No. 169,
November 1992. It was an insert box accompanying a Springsteen interview
by Bill Flanagan.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's vocal mike is an Onyx capsule with a
Sony transmitter. He plays Hohner Marine Band harmonicas.
His main guitar is a 1953 Fender Esquire. Onstage he also
uses Telecasters from '54, '58 and a new acquisition from
'63 with a decal of a naked oriental woman on the back. That
one was rented as a prop for a photo shoot in New York. Lat-
er on Bruce couldn't get it out of it his head, finally
telling Kevin Buell, his guitar tech, "I don't know what it
sounds like but it felt great." Unfortunately all Bruce knew
about the guitar was that it was "a black Tele with a naked
lady." It was tracked through the photographer to the shop
where it was rented, but it was already sold. Bruce bought
it back from the guy who bought it. Bruce uses a Samson
wireless system which passes through a Rockman SP-1OO sus-
taining preamp on its way to a single Marshall cabinet (with
four 12s) which is miked with a Shure SM57 and a 341. Bruce
is almost apologetic about how simple his effects are. "l
have a very fundamental set-up on the guitar. There's a
loud button and a louder one and a louder one than that --
and that's it! The elaborate guitar set-ups are amazing!
There's a wall! A rack of things that all do something. I'd
like to know what all that stuff does but it's too late now.
It allows you an enormous amount of control but I don't know
if I have the patience to sit down and learn it." Bruce's
three options are a Boogie Mark 2 for leads, a SansAmp, and
a Boss digital delay. Sitting under the stage, activated by
hand by a tech on special occasions, are a Boss Turbo-Over-
drive pedal (OD-2), a Boss flanger (BF-2) and a Boss power
supply and master switch (PSM-5). On his electric guitars
Bruce uses Dean Markley strings (.010, .013, .016, .030,
.038, .048).
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the first article was mostly correct AT THE TIME,the second was deliberately misleading,and as for now,they do NOT use isolation booths for amps...they are ONstage......currently the setup is:guitar->sony digital wireless->Petillo Dist/boost/presence boost)->Petillo phase shifter->2 Mesa/Boogie MkIII heads(1 set for clean tones,1 used for Dist Tones)->Rockman stereo chorus&lexicon Lxp-15 in f/x loop->marshall 4x12 cab w/ celestian 30's
I have to add that what you see on stage doesn't need to be what you hear through the PA or in records. Many bands has isolated booths backstage (or under the stage) with miked amps that go to the house PA and to tape.
For instance, I doubt that what the bass tone we hear in Live in NYC comes from the Hartke head and cabs that Garry uses on stage. His signal sure is sent to tape through a nice DI box and then they can re-amp it in the studio if it is needed. Same can be done to the guitars.. -
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..riprendendo il discorso, da SPL questa osservazione di Viggma relativa alla domanda di un utente/MrEdy circa "quale" versione del '52 era più vicina all'originale... CITAZIONE (MrEdy @ 22/11/2006]Just want to buy a telecaster but I don't know what is the original colour of Springsteen's esquire. The 52 model re-issue on butterscothch blonde seems to clear.
I'm between 2 models:
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100202850
http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0101702750
I need to make a choice... Can you help me please??
Thanks for your advices guys
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[QUOTE=Vigba,22/11/2006)Fender changed the coloring of the reissue '52 tele. The one that I have has the butterscotch finish. The one showing up in the URL you posted is now called the American Vintage '52 and they definitely changed the color - it is more of a natural wood finish.
Bruce actually has the reissue '52 guitar with the buttersctoch finish as his main axe now, but with Barden pickups, Petillo frets and the neck customized to the radius and feel of his original tele.
I actually have both the butterscotch finish '52 reissue as well as a natural finish '73 tele. The natural finish is the finish that Bruce has on his Esquire, so there's your answer.
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qualcuno sa dirmi che marca e modello è la chitarra che Bruce ha usato per l'album Tunnel of Love? Sai, quella nera col bordo bianco. Suppongo che sià un semi-acustica, no?
Forse mi sbaglio, ma mi sembra di aver letto - tempo fà - che era una Takermine o qualcosa del genere??
Mi piace molto il suono di quella chitarra..