Blue Guitars

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The mahogany body (the original is oak with a mahogany veneer) also features an acoustic chamber that aids resonance at louder volumes as well as making for a lighter weight guitar. With over 20 pickup setting options, it's certainly one of the most tonally versatile guitars on the market! Whether you’re into the cool, vintage look or you prefer the sleek metallic and modern fade finishes, you’ll find them here!

It was a tremendous change in the way, the Blues could be approached, fine and subtle figures and fine chord structures could suddenly be played, the Blues was rising to previously unbeknown heights: "Now I can play above the bar noise, Man I'm bigger than a crowd" as Rea states in the opener "Electric Guitar", which paraphrases what musicians must have felt after this milestone revolution.

The Blue Guitar Collection - originally commissioned by the late Scott Chinery in the 1990s - stands as one of the most culturally significant collections of handmade musical instruments in the world. The Blue Guitars album, packaged as a box set in the style of an earbook, [1] consists of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics.

If you like Chris Rea, you will in all probability love the diversity of styles with the Chris Rea angle on it. Thanks for telling your story and for clarifying that I underestimated the number of guitars in Scott's collection. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed.I love that guitar, its pickups, amazing ergonomics and super fast neck (I’m not a super fast player though). With the light string gauge and easy playability high up the fretboard, playing the Bo' Rhap solo was a very joyous experience! From Chris' first guitar, a 28 British Pound Hofner Solid to a blue '62 Strat and various dobros back to a forefather of the guitar, the banjo and even farther back in time, to the kora, Rea even steps outside stylistic periods and adds a Fender Remolux and Supra Baby to let the song rather than style or period dictate the arrangement.

I had the honor of interviewing Rudy (and, soon, Scott’s widow) and gazing upon and picking a few tunes on the guitars. If you can hear something resembling a finger-piano tone in a Motown song, why not use the instrument for real? These are wired in series (instead of the more common wired in parallel) which means that each pickup turned on increases output volume. He dedicated a month to each style and was writing and recording a song a day to try to cover it all.

Trevor Wilkinson's "Wave" tremolo-bridge provides a striking modern look to the BMG Special as well as smooth, comfortable performance with exceptional stability and sustain. As you'd expect, this guitar is available in red (Antique Cherry) just like Brian's own guitar but there are other options if you hanker for the design and tones but not this colour.

I think he does get a bit of a bum rap, but he's done some great stuff - Auberge was the soundtrack to one summer holiday to France, and while I don't remember much beyond the title track, I do remember liking it a lot. The maximum use of the sound potential of these woods is ensured by our innovative voicing process of the soundboard.albums took me the best part of a year to work through them all a few times and pick out what I liked and was less fussed over. Guitar Guitar Limited trading as guitarguitar acts as a credit broker not a lender and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm registration number 742103. Nor did "electric" stop at the guitars – organs, pianos, keyboards, all was going electric, studios started to play around with the new electric sound, the possibilities seemed endless. Always was a fan of the Road to Hell 😉 I remember Chris Rea saying in an interview how his manager advised him not to release 11 cd's because it would be commercial suicide. However he also appears to be someone who not only loves the blues but also somebody who understands its history and respects the heritage more than most.