Hamer Chaparral Custom 1986 - Alan Murphy Style Demo

grappagreen

So..

I thought that rather than widdle around doing nothing particularly productive it would be good to have a project to focus the mind!

How about playing some stuff on a few old guitars.. seems like it might be fun. How about learning some new stuff to stretch the old fingers.. well it is about time I focused on doing something a little different. How about leaving to video something without it looking completely terrible and then editing it.. erm, that sounds quite a heavy lift but, go on..

here we have a lovely 1986 Hamer Chaparral that was in a pretty terrible state when I got it. It's been lovingly bought back to life with the help of the super talented and utterly amiable Bill - @Corvus - when I got it it was from a lovely chap who had bought it new but hated the sparkly pink colour and then had it painted a sparkly blue.. but terribly. After a refresh and fret job it plays and sounds pretty sweet.

Given it's from 1986 and the guitarist that was utterly blowing my socks of at that time was the late, great Alan Murphy I thought it would be fun to learn something in his style...

Hope you enjoy and forgive the scarf - it's a bit chilly here

http:// https://youtu.be/lMvYOHLuJy4

If I'm not banned for ear abuse then I'll do a few more and hopefully up my content quality as I learn more..

Si

matt_sefton

Love Chaparrals. Really nice playing too 

DrCornelius

Lovely !

Bennyboy-UK

You are great! Your playing is first class. Love it

YourArsenal87

Fantastic playing and tasty vintage Hamer.

Corvus

Very nice Si!

Dominic

Oh wow Si
I didn't realise you were that good ........I'll feel awkward playing in front of you from now on .....
The Hamer sounds really great too but I'm thinking you would probably make any guitar sound good damn you

beed84

Nice!

Philly_Q

I don't think you are going to get banned for ear abuse.

carlos

This is wonderful, thanks

guitars4you

Stocked and sold a few new ones around this period - Recall white models not sure if I sold 'pink' but can check my stock records tomorrow

JohnCordy

Very nice!!

Lodious

Tasty playing, nice one!

Kebabkid

Very nice and you captured the late great AM's style.

RichAC

Really good playing on a nice guitar! The vid was very well-made, as well. Top work @grappagreen ;

Moloch

I have one of these! Amazing guitars. You're much better at playing yours than I am at playing mine though.

grappagreen

Thanks for the kind words all and glad a few peops enjoyed it. Was great fun to learn and a hoot to play!

I've got some better lighting now so let's see if we can up the ante on video production front and find something fun to learn and demo!

Si

bassbora

Great playing and a very cool looking guitar