We all like a bit of acoustic guitar don't we? What's your favourite acoustic tone on record?
I like these:
The Who - Overture, the end acoustic section
The Who - Going Mobile
I know Pete Townsend used the late 60s Gibson J-200 with the tune-o-matic tone robbing adjustable bridge but I still like the tone!
John Williams - Cavatina. A frustratingly quiet recording but lovely tone
Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers (Live) A (Washburn?) 12 string plugged into a HH amp and played loud and ragged. Frustratingly this song isn't on the 'Press The Eject...' live album featuring songs from the same gig
Any my absolute favourite of all...
Eric Roche - With These Hands played on his Benjamin OM model:
Comments
John Martyn - Solid Air:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UikPQOaJpfU
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Peter Buck on his Guild F412 all over 80s REM
Whilst a bit over compressed I love the Teenage Fanclub acoustic sounds on Grand Prix
Oh look it's a D28...
Dave Rawlings - Epiphone Olympic & Sony C37
Gillian - J45 & Neumann m582
Ray Lamontagne - D35 and a Neumann U67
As for tone, I love Be. Howard zen of an Affair - you can’t hear the top light up each time he hits those harmonics.
https://youtu.be/3_ojOSHowRA
Also love the understated organic acoustic sound that Rick Ruben gets on Neil Diamonds 12 Songs album.
This is a great example.
https://youtu.be/cQRLuA-EUFg
The Acoustic sound on Gillian Welch's "Harrow and the Harvest" (J50 & Epi)
Bert Jansch on the Black Swan album (Yamaha)
and best of all Pierre Bensusan on the Intuite album (Lowden)
Generally, a Martin Dread, strung heavy. Single mic into a slightly on the verge of overloading analog desk.
Much as I appreciate the more modern lighter built 'breathy' acoustics, miced up for a more sensitive, harmonically complex sound, I do like the more old school fundamental weight of a Martin.
To be completely perverse, I also love Lloyd Cole's 90s acoustic sounds on albums like Bad Vibes and Love Story, and those are his Taylors. It's not a sound that works as well for me when I play them, either.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Those opening chords of Bigmouth Strikes Again, though. Marr is God.
I need to play a good Dove, the only I've played in recent memory had strings on it that Moses must have put on.
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Wizz Jones
Isaac Guillory
Jonathan Kelly on Twice Around the Houses
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself