morsecode
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wow...great stuff...I absolutely love Thin Lizzy....Live and Dangerous stands as one of my all time favorite albums (of a pretty long list)....now I'm going to be watching Thin Lizzy on YouTube all night.
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Bud
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Talking of Irishmen and balls are any of you out there familiar with Anton Drennon who played lead guitar with The Corrs (amonst other things).He is a big Silo player.On their 'live in Geneva' DVD he plays a sunburst Silo for 95% of the gig and I've also seen him with a Blue Silo.Not rock but a very tasty player with a fantastic tone.
Sorry for for going off subject.... I have seen Gary Moore live many a time and I too have heard him snapping at band/crew members. Don't think it's to do with him being Irish though the Irish are great people I had the privelage of meeting Phil Lynott many years ago and he was a very warm freindly guy, made me a bigger fan that I already was.
Here's anton,
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMKRKAJ-eBA"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia]
Sorry for for going off subject.... I have seen Gary Moore live many a time and I too have heard him snapping at band/crew members. Don't think it's to do with him being Irish though the Irish are great people I had the privelage of meeting Phil Lynott many years ago and he was a very warm freindly guy, made me a bigger fan that I already was.
Here's anton,
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMKRKAJ-eBA"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia]
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Colin
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Gary Moore would be a great addition to the MM family. A set neck MM would get our hearts thumpin...
JeffreyB
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Obviously, he just doesn't know what he's missing!
Brian G
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I love my MM guitars, but let's be real. MM doesn't make a guitar that is really in any way close in type to a Les Paul.
If I thought I could buy ANY MM model, with a neck like my Luke (or at least vaguely close), and get "that" sound, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But I don't think it's likely.
I'd even be willing to change the pickups, etc. But the construction and materials are just too different.
Doesn't mean the MM sounds are any less good, but if you're trying to nail that singing, woody, nearly-vocal overdrive character that a particularly good LP gets, I think you need a guitar built more that way.
That's just not a base that MM covers in their current lineup, methinks. No disrespect.
Anybody see the Strat Pack DVD, where Moore rips it up on Red House, on his Strat? Incredible playing, but the facial expressions are just over the top.
Brian
If I thought I could buy ANY MM model, with a neck like my Luke (or at least vaguely close), and get "that" sound, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But I don't think it's likely.
I'd even be willing to change the pickups, etc. But the construction and materials are just too different.
Doesn't mean the MM sounds are any less good, but if you're trying to nail that singing, woody, nearly-vocal overdrive character that a particularly good LP gets, I think you need a guitar built more that way.
That's just not a base that MM covers in their current lineup, methinks. No disrespect.
Anybody see the Strat Pack DVD, where Moore rips it up on Red House, on his Strat? Incredible playing, but the facial expressions are just over the top.
Brian
D.K.
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Well, Brian, I believe there is one particular guitar out of all EBMMs that can PROBABLY go into the Les Paul direction - it is the 20th silo. Don't shoot at me, I know it can do much more, but it also can give a mean Les Paul impersonification.
On a side note, there is one player on Earth, that I wish with all my heart would someday grab a Music Man (and I do know it sounds like a blasphemy to all the fender fans) - David Gilmour. Oh well, just dreaming...
On a side note, there is one player on Earth, that I wish with all my heart would someday grab a Music Man (and I do know it sounds like a blasphemy to all the fender fans) - David Gilmour. Oh well, just dreaming...
Bud
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+1 on the David Gilmour (not to hard to imagine him with a Silo special)
Brian G
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I've never tried the 20th Silo, so I can't comment on that one. Are the pickups low output / vintage enough in character to get "that" sound? (I don't mean the Peter Green out of phase sound, just the "woods & strings resonating" thing that you need low output pickups for.
Also, it's 24 frets (minor voicing changes on the neck, but maybe helps it not to be muddy?)
If you can offer more specifics on the 20th in terms of getting close to the traditional LP sounds, I'd greatly appreciate hearing more.
Brian
D.K.
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Well, where do I start with.... Probably by saying it's the best sounding guitar I've ever had (or heard).
It has vintage oriented chrome covered Virtual PAFs with a 3-position switch - so, You can guess it has some affiliation with the Les Paul electronics. To me, the pickups are best described as "hot and vintage". It sounds absolutely unlike most of the modern 2-HB guitars, it draws its tone purely from exclusive woods, rather than from overpowered and overwound pickups.
The 20-th silo features an alder body with a mahogany tone block and a GORGEOUS maple top, which gives it a warmth of a Les Paul, but a "brighter warmth", if that makes any sense. The neck Pickup is also not as bassy, but also not as muddy, as Les Pauls can get. One of the main reasons for that is surely the fact, that it is set closer to the bridge because of the 24 frets.
Bottom Line, this guitar has TONE. You can hear its woods, You can hear and feel the mahogany component in its sound, the pickups are perfectly matched to the woods used - and You can get that "Still got the Blues" creamy sound, believe me. (Especially if You don't ruin the tone with to many effects in the signal chain).
Hope it helps...
It has vintage oriented chrome covered Virtual PAFs with a 3-position switch - so, You can guess it has some affiliation with the Les Paul electronics. To me, the pickups are best described as "hot and vintage". It sounds absolutely unlike most of the modern 2-HB guitars, it draws its tone purely from exclusive woods, rather than from overpowered and overwound pickups.
The 20-th silo features an alder body with a mahogany tone block and a GORGEOUS maple top, which gives it a warmth of a Les Paul, but a "brighter warmth", if that makes any sense. The neck Pickup is also not as bassy, but also not as muddy, as Les Pauls can get. One of the main reasons for that is surely the fact, that it is set closer to the bridge because of the 24 frets.
Bottom Line, this guitar has TONE. You can hear its woods, You can hear and feel the mahogany component in its sound, the pickups are perfectly matched to the woods used - and You can get that "Still got the Blues" creamy sound, believe me. (Especially if You don't ruin the tone with to many effects in the signal chain).
Hope it helps...
Brian G
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D.K.: thanks, that's a very articulate description, much appreciated.
Brian
Brian
Spudmurphy
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DrKev
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just checked a lot of Anto Drennan on Youtube. Very tasty playing indeed (and a tasty VSB SS with piezo and white ice pickguard) and I'd make him sig artist over Gary Moore any day. Thanks for the tip!!
