Burst John Rewind (CD coming in 2023)
Burst
John Rewind
The sunburst finish was created when LLoyd Loar, the acoustics genius at Gibson in the early '20s, who came in drunk one morning, and puked all over a mandolin he was building. This was the famous F-5 that was to wind up belonging to Bill Monroe, a teetotaler, who scraped the "sunburst" finish off, after he found out how it got there. Now it’s a
The sunburst finish was created when LLoyd Loar, the acoustics genius at Gibson in the early '20s, who came in drunk one morning, and puked all over a mandolin he was building. This was the famous F-5 that was to wind up belonging to Bill Monroe, a teetotaler, who scraped the "sunburst" finish off, after he found out how it got there. Now it’s a religion. Playing a vintage sunburst Les Paul is much superior to just looking at them, and endlessly talking about them.
Act Your Age
John Rewind
Every ten years or so, Ray’s Bar in Mill Valley, CA holds a benefit for the Beat Generation Seniors of Lodi. Recently they got a stellar group together of: Joseph ”Zigaboo” Modeliste-drums, Dave Bronze-bass, Pete Sears-accordion, Mike Duke-piano, Russ Gauthier-fiddle & mandolin, and John Rewind-guitar…and a good time was had by all until the
Every ten years or so, Ray’s Bar in Mill Valley, CA holds a benefit for the Beat Generation Seniors of Lodi. Recently they got a stellar group together of: Joseph ”Zigaboo” Modeliste-drums, Dave Bronze-bass, Pete Sears-accordion, Mike Duke-piano, Russ Gauthier-fiddle & mandolin, and John Rewind-guitar…and a good time was had by all until the wee hours. Invitations were sent to Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Paul McCartney, but they graciously declined.
Blues Boy
John Rewind
It was probably common everywhere with the early electric guitar blues players, but Memphis resident B.B. King was the first one I discovered that moved the Gibson Sonomatic Guitar Strings down a string, putting the low “A” as your low “E” string. Then one would get a Tenor “A” banjo string for your high “E” string. That changed everything,
It was probably common everywhere with the early electric guitar blues players, but Memphis resident B.B. King was the first one I discovered that moved the Gibson Sonomatic Guitar Strings down a string, putting the low “A” as your low “E” string. Then one would get a Tenor “A” banjo string for your high “E” string. That changed everything, because I couldn’t figure out how in the world all those great blues guitar guys bent those great whole step bends. Thanks to Ernie Ball for making light gauge string sets available to make life a little easier. The early B.B. stuff slayed me, as did “The Thrill Is Gone”.