Carlos Santana is my Tone God!

Last Monday Carlos Santana and his excellent band played in Helsinki’s football stadium (that’s soccer to you Americans).

Fantastic sound, great musicianship – it really was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to!

If you have a chance to see Santana on the current European tour, you should really do so  😉

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I simply adore Carlos’ lead sound.

Here’s a short bit paying homage to the man: Hairloss Manana

I recorded it using two review guitars:

• a PRS SE Custom for the rhythm parts

• a PRS McCarty for the lead

I’m not ashamed to admit I used a Behringer V-Amp2 in front of my Pro Tools -system.

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Last month I recorded this song to test a Tascam Portastudio for Riffi: Guitar (G-A-S)

I didn’t plan on recording something Santana-ish – it simply happened.

By the way, the whole thing was recorded using only real instruments (and without a click-track).

The guitar is an Epiphone Slash Goldtop through a Mad Professor Little Green Wonder into a Fender ’57 Twin-Amp reissue.

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Gibson Everly Brothers – when a guitar becomes a star

Post- Les Paul & Mary Ford and pre-Beatles the Everly Brothers were, without doubt, the Pop music sensation in the USA. The brothers – Phil and Don – provided a great mix of Rock’n’Roll -raucousness and Country -cleanliness to reach mass appeal. Their hits are true Pop gems and their golden vocal harmonies are legendary, inspiring many other acts, such as Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles.

In 1962 Gibson released a signature model, based on a downsized Super Jumbo body, and featuring two large pickguards, star-shaped inlays and a pin-less, adjustable bridge. The large tortoise-pattern pickguards dampen the spruce top somewhat. In conjunction with the maple back and rims this results in a great strummer with a very precise attack and a transparent mid-range, extremely well suited to accompany vocals, and belting out those strummed Everly-riffs.

There were also versions with white pickguards.

In the late Sixties Gibson changed the pickguards’ size and shape, and also started offering the Everly Brothers -model in natural finish alongside the original black.

The Gibson Everly Brothers -model is one of the few cases of an acoustic guitar having its own owners’ club. Proud users include stars like Paul McCartney and Albert Lee.

Epiphone and Orville have issued their own reissues over the years – called the SQ-180 and Don Everly Signature.

Gibson Acoustic is offering a brand-new Billie Joe Armstrong Signature J-180, which is basically an Everly Brothers -model with an added Fishman -pickup system. A review of this model will be published in Riffi-magazine in our issue 5/2011.

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RIFFI 4/2011 on nyt kaupoissa ja kioskeissa!

Riffi-lehden kesänumero on ilmestynyt!

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Kitaristeille on tarjoilla kaksi vintage-painoitteista juttua:

• Timo Koskisen perusteellinen haastattelu vintage-guru George Gruhnin kanssa

• Kari Antilan juttu oman unelma-Stratocasterin ostamisesta

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Lisäksi näytämme miten Juha Lottonen korjasi lehden testikitaran.

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Laitetestit mm.:

• Plutoneium Chi-Wah-Wah -pedaali

• Furch Little Jane -matkakitara

• Whirlwind Rochester -pedaalit

• Fender Mustang III -kitaravahvistin

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Sekä Pekka Nurmen juttu Knucklebone Oscar -bändin kamoista.

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Mielenkiintoiset basso-kissat Squierilta

Squierin Jaguar-basso on saatavilla kolmena uutena eri versiona:

Jaguar Bass Special tarjoaa hoikan Jazz-tyylisen kaulan, PJ-mikrofonivarustuksen sekä aktiivisen bassobuusterin.

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Jaguar Bass Special HB -mallissa taas on Music Man -tyylinen mikrofoni.

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Kolmantena on passiivinen, lyhyellä mensuurilla varustettu versio teemasta – Jaguar Bass Special SS.

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Kehityykö japanilaisista kopioista uusi vintage-ilmiö?

Manner-Euroopassa ja USA:ssa on tulossa laadukkaista japanilaisista kopiosoittimista uusi keräilyinnostuksen kohde. En tiedä onko tämä hyvä vai huono asia.

Etenkin Les Paul -kopioita tarjotaan runsaasti eri valmistajilta, esimerkiksi Gibsonin omasta, vain Japanissa myynnissä olevasta alamerkistä Orville.

Yksi tunnetuimmista käytettyjen japanilaisten soittimien myyjistä Euroopassa on japanguitars.co.uk.

Omasta mielestäni joidenkin tarjottujen mallien hinnat ovat kyllä liian korkeita siihen nähden, että kyse on kuitenkin vain kopioista. Toisaalta tyhmä ei ole hän joka pyytää, vaan hän joka maksaa   😉

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Pawnshop or Casino, Sir?

One of Fender’s foxiest new models is the Mustang Pawnshop Special. The guitar is based on the original Mustang, but has been ”pre-modded” with a hard-tail bridge, two humbucking pickups as well as a different wiring, which allows for coil-splitting.

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Epiphone’s new limited edition ”1961 Casino” is a very close remake of my favourite guitar as it was when it was released in 1961. It features P-90s with black plastic covers, a Gibson-type headstock (like on Paul McCartney’s Casino) with a metal logo, as well as a see-through faux-tortoise pickguard. Only 1,961 special edition Casinos will be produced, some with Epiphone’s own ”version” of a Bigsby vibrato, called Tremotone.

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