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DogBoy
May 01, 2025
In World Outside The Window
Aluminati Guitars (@aluminati_guitars) • Instagram photos and videos
Ned will have it on the 'Surf the Hydra' tour with Satch and Vai
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DogBoy
Apr 12, 2025
In The World And His Wife
So...erm.... acoustic guitar tuned down 2.5 steps in and open chord 1-5-1-3-5-1 (B,F#,B,D#,F#,B) with A at 432 hz, and
it hums like a 5-pound,2.5 -foot long Late Carboniferous Dragonfly 😆. A very slow burn because of busyness at real work, and needing to go easy on the fretting thumb. There will be noise though, before I croak, presumably. Recorded noise, I mean. The actual composition isn't likely to make it off the papers, but there's always EBow noodling just over the next hill...
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DogBoy
Feb 24, 2025
In World Outside The Window
The Mandelbulber 3D fractal program is way awesome, way more involved than I have time for, and people are
taking it waaaaay farther than I would ever ....have time to, so I went back to an old 2-D program- Jalada- that I used up until 2016. I can get it to spit out a series of zooms of one fractal in half an hour. It's instant gratification eye candy.
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DogBoy
Nov 19, 2024
In William's World
Yup, Practically Wired in '95 was the first time....the first time KNOWING that I was hearing Bill.
Blah blah blah, repetitive hyperbole; several paragraphs unwritten. This happens to me a lot with music that I've listened to for years or decades. Sometimes I hear it in new ways; I hear new things, and it's always a magical experience, like another expansion of awareness.
There was one time a couple years ago with a guitar part from a PW tune, maybe a bit of sweep picking. It blew my mind. Bill chimed in about how yeah "that's why to have to listen ..." (hard ?, carefully?). A few weeks ago it was 2 songs: Friends From Heaven, and Big Yellow Moon. On separate days I played each one over and over, soaking in the complexities and nuances, pretty much jaw agape at the level of...everything. I swear, BYM is an incredibly elegant piece of music, just intensely perfect in every way.
That's all 😁
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DogBoy
Aug 29, 2024
In World Outside The Window
That guy Ned Evett of fretless glass guitar fame plays that tuning. It's largely because he uses the capo/slide so much, because of how he can move it up and down the neck with complete ease. This means that the guitar is "automatically" "playing" the E chord with no um... (can't call it fretting if there aren't any frets!) holding the strings down, and chords of the same structure as the capo/slide is moved down or up. He has devised his entire system of chords and scales using this tuning. Didn't The Fripp Unit devise a tuning and restructuring of the normal system ?
Anyway, impulsively, I thought I'd give that tuning a go, and it has turned into a wonderful exploration of new-sounding, melodic chords. I'm building chords and progressions more by sound than with the normal structures/patterns I learned and used until recently (2023 heard me use an odd tuning (DADGGD) and build new chords inspired by the sound of a Kotamo). This is just as much fun, partly because I took most of the last year off due to fretting hand thumb arthritis, which is better now (physical therapy).
This will all end up in another round of meandering EBow noise, possibly later this year.
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DogBoy
Aug 10, 2024
In World Outside The Window
Guitar World interview link
“I saw Adrian Belew playing fretless guitar with King Crimson and I got hooked. I began wearing out my wooden fingerboards – the glass fingerboards solved that problem”: Fretless glass-necked guitar pioneer Ned Evett on the risks of being a true original | Guitar World
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DogBoy
Aug 03, 2024
In World Outside The Window
(why?) adding to the older thread didn't work. This thread only let 2/5 in this op (why?)
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DogBoy
Jun 27, 2024
In World Outside The Window
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DogBoy
Feb 23, 2024
In William's World
Because the question of his relationship to music "theory" has never been satisfactorily answered. "I play by ear". "I don't even know the names of notes or chords". Those seem like a diversion or a way of not wanting to explain it, for whatever reason. Correct me if I'm wrong. I want to know. Taken at face value , playing by ear, being able to compose, arrange, improvise at such a high level says "savant" to me. Not that savants are better or magical or something like that, just that they can operate in ways that regular people don't. "It's just hard work" is another one. Well, yeah, but that doesn't fully cover it, so I'm still left wondering. Someone told me that maybe there's some secret system from the Rosicrucians, and if that really is what's going on, it would explain a lot, but if that was the case, it would remain secret, so I'm left wondering. Someone else told me "Bill knows a lot about music" after I'd told them that Bill said that Bill doesn't know any music theory (and eschews it!). I said yeah, he obviously does know a lot (and I continued to wonder). So there it is ,the wonder of the moment😆
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DogBoy
Jan 08, 2024
In William's World
Just out of idle curiosity, because Albert's Intestines wanted to know if I'd like to chat with Bing's Chat GTP 4 about David Bowie, I decided to chat with Bing's Chat GTP 4 about David Bowie. I asked "What did David Bowie say about Bill Nelson or Be Bop Deluxe ?".
The Great Assimilator replied: "According to my web search results, here are some things that David Bowie said or implied about them:
• He admired Bill Nelson’s guitar playing and songwriting skills, and invited him to collaborate on his 1977 album Low. However, Nelson declined the offer, saying he wanted to pursue his own musical vision1.(https://www.loudersound.com/features/why-i-ziggy-stardust-by-be-bop-deluxes-bill-nelson)
• He was aware of Be Bop Deluxe’s glam rock image and music, but he did not consider them as rivals or copycats. He once said, "I don’t mind Be Bop Deluxe. They’ve got their own thing going, and it’s nothing to do with me."2(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-Bop_Deluxe)
• He was also influenced by Be Bop Deluxe’s experimental sound and production, especially on their albums Futurama and Sunburst Finish. He praised John Leckie, who produced both Be Bop Deluxe and some of Bowie’s albums, as "a genius"3.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Victim) "
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DogBoy
Nov 15, 2023
In World Outside The Window
#billNelson (s(https://www.soundclick.com/search/default.cfm?searchTerm=billNelson)oundclick.com)(http://soundclick.com)(https://www.soundclick.com/search/default.cfm?searchTerm=billNelson)
3rd track - For Stuart by Michael Duran
SoundClick (https://www.soundclick.com/graemecammack/?content=songs&fbclid=iwar0kq-hslfkkkugm8hqotemhaddp2e3nbzug-02ipvmfmdyfbhlvqssqkwy)
7th track - Shedman's greatest 'African Dream Sunrise'
see you in the next world , GC 😘
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DogBoy
Oct 25, 2023
In World Outside The Window
Coolest guitar ever, if you ask me. It would be nice to have the talent to play a fretless guitar. I rotted that circuitry out at age 8 when I quit violin and sniffed gasoline fumes .
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DogBoy
Jul 16, 2023
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DogBoy
Jun 15, 2023
In The World And His Wife
It's my beater, the Norman B-20 Folk acoustic. NYXL (for good EBow response) mediums, tuned down to CGCFFC. For convenience and familiarity with music theory, I'm treating that tuning like DADGGD , and the two G strings are twinned , wound, because otherwise the intonation is skewed. I've made up masses of chords with this odd tuning, and some tracks will have lots of nice movement, though most will be meandering sonic excursions. The guitar has a soundhole pickup (Baggs) and an undersaddle piezo pickup, both routed to the input on the Pod 2.0. From there I have left and right pedal fx chains ...until the right one goes into the Mooer Ocean machine. Sub octavers, flangers, boosters, and delays, mostly, and an EHX synth. Nothing extravagant or high-end except the Mooer. It's going to be noisy. I have lots in the can, but may not have anything edited out for a while. Be afraid... 😁ps - it's a mess because it's me, and because I'm always moving pedals around and I don't have time to make it pretty.
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