POST # 481 MYSTERY CASE No 24 "WHO" am I ???

G'day Guitar Eureka Detectives!

You are given 10 clues to the identity of this mystery person , see how many clues you require to guess the correct answer, have fun!

1. I was was born in Detroit, Michigan , July 31st 1939.






2. I grew up in a musical family in which my mother played piano and sang in the Second Baptist Church choir and my father favored the banjo and ukulele.






3. I began began playing guitar at age 12 and quickly fell under the influence of such artists as Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore, T-Bone Walker, and Muddy Waters.






4. While a student at Wayne State University, I made my debut recording as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's sextet in 1951.






5. I made my recorded debut as a leader on the 1956 Blue Note session.






6. I recorded for Blue Note and Prestige and have played with everyone from John Coltrane, Duke Ellington to Jimmy Smith Bill Evans and many others.






7. During the 1950's I mainly played Gibson ES 175 with single neck P-90.






8. My amps includes Fender tweed, Fender Deluxe, Twin-Reverb, Super Reverb and solid state Polytone. Heritage also makes a signature amp for me.






9. Both Duke Ellington and B B King have sighted me as one of their favourate guitarists.







10. Stevie Ray Vaughan did a cover of my composition "Chitlins Con Carne".


I am ??????


ANSWER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DbH1PIWxU

ADDITIONAL TRIVIAS/CLUES

I am also known to have played GIBSON L5CES with Charlie Christian pickups, D'angelico New Yorker, Epiphone Emperor (both with floating DeArmond pickups) and Gibson Super 400CES.

Currently Heritage guitars made a signature model based on my trademark sixties Super 400.


I serve as Director of Jazz Studies at UCLA and teaches a course entitled "Ellingtonia", examining the life and accomplishments of Duke Ellington.

POST # 480 Pat Metheny on the Key to Good Music

Listening is the key to everything good in music

POST # 479 Keith Richards on Writing Music

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

POST # 478 EBAY PRICE GUIDE 1969 Red Marshall 100 Super Tremolo -- Original

100 Watt Marshall Super Tremolo Head from 1969...scroll down to the bottom to see how much it sold for!



Here's the blurb from the seller:


1969 Red Marshall 100 Super Tremolo

Being from 1969, this has to be one of the absolute earliest metal panel Marshall amps out there, and yet retains all the plexi circuitry. It is a plexi sound for sure, and very strong sounding at that. Original inside and out. Really nice old original transformers. Flat lipped front edge, grey feet in great shape. I don’t think this amp ever made it out of the house or studio much in its lifetime.. Sounds fantastic as you might expect.

Three (3) vintage Brimar and one RCA ACC83/12AX7 pre-amp tubes. Three (3) vintage General Electric EL-34 and (1) rare Amperex Bugle Boy EL-34/6CA7 power tubes.

I purchased this from the lead guitar player in band in California that has had some moderate success making records, and is well know in the vintage circles. I heard the amp on some of his recordings with an old vintage strat before I bought it. He knows Jim Marshall and took the amp to the NAMM show in California in 2005 and had Jim Marshall sign the back of it.

When I was trying to complete a red 1960s Marshall stack, this was the cleanest and best red 100 watter I could find. And, I paid a premium for it. If you have any interest in this rare original red tolex 100 watter, or some red cabs, let me know. Flat fee shipping and insurance in continental U.S. Overseas bidders not encouraged because of shipping and customs hassles, but if you really want this amp and are willing pay the freight on an easy transaction, I will consider it. Serious inquiries only, all sales final. Happy holidays.

Winning bid: US $3,995.00

POST # 477 B B King on Blind Lemon Jefferson

Blind Lemon Jefferson played acoustic guitar — and just solo — but he played the same kind of thing. His way of execution left you with the feeling that you could hear someone else backing him up. And he had a special way of phrasing, too, that I don’t hear from many people today. Anyone can play 64 notes in a bar, but to place just one or two in that same bar in just the right place, or maybe even let one go by, then double up on it in the next bar — that’s something special. Blind Lemon was my idol.

POST # 476 Herb Ellis on What He's Thinking when Improvising

I think of melodic content. I have no formulas worked out—I just play from the knowledge I have. Like, when you play a Gb chord over a C chord, it’s two triads— a Gb triad on top of a C triad. That’s where we get the two tonics, and if you voice it right, it’ll sound very pretty. But I never think about that when I play. It’s all done intuitively. All I think about is trying to create a melody. I try not to think about what scale I’m going to play for a G7 chord.

POST # 475 MYSTERY CASE No 23 "WHO" am I ???

You are given 10 clues to the identity of this mystery person, see how many clues you require to solve the mystery!

1. I was born on December 26, 1951 in Dayton, Ohio.





2. I was educated at the Berklee College of Music, I eventually left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.






3. I recorded with Charles Mingus in 1976, and replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton's quartet.





4. I gets my tone by running a Pro Co RAT through either a Vox AC-30 or Mesa Boogie amplifier. Some of my effects include an Ibanez CS9 Analog Chorus, a Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler, and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler.






5. Some of my additional effects include a Digitech XP100 Whammy/Wah, a Boss EQ Pedal, a Boss Loop Station, and a Boomerang phrase sampler pedal. I use Dunlop Delrin 2 mm picks.







6. Touring the world approximately 200 days per year with my own groups, I am an Adjunct Professor of Music at New York University, a husband and father of two.







7. I am a masterful jazz improviser whose music generally falls somewhere between post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B.







8. In autumn 1976 I signed a contract with Enja Records, and released my first album, in 1977.






9. In 1982, I joined Miles Davis, with whom I remained for three and a half years. I contributed tunes and guitar work to three Davis recordings, Star People, You're under Arrest and Decoy.







10. My longtime stage and recording guitar is a 1981 Ibanez AS200. Ibanez currently makes a signature model after me.





I am.... ????????


Answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbQdXBSxpw

POST # 474 Gregg Allman on Writing Songs

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
Gregg Allman

POST # 473 Joe Satriani on Working on the Music and Creativity

With music I know that something great is going to happen because the whole experience feels great. Of course, there is a lot of work that will go into it, and I will sink into horrible depths of momentary depression because I can’t find that last note or the missing chord. But, when it starts to come, creating is the greatest thing in the world.

POST # 472 Ebay Price Guide - Vintage 1966-1967 VOX Tone Bender V828 Tonebender Fuzz

Made famous by the Beatles and featured on many tracks throughout Rubber Soul, Revolver and many other Beatles albums and recordings.

Here's the blurb from the seller...scroll down to see how much it sold for!


Up for auction is a Vintage Vox Tone Bender in great working condition!

Made in Italy, this Vox Tone Bender has the SFT 363E and SFT 337 transistors and is one of the earlier units with the black "Vox" logo face plate and hammerite enclosure, dating it to somewhere in 1966-1967.

Over the years I've owned several tone bender variations, including another early grey vox tone bender as well as DAM 1966 (easily the best vox tone bender recreation). I can safely say that this fuzz sounds just like a great tonebender should and you will not be disappointed... I found this unit to sound slightly better than the other two pedals I just mentioned. It has plenty of output level and is not noisy as some vintage fuzz pedals can get over time.

At one point the output jack started to come apart, so I replaced it with a switchcraft jack... I still have the original jack and can include it, but the replacement has a much more solid connection. The only other parts that look like they might have been replaced are the 9v battery lead and the rubber feet.

Please ask any questions you may have before bidding.









Winning bid: US $525.00


Pictured here is another 60's Tone Bender (black writing on white faceplate) on Ebay sold recently at Winning bid: US $265.00