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Silly Moustache 10-05-2018 03:04 PM

David Rawlings ?
 
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Is there anybody on this corner of the forum who will admit that they got into archtops because of David R and his Epiphone Olympic(s) ?

(Apart from me that is).

rockabilly69 10-05-2018 03:17 PM

what do you think...

https://i.imgur.com/UGfJtAR.jpg?2

Silly Moustache 10-05-2018 03:44 PM

Very Cool Rocky!

rockabilly69 10-05-2018 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Silly Moustache (Post 5855275)
Very Cool Rocky!

I've always been a fan of how he plays right around Gillain Welch's skeletal rhythms!

PeteCady 10-05-2018 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rockabilly69 (Post 5855342)
I've always been a fan of how he plays right around Gillain Welch's skeletal rhythms!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7knB3VtAqY

It's the bit with the capo, late in the song, that gets me.

David Eastwood 10-05-2018 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by PeteCady (Post 5855345)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7knB3VtAqY

It's the bit with the capo, late in the song, that gets me.

Holy cow. I need to watch more of these two.

rockabilly69 10-05-2018 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by PeteCady (Post 5855345)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7knB3VtAqY

It's the bit with the capo, late in the song, that gets me.

Yes that one does it for me too!

Evanelk 10-05-2018 09:04 PM

I think that remote control in the middle is signed by Lloyd Loar

Zissou Intern 10-06-2018 05:51 AM

David and Gillian are incredibly talented. David's flatpicking is in a realm of its own. I ran across an Eastman 805 a few years ago and came so close to buying it with delusions that I could maybe sound like David. Then I came to my senses, realizing that ain't gonna happen in this lifetime.

Silly Mustache: Thanks for the lovely archtop comparison video on Youtube.

Silly Moustache 10-06-2018 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Zissou Intern (Post 5855621)
David and Gillian are incredibly talented. David's flatpicking is in a realm of its own. I ran across an Eastman 805 a few years ago and came so close to buying it with delusions that I could maybe sound like David. Then I came to my senses, realizing that ain't gonna happen in this lifetime.

Silly Mustache: Thanks for the lovely archtop comparison video on Youtube.

Zissou, thanks for that. Shoulda bought that AR805 = I love mine but it doesn't have that nasal sound that the old Epi Olympics do.
The Harmony might be closer, which was my first departure to archtops back in 2006.

If anybody would like to view that 3 archtop comparison I made - here it is:


Silly Moustache 10-06-2018 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by rockabilly69 (Post 5855370)
Yes that one does it for me too!

and if you have an hour to bliss out - watch this well filmed David/Gillian show made in 2004 in London :




edit - dunno why this wonlt work...try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eF7gywHMxw&t=2023s

murrmac123 10-06-2018 08:18 AM


THart 10-06-2018 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Silly Moustache (Post 5855639)
... doesn't have that nasal sound that the old Epi Olympics do.



I like that description. My resonator sounds more like that Olympic than my archtop does.

tdq 10-06-2018 06:35 PM

Huge fan of his guitar and his playing. But, funnily enough, it was Sarah Jarosz playing a fletcher brock octave mandolin that got me pursuing an archtop. I just love the sound of it but I'm no mandolin player - not sure if this is the actual clip but it'll do!


gmr 10-06-2018 07:40 PM

We just had the privilege of seeing Gillian And Dave in a small venue in OKC. I am a big fan of their music. Their vocals and their playing are so complimentary to each other.... it’s uncanny, really. I bought one of the new Epiphone Olympic modelS when they came but sold it when we sold our home and I needed to thin my herd. I regretted it that day and still do. I know a lot of archtop affficianados are not fans of the new Epi’s but for what they are, they do a very nice job, and I don’t think the intent if them was/is meant to be a faithful copy of their originals, but even still, the Olympic is quite nice. And plugged in, that thing sounded big! Oh, and that was one of the better concerts we have ever seen. David and Gillian are incredibly gracious and kind, engaging, and supremely talented in their musical genre.


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