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07-11-2008, 12:15 PM
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are there any demigods out there that can play dave evans songs?
aside from "steppenwolf", which has had a tab readily available for years, I can't figure out any of his stuff. he uses weird tunings and without knowing the tuning, trying to figure a song out is painfully frustrating to the point that I give up. I am wondering if any of you guys may have learned a song or two, or even just a tuning to one of his songs, that you wish to share.
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07-11-2008, 01:33 PM
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Are you talking about Dave Evans the banjo player? If so, I've never noticed any funny tunings in his songs. He might use a drop D tuning on some or maybe he is using banjo tuning, tuning the guitar to open G. Not heard all of his stuff but what I've heard has been pretty straight.
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07-11-2008, 01:59 PM
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=zqTLkgImAdU here is a video of him doing one of his numbers; "stagefright". he quit making music professionally so he could build guitars, many years ago. check out "sad pig dance" if you want a stellar fingerstyle album. if you are a fan of bruce cockburn, you will love this guy.
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07-11-2008, 03:39 PM
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A few years ago I was playing Jessica and Greyhills, I have to relearn them a little now !
Jessica is in CGDGBE and Greyhills in CGDGAD. I believe I had the tabs. I have also the tab booklet that came with Sad Pig Dance (LP version). It's just a tab without rythm, no music notation, you have to listen the tune to figure the rythm. I can provide scans of this booklet; send me a pm if interested. Tadmania is right, Stagefright is played in DADGAD. On the youtube video, Dave is playing the guitar he had built. As far as I know most of his recordings were made with this guitar. He built also a harp-guitar for Pierre Bensusan, there's a pic on Pierre's guitars webpage : http://www.pierrebensusan.com/module...owpage&pid=158 Now Dave Evans lives in Belgium, he's no longer recording and he makes ceramics and ... manages a brewery. Here is the guitar related page on his website : http://users.swing.be/devans/Lutherie.htm Nicolas.
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07-11-2008, 08:23 PM
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2) hot, I didn't think dave woudl resort to such an easy tuning, you would think I would have given it a go before, but, you guys guessed it right! this is going to take me a while, but when I am done, this is going to be tabbed out for the good of mankind  3) it breaks my heart that dave doesn't record albums anymore. he is on a short lost of people I MUST meet before they die. I actually wanted to have him build me a guitar, but the interwebs proved fruitless when I tried to find, so I gave up all hope. 4) thanks for the response! I _really_ appreciate it! Last edited by rlouie; 02-04-2010 at 05:21 PM.
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02-04-2010, 05:11 PM
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Hey Riverman, I'm always looking for posts on Dave Evans and luckily stumbled across this forum post!
How are you getting on with Stagefright? I've put a few covers I made of Dave Evans on Youtube, have a look if you like: http://www.youtube.com/user/themachinist1000 There's a cover of Stagefright on there and I have the tab if you need it Sean
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#14
09-28-2016, 03:07 AM
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Hi - I play a few Dave Evans tunes - I could video them if you like.
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#15
09-28-2016, 03:08 AM
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Easiest way to reach me is [email protected]
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