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Old 04-11-2014, 01:00 PM
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Default Amazing Moonglow acoustic performance

I feel like we should share more good performances in the archtop forum section.

Here's a phenomenal one that I found while searching for good versions of Moonglow, one of my favorite songs. This is Jodi Jean singing with Aylon Samouha playing guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hGXaNy2VmI

They're both clearly phenomenal, but there's something more than that - they compliment each other so well and the result if very sincere, if that makes sense. Anyway, it's one of my favorite versions that I've found. Enjoy!
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Old 04-12-2014, 03:32 AM
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Beautiful. He knows his way around that old Guild too.

I think it's rare. A 2 pick-up T100?
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Like it! How come I haven't heard of them!

T-100? Great guess, and you might be right. Also, could be a very early Starfire II maybe.
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Now, that's my kinda jazz! Nice voice, guitar, and love that groove!
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Like it! How come I haven't heard of them!

T-100? Great guess, and you might be right. Also, could be a very early Starfire II maybe.
I'm paging through Hans Moust's Guild Guitar book. And I'm changing my guess to a CE100D. The 'D' was for double pickups. And the pickups were white-faced like he's playing. The T100 D has silver-faced pick-ups. The body was thin too.

The early Starfires also had the white-faced pick-ups. The SF2 was a thin body too. The SF3 came stock w/ a Guildsby vibrato.

I'm guessing just based on the sound, it's a CE100D. I don't know how a Starfire II sounds with Jazz. Never heard one play it. Design-wise, they're similar except for the thin body.
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I went back to look at Moust's book too. Can't add anything to your comments, except that I have a Starfire II and it probably could never sound as good as that guy.

Also, I did get to hang at Hans Moust's house once for a morning, to chat Guilds, and look at some fantastic guitars. THAT was a good day.
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I was watching this again today and thought it would be worth bumping the thread for another look. What a performance!
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Ben,
Thanks for bumping this thread. I hadn't seen your original post.
Fantastic performance.
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Thanks Yogi, I'm glad you enjoyed it and hope all is well!
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I was watching this again today and thought it would be worth bumping the thread for another look. What a performance!
Thank you very much for doing so; I had missed it the first time around. Splendid performances by both!
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Old 06-24-2015, 07:26 AM
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Excellent! Looks like he was very influenced by Ted Greene's arrangement of that tune
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