Leo Kottke Guitar Sale

[GCWaters]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

Leo had given up 12 String until he encountered the Taylors.


Bob

Major tendinitis if I remember correctly...

[JLT]

And the best thing is that, if you buy and play one of these, you'll sound exactly like Leo!

Not.

[DCCougar]

Originally Posted by lowrider

Boy, if I was only in the market for a $50,000 12, I'd be right there!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly!!!!

[hess]

I got the same email ... what an opportunity this is

[GBS]

Originally Posted by Taylor814

Yeah, I can't wait either. The last time I attended one of Stropes' Kottke workshops a few years ago he mentioned that they planned to complete and/or rework all of the tunes on this album, but I assumed they would just be his typical single transcriptions. Putting them all together in a complete book will be really neat. It will be interesting to see if they represent note for note transcriptions of the actual recorded pieces. More typically John would produce transcriptions that represented the point to which the composition had evolved when Kottke stopped including it in his stage repertoire, but which often didn't correlate 100% with any particular recording.

When I went, a couple of years ago, he did note that they are reworking all of them. So the Vaseline Machine Gun will be what is on the album, not the "modern" version Stropes offered for years, etc. He's been putting them out for a bit now, for many pieces just to the participants in his summer workshops. I got "Cripple Creek" as an unpublished bonus when I went.

[GBS]

Originally Posted by gfirob

Boy, you'd have to be a serious Kottke fan to pay those prices.

Surprisingly "affordable" for that vintage Bozo! Yep, a provenance markup, but not that bad. Bozo's go for pretty serious prices......

[Taylor814]

Originally Posted by GBS

When I went, a couple of years ago, he did note that they are reworking all of them. So the Vaseline Machine Gun will be what is on the album, not the "modern" version Stropes offered for years, etc. He's been putting them out for a bit now, for many pieces just to the participants in his summer workshops. I got "Cripple Creek" as an unpublished bonus when I went.

I guess I hadn't looked at Stropes' website recently; apparently he has 11 of the 14 cuts on the album already available as single transcriptions. I knew he had done a few, but not that many. I think the last workshop I attended included "The Driving of the Year Nail", but that was a few years ago. I also discovered that I have a copy of "Cripple Creek" from 'Mudlark' as well, which doesn't appear on Stropes' site, so maybe we attended the same workshop.

[chrismitchell]

I’d love to attend the 2020 workshop. I also signed up the for the emails just because I’m a big Leo fan, and want to see photos of all these amazing guitars he has used over the years. I just purchased a used copy of FBJ #38 with him on the cover. Anyone have any experience playing his Taylors or other models?

[Taylor814]

Are these guitars up on Reverb yet? I can't seem to find them if they are.

[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by chrismitchell

I’d love to attend the 2020 workshop. I also signed up the for the emails just because I’m a big Leo fan, and want to see photos of all these amazing guitars he has used over the years. I just purchased a used copy of FBJ #38 with him on the cover. Anyone have any experience playing his Taylors or other models?

It was over a decade ago and I was shopping for a 12-string when I last played a Taylor LK model. I recall liking it, and it was back and forth the Guild JF-30 I eventually bought. Part of this was the Westerly factory had just closed and kind of wanted a Westerly Guild.

I love Leo, but I don't/can't play like him. I was tuning to concert pitch or Eb to Eb then and I believe he tunes down to maybe as low a C to C. I don't recall the Taylor sounding bad at E to E though.

I play more dropped tunings now, and though I like my Guild still there are times I wonder about the "road not taken."