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Greg, I'll send you an MP3 once I get an idea of what the song will be like]]> Opinions and Polls Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289662 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289654 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:11 +0000
Guild X-150 in blonde
Guild X-150 in dark wood
Eastwood Tuxedo in black
Big jazz box (maybe a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion....not that I've spent hours drooling or anything......)
a hardtail strat
Danelectro U2 (why I never bought one of those dirt-cheap reissues, I'll never know)

and voice-modelling plug-ins for Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Susan Tedeschi/Bonnie Raitt, and Jeff Buckley


not too much to ask, is it? :roll:

I'm undecided about bigsby/no bigsby as of yet. unfortunately, 'research' rarely results in me whittling down a specific choice but, rather (as evidenced above), expanding the list.]]> Opinions and Polls Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289654 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289652 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:42:19 +0000
Nick: if you like, we can work up the tune for this summer's jam.]]> Opinions and Polls gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289652 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289650 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:33:13 +0000
Nick, you are truly awesome........that natural wood Guild is so prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :P :P :P


Scrybe wonders just how good a girl she'd have to be for father christmas to supply an Eastwood Tuxedo, an old blonde Guild, and that Guild for christmas??? hmm.....

Seriously liking the song. I've been on a bit of a Tom Waits kick recently, although I was introduced to him years back, and I've been grateful ever since. I've been writing a few things recently which definitely fall into that vein, including one (or two) SSG contributions. Record that tune, and I'll pull my finger out and get onto dealing with mine and succumb to posting the recorded shame of my voice. Deal? :wink:]]> Opinions and Polls Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289650 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289640 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:48:00 +0000 all it ever tells me is, it's too late That is brilliant.]]> Opinions and Polls KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289640 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289634 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:48:14 +0000
I've got no idea what the guitar is though.

Update....."A battered blond Guild has been used by Tom Waits since his early days (he could be seen playing a Guild throughout his recent Real Gone Tour)." From a Wiki article...

From Rolling Stone: "In a dim white spotlight, Waits straps on a battered blond Guild guitar."

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Perhaps an early model of the X-170:




More pictures here:

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/40U-4353.htm

Maybe a 150


A 1976 Guild Artist:




Walkin' man © Nick Torres 2003

Walk on down to Mickey's bar and grill
Pull up my stool, drinkin' beer after beer
I sit and drink until I get my fill
drownin' my sorrows tear after tear.

Walked down Main to the five and dime
got me a calendar shows me the date
got me a watch, what a waste of time
all it ever tells me is, it's too late

Chorus:

I'm a walkin' man, a man just like you
Lost my reason on the road, got nothin' to do
I'm a walkin' man, tryin' to walk on home
I'm a walkin' lost, walkin alone

Walked on down to Smitty's liquor store
Chuck at the register he knows my pain
He says "You can't be drunk 'cause you need some more"
got a fifth of cheap bourbon, it's all the same

Walked on down to the park to sit
watch the moms watch the kids go running by
I put up my feet to rest them a bit
Mom, she's watching me, corner of her eye

Chorus:

I'm a walkin' man, a man just like you
Lost my reason on the road, got nothin' to do
I'm a walkin' man, tryin' to walk on home
I'm a walkin' lost, walkin alone

Walked on down that night on south ninety five
past underpass condos of rags and bones
headlights and diesel move like they're alive
walkin' 'cross the water, walkin' on home]]> Opinions and Polls Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289634 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289632 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:35:17 +0000
The Tuxedo is v. Gretsch-like, but with P90s. Hot s**t there! You like with or w/o Bigsby?]]> Opinions and Polls gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289632 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289600 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:42:18 +0000
There've been a few Teisco's on Ebay recently (UK anyways, dunno if they were posting worldwide), in case that takes your fancy. I got tempted to bid on one sans pups to make my own blues-axe-of-doom with, but my swamp ash strat body called my name and I went running.

Yup, Tom is great. I haven't listened to him for a while, but have been in a big Tom-mood the past month or so for some reason (perhaps in an effort to convince myself if he can sing and people buy it, I might have some chance of not being stoned for doing the same, lol, perhaps I should try Britney at the MTV awards instead?)]]> Opinions and Polls Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289600 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289593 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:59:01 +0000
Tom is good stuff. Still have 'Small Change' on vinyl somewhere. Used to get played out the windows at uni.]]> Opinions and Polls gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289593 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289574 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:49:04 +0000

Right now, I'm gassing for either that one, an Eastwood Tuxedo, or a big ol' jazzbox.

Or maybe an Ibanez AWD72 - http://www.curlymusic.co.uk/index.pl?browse=products&id=91&detail=3 but I think I'd be looking for a pup change if I went for that one.


Or a lottery win, in which case, all of the above. :lol:

Somethin' old and nasty. Guitars, that is, not Tom. Although I wouldn't mind him, too. :shock:]]> Opinions and Polls Scrybe https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/i-want-this-guitar/#post-289574