The Guitar (and Other Musical Instruments) Thread | Page 14 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Some guitars are boys, some are girls, that’s how I roll The Fallout has a name, she’s Surfy. I kind of like the idea Todd Rundgren had, he has a seafoam green Strat-style (some Japanese make from the 80’s) guitar he calls Foamy and a Tele called Butters (guess what colour that is). Surfy would have more surfiness (that’s another new word I made up) with a trem, but she sounds close enough to a proper surfy guitar anyway. That makes 3 girl guitars and 2 boy basses in my rack.

Discovered today that the P90 does like a bit of overdrive, just enough to move it from pianoey warmth to gritty warm, and it’s plenty spanky then. My new regime is guitar practice after breakfast for as long as my fingers can take it which is about an hour and a half right now. I might need that set of NXYL’s with the lower tension on the b and e strings, it gets pretty tough at the top end with the one’s I have now which I’m assuming are EXP11’s or 10’s (very common here, the same on the SG but the tension there is lower). However it does seem that my modded compression pedal mods it too far to the liking of humbuckers vs single-coils so perhaps I need to try out a different one, its pretty transparent on the Fallout, the attack knob basically does nothing (whereas before it was too hard on a humbucker).

Guitar purchases: a bunch of Ernie Ball picks that never arrived in the mail (sending a terse but assertive email about that) but a DOD Carcosa Fuzz pedal that did, from America, cheaper than locally, within a week of ordering (that’s some kind of Christmas USPS miracle). The Carcosa is a silicon fuzz pedal that does everything from (mostly clean) boost to overdrive to distortion to several different flavours of fuzz. It also works with bass guitars. It’s the best pedal I’ve ever owned, and the only problem is now I have to remember all the settings I like. DOD or Digitech got bought out by another company, Harman who promptly sacked all the people who made their pedals 🙁 On the bright side, I can now nail the guitar sounds of most of the White Album 😀

I’ve been exercising my inner guitar freak with my carcosa fuzz. I can sing and play Pretty In Pink fairly convincingly now. Had an aha moment with the solo to Something , realizing that George was using the sound of passing over the frets as part of the sound of it and being mind-blown. That’s also something Lennon did on a regular basis as a rhythm player, using noise to add emotion.

What brand is the bass, it looks nice.

As for the name, in the episode I Call Your Name of The Beatles TV show, Ringo has a pet frog named Bartholomew, that might work.