I love the Les Paul he had stained orange to look like Eddie Cochran's Gretsch .
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Actually I thought he had 2 or three Les Pauls but maybe they were all the same guitar.I read on the Les Paul Forum that his guitar was a Les Paul Standard or possibly a gold top that was refinished and had it's neck replaced 2 or 3 times. It has a Custom neck in the vid and a standard neck in the photos (below).
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:52 pm
by robroe
wow thats some horrible fucking lip syncing
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:55 pm
by robroe
im sitting here thinking FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu where have i heard this riff before......driving me crazy.
then i remembered!!!! teenage fanclub totally ripped this shit off. even though its not even part of the song. they just do an riff as an intro
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:33 pm
by Justin J
and the ending of the concept is freebird:
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:46 pm
by Nick
I don't hear freebird in there myself.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:59 pm
by Boab
robroe wrote:im sitting here thinking FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu where have i heard this riff before......driving me crazy.
then i remembered!!!! teenage fanclub totally ripped this shit off. even though its not even part of the song. they just do an riff as an intro
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I realise this is all going kinda off-topic, but the start of Hang On sounds like it's completely ripping off Nirvana's School, which is in turn pretty similar to T-Rex.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:38 pm
by paul_
Bolan's Les Paul was allegedly an original coveted late 50s burst, but he sanded off the finish and knocked it around a fair bit. It looks like you've heard most of what I've heard, though at one point (the last replacement neck i think) it even appears that he had a Les Paul Custom's neck converted to a bolt-on, it was one with a volute as well, possibly maple.
In the pic of him taking it out of the case, that's an old, modified Gretsch Duo Jet case with extra styrofoam neckrests jammed in. No wonder he went through so many headstocks.
He's not lip-synching in the vid, he either recorded 2 lead vocal takes or they're all playing along with a stripped-down version of the original track... Much of the T-Rex television performances contained a lot of overdubs because they were pretty bare-bones without screaming girls. I always thought the replacment bongo player was a mistake. He wasn't as good as the guy in the acoustic folk duo incarnation of TRex with Marc, and there was no need for him with the full band anyway.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:41 pm
by jcyphe
He always had amazing tones no matter what he was playing strats, jaguar, les paul. Some of my favorite tones.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:58 pm
by westtexasred
There is a great Bolan documentary on youtube:
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:17 am
by Justin J
Nick wrote:I don't hear freebird in there myself.
really? listen to the chord progression and guitar lead starting at 3:15. then compare:
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:50 pm
by Sloan
YES. THE MOAR T. REX THRADS THE BETTER.
I still want to maek a marc bolan/mic ronson tribute les paul.
i also agree heavily with jcype in this threadd as well. radocity.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:43 pm
by suede
Sloan wrote:YES. THE MOAR T. REX THRADS THE BETTER.
I still want to maek a marc bolan/mic ronson tribute les paul.
i also agree heavily with jcype in this threadd as well. radocity.
word...I was thinking the same thing that ronson also stripped his les paul....and as for tones just listen to ride a white swan with the strats...
