One time, having nothing better to do, I packed up my WEM Copicat, jumped on a bus to Kennington, found the WEM factory, managed to find my way into a large, large room, full of electrical spares, piled up on tables. In the middle of it all was a young man, ( hell, I was a young man!), whose name I have no idea, working with a soldering iron.
I can’t remember what we talked about, let alone how I explained what I was doing there.
The upshot was that I asked him if he could slow my Copicat down, as the echoes were too fast for my liking. He took the thing apart, soldered a bit here and there, sent a beep through, asking me if it was long enough. Eventually he got it just right, and put the thing back together. A little bit more chat, and then I was on my way home. I’d spent about 3 hours there.
Once home, I plugged/plumbed it in, plugged in my SG copy (this was before I could afford a real Gibson), and wow! An amazing chorusy echo, like I never heard before or since.
Years passed and one day that Copicat went back home to the Great Factory In The Sky.
That sound/fx/echo is my Holy Grail of delay. I’m still trying to recapture it.
Your turn…
edit:
That Copicat cost me £50.50 in 1971. I think that would be around £630 today.
@dougmon Yeah, the new ones look great, but that price is wild. Hard to believe how much gear has shot up over the years. Wonder if they sound anything like the originals.
Probably 40 years ago I bought a new Mu-Tron Bi-Phase. I played guitar through it for about 4 months and and couldn’t figure out what all the hype was about. I think I sold it for pennies on the dollar. These days a used one is selling for between $2k and $3k. I wish I would have just stuck it in the back of the closet rather than selling it.
@Googly_Shakespeare Every single time I stumble upon the title of this thread I can’t help but to continue the phrase using the opening line of ACDC’s “Whole Lotta Rosie”.
You did that on purpose, didn’t you?
Actually, it’s a reference to Max Bygraves, an English comedian/singer from the 1950s through to the 1980s. He and my mother were close neighbours in Rotherhithe when they were kids. “I wanna tell you a story” was how he began the comedy part of his act (after the singing and dancing).
And (lowers voice to a whisper) I never liked AC/DC!
(It’s an hour long video but the reference is a 1:01)
Whaaaaaaattt??? Just kidding, all good…
I guess you like your guitar sound a bit more on the creamy side with a more round sort of saturation/distortion, right?
What’s really amazing about Angus Young is the tone he produces on his guitar before the sound hits any amplification. That’s really cool. When it comes to rhythm and groove - ACDC are unbelievably tight - like a force of nature. I am not going to tell you if I am a fan - that’s just the musician speaking
I respect the band, it’s just a matter of taste. For which there is no accounting.
My guitar heroes are (in no particular order):
Jimi Hendrix
Hank Marvin (listen to Atlantis, by The Shadows)
Dave Gilmour
Frank Zappa
Samantha Fish (when she had a trio)
Joe Satriani
Robin Trower (who liked JH so much he completely changed his style)
I’m going to post the “guitar solo” from the last project I’ve been working on. It’s a few years old, but I’ve “tweaked” it a bit.
I love that album. It was the third one I bought - after The Sound Of Music soundtrack (what? It’s brilliant, especially Do Re Mi!) and Sgt Pepper. I was 13. Ah me.
I was born five years after 1967, but in 1989 I started to listen intensively to that one and to other early PF albums. And when I met in 1996 the girl that is today my wife, I realized she had “The Piper…” among her music, in cassette in those days. I said nooo waayyy.
