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08-29-2015, 04:35 AM
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Guitar used on Hot Tuna's Burgers Album?
Anyone know what guitar Kaukonen used for the studio album Burgers, the one with the Water Song?
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#3
08-29-2015, 06:18 AM
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Quote:
http://www.guitaraficionado.com/smok...ey-gibson-j-50 Last edited by Yggdrasil; 08-29-2015 at 06:57 AM.
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08-29-2015, 08:02 AM
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Jorma gave an interview for Vintage Magazine a few years back, you can find it online.
He says that his J50 is the one that he learned guitar and develloped his style and own sound on!
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#5
08-29-2015, 08:56 AM
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When Jorma taught "Water Song" in my class at Fur Peace he used his J-50. He never mentioned to us which guitar he used for the recording but I strongly suspect it was the same.
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08-29-2015, 09:32 AM
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I gather Jorma picked up the J-50 from a buddy while attending college in D.C. and used it to record "Embryonic Journey."
Lightnin' Hopkins, of course, also favored a later 1950s J-50. After the release of the 1st LP and Hot Tuna's opening gigs for the Airplane (which included some acoustic numbers so you could see what Jorma was playing) it seemed everybody and their mother wanted a Gibson J-50.
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08-29-2015, 11:02 AM
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Jorma is often quoted as saying he bought it for $100 from a music store in Dayton in 1959.IIRC he bought it new.
Actually from the link I posted above: Kaukonen purchased the guitar new in 1959 at Pop’s Music Store in Dayton, Ohio. “I paid $100 cash for it and traded in a five-string banjo that I had,” he recalls. “It’s a great guitar. Fifty-eight was one of the last years before Gibson had that, in my opinion, forgettable idea about adjustable bridge saddles for each string on acoustic guitars. This is just the old-school J-50.” And this(guess I should sell my Martin Jorma Sig?): “I got the Gibson because I couldn’t afford a Martin D-18,” he confides. “But you know something? That turned out to be a good thing, because my whole acoustic style is really about my thumb rhythm. And if you want that thunky sound, Gibson is the guitar.”
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#8
08-29-2015, 09:45 PM
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I knew it! Thought it sounded like a hog j45, but you can hear the clarity of the non-sunburst.
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