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I love the idea of a B-bender but don't particularly see any need for the sound it makes!
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Nashville West, one of my fave Byrds things and only just found this live version...
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Also also... my autistic dude does... GENE CLARKE!
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It's bloody great, isn't it? Such a sad tale...
More fun Clarence B-bender background stuff, Gene Parsons on building the first one and Marty Stuart on how he came to own Clarence White's telecaster...
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My lovely mate Mick (a gen-u-wine '70s pub rock hero who kicked off his recording career playing on You Turn Me On by Ian Whitcomb in 1965 but he'll spit fucking feathers if you ask him about that) has a story about b-benders. Apparently in the early '70s the only guys in the UK who had them were Albert Lee and Big Jim Sullivan. They both had Teles with David Evans benders – the only ones officially licensed by Gene Parsons, but impossible to get.
So one day Mick casually borrowed Big Jim's Telecaster on a pretext, rushed it home, disassembled it, copied the shit out of the mechanism (I've seen the actual blueprint), handed Jim his guitar back a day later without so much as twitching an eyebrow, then vanished into his garage for weeks, built his own perfect version and installed it into his own guitar. And he still has it... it's a white '68 maple neck Tele with a humbucker in the neck. Amazing guitar.
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playing on You Turn Me On by Ian Whitcomb in 1965 but he'll spit fucking feathers if you ask him about that)
Turns him off a bit, does it? :)
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You'd be turned off too. Basically the singer pissed off to America with the recording, leaving the whole band behind, and had a solo hit with it - No. 8 on the national Billboard chart.
Here's Mick in happier times circa 1973. He's the one with the Gibson 345. If there is any footage more pub rock than this, I have yet to see it...
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I've always fancied a B-Bender Tele, would consider a Nashville Deluxe and retrofitting a bender even...
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Man, that Bees make Honey clip is rad. Hairline goals!
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Nope. Linky for the Gene doc pls?
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Ha, OK, I had no idea that there were shenanigans like that. Not nice. Good video.
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Amazing, thanks dude x
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Ace! That's tonight's viewing sorted. Thanks fella!
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I'm pretty stoked about my new bass. As a second hand hobbyist build it was fairly inexpensive, but it has cool stuff like self-built pickups (apparently with an individual coil for each string) and carbon fiber wrapped neck. I don't have experience with a ton of different basses, but I think this plays and sounds really good.
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I have a couple of guitars to sell as well. They spend their time in the case and I do not have time to play at all. A Maton MS500 and an Ephipone Casino Gary Clark Jr (with Gibson P90). On Reverb at the moment; please drop me a DM if interested.