Here is the original thread: http://markweinguitarlessons.com/fo...ired-Albert-Lee-for-a-private-show-and-you-re
I figured we could discuss in a fresh thread, though.
Frickin awesome. We only got to see the first set but it was killer...the band was really good (especially the piano player) and Albert was incredible.
A shot of the "venue" behind us:
Albert singing:
The other guitar player, piano and bass player:
They played a ton of "oldies" rock and roll and country music for the first set that we saw. We had to be home by 10pm last night so we had to leave at the break and miss the second set but Modern Saint and family, tgk03 and his wife and my student TAB and his wife were there for the whole thing so I'm sure we'll get more pics and stories.
A few details:
Albert played one of his signature guitars with all single coils and and a tremolo through a Fender Tonemaster half stack. In the effects loop of the amp (I think this is where it went) was a Korg tuner and a Korg A3 effects unit:
The Korg A3 is pretty old...I didn't realize it since his looks brand new:
When I did my demo of his signature model I was surprised at how the bridge pickup sounded and many people commented that the bridge pickup sounded terrible...I kind of thought that perhaps the bridge and middle pickups weren't there to be played by themselves but to sound good together and get the perfect out of phase sounds....since Albert spent most of the night playing in the #2 position followed by the neck pickup and then the #4 position for a few songs I'm thinking that I was right.
The other guitar player was playing a Fender Prosonic head through a Matchless cab with a bunch of pedals and spent the entire night in the #2 position on his strat. I kind of felt like it would have been nicer to have a contrasting guitar tone instead....
As far as technique goes, the one thing that I really pickup up on was that both Albert and the other guitar player spent the whole night picking from the wrist with the forearm almost anchored on the front of the guitar. There was quite a bit of moving the picking hand back and fort on the string to get different tones, too.
All in all we had a great time.
I figured we could discuss in a fresh thread, though.
Frickin awesome. We only got to see the first set but it was killer...the band was really good (especially the piano player) and Albert was incredible.
A shot of the "venue" behind us:
Albert singing:
The other guitar player, piano and bass player:
They played a ton of "oldies" rock and roll and country music for the first set that we saw. We had to be home by 10pm last night so we had to leave at the break and miss the second set but Modern Saint and family, tgk03 and his wife and my student TAB and his wife were there for the whole thing so I'm sure we'll get more pics and stories.
A few details:
Albert played one of his signature guitars with all single coils and and a tremolo through a Fender Tonemaster half stack. In the effects loop of the amp (I think this is where it went) was a Korg tuner and a Korg A3 effects unit:
The Korg A3 is pretty old...I didn't realize it since his looks brand new:
from what I could hear he was running a light chorus and some delay....I didn't get a chance to really talk to him other than shaking his hand and saying that I really enjoyed the music. I feel bad about hassling guys like that during their breaks.
The Korg A3, now out of production, was originally released during the 1980’ and is fondly remembered as one of the best of the early rack mount effects units. Korg marketed the A3 an all in one multi Digital multi effects unit. The unit had 19 built in effects groups including 41 different types of effects to choose from and came with 20 built in effects chains. The chains and individual parameter settings of each effect could be edited and stored in one of 100 program slots on the RAM memory.
Effects available included reverb, compressor, distortion, delay, stereo delay, modulation delay, phaser, pitch shift and EQ. The A3 included Korg’s Digital Signal Processor which aimed to eliminate signal degradation. The A3 also utilized 4 times over sampling techniques to preserve the tones and provide a high quality output. The A3 allowed upto 6 effects at once which could be set up in a chain – the chain could then have his it’s own master volume, noise gate etc.
When I did my demo of his signature model I was surprised at how the bridge pickup sounded and many people commented that the bridge pickup sounded terrible...I kind of thought that perhaps the bridge and middle pickups weren't there to be played by themselves but to sound good together and get the perfect out of phase sounds....since Albert spent most of the night playing in the #2 position followed by the neck pickup and then the #4 position for a few songs I'm thinking that I was right.
The other guitar player was playing a Fender Prosonic head through a Matchless cab with a bunch of pedals and spent the entire night in the #2 position on his strat. I kind of felt like it would have been nicer to have a contrasting guitar tone instead....
As far as technique goes, the one thing that I really pickup up on was that both Albert and the other guitar player spent the whole night picking from the wrist with the forearm almost anchored on the front of the guitar. There was quite a bit of moving the picking hand back and fort on the string to get different tones, too.
All in all we had a great time.
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