Albert King V

[yngwie308]

Hey thanks my mistake, senility is a drag...sort of like Manic Depression, without the cool drum fills..
That is a serious axe and also Mr. Holmes in known to wind a mean pickup, as used by many including a certain GM !
There was a time when I had a serious urge for a tweed Kendrick and the one you own is indeed a very awesome amp, there is no doubt about that.
If I started collecting various Fender or related amps, first who could beat G.E.Smith and why?? But seriously Fender amps were appreciated by me as I grew older and was more into different tones than in your face Marshall, which is what I was raised on, literally from an early age. My 'bedroom' amp was always a full out Marshall stack, that's why I am partially deef these days!!
The way Albert bends the strings he is a master of micro-tonalities that one would not expect looking at him on the face of it, but damn it's all in there.
Gary Moore said he was entertained, but could learn absolutely nothing playing with the two Albert's, Collins and King! It is so sad to lose such originals on our beloved instrument.
Digitech will not be building a COSM driven "Lucy in a bottle" pedal anytime soon, thank God for the original blues masters to inspire us.
Also, personality aside, Mr. Otis Spann was also a HUGE influence to me. Besides his work with Muddy, the sessions with Fleetwood Mac and Otis's immortal LP, featuring the stellar Peter Green "The Biggest Thing Since Colossus on Blue Horizon records, many, many years ago on a visit to London, I found a copy of this LP in an outside market.
Strongly recommended is the Hook's album "Hooker n' Heat" featuring Canned Heat backing Big John Lee, that is another treasured LP I have.
Big Bill Broonzy is another whose early work I would listen to while younger as well as Robert Johnson, well before his recordings were so widely available!!
What do those pickups read in the Tom Homes V by the way and did he use 500K pots and is it wired in the 'vintage' Gibson fashion??
Guitar
yngwie308

[bluze81]

Hey thanks my mistake, senility is a drag...sort of like Manic Depression, without the cool drum fills..
That is a serious axe and also Mr. Holmes in known to wind a mean pickup, as used by many including a certain GM !
There was a time when I had a serious urge for a tweed Kendrick and the one you own is indeed a very awesome amp, there is no doubt about that.
If I started collecting various Fender or related amps, first who could beat G.E.Smith and why?? But seriously Fender amps were appreciated by me as I grew older and was more into different tones than in your face Marshall, which is what I was raised on, literally from an early age. My 'bedroom' amp was always a full out Marshall stack, that's why I am partially deef these days!!
The way Albert bends the strings he is a master of micro-tonalities that one would not expect looking at him on the face of it, but damn it's all in there.
Gary Moore said he was entertained, but could learn absolutely nothing playing with the two Albert's, Collins and King! It is so sad to lose such originals on our beloved instrument.
Digitech will not be building a COSM driven "Lucy in a bottle" pedal anytime soon, thank God for the original blues masters to inspire us.
Also, personality aside, Mr. Otis Spann was also a HUGE influence to me. Besides his work with Muddy, the sessions with Fleetwood Mac and Otis's immortal LP, featuring the stellar Peter Green "The Biggest Thing Since Colossus on Blue Horizon records, many, many years ago on a visit to London, I found a copy of this LP in an outside market.
Strongly recommended is the Hook's album "Hooker n' Heat" featuring Canned Heat backing Big John Lee, that is another treasured LP I have.
Big Bill Broonzy is another whose early work I would listen to while younger as well as Robert Johnson, well before his recordings were so widely available!!
What do those pickups read in the Tom Homes V by the way and did he use 500K pots and is it wired in the 'vintage' Gibson fashion??
Guitar
yngwie308

As always you know your music! I have heard many of cuts an albums you mentioned, classic stuff, I beleive the V is wired in Gibson standard style,but I will check it, one of the guys at the shop has had the guitar and he might have peeked inside of it I have not yet,The guitar belongs to a good friend of ours, I will post all the specs on the electronics, The Kendrick amp in the picture has a different story,Gerald Weber told me that those models were a limited run,the cabinet wood is pine thats over a hundred year old,it was flooring salvaged out of an old building in Dallas that was a Whorehouse way back when! true story.

[fatcatefx]

let's not forget about another great lefty strung righty player -- Eric Gales..awesome guitar player.