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Gear Discussion Forums => Guitars Etc. => Topic started by: Rhythm N. Bliss on December 03, 2010, 02:46:35 PM
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Rory Gallagher playing solos on a Coral sitar!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEQOmGISHM
Steve Vai plays a Coral sitar on a WS song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZH5BxCSSA
It's not on the '87 album that's pictured tho, it's on the next one--Slip o' the Tongue. :)~
I've got a Radha Krishna Sharma sitar which is very beautiful & sounds magnificent. The Real Deal!
I've taken only 5 classes but my teacher's so good I already sound sort of like I know what I'm doing! :P
I'm composing my first original piece on sitar already! It's called Sunset.
It has elements of the Moody Blues song by the same name, which was a spontaneous occurence that works out PERFECTLY for my instrumental.
Been working up an instrumental version of Norwegian Wood too since I just learned that Duane Allman played sitar on that & that song done instrumentally would open shows he & Gregg did with the Hourglass in Cali in '67!
I've heard that David Crosby told George about sitars but another story is that George discovered one on the set of Help! or Hard Day's Night.
Anyway...
George made a trippy album called Wonderwall which was a movie soundtrack (the movie SUCKED pretty bad)
While still with the Beatles he recorded Wonderwall & the sessions also produced his song Inner Light:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YF_xj71KpA
Lyrics are basically from the Tao Te Ching. This was George's first song on a single. It was the B side of Lady Madonna.
Within You, Without You is gorgeous too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAADkgJBxhY
I told my sitar teacher I gotta learn to play that before I die!
Raga Rock is a 60s thing. I aim to bring it back in style!
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My neighbor across the street had a Jerry Jones electric sitar. It seems that Jones must have a lifelong fascination with that Danelectro catalog. I had one when I was a kid, and it featured both Danelectro and Coral products. I still remember the photos of Pete Townshend.
Anyway, here's another song that I'm pretty sure uses a sitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B6afWqjSwQ
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There's a small Coral sitar solo in Vai's Bledsoe Blvd. around 1:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEo_c5evvM
I like the Tommy Mars vocal bit at 2:25 too. Love to sing along and torture my wife and kids with that ;D
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Pete had a Coral guitar. Never seen him with a Coral Sitar?
In the Beatles Gear book is a nice episode of the Beatles never using the Coral Sitar:)
Love the sitar part in that Spinal Tap song!
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Yeah I don't remember seeing or hearing Townsend ever playing a Coral sitar.
Zep is the band most known for Eastern influences but no sitar either.
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Yeah I don't remember seeing or hearing Townsend ever playing a Coral sitar.
Zep is the band most known for Eastern influences but no sitar either.
I guess I was a little vague. The catalog had all the Danelectro and Coral products. Townshend was pictured with a Coral guitar. I never meant to imply that he used a Coral Sitar.
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Okay, sorry. I thought you implied that:) My mistake!
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Duane Allman in a "contractual obligation" recording for Liberty records...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3f8F12V6E
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJQ4288J7A
On the video the Coral Sitar has transformed into a Les Paul! ;D
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Isn't there a Gallagher song on Top Priority where he plays a sitar sound? Always thought it was just a guitar with effects. Sounds good regardless.
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Duane Allman in a "contractual obligation" recording for Liberty records...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3f8F12V6E
Not really diggin' what they did with it. hahaa haaaaaaaaa
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJQ4288J7A
On the video the Coral Sitar has transformed into a Les Paul! ;D
This is a bad flashback to jr. high days. I liked this song then so I cringe now.
Funny how the Coral Sitar sound is coming from the LP tho. lol
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Well Zep never used a sitar on a toon but they did use tablas!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OYZm4RhFE
I've got tablas too & just got new heads on 'em so they sound wonderful.
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Classic Moody Blues~ more 60s flashback tracks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkUfarjVO8
Beautiful!
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Isn't there a Gallagher song on Top Priority where he plays a sitar sound? Always thought it was just a guitar with effects. Sounds good regardless.
See first post, first vid on this thread. :D
I'm hearing it for the 11th time today-it's officially my Current Fav Song!
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Ahh ok sorry bout that. No youtube here atm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM
See? THAT'S what I'm talking about!
This was when Spinal Tap were really good! What happened?
How could they go from such Peace & Love & good happiness stuff to that degraded METAL crap they put out in the 80s?
They were GREAT! lol
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it's not like they are real or anything...
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That drummer won't last long...
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Here's a real cool sitar song & vid for ya:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
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I use a J.Jones electric sitar on a couple songs with The Eggmen.
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One o' the first music videos. heh Black & white even.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU
Dave Mason on bass & sitar!! He went on to become quite the guitarist tooo
Saw him solo a bunch of times at the Troubador in L.A. in the early 70s
Saw Traffic a lot too but even when Mason rejoined the band for Welcome To The Canteen they didn't perform this gem.
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Quantum Leap! Made 11 bucks yesterday & 12 today playing sitar on HB pier!!
Dinner tastes extra goood when you earn it playing music!!
I'm a freakin' PRO baby! :mrgreen:
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Went back out late last night for an hour & a half & made another 28 bucks!
Add the $12 I made in the aft. & that's $40 for the day. Not bad!
Took a bass & my little battery powered amp out to the pier today for an hour.
Made 8 bucks. Gonna go back out with it for a few more hours tonight tooo
A cop saw me & just said Hi. Coool
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Cool!!! ;D
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Been telling the guitarplayer in my band that he oughta get a Coral sitar. He won't be getting this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vincent-Bell-Coral-Sitar-/200562560093?pt=Guitar&hash=item2eb275cc5d
Maybe a Rogue?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rogue-Electric-Sitar-Excellent-See-Video-/180607462781?pt=Guitar&hash=item2a0d0b2d7d
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At the NAMM our booth was near the Danelectro/Italia booth. Italia has an affordable Sitar now, which is a copy of the Coral.
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Yeah~ nice! & decent price.
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&-trksid=p5197.m570.lt13138&_nkw=Italia+sitar&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Do they make a lefty? :P
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Ah~ is this a coral sitar on this one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwZ2rpB_tM&feature=related
This song has a real Monterey~Animals vibe. SS must have built this off that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_fnyxHZOQ4
I've got a gig playing sitar at a show in Sac in May. Yay
Gonna play 5 songs or toons
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Just found in my storage a 4 cd set of Ravi Shankar gems called In Celebration!!!!
Gooood stuff
Ravi & his daughter Anoushka when she was younger:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXk_8_8oLY&feature=related
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_fnyxHZOQ4
I've got a gig playing sitar at a show in Sac in May. Yay
Gonna play 5 songs or toons
ALWAYS loved that Burden song!
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I found another one. I didn't remember this having sitar, but I'm pretty sure the break about 2:00 is one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFlPdHt1Gk
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I've got a Jerry Jones & a Raja Zeetar. The Zeetar was made in Japan in the '60s and was designed around the traditional sitar. I had mine restored in the late '90s & really have not used it much...the gourd bodies on these things are fiberglass, not a real gourd. They have seven main strings & a series of sympathetic strings running under the arched frets. When I had mine restored, I had the screw mounted arched frets removed & replaced with tie-on frets. I also had it set up in E to E guitar tuning with the 7th fret being an additional high E running next to the low E. The electronics are stereo, so that you can split off the sympathetic strings & send to another amp.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120072.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120071.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120070.jpg)
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I've got a Jerry Jones & a Raja Zeetar. The Zeetar was made in Japan in the '60s and was designed around the traditional sitar. I had mine restored in the late '90s & really have not used it much...the gourd bodies on these things are fiberglass, not a real gourd. They have seven main strings & a series of sympathetic strings running under the arched frets. When I had mine restored, I had the screw mounted arched frets removed & replaced with tie-on frets. I also had it set up in E to E guitar tuning with the 7th fret being an additional high E running next to the low E. The electronics are stereo, so that you can split off the sympathetic strings & send to another amp.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120072.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120071.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/fredelig/P3120070.jpg)
AWESOME!! I'd love to hear how that sounds!
YES!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Shh4DXGpw
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I've not messed with mine very much. It's a pain to tune & even more to keep in tune...the wooden pegs are the same friction pegs as on a traditional sitar...chalk helps but still tuning is a touchy deal. Also, I'm always worried about breaking a string...I'm not sure it all sitar strings have a ferric component that are needed with the magnetic pickups. I've not yet tried electric guitar strings to see how compatible they might be for installation.