Get it while it's hot - Epiphone Newport alert

[TBird1958]

 Sweet Bass! 

[Stjofön Big]

A Marshall Grant number? Are you getting lazy?
What a beauty!

[uwe]

Can anybody explain to me what a "Marshall Grant number" means? As long as it is unrelated to anal sex I'd like to know.

[Barklessdog]

You already know everything about the Dark recesses of the abyss?

[gweimer]

Can anybody explain to me what a "Marshall Grant number" means? As long as it is unrelated to anal sex I'd like to know.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but Marshall Grant was Johnny Cash's bass player who had the black Epiphone Newport back in the '60s.  It's the one on the cover of Live at San Quentin, as I recall.

[rockinrayduke]

Thass right.

[Dave W]

[Stjofön Big]

Marshall played the opposite to busy bass. Most of the time it was dump-dump, dump-dump... On the other hand, it was what was needed in that simple  but effective music of Johnny Cash. Just listen to Luther Perkins on the guitar; he played the same thing, only lifted the second tone one octave. Economics, those guys. Today they would be natural aspirers for any finance department in the western world.

[TBird1958]

Can anybody explain to me what a "Marshall Grant number" means? As long as it is unrelated to anal sex I'd like to know.

 To quote somebody  else.................Ask me, I here to help. 

[uwe]

Thanks, now I do remember. Grant was originally a country doublebass player, basically he did not change that economic and reduced style when he switched to the Newport especially given his boss' penchant to play bass lines on the guitar.

[nofi]

speaking of cash and prison i read this on a review of his box set. on the live at folsom prison album there is a well known line where the whole place erupts after cash sings, ' i shot a man in reno just to watch him die'. turns out the thunderous applause and hollering were  spliced in after the fact in the studio. never happened.  

[Dave W]

speaking of cash and prison i read this on a review of his box set. on the live at folsom prison album there is a well known line where the whole place erupts after cash sings, ' i shoot a man in reno just to watch him die'. turns out the thunderous applause and hollering were  spliced in after the fact in the studio. never happened.

That probably happens more often than we know.

[uwe]

Just like THE live album of the late seventies, Frampton Comes Alive (every household had one), features audience applause from a Grand Funk Railroad gig, probably even from their first Live album.

Or how two of the tracks of UFO's famous Strangers in the Night were recorded weeks later in the studio (though "live" there) and then adorned with audience noise by producer Ron Nevison who is to this day proud of the fact that he matched their live sound so closely.

Next thing we know, Elvis didn't laugh on those live recordings either ... Which track was it again? "Are you lonesome tonight?"?

During those Cash prison concerts, security was tough. Had the inmates cheered at Cash singing about the murder of another guy, I'm sure the authorities would have threatend to pull the gig (and prompted a riot!).

[Dave W]

The earliest example I can think of is The Premiers' "Farmer John" from 1964. All those party sounds were added later to make it sound live.

[gweimer]

Well, I took it out tonight to our gig.  We did a benefit show - only 2 sets, so I thought it would be fun.  I also brought the Magnatone.  Little did I know that we were playing outdoors, and the temp got down in the 40's.  Yikes!  The Epi was everything I expected.  Mud everywhere, so I had to tweak my amp.  The neck on this one has definitely been shaved down, so it's a fun bass to play.  I'll need to work on the intonation, but I'm sure it looked cool under the lights with my white shirt and denim jacket.  I may have pics tomorrow.