Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:10 AM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
>
>> I always thought it would be really cool to have guitar tuned C C C C C 
>C,
>>   just for the sake of
>> overtone manipulation only.
>>
>> Anyone have thoughts on this?    would I seriously screw up my strat to 
>do
>> that?
>>
> Ive done it on a bass, but with guitar strings... Are people really 
>worried
> about what a tuning can do to the neck, to be honest Ive never thought 
>about
> it... For me, the general rule has always been, if the string breaks, its
> too tight, if the action is bad, its too loose!!
>
>  Ive never been one for "alternate tunings" per se, however... Ive tried
> (till my recent and probably stuck for ever use of a baritone) all sorts 
>of
> "One man band" things for getting BASS into my setup. The most fun was
> during my band called god.com. Used a regular guitar (Ibanez) with the 
>High
> E and B string removed and with the G and D replaced with short scale 
>BASS
> strings... So... Add distortion pedal... with a regular bar chord, 
>(slighly
> avoiding the G string) you get a 2 note chord and its bass equivilant... 
>I
> experimented with weird pickups so that I could feed the bass strings 
>off to
> a seperate cab (for an UN-distorted sound,) It worked VERY well!!!
>
> to hear how it sounded: check out the tracks from God.com here:
> http://www.markfrancombe.com/empathree/archive.html
>
> The guitar is one take no overdubs... music is horrible!!!  a kind of 
>metal
> - noise - techno thing... YIKES!!! what was I thinking???
>
> mark


Hey Mark - that's just an awesome guitar sound! And I totally dig the
music!  I had a band in 88-91 that sounded very close to that, but not
with such awesome guitar sound as yours (I played more like Steve
Stevens in those days, much because everyone else thought it was
cool). We signed with a record label that went bankrupt and then
everyone wanted to move on into different directions. I think the
louder the music the shorter the band lives ;-))

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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