Apache (By Cobalt)

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• granitehead

  January 2006

  I love this!! If \"Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers\" and \"Wendell Mercantile\" mean anything to you, you'll know why.
  Great job! - g

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• Cobaltblooz

  February 2006

  Hey THANX ! thats actually my Stienberger playing all 3 guitar parts with different settings on each (drums & bass are from a backing track MP3)...I saturated the reverb on GNX and then added even MORE reverb in Pro Tracks with the Pantheon.I really love the sound of old Surf instramental records ( I used \"Hillbilly\" and \"Pickin\" and \"BlackBass\" with some tweaking )...this is a song I heard a couple of constuction workers play on they're lunch break on acoustics around 1978...I was a hard rock kid ...but the song was so atmospheric it made me research all the surf greats (Ventures,Shadows,Chanteys,Dick Dale...) I still love a good heavy metal shred fest , but there are some newer surf bands that just kill me ( Los Straightjackets , The Mermen...)

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• Cobaltblooz

  February 2006

  Red Knuckles I never heard of , so I googled them...I'l have to check out \"Hot Rize\" and some of the side projects....THANX fo the heads up

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• granitehead

  February 2006

  Hot Rize IMO was *the* best bluegrass band of the 80s and 90s. Old school bluegrassers (Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, etc) always made their bands wear somber, matching suits and ties... very straight laced. The Hot Rize guys were pretty wacky and loved to poke fun at the 1st generation while still honoring their music; they'd wear their suits and ties and be real straight arrows during their bluegrass set, but then they'd take a break to let the band that rode in the back of the bus, RK and the TB out for a few numbers. They'd come back on stage dressed in outrageously flamboyant cowboy get-ups with fringe-trimmed vests, rhinestone sunglasses, cowboy hats (of course) boots and spurs... what a hoot. Then they'd rip it up with country swing tunes ala Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys. Tal, you'd've loved it! \"Wendell Mercantile\" (Nick Forster) was the lead guitar player with an ego as big as the western sky. Apache was his signature tune.
  Charles \"Slade\" Sawtelle has since passed away, so it's an era gone by. I really miss those guys.
  - g

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