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    Montuoro Guitars

    in Solid State Technology

    Posted

    Found this poking around the site of Wilco's guitar tech. and luthier, Frankie Montuoro.

     

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    Here's the blurb they have on it:

    "This guitar was designed and built for Jeff Tweedy.

    The project stemmed from a love for those early 30's

    Gibson Nick Lucas's. What a brilliant instrument and

    design. And one of the really great attributes of some

    of those guitars is 13 Frets to the body. Some feel

    its the obviously great mixture of the 12 and 14 fret

    counterparts. And there's really not many 13 Fret

    guitars ready available.

     

    We went for the great styling of the Waverly Banjo

    Tuners. They not only have a classic look. But

    function very much like tuners on Slot Head's.

    Ergonomically speaking."

    Nel's guitar on "War On War"..........

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Was that the Rockaplast show from 2004 by any chance? The sound is a little off on that one, I assume Wilco didn't get a soundcheck or the sound crew was just doing a really shitty job. It's still a pretty entertaining video, but the sound is a little rough. I am a fan of pretty much everything Nels brings to the table, but I do prefer War on War with the double acoustic guitar sound from YHF or the 2001 shows with Jay and Glenn.

     

    --Mike

     

    It was the Rockplast Show. Your probably right about them not getting a sound check an having a bad sound crew, there are some other sound messups in that show. But it's still a great video, I love the sunglasses.

    Nel's guitar on "War On War"..........

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I hate it.

     

    I've been listening to music my whole life and I'm pretty sure I know by now when something sounds right and when something sounds f*cked up. I have a bunch of live recordings of that song with Nel and his guitar sounds like it's out of tune. Either that or he's trying to do something different in the song that is just not working. The 1 minute of footage on IATTBYH where they rehearse the song on stage sounds perfect, I always thought that THAT is what that song should sound like live. All due respect to Nel of course...but it just isn't happening on that song.

     

    Or hell maybe it's Jeff that's f*cking it up.

     

    Anyone else notice this or am I alone on this island?

     

    I noticed it too in one of their live shows from Germany. In the intro part of the song Nels slides something that looks like a slide, across the high parts of the strings past the bridge. My guess is that doing that puts the guitar out of tune.

     

    I only noticed it in that one show which is from 04' I believe. In the newer shows it seems to be pretty close to being in tune.

    Frustrated

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    As far as I can tell After August 6th the band is done touring until Oct. Jeff only has 2 dates between then, and Nels and Glenn are only touring for about a week in September.

     

    That means there's, fingers crossed, around 2 months of studio time

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