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Originally Posted by nvtmusic
Hi,
- Thank you for asking Rick to post those
pictures (i run a studio) i like to see what they do (use)
- i appreciate it !
mike
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i can't tell any gear from these photos… is there another series? or only on FB?
Mike, her is some gear info from the official website:
Rick: uses a Kramer bass, has used Fender Precision and Musicman on stage
Barry: in concert, Premier drums (vintage '75) with a Pearl snare and Sabian cymbals. In the studio, several different sets. The most used is a set of Premiers (vintage '68), with many varied snare drums and Zildjian and Sabian cymbals
Mike: on stage a Roland JD 800 midi'd to a Yamaha DX7 and a Kawai K3. In the studio, whatever is available. In home Midi studio: Kurzweil PC88, Korg M1, Roland JV80, Yamaha TX 802, Korg M3R, all connected with computer program LOGIC
Carter: in concert, Breedlove 6-string acoustic; '67 Gretsch Country Gentleman
Gord: Excerpted from Acoustic Guitar magazine, January 2000, No. 85.
"Gordon Lightfoot plays a pair of 12-string Gibson B-45-12s from the 1960s.
He
uses two of them on stage: one in standard tuning, the other capoed at the
third fret with the lowest pair of strings dropped to D. The instruments
appear on Lightfoot album covers stretching back to the '60s, although the
guitar seen on the Sundown cover was lost on the road many years ago. The
cover of Lightfoot's earliest LP, Lightfoot, shows a Martin D-28 that was
subsequently stolen. He acquired a later model D-28, which he keeps at home
along with an ornate custom Brazilian rosewood dreadnought (seen on the
cover
of Dream Street Rose) by Ed McGlincey (220 Delsea Dr., Westville, NJ 08093;
[856] 742-8604), who has retired from guitarmaking for health reasons. On
stage, he also plays a Martin D-18 from the '30s or '40s.
In the last decade or so, Lightfoot added pickups to his acoustic guitars, a
change from the mic-only stage setup he described in a 1985 Frets magazine
interview. His pickup of choice is a Fishman Acoustic Matrix II, which he
mixes with a Shure SM-57 microphone and feeds into a direct box and then
into
the mixing board and a Fender Twin Reverb amp he uses as a stage monitor.
Lightfoot's preferred flatpick is a Yamaha ("the older model you can't get
anymore") that's a little thinner than Terry Clements' D'Andrea medium, and
his capo is a Shubb Deluxe. He uses Ernie Ball Earthwood Bronze strings, but
substitutes a D'Addario .053 11th on the "straight" 12-string, "because
[Ernie Ball] doesn't make the odd .053." The other 12-string takes the same
configuration but with an .054 on the dropped 11th string. He also
substitutes a phosphor-bronze low G (fifth) on the 12-strings because "it
makes it easier to hear." For his Martin, "the medium-light Ernie Ball set
really gives a lot of snap," says Lightfoot. "I raised my gauges on the low
end a little bit, and I found that it helped."
Although he was at the Newport Folk Festival when Bob Dylan committed his
legendary plugged-in heresy, Lightfoot also keeps a couple of electrics: an
old Fender Telecaster ("My 17-year-old son learned to play guitar on that
one") and a Gibson SG seen on the back of the 1983 Salute album"