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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:23 am
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I attended both nights of the Crossroads shows this past weekend. Needless to say I'm stay on cloud nine. I was fortunate enough to have floor seats in row 8 on Friday and row 6 Saturday. I notice something a bit interesting in Claptons strat both nights. The neck plate on his guitar looked to be thicker than an ordinary strat neck plate. Thick enough to actually notice and also to be able to compare it to the numerous other strat the were being played over the course of nearly 10 hours.
And technically Brownie was in attendance, as was Blackie and the famous Gibson. There was a Clapton exhibition set up and all 3 originals were in glass cases available for viewing and drooling purposes.


cool show(s) werent they?

yes, i braved the mobs to get to the exhbition also - i was hoping that maybe he would play Brownie or a replica but was left wanting:)

at least keef showed up


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:37 pm
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In an interview he gave for the Brownie project he explains how these kinds of guitars, meaning guitars like Brownie or Blackie, would be hard to play on stage because they are not as loud as the ones he currently plays, meaning no booster and that to play a guitar like brownie nowadays, the whole band dynamics would have to change and play quieter... So that could be a reason as to why he didn't play Brownie on festival.
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:51 am
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So that could be a reason as to why he didn't play Brownie on festival.


He should at least use a replica of the 2-colour burst T-Mobile on that stage! :twisted:


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:06 am
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Stipe-mills returns! wrote:
So that could be a reason as to why he didn't play Brownie on festival.


He should at least use a replica of the 2-colour burst T-Mobile on that stage! :twisted:


That was a gorgeous guitar. Recall my telling that I saw it up close and personal at the auction preview in NYC three years ago. You may also recall my asking ME if the Custom Shop would do just that. He said 'no'. Keep in mind that it was a 'one off' and, in consideration of the auction and the purchaser of the guitar whose collector value may increase over time, it would be most unfair to reproduce it. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:06 pm
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Was that the Bonhams auction? I checked it out too.


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:15 pm
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atolleter wrote:
Was that the Bonhams auction? I checked it out too.

Yep...was there on that rainy day Sunday with a Forum member from NJ who goes by the screen name...Kong.

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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:34 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
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Was that the Bonhams auction? I checked it out too.

Yep...was there on that rainy day Sunday with a Forum member from NJ who goes by the screen name...Kong.


Did you see the Easy Rider bikes by the entrance?


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:59 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
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Was that the Bonhams auction? I checked it out too.

Yep...was there on that rainy day Sunday with a Forum member from NJ who goes by the screen name...Kong.


Did you see the Easy Rider bikes by the entrance?

I have no memory of such. The weather was for ducks and getting back indoors was of prime concern.

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:59 am
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Stipe-mills returns! wrote:
In an interview he gave for the Brownie project he explains how these kinds of guitars, meaning guitars like Brownie or Blackie, would be hard to play on stage because they are not as loud as the ones he currently plays, meaning no booster and that to play a guitar like brownie nowadays, the whole band dynamics would have to change and play quieter... So that could be a reason as to why he didn't play Brownie on festival.
M.


Well, that can be solved with a proper amp, me thinks... I've never heard anybody complain their Marshall 1959 wasn't loud enough. :lol:

BTW: anybody knows what amp he did play? The Twin, the Dumble, or...?


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 3:47 pm
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I think Clapton chose the Dumble because he wanted to try something different - a cross between his '57 Twin and the super lead overdrive.

In his place I would keep the Twin and use the SLOstortion for certain songs.


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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:14 pm
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Yo guys....I just read a piece in the mag 'Guitar Aficionado' about the 'Brownie' replica and it contained a detail never mentioned in all the other description of specs. The article stated that it had a 'stopped' vibrato block. Is there a piece of wood in the trem cavity or perhaps the trem claw set against the body?

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:17 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
Yo guys....I just read a piece in the mag 'Guitar Aficionado' about the 'Brownie' replica and it contained a detail never mentioned in all the other description of specs. The article stated that it had a 'stopped' vibrato block. Is there a piece of wood in the trem cavity or perhaps the trem claw set against the body?


Just the trem claw set flush to the body, no additional woodblock inserted. There are good pictures of this guitar in Tom Wheelers 2004 book on the Stratocaster.


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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:40 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
Yo guys....I just read a piece in the mag 'Guitar Aficionado' about the 'Brownie' replica and it contained a detail never mentioned in all the other description of specs. The article stated that it had a 'stopped' vibrato block. Is there a piece of wood in the trem cavity or perhaps the trem claw set against the body?


Just the trem claw set flush to the body, no additional woodblock inserted. There are good pictures of this guitar in Tom Wheelers 2004 book on the Stratocaster.

Doc is talking about the replica :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:43 pm
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Bobby1 wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
Yo guys....I just read a piece in the mag 'Guitar Aficionado' about the 'Brownie' replica and it contained a detail never mentioned in all the other description of specs. The article stated that it had a 'stopped' vibrato block. Is there a piece of wood in the trem cavity or perhaps the trem claw set against the body?


Just the trem claw set flush to the body, no additional woodblock inserted. There are good pictures of this guitar in Tom Wheelers 2004 book on the Stratocaster.

Doc is talking about the replica :roll:

Thanks to both. I checked my copy of Wheeler's book which has the only photo I've ever seen of the back of the guitar. I assume there's no back plate on the replica either. Both Brownie and Blackie have the bridge block set the same...but no wood block in the space between the body and the bridge block. I assume the replica was done as such thus describing the bridge block as 'stopped'. So it get's me back to the question we've bandied about as to why they put a wood block in the Signature Strat and continue to do so :?

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Post subject: Re: Brownie
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:46 am
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Maybe on the sig he is doing the same on his own...

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