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Post subject: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current issue+
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:51 am
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Great issue...recommended reading for all.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:42 am
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Thanks for the heads up on this! :!:

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:09 am
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Love the moon glow Strat.


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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:01 am
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I just sent off my renewal for my Vintage Guitar Mag. subscription-it's the best $48 that I've ever spent.Every issue contains a wealth of knowledge that would benefit just about every guitar player and not just Vintage fanatics.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:43 pm
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Another nice thing about this magazine is that you get to read about famous people who play the guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:49 am
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paris wrote:
Love the moon glow Strat.

He played that guitar at Crossroads. That's the gig that set off our great debate on the pickups and wiring back then. Personally, I'm not a fan of that finish, but I like the 'H'S configuration. It's a matter of fact that he finds the middle pup on the Strat gets in the way of his picking style. I can appreciate that.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:51 am
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paris wrote:
Another nice thing about this magazine is that you get to read about famous people who play the guitar.

IMHO the two publications giving one the most bang for the buck are Vintage Guitar, and Premier Guitar, the latter because of its online features.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:35 am
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Vintage Guitar is a great deal...even shipped to this side of the pond. That and Guitarist mag are my two of choice, and that's probably enough when you're an old impoverished senior citizen! :)


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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:10 pm
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Butterscotch wrote:
Vintage Guitar is a great deal...even shipped to this side of the pond. That and Guitarist mag are my two of choice, and that's probably enough when you're an old impoverished senior citizen! :)

Hence you have the advantage of accessing Premier Guitar online thus protecting you from becoming a victim of the poor law, and the workhouse.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:39 am
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chef wong wrote:
Eddie Van Halen says he himself was the first he knew of with a humbucker at the bridge of a Strat. Robbie's clearly playing a bronzed-dipped one in "The Last Waltz". I'm just trying to stir the pot a little.

T'was the reason why I put the H in quotes. We're given to understand that the two pups are SC's but not exactly clear how they are wired. Fender built an FSR run for Sam Ash Music back in the early 90's called the 48th Street Strat which was fitted with two sets of Red Dual Lace Sensors..[neck and bridge]. This guitar evolved to a production model with the same name which had true HB's. Around the same time, they created the first Tele-Plus{ala Radiohead} which had a Blue Lace at the neck, and a Red Dual Lace at the bridge. Having owned one I can tell you that it was a helluva rock and roll guitar. Not country picker that one. This guitar also evolved into having a true HB at the bridge before it went out of production. The main thrust of the arrangement was Robertson's inconvenience in having a pickup in the area where he was most comfortable with his picking hand.

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Post subject: Re: Robbie Robertson in Vintage Guitar Magazine's current is
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Robbie's bronzed Strat that he used in The Last Waltz was the same formerly Fiesta Red Strat that he used on the Bob Dylan/The Band Tour '74. In both cases he had knurled Tele-type knobs. He had the middle pickup screwed all the way down, and had a humbucking coil added next to the bridge pickup. This served two purposes.
  1. It got the seldom-if-ever used middle pickup out of the way of Robertson's picking style.
  2. He had a push-pull switch installed on the rear tone control, that activated the middle pickup as a humbucking coil for the bridge pickup.
So, yes, it was a humbucker. He previously had put a humbucker on his Tele in the neck position, as seen in the Rock of Ages photos.

By the time he had the guitar bronzed, he removed the middle pickup completely. The gigantic Wilkinson vibrato was added after The Last Waltz, but you can hear it Knocking Lost John from Islands.

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Robbie, on your red Strat there's a small grey object right in front of the bridge pickup.

Robertson: That's the one modification that I have on my guitars. I can pull the rear knob up so the guitar is in a straight Strat pickup line; if I push it down it kicks in that rear humbucking pickup.


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