Robben Ford Discussion

Beautiful guitar! I don't know enough about them to offer any details. I remember coming across a nice history page of those models somewhere. Maybe it still exists?

For anyone in Chicago, you might want to check this out--a conversation at the Old Town School of Music hosted by my buddy Jimmy Tomasello:

http://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2017/06-15-2017-a-c ...

Hey gang, I haven't been checking in very often myself. Nice to see a few familiar names! And nice to hear about a new Jing Chi record at some point. Hope all our well. Robben was just in Evanston, IL ...

Verry sorry to hear this news. Blobby brought a lot of joy to all of us who have been hanging around this forum for a while. RIP.

Verry sorry to hear this news. Blobby brought a lot of joy to all of us who have been hanging around this forum for a while. RIP.

Wow, what a great show that must have been. Thanks for sharing that story with us.

I caught the show here in Chicago, and it was amazing. 3 hours plus at one of the best-sounding smallish venues here in town. Brilliant show, and I love the new album.

Only disappointment is that ...

Thanks for the update JZ, and best to Bill and everyone over there in this difficult time.

A few fixes (listening to the live version on Soul on Ten):

> You say you're happy with ********* (ad-hoc'er priest?)
"an 'ain't hard to please'"

> a dreary future seems to dra ...

On this tune, it's clear that he's playing on the neck but we all accord to say that the most part of the time he prefere play his lead parts with the bridge pup !

Agreed.

Look no further than the Christian Howe live video recently posted elsewhere on the forum. Here's the YT link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLoNJUAH94&feature=related

Looks/sounds like ne ...

I'm almost certain Robben's Tele is wired the "modern" way, with the switch selecting

neck
both
bridge

He seems to use the Tele neck pickup tones a lot, particularly for cleaner-tone ...

"noise"

I guess I do call it "hum" when it's annoying (recording at home for example), and "buzz" when it's so loud that a pickup setting is unusable at a g ...

I remember that playing the old Buddy Guy's in Chicago was always a nightmare because of bad grounds in the house power. Got to the point where we wouldn't even take out Robben's old Les Paul from it' ...

Daved:

Thanks for the contribution. This is something I've sort of been discovering myself, by setting up the pickups on my humbucker-ized Tele to (mostly) match the volume levels of my single-coi ...