Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: Robben's Most Unusual Instrument?
In my limited listening experience, Robben isn't one for alternate tunings or unusual instruments. E.g., I don't think there are any recordings out there where he plays slack key, or picks up a mandolin. And I don't picture him asking Ben Harper to loan him anything out of Harper's closet of historic instruments.
The "Authorized Bootleg" features Robben on one of Carvin's thin-bodied acoustic-electrics. And a few years ago when he last appeared at the Ford Amphitheatre in LA and backed up Anne during her set, he did wonderful stuff with a classical guitar. Maybe that's as "unusual" as it gets. Who's heard Robben on axes that are outside his Tele/Fender/Gibson/Baker history?
By the way, saxaphone doesn't count, as it wasn't "unusual" for Robben when he was regularly playing it. (That's him on sax on some of the cuts on "Schizophonic.") _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 328 Location: The Netherlands
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:
Listen to Rickie Lee Jones's Pop Pop album, Blue, where Robben plays wondeful jazz tunes on a classic guitar! _________________ "Don't play what's there, play what's not there" Miles Davis
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In my limited listening experience, Robben isn't one for alternate tunings or unusual instruments. E.g., I don't think there are any recordings out there where he plays slack key, or picks up a mandolin. And I don't picture him asking Ben Harper to loan him anything out of Harper's closet of historic instruments.
