Glen Campbell "Witchita Lineman" solo

[Walter Broes]

Campbell was always a monster guitar player. Odd choice in guitars too, a lot of the time. He was an early Ovation endorser, "acoustics" as well as electrics, and there are a lot of clips of him playing a Teisco electric, and he consistently seemed to get a great sound of them.

This is Campbell with Phil Baugh, another scary good picker :

 

[Quantum Strummer]

further to the discussion above, I've just been watching the Wrecking Crew movie. It is indeed a great and fascinating watch, and what's surprising is how many Kays, Teiscos and Danelectros these respected high earning professionals can be seen playing

Yep. Distinctive sounds combined with (sometimes) quirky playability, probably leading to unique performances. I think folks would be surprised by the number of such instruments featured on well-known recordings. Danelectro-made Coral guitars are all over The Who's Quadrophenia, for example.

-Dave-

 

[Walter Broes]

And another one where he pretty much rips that Teisco to shreds :

 

[papajim]

walrus, did you know before glen set out on his own he was a studio musician with the wrecking crew and they had to show a lot of bands how to play their own music and also the wrecking crew ad libbided on a lot of albums for the bands and then taught them how to play it Yes Glen Camble was a great guitar player. "whichita Lineman" was one of his best In the movie section at Extra Torrents you can find a movie about the wrecking crew. go to ninite first and download bittorrent and VLC for videos its free and safe ,my computer re-fresh company uses them NINITE.com. then go to extra torrent ,go to browes and select movies and search for( the wrecking crew) good luck.
you'll see him as a very young man from the 1960s. " papajim" new guy this month 1977 D-50 bluegrass + about 17 others

 

[walrus]

Welcome to LTG, papajim! And yes, all of that is mentioned in the posts above, including links to the movies.

walrus

 

[parker_knoll]

Yep. Distinctive sounds combined with (sometimes) quirky playability, probably leading to unique performances. I think folks would be surprised by the number of such instruments featured on well-known recordings. Danelectro-made Coral guitars are all over The Who's Quadrophenia, for example.

-Dave-

now that's interesting. elaborate please

UPDATE: found this on this great site
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/coral.html

 

[parker_knoll]

Campbell was always a monster guitar player. Odd choice in guitars too, a lot of the time. He was an early Ovation endorser, "acoustics" as well as electrics, and there are a lot of clips of him playing a Teisco electric, and he consistently seemed to get a great sound of them.

This is Campbell with Phil Baugh, another scary good picker :

Phil's on a Mosrite there, isn't he?

that's a guitar I haven't yet tried.

He's playing with an unusually distorted sound for country as well

 

[Harpymorgan]

Hi Guys
I've managed to work out a version of the electric solo that I posted (on acoustic). I don't have anywhere like the skill to get the bends and phrasing right, but if anyone wants me to do a slow version on youtube to pass it on, and perhaps even better, to critique to see where ive gone wrong, I'll do that.
Let me know. May not be for a few weeks as off on hols Friday.

 

[tjmangum]

Not in the sense I think you mean. They didn't "know each other" , he was born in Texas and moved to LA.

Well, actually Glen is from Delight, Arkansas.

 

[Quantum Strummer]

now that's interesting. elaborate please

UPDATE: found this on this great site
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/coral.html

That's part of the story. PT plays a number of different instruments on the Quadrophenia songs. Besides a Coral Hornet, recorded via DI, there's a Gretsch Duo Jet (the solo on "Love Reign O'er Me," for example) in addition to the noted Strat and Gretsch Chet Atkins. Others too… This comes from a Scots cousin of mine who did session guitar work in London from the late 1970s through the '80s and got to know PT a bit through that. (PT did some session work himself during this period.) Pete suggested using a Danelectro for an alternative acoustic-like guitar sound and gave examples of his own use of the Hornet in support of this.

-Dave-

 

[adorshki]

Well, actually Glen is from Delight, Arkansas.

Isn't Arkansas a county in Texas?
(Seriously though, in a fit of haste I did screw that detail up so thanks for the correction)

 

[Walter Broes]

Phil's on a Mosrite there, isn't he?

that's a guitar I haven't yet tried.

He's playing with an unusually distorted sound for country as well

Yes, Mosrite. Quirky guitars that sound great, and have horribly skinny necks with mandolin size frets.

He's playing through a fuzztone in this clip, and there's more fuzz in 60's country than you'd think. Even Chet Atkins has some pretty cool fuzz guitar parts on those early RCA Waylong Jennings records he produced.