Aaron's Beard

walkwjc · 10-12-2009, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Ted Logan

One of these days I'll get around to recording a song or two with my dobro.

That is an absolutely beautiful instrument. I am going to have my wife's great uncle make one for me soon. He is a great craftsman.

I can't wait for 'one of these days' to happen, hurry up and record us a song!

**Ted Logan** · 10-12-2009, 08:36 AM

This was actually a really awesome story. I mentioned in a Resonator Guitar forum that I was hoping to find a used dobro, even if it really didn't look very good, as long as it sounded decent, and I had a very low budget. I explained that I wanted to use it in church and for my own music. I was expecting someone to say, "I have this old dobro in my closet that I haven't played in years - it looks terrible but still plays all right." Instead, a guy told me he built the above-pictured resonator guitar for a customer, who then dropped it, and when Phil fixed the binding (which had come loose), he wasn't happy with the fix so he made the guy a new one and kept the old one as his personal reso. He sold it to me incredibly inexpensively because he said he thought it was the right thing to do. Another (anonymous) member of the forum paid for the shipping!

It was absolutely incredible.

So, if you're ever in the market for a resonator guitar and you have the money to have it done right, Phil Dean made this guitar, and it is wonderful. I doubt he'll ever have another guitar he can sell cheap like this one, but if I ever buy another one, it will be a brand new Mastereso.

And no, he's not paying me to say that. It's really that good. It's solid myrtlewood, with koa binding and mother-of-pearl dots and frets (a square neck dobro doesn't need actual frets - you could never touch them if you tried).

**Ted Logan** · 10-16-2009, 09:58 AM

The following is a list of great albums that I have rediscovered over the last few months in my collection. Let me know if you have opinions about any of these.

Counting Crows: VH1 Storytellers

Counting Crows is incredible in concert, because every song sounds like it's being improvised. Adam Duritz has an awesome ability to play with a melody until it's almost unrecognizable, or play on the chord structure to create haunting new melodies. Ana Begins, if you listen to the version on August and Everything After and then this one, will "leave you shuddering for days." I still cry sometimes when I listen to this album all the way through.

I picked this up on a whim in 2001, listened a few times, and put it away. I bring it out about once a year and I'm reminded why it was so compelling. The style was somewhat surprising, with a retro feel that wasn't too obvious. Simple, playful, fun. This time, the CD reminded me of another I picked up the same day, Andrew W.K.'s album, which I have since thrown out or sold. I miss a couple songs from that album.

Three albums from what should be considered the most underrated band in Christian music from the 90s. If you haven't heard of them, they're worth checking out. The first album on the list is definitely influenced by the grunge movement more than the others, but it's truly original in some ways. Unlike most Christian music of the time, Poor Old Lu wasn't afraid to tackle the struggle of the Christian life. Nothing on any of their albums would ever make it on K-LOVE, because they're decidedly not "positive, encouraging" in the way Christian radio wants. Straight Six has some truly gorgeous melodies. The singer for Poor Old Lu has a great voice for the plaintive, angsty, Gen-X sound without evoking ANYTHING of the other grunge greats (read: Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.).

Nuff said.

I forgot how many good tracks were on this one!

Their best album. The second track, Love, Salvation, and the Fear of Death, is one of the greatest Christian alt/rock songs of all time. Leigh Nash's voice is perfect. The bass line, with a really cool delay effect on it, lays down a complex layer on top of which Nash's vocals shove the listener into a contemplation of the realities of "Christianity" minus love. This album's music and lyrics shocked me when I first heard it, and it still amazes.

If Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is the perfect studio album of all time (and it's certainly the greatest jazz album), this is the perfect live album, at least the greatest in cool jazz. I can sing every note of Montgomery's, but I still can't play any of it.

**Ted Logan** · 11-06-2009, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by walkwjc

That is an absolutely beautiful instrument. I am going to have my wife's great uncle make one for me soon. He is a great craftsman.

I can't wait for 'one of these days' to happen, hurry up and record us a song!

I finally understand.

I've been stumped since I started posting again; I couldn't figure out who "The Phantom Mullet" was!

walkwjc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:facepalm:

**Ted Logan** · 11-06-2009, 04:18 PM

Wait... Now I'm confused again. There's another Phantom Mullet. Now I understand why everyone was so confused when Athanasius became Ted Logan and Ted Logan became Broccolifish and someone else became Aaron Adams and slap_j became HisPlumMission!

walkwjc · 11-06-2009, 07:59 PM

Ha, yeah I was The Phantom Mohawk, the parody of The Phantom Mullet who was Mulletman...a man with no mullet. You should have been here when we had 5 Mattslopes and 4 or 5 commas.