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I'm reblogging this from what I guess would be considered my personal tumblr, mostly so I can talk about instruments for a bit.
Like I mention in that caption, I got the Epiphone bass because it was closest I could get (economically) to White's Gibson, and I try to get other comparable instruments and equipment. A few years ago, I got a Burns twelve-string (the same twelve-string that Paul Atkinson had), and about a year and a half after that, I got a Vox amplifier (not the AC-30 that the Zombies used though).
By the time I seriously started this project, I'd had an acoustic guitar for a few years, but I was glad to find that it's the same brand (Washburn) as the one that Keith Airey used for "Maybe after He's Gone" in the 40th anniversary Odessey and Oracle concert (although it might not be the same model; I have a D-9).
I know I've mentioned this more than once, but this is why I'm excited at the prospect of getting a Nord keyboard and using the Nord sample library, which has the Hohner Pianette, mellotron, and I think even the Vox Continental and Hammond organs. It helps that the Nord keyboards are red like the Vox Continentals too.
At some point, I'd like to make my electric guitar situation more accurate. I've been using an Epiphone SG-400 (I likt the look of Pete Ham's Gibson SG), but Paul Atkinson had a Gretsch Chet Atkins model (I think the Tennessean, although he said something about wishing he'd gotten the Country Gentleman like George Harrison had) and later a Rickenbacker. I think the specific Rickenbacker was a 1997 Rose Morris, which - of course - is discontinued and thus even more expensive than normal.
That's probably not even half the equipment I would need to make this project instrumentally accurate, but this is too long already. I'd like to get the same brands of instruments, but I don't have the money to buy anything right now. And when I am able to get more instruments, I'm going to focus on the sort of instrument and not the make specifically. It doesn't make much sense to get a Rickenbacker in order to have a more accurate guitar sound when I could, for instance, get (and learn how to play) a flute to do the Mike Vickers overdubs on the left-over Decca material. I'm going to (try to) get instruments I don't have any version of rather than more accurate versions of instruments I do have some version of.
