Larrivee Pete Anderson model
wcollings
I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
range -- middle of the second row. Played by Pete Anderson, no less. Of
course, he spent most of the two hours playing Tom Anderson custom
Telecasters. Didn't matter which guitar he played, this guy flat smokes on
ALL of 'em. Very tasty player.
The singer wasn't bad either... If you guys get a chance to catch Dwight
Yoakam's tour...DO IT!
He has the (very, very rare) ability to take you out of the concert hall and
transport you to another time and place with every song. The only other
artist I've seen who could do that consistently is Bob Dylan.
Dwight takes you to a very interesting place. I'm sure all of us have seen
those old black and white films of the classic Grand Ol Opry and Louisiana
Hayride acts -- Buck Owens, Hank Williams, etc. and marvelled at what it
must have been like to see them perform such a distinctive traditional
American form of honky-tonk music.
Unfortunately, most of us under the age of fifty never got to see it live
and certainly the pablum that comes out of Nashville today is no substitute.
It's a form of music that provides the roots for so much of pop music from
Elvis onwards...but a form of music that is all but gone in its orginal
form. I've always wondered what it must have been like. Now I know.
Dwight takes you straight to the Old Rymer Auditorium. Or more
precisely...brings that black and white footage from the Old Rymer
Auditorium to life in the 1990's in living color. Pure, unadulterated,
undiluted, full-twang, sawdust-floor, sequenced-suit honky-tonk. This is
the real thing and Dwight Yoakam deserves a lot of credit for keeping this
music alive in such a no-BS authentic way.
Just washes over you...alternating between foot-stompin dance numbers and
superb country-and-western ballads. Great band. Great songs. Great voice.
Particularly enjoyable was the five or six song solo acoustic encore he did
before bringin' the boys back out for one more full-stomp rave up. I just
sat there for the whole two hours transported back in time. Wonderful stuff.
Remarkable performer. A+
Hojo2x
12 fret non-cutaway models and the cutaway 14 fret models) when I visited the
Larrivee factory last Thursday, but unfortunately none of them were strung or
even had necks on them. It was the only major disappointment of the trip.
Here's a question for you, Webb - was Dwight Yokum playing his new signature
model Gibson? It's basically just an Everly Brothers model, with those big
honkin' pickguards...
Wade Hampton Miller
SEFSTRAT
>I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
>range -- middle of the second row. Played by Pete Anderson, no less. Of
>course, he spent most of the two hours playing Tom Anderson custom
>Telecasters. Didn't matter which guitar he played, this guy flat smokes on
>ALL of 'em. Very tasty player.
>
He sure is....although IMHO, that guitar is one ugly mutha.
Steve
SEFSTRAT
webpage: http://members.aol.com/sefstrat/index.html/sefpage.html
wcollings
Hojo2x wrote in message <19990816024743...@ng-fd1.aol.com>...
>I got to see several of the Pete Anderson model Larrivees in progress (both
the
>12 fret non-cutaway models and the cutaway 14 fret models) when I visited
the
>Larrivee factory last Thursday, but unfortunately none of them were strung
or
>even had necks on them. It was the only major disappointment of the trip.
Pete was playing the standard 12-fret no cutaway version. Good looking
guitar. The sound? I dunno. Sounded like an acoustic mic'd through a big
house system. <G> Actually, he played a couple of lead solos on it and it
cut through the mix very strongly. He seemed to play it exactly the same way
he played electric...and I suspect that was what he had in mind for the
guitar -- being a maple OM and all.
In addition to the Larrivee and the Tom Anderson Guitarworks Tele he played
for most of the show, he also played a Danelectro on one song and what
looked to be a Fender Strat with a Tele neck on one song. At first, I
thought that was another Tom Anderson, but I was close enough to read the
"Fender" logo on the headstock. He also played a Tom Anderson custom strat
on one song.
>
>Here's a question for you, Webb - was Dwight Yokum playing his new
signature
>model Gibson? It's basically just an Everly Brothers model, with those big
>honkin' pickguards...
He played that on just a few songs at the end -- mostly on a couple of
foot-stompin' honky-tonk numbers like his The Gap commercial hit "Crazy
Little Thing Called Love". I think it was probably for effect, as the guitar
went well with his trademark Grand Ol Opry suit, hat, and tight jeans!
For the vast majority of the show, including the solo acoustic segment, he
played a well-worn Martin dreadnaught -- remnants of a gloss finish, white
(or herringbone -- I wasn't THAT close!) binding, relatively unadorned.
Probably an old D-28. It had obvious signs of cracks and repairs and stuff.
He also played a champagne metal-flake Fender Telecaster Thinline -- the one
with F-hole sound chamber.
misc...@my-deja.com
"wcollings" <wcol...@csi.com> wrote:
>
> The singer wasn't bad either... If you guys get a chance to catch
Dwight
> Yoakam's tour...
You'll forgive me if I nearly fell out of my chair upon reading this. I
was most relieved to continue on with the *very* complimentary post.
Dwight just has the voice. He's not entirely unlike Roy Orbison in his
innate ability to "sing it sad" (words of a rather perceptive friend in
college). I'd love to see the both of 'em. Have to check the Atlanta
listings and see what's coming this way...
Michael "I'd just listen to myself if only..." Schultz
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wcollings
>You'll forgive me if I nearly fell out of my chair upon reading this. I
>was most relieved to continue on with the *very* complimentary post.
>Dwight just has the voice. He's not entirely unlike Roy Orbison in his
>innate ability to "sing it sad" (words of a rather perceptive friend in
>college). I'd love to see the both of 'em.
It was kind of a RMMGA joke to hang my post on a seeing a guitar model
rather than a performer. I knew more people would read it that way! <G>
Dwight had me in a trance for two hours. The comparison to Roy Orbison is
one I never would have thought of...but it's an apt comparison. Both of 'em
just plain have "it". It's more than just the voice (although Dwight's
singing is effortless). It's a feel for the material. Soul, I guess.
It's apparently the first time Yoakam has toured in three years...he's been
busy doing movies. I was sure glad I got a chance to see him live.
Peter MacDonald
wrote:
>Heh...nothing like an equipment thread title...
>
>I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
>range -- middle of the second row. Played by Pete Anderson, no less.
Umm...forgive my abysmal ignorance - but who is Pete Anderson and why
should Larrivee make a signature model for him?
Peter (I hate to be called Pete)
Hojo2x
>Dwight just has the voice. He's not entirely unlike Roy Orbison in his>innate
ability to "sing it sad" (words of a rather perceptive friend in>college). I'd
love to see the both of 'em.
Interesting and valid comparison to Roy Orbison, Michael, and one that wouldn't
have occurred to me. But I don't think you'd particularly enjoy seeing Roy
Orbison any time soon, considering that he died several years back.
Wade Hampton "I'm A Big Fan Of Both" Miller
wcollings
Peter MacDonald wrote in message <37bced90...@news.concentric.net>...
>Umm...forgive my abysmal ignorance - but who is Pete Anderson and why
>should Larrivee make a signature model for him?
He is a guitarist and record producer of some repute and considerable
talent. His playing credentials include lead guitar work on all of Dwight
Yoakam's recordings and in his live band, where he is heavily featured. His
producer credits include all of Dwight Yoakam's recordings, as well as KD
Lang and other artists. He also has at least one solo recording.
Larrivee makes a signature model for him because: he's an artist endorser,
he's a talented player, and he's well respected. He is regularly featured in
advertising for both Larrivee (acoustic) and Tom Anderson Guitarworks
(electric).
His Larrivee signature model is a pretty interesting, distinctive model. OM
body, 12-frets to the body, maple back and sides, spruce top, dark sunburst
finish.
Bravo Yankee
nobody knows what the playability of the guitar is like....a wide neck i've
heard.....but...somebody tell me something...
wcollings
Bravo Yankee wrote in message <37BB774B...@iquest.net>...
>OK..truth is this sounds like a very exciting new, inovative acoustic...but
>nobody knows what the playability of the guitar is like....a wide neck i've
>heard.....but...somebody tell me something...
The playability looked alright in Pete Anderson's hands, but then again his
playability quotient seems to be pretty high to start with!
Anderson flat-picked this guitar...as well as all of the electrics he
played...although he did a bunch of "country" picking with the flat-pick on
the bass strings while claw-hammering with the 3rd and 4th fingers.
Anyway, the Larrivee web page on this model (you can find it at
www.larrivee.com and then just follow the Pete Anderson links to get to the
info page on the OM model) says that it has the 1 3/4 inch neck, which is
the wider of the two standard Larrivee neck sizes.
I personally find this neck width to be too wide...but I have very small
hands and short fingers. My sense is that most of the players on this
newgroup prefer the 1 3/4 size necks.
I don't think the Pete Anderson guitar is terribly new or innovative.
Certainly the 12-fret OOO body has been around for an awful long time. It
strikes me as Larrivee's entry into the acoustic/electric market -- a trend
towards more guitars that are optimized from the get go for amplified stage
use. In Pete Anderson's live setting, a lush, resonant acoustic dripping
with complex overtones would be lost -- he's a lead player in a seven-piece
honky-tonk band. Cutting power is the key to that setting.
The unique thing about this instrument is really its cosmetic treatment -- a
serious guitar camaflouged as a dime-store beater. It wouldn't be my choice
in styling -- but, again, it fits with the honky-tonk venue in which
Anderson plays it.
Hojo2x
>I don't think the Pete Anderson guitar is terribly new or
innovative.>Certainly the 12-fret OOO body has been around for an awful long
time.
Well, yes it has, but this is not the traditional 12 fret Triple O body at all.
The Pete Anderson model is a complete reworking of a Triple O 14 fret body
shape, with the bridge pulled down lower toward the tailblock, and the bracing
shifted accordingly. This design does make for a richer tone and a more stable
neck joint/
The traditional 12 fret Triple O body looks more like an oversized parlor
guitar, frankly.
Webb continues:
>The unique thing about this instrument is really its cosmetic treatment --
a>serious guitar camaflouged as a dime-store beater. It wouldn't be my
choice>in styling -- but, again, it fits with the honky-tonk venue in
which>Anderson plays it.
Well, I happen to like the cosmetics, myself, but then I happen to like dark
sunbursts.
There's also a natural finish, 14 fret cutaway version, also in maple.
Wade Hampton Miller
wcollings
Hojo2x wrote in message <19990819050454...@ng-fs1.aol.com>...
>Webb Collings wrote:
>Well, yes it has, but this is not the traditional 12 fret Triple O body at
all.
> The Pete Anderson model is a complete reworking of a Triple O 14 fret body
>shape, with the bridge pulled down lower toward the tailblock, and the
bracing
>shifted accordingly. This design does make for a richer tone and a more
stable
>neck joint/
I wish I could have heard it a little more distinctly in the mix. Anderson
used it mostly for rythym on a couple of old-time Travis-picking country
tunes. He played one lead solo on it and it had a very forward, cutting,
electric sound. But, frankly, I don't know if the "sound" of a guitar in a
heavily amplified large concert setting is particularly indicative of the
sound of the acoustic instrument. The PA-OM3 worked well in this setting.
BTW, Anderson's overall style (and the style he used for soloing with this
guitar) involves a lot of lead riff and melody playing on the bass strings
in or near first position. It's easy to understand why something like a
dreadnaught would be as muddy as the Mississippi River for this style of
playing in a heavily amplified setting -- basically unusable for that
purpose, I imagine.
>Well, I happen to like the cosmetics, myself, but then I happen to like
dark
>sunbursts.
>
>There's also a natural finish, 14 fret cutaway version, also in maple.
Actually, I like the cosmetics on the Pete Anderson model, too. It's a
pretty cool looking instrument.
sstoc...@yahoo.com
> Have to check the Atlanta
> listings and see what's coming this way...
If you were planning on seeing him in Atlanta, you just missed him. He
was at Chastain about two weeks ago, and he put on a fantastic show.
Well, maybe next time, right?
Spencer Stockdale
Guitars & Grammer
> Heh...nothing like an equipment thread title...
>
> I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
> course, he spent most of the two hours playing Tom Anderson custom
> Telecasters. Didn't matter which guitar he played, this guy flat smokes on
> ALL of 'em. Very tasty player.
>
don hindenach
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David L. Martel
You issed the spelling error in the title. There's no point in mocking
folks like this, though.
Dave M.
don hindenach
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