Anyway, I'm sitting in a crappy hotel room and reading the December issue of Guitar Player and notice Steve Kimock player a Fender Lap (looks like a double neck 6) on page 117 and thought you all "needed" to know!

Thanks for sharing!

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[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 13 December 2005 at 07:24 PM.]

That GP article is a continuation of several discussions he's had over the past year or so on the issue of just intonation, thirds & sevenths, tone, etc. He also has a pretty nice collection of Stringmasters (dual/triple/quad) and old Supros, and always brings a few on tour. He's also one of the players who had a chance to check out Rick's awesome NIBro's (and raved about 'em). But his favorite instrument, I believe, is his old Regal squareneck acoustic.

By all means check him out the next time he & his band come around (I get my next chance this Friday here in Portland!).

When he later moved to California, he woked at Mesa with b0b. Small world!

Another school friend of Steve and me was Jesse Gress, who became Music Editor of GP Mag around 1990. We were all within a year of each other. I was the elder, and trying hard to keep up with these underclassmen .

It's generally an eclectic crowd, some tie-dye & dreadlocks, some old balding greybeards like myself. His music could be described as eclectic as well...think jazz improv meets bluegrass, blended with a dash of Hawaii, middle east modes and African rhythms, all instrumental.

He has an extensive presence on the Live Music Archive site. If anyone's interested in some samples, here are a couple of streaming files that give a taste of some of his steel work (hope the links work, my 1st attempt):
click here
and here

[This message was edited by Tom Baylis on 14 December 2005 at 10:06 AM.]

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He's also one of the players who had a chance to check out Rick's awesome NIBro's (and raved about 'em).

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My wife and I don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless and I donate money to the topless! ... R. Dangerfield

If any of you would like a full show, or some other suggested tracks, feel free to contact me off-forum and I'll be happy to oblige. In the meantime, this workshop with guitarist Fareed Haque at the High Sierra Music Festival this past summer is pretty enjoyable too. I believe that he did the whole show on his Regal squareneck. You can stream the whole workshop, or select the individual 64Kbps MP3 files.