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Post by BarryH on Mar 10, 2009 15:47:10 GMT
I wonder how worldwide the EFTP patches are?
In recent weeks I have sent EFTP stickers to Australia, Canada, United States, Belgium, France, Netherlands and Norway.
I guess it also shows the popularity of The Shadows.
Cheers
Barry
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Post by UK Brian on Mar 10, 2009 21:01:33 GMT
Hey Barry, I guess that's why most of us are "fossils"  and sort of stuck in a time warp, It was only a couple of years ago that all I wanted to play was Shads stuff, but life is to darn short and i'm playing all sorts of stuff now, mainly due to the fact that our keyboard playe has a pretty dam good voice, we do simple stuff like Kansas City, Green Door and 12 bar rock stuff, matchbox, there's another one, also I like playing Presley stuff specially the guitar solo's as Scotty Moore Played 'em, wasn't he one brill guitarist and what a sound, sorry i'm ramblin on here. cheers and thanks for reading Brian |
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Post by Charlie Hall on Mar 15, 2009 23:09:20 GMT
EFTP customers have been from several different countries.
It only seems to be in the last couple of years or so that the Shadows music has become much more popular in the USA.
Regards,
Charlie
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 18:41:04 GMT
Hi Brian,
I'm glad you mentioned that because stuck in a 'time warp is spot on'. When I learned to play guitar, it was back in the mid fifties and we played everything that was coming out of the USA including here.
My brother in law is typical of the time warp thing he can't take his hand off the tremelo arm and that is extremely restrictive if you want to play other genre's of music which are fairly fast. I mean try playing the solo to Bill Haley's ' Rock Around the Clock'. He does'nt realise that Hank Marvin only develeped his tremelo arm system after learning all the old stuff without one. He drives me up the wall with such statements like " I don't bend cos it wears the frets out" (thats Cavatina out) and he only plays downstrokes which means the galloping bit to Apache, Man of Misery, FBI and all the up tempo stuff are out. But he still thinks he's right.
Playing other material is the key to being challenged and ultimately getting good. Thats really enjoying all music with lots of fun to boot.
Tony
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Post by UK Brian on Mar 16, 2009 19:36:36 GMT
Tony, ;D, I could have written that lot, my contentions exactly, and as for "rock around the clock" solo, my co-ordination is just not up to it, sad or wot, but I know my limitations and enjoy what I play,
nice to hear from yu,
cheers
Brian
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Post by marvingers on Mar 16, 2009 21:24:09 GMT
Hi! My unit is from 1998, it´s the best ;D. Since then I know I have helped a lot of people from Sweden and Norway to buy EFTP programmed in Q2, Q20, Zoom, and Magic Stomps. Thanks to Charlie for the great work of the EFTP. Best regards! Lars G. Vinger, The MARVINGERS  |
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and sort of stuck in a time warp, It was only a couple of years ago that all I wanted to play was Shads stuff, but life is to darn short and i'm playing all sorts of stuff now, mainly due to the fact that our keyboard playe has a pretty dam good voice, we do simple stuff like Kansas City, Green Door and 12 bar rock stuff, matchbox, there's another one, also I like playing Presley stuff specially the guitar solo's as Scotty Moore Played 'em, wasn't he one brill guitarist and what a sound, sorry i'm ramblin on here.
