come hear a fretless Tele! Albuquerque, NM 4/13

Any NM-based TDPRI- ers here? love to meet up in person at our upcoming gig...

guitar/drum instrumental improv duo (White Stripes meets late jazz on a Kolkata rooftop pointing to Marrakesh).

It will mark the public debut of the fretless Tele:

http://www.norumba.com/Telemed1web.jpg

We're doing it as part of New Mexico Jazz Workshop's "Jazz, Deconstructed" series:

Wednesday, April 13
7pm at The Kosmos, 1715 5th Street,
downtown Albuquerque.
Tickets are $10 general, $8 students,
seniors and NMJW members.
Call NMJW @ 505-255-9798 for more info.
http://nmjazztwo.sks.com/Jazz_Deconstructed.aspx



samples , etc at the links in the sig...

Wow, that guitar is absolutely beautiful! Did you build it?

How about a vid or recorded byte(s). Love to hear what can be done with a fretless guitar, other than a bass I mean....

Thanks guys for your interest!

Wow, that guitar is absolutely beautiful! Did you build it?

Thanks! I didnt build it up from the ground up, but put it together forom various sources, with some help along the way. I did do the finish work. Here's the thread on the overall build:
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/260207-fretless-tele.html (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/260207-fretless-tele.html)



How about a vid or recorded byte(s). Love to hear what can be done with a fretless guitar, other than a bass I mean....

We recorded the show, but I havent heard it yet, so i dont have samples of the Tele, but here's a couple of vids with the Vigier fretless i had prior to the Tele:

-VueS-44ge0

HUm2ksx4Ku0

s5U0PH3citY

Thanks for the accommodation, is it a Baritone scale ? Or just tuned accordingly??

its a regular scale (25 1/2) --- tuned CGCGCF, low to high, which is based off a sarod tuning. Best way to describe what we do is India/Middle Eastern punk jazz :)

Best way to describe what we do is India/Middle Eastern punk jazz :)


Fairly obvious I'd say, I was getting a bit of a taste of Shankar and Mclachlan in my ears mouth. ;) Nice work, what I listened to so far.. ;)


EDIT: Enjoyed your interpretations on the vids and use of the instrument!!

I'm sorry to have missed this, it sounds interesting

I'll have video up from it next week... here are some pics tho:

http://www.norumba.com/012tweaked_web425.jpg

http://www.norumba.com/032tweaked_LitCROPPED_web40.jpg

http://www.norumba.com/029_lit_ok_web425.jpg

http://www.norumba.com/025tweaked_litCROPPEd-_web4.jpg

Hey, did you make that Klein-ish thing there, too? I'd like to know more about that... Excited to see the performance!

no that was made by Rick Canton (http://www.cantoncustomguitars.com/Home.html) up in Santa Fe... Allan Holdsworth's actually is playing some of his guitars now...nice to see a local builder making a name for himself!

Looked at the long shot footage today from the gig; it'll actually be a week or so before i can get the camera 2 footage. Performances are ok, but cam sound is really bad - makes guit tone sound like ass and the drums eat up all the low mid space. Sound may be better from cam 2...

went ahead and posted some "rafter cam" video on the Twanger Central subforum (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/twanger-central/271612-fretless-tele-also-oud-jam-band-content.html), including a fretless Tele bit....