Songs with JANGLE, let's display those electric 12 strings.
- Thread starter Blazer
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In case you haven’t heard the old joke (and it isn’t already in the thread);
Q. How long does it take to tune a 12-string guitar?
A. No one knows; it’s never been done.
PS. I own three …
Stratohacker
Tele-Afflicted
Further info, that I hadn't known before, on Jackie DeShannon's When You Walk. It was the second use of an electric 12 string on a pop/rock record, the first being in her song Needles and Pins that came out slightly earlier (though on that the 12 string was kinda buried in the mix). Both of these were before the Beatles and the Byrds popularized the 12 string.
forums.stevehoffman.tv
and Jackie wrote the riffs but Glen Campbell played them on the records:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thre...he-room-q-for-ron-furmanek.32072/#post-585262
Who Played Lead 12-string Guitar on Jackie De Shannon's When You Walk In The Room?
In this stirring song from Jackie De Shannon, released towards the end of 1963, there is a majestic 12 string electric guitar figure which helps define...
and Jackie wrote the riffs but Glen Campbell played them on the records:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thre...he-room-q-for-ron-furmanek.32072/#post-585262
and "It's interesting to listen to the guitar on her Needles and Pins. It is buried more in the mix and also some of what superficially sound like lead lines are played on piano I think. Probably Glen Campbell, with De Shannon (born Sharon Lee Myers), were still working out the sound that became fully realized in the second song. Campbell was a superb player of course and had great success in his own career but right here with De Shannon created a signature sound, that big chiming stately sound that the Byrds and numerous Beatles songs used to such good effect (but also with good rhythmic propulsion in parts)."
memorex
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Okay, here's the one I've really always wanted, or as close as I could afford:
I bought a new 99' Danelectro in sparkle blue then sold it (like a moron!) about the mid-late 2000's because I picked up a BC Rich Perfect 10, 10 string. Never really bonded with that, sold it for a small profit and then picked up a newer Dano 12. I was fine until these came along in 2018-19. I resisted due to their cost but when I went onto Fender's website in late 2019, I noticed these weren't on there anymore. I immediately searched and picked this up from a store in Texas new and set up perfect.
The real secret is those split pickups. They're a little hot! I can't wait for the inevitable string change when I try it as a six string for a week or so before I add the octaves!
I bought a new 99' Danelectro in sparkle blue then sold it (like a moron!) about the mid-late 2000's because I picked up a BC Rich Perfect 10, 10 string. Never really bonded with that, sold it for a small profit and then picked up a newer Dano 12. I was fine until these came along in 2018-19. I resisted due to their cost but when I went onto Fender's website in late 2019, I noticed these weren't on there anymore. I immediately searched and picked this up from a store in Texas new and set up perfect.
The real secret is those split pickups. They're a little hot! I can't wait for the inevitable string change when I try it as a six string for a week or so before I add the octaves!
I thought both those songs where by The Searchers, but it seems they covered DeShannon.
tubedude
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AAT65
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GK-3-equipped guitar, 13-pin cable, BOSS GP-10: 12-string Strat, Tele, Rickenbacker, Les Paul and various acoustics all on tap. Given that I use a 12-string for 2 - 3 songs per set it’s worked out much better for me than buying a dedicated electric 12-string would have done.
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Bruxist
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Kandinskyesque
Friend of Leo's
The jangling strings have been a feature in Scottish rock/pop for as far back as I can remember.
https://janglepophub.home.blog/2018/12/24/the-best-of-scottish-jangle-pop-1980-2018/
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Teenage Fanclub
The Big Dish (included because the guitarist taught me how to jangle)
https://janglepophub.home.blog/2018/12/24/the-best-of-scottish-jangle-pop-1980-2018/
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Teenage Fanclub
The Big Dish (included because the guitarist taught me how to jangle)
fretknot
Tele-Meister
This is always the first song that comes to mind when I think of electric 12-string.
puddin
Tele-Afflicted
When I was kid in the 70s, my mom had a box of 45s that I used to listen to. She wasn't really a music person, the records were by some odd circumstance given to her by her older sister, mostly R&B from the early 60s. But there were a couple oddballs, among which was a record by a now obscure SF Bay area psychedelic band, Sopwith Camel. Their "hit" was the ditty, "Hello, Hello", which I regarded as something of an old timey novelty tune. But the flip side was "Treadin'", which really caught my ear, a simple, jangly guitar pop song.
It's kind of a pity that this song was rather unique among the band's work, which tended to lean more like psychedelic vaudeville than jangly guitar sensibility.
It's kind of a pity that this song was rather unique among the band's work, which tended to lean more like psychedelic vaudeville than jangly guitar sensibility.
Whatizitman
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I hear twelve string. Maybe just two 6 strings and lots of chorus?
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