Avalon Acoustic Guitars

by **Rick Jones** » 30 Apr 2010, 02:01

...seeing as I only get called an "artist" when there is a four letter expletive before it, but I recieved my L32 today, and this is literally it out of the box, tuned, and this was my first song on it, mellower than my usual fare.

So with apologies to the great Richard Thompson, here is my version of his amazing song "Beeswing"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOz8jP1n9dk

The apparent fret buzz is my heavy handed/yet unused to the guitar playing coupled with a worn out capo spring on the old dunlop capo that was hanging around in my living room.

Hope it's cool to post it here....really loving the guitar, keep it forever I think!

by **Rick Jones** » 30 Apr 2010, 02:10

I just realised the time, I've pretty much been playing my Avalon since 4.30pm .........and now it's 2am :shock:

Oops.

by JB » 30 Apr 2010, 10:08

Nothing wrong with your version Rick, works for me mate ! Hope to see some more soon.

Jim

by **Rick Jones** » 30 Apr 2010, 10:38

Cheers Jim, this really is an outstanding guitar, when my camera is charged again I'll attemp to throw down some flatpicking, because it really handles it well.

In all honesty, I was bare fingered on that vid,I have no nails and sometimes use a thumbpick, and I would never have believed a guitar that could pull that much volume from fingerpicking could handle hard reststroke type flatpicking....but it does, and it's a cannon.

Dunno how you guys are doing that! :shock:

by JB » 30 Apr 2010, 10:55

Glad you like it and remember it's got more to give once it starts opening up with some playin' and a bit of time.

by **MIKE 450** » 06 May 2010, 19:38

Great stuff Rick, This was a very good performance--excellent voice great guitar playing.

The recording caught more of the guitar than your voice, and this was sad because you have a wonderful voice for a guy who looks more suited to wrestling. LOL "forgive me Rick"

Honestly Rick wonderful performance!

by **Rick Jones** » 06 May 2010, 23:07

MIKE 450 wrote:Great stuff Rick, This was a very good performance--excellent voice great guitar playing.

The recording caught more of the guitar than your voice, and this was sad because you have a wonderful voice for a guy who looks more suited to wrestling. LOL "forgive me Rick"

Honestly Rick wonderful performance!

Thankyou very much Mike!

I get the wrestler/lumberjack thing alot.... also raised eyebrows at folk clubs....

Thanks for the kind words, I don't consider myself a singer really, I do it so I can play guitar on my own and not bore people too much, hopefully.
You can hear my own music here;
http://www.rickjonesmusic.co.uk/Music.html
Thanks again!

by **MIKE 450** » 09 May 2010, 19:46

Hi Rick, thanks for the link,your songs blew me away. You opened up with EDED a beautiful acoustic number.

I was wondering what tunning you use and how you record to such a high standard---these are wonderful songs that come from the soul WELL DONE!

I now have you on my favorites Thanks Rick!

by **Rick Jones** » 10 May 2010, 00:47

Thanks Mike!
If you PM me an address I can send them to, I'll mail you out a CD or two, I have two EP's currently, one of which I hand out at gigs.
The song Eden is in DGDGBE, and pretty well everything I do is in drop D or the aforementioned tuning.

As for recording, the stuff done in 2005,which I should really take down, as it's very amateur, was done at home with the cubase sx setup I had back then, very cheap and cheerful behringer gear....did the job but I never liked the sound much, and I was getting digital spikes all over the place.

The "Eden" EP, and my new one, were done at a guy called Jono's here in Jersey, he has a converted garage with an isolation both, nice logic setup and focusrite preamps,big mackie desk and a mic collection worth double or more than my car!
Most of it was done one take, and as fast as I could because he charges by the hour! :!:

Thanks for listening mate!!

by **SimonC** » 10 May 2010, 10:13

Great playing Rick - just wait until it opens up in a month or two ...
Health to enjoy.
SC

by **mgrey** » 15 Jun 2010, 22:01

Man...that is a great song. I had never heard it (I'm from across the pond). I also listened to the original. Good stuff. I thought you did a great job of it also...

by **Rick Jones** » 15 Jun 2010, 23:47

mgrey wrote:Man...that is a great song. I had never heard it (I'm from across the pond). I also listened to the original. Good stuff. I thought you did a great job of it also...

Thankyou muchly! 'Tis a great song indeed, often I wonder if it is wrong to cover it!

by **mgrey** » 16 Jun 2010, 14:15

No, and I'll give you 2 reasons:

1) Your cover was awesome.
2) I may have never heard if it you hadn't covered it

On a related note, did you pick that out by ear, or are their some tabs floating around out there?

by **Rick Jones** » 04 Jul 2010, 02:30

mgrey wrote:
On a related note, did you pick that out by ear, or are their some tabs floating around out there?

Picked it out by ear, and part of the reason my version differs from RT's youtube recording is that I only had the album version in pre-youtube days, which has other instruments on it, so the solo/fills are my approximation of the stuff the other instruments were doing.
I heard/saw RT doing it years after I developed "my version".
As for tabs, well Richards songbook is coming out soon, well worth getting I reckon, as he does some very cool things with a guitar!

Thanks again for the kind words sir!

by **Harry** » 04 Nov 2010, 23:19

Hi Rick,

i absolutely have to agree to mgrey:

I found your video on youtube when i was doing some research for my L32C some weeks ago. It was the first time i ever heard this song, and i was immediately fascinated!!! I heard the original not until two days later....

So you did an awesome version of this wonderful song!!!

Best regards, Harry

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