Goodbye to Love

[Phil McGarrick]

This is the first airing of my new Guitar a Gibson ES-335 in cherry.
It’s a beautiful guitar to play so I thought give a try to one of my favourite guitar solo’s
Originally played by the late Tony Peluso the Carpenter’s guitarist.

I used my Alesis Quaraverb Q2 Preset patch 82 “Stereo Tremolo” for the main tune
And a Boss SD-1 Super over drive and Boss CS2 Compressor sustainer for the solo
and the ending.

A live recording straight from the Q2 into M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card and into Cubase. (No Amp)

My son Andrew put together a BT based on a midi file and is FREE to download here :-
http://www.philmcgarrick.co.uk/CD2.html

The Tabs for the Solo & Ending are also FREE to download here :-
http://www.philmcgarrick.co.uk/scores.html

Hope you like “Goodbye to Love “

Cheers Phil



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWKPJ-jfla4

[Stratpicker]

I saw you! I saw you!! You smiled at 2.20!! You knew what was coming later!
My all time favourite Carpenters song and probably my all time favourite "guitar solo in a song". Tony Peluso was a superb guitarist and had a distinctive playing style and sound. He was probably the first guitarist I had ever heard who used Overdrive. I saw them "Live" at the Free Trade HAll, Manchester in the very early 70s and his playing was just effortless. The Carpenters werent bad either!!
Great SF, Phil and top marks for having learned both of Tony's solos so very well indeed. Indeed 10/10 goes to Andrew too for producing such a brill BT too.
How brave is that to have recorded in LIVE ?!
cheers
ian

[Phil McGarrick]

Hi Ian,
I agree Tony Peluso was a great guitarist - sadly he passed away last year, but his stamp on guitar playing will always be remembered.
This was also the first song I ever remember with "FUZZ" as we used to call it. Back in the early '70's
"fuzz" units were really expensive to buy - My brother and I borrowed one from a music shop, It was called "Foxy Lady" - Brov was good with electronics and he copied the circuitry and we made our own version then gave the "Foxy Lady" back to the shop. I still have this home made fuzz box now although the background noise is a bit overpowering. Couldn't play the song then, but today with all the help of slowing things down and Tab make it possible.
Cheers Phil

[rogera]

Well Phil that has made my Sunday evening - just wonderful.

Your new guitar is just fantastic and reminds me of my biggest regret in the sixties when I sold my cherry red ES335 (dot neck). I bought it second-hand from a music shop in '63 and it looked like it had been played quite a bit making it likely that it was perhaps a 1960 or even a 1959 model. The only difference to yours was that it had a Bigsby fitted.

Anyway, an excellent soundfile with a terrific sound.

[roger bayliss]

Hi Phil

Great guitar tune if ever there was one and you did a nice job with the right guitar too. I think Tony Peluso used the Big Muff Fuzz for the solo on the original and like Ian I too am a big fan of this one and as I own a ES335 I might get the backing and you tabs and have a goo. I have seen Peluso play this live and I think he played most of it around 5th - 9 th fret area. Is this on the original key ? I wondered. Anyway as said good un.

edit ... got this info off the net and seems good info whilst on this subject

Armed with a '58 Gibson ES-335, a custom Red Rhodes-designed compressor, and an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz, Peluso walked into a session that featured such studio heavyweights as guitarist Louie Shelton and drummer Hal Blaine. Peluso plugged his guitar into the compressor and the Big Muff, and then ran direct into a custom Haeco mixing console. All tracks were recorded on a Scully 2" 16-track analog tape machine. According to Peluso, "Richard told me to quote the melody and then solo. I was really laying back because I didn't want to get in the way of all those beautiful tracks. But Richard stopped the tape and said, "No, no, no-we want you to PLAY!' He rolled the tape again, and that second take is what you hear on the record". He also states that he used a Fender medium pick that he had cut serrations into, which is heard on the solo, and that he tuned his guitar FFCFAC for the solo. He says it is the only tuning he has ever used.

Peluso goes on to say that Richard Carpenter mixed the guitar solo very loud, very bold for a Carpenters tune. They got hate mail because of Goodby to Love.

[Stratpicker]

Hi Rog
Yes it is - Bb - to C.
Anorak note - If you can get to listen to "The Carpenters- Golden Collection" CD there is a LIVE version of Goodbye To Love where Tony plays a slightly different and shorter end solo and the song comes to a dead stop at the end of the Solo instead of the studio fade out. I like that version.
cheers
ian

[Phil McGarrick]

Thank you the 2 Rogers & Ian for your replies.

Roger A - If we knew back in the '60's that guitars of that era would be so valuable in the future we would never of sold any of them.. I used to have a Hofner Veri thin with bigsby but I must have sold it to fund something else.
I must admit it's strange playing an electric without a tremelo- I keep reaching for it and it's not there.

Roger B - Glad to hear that you've got a 335 as well - This one I took a gamble and bought it on ebay without trying it -
something I said I would never do, but it's perfect a 2007 model with no marks and one Lady owner and a grand
lower than the new price. So I was very lucky.
Thanks for the info on Tony, I must admit it's out of character for the Carpenters to have such a raunchy solo
in one of their ballads but I've always loved it.

Cheers Phil

[roger bayliss]

I actually bought my ES335 off a shop on the net without playing it Phil and like you took a gamble because the savings were there and glad to say it turned out well for me too... I saved about £500 off the list and the guitar was a fairly recent model made the year before I bought it. I reckon I should get my money back when / if I ever sell it

[JimN]

So how many of us have a (cherry red) Gibson ES335?

[hands up]

Not you, Ecca - you sold yours.

JN

[noelford]

Mine is a 1970/71 in walnut finish, but I had the Cherry red in the sixtes. I'm about to buy a Gibson Custom Shop 355 if all goes to plan this weekend.

Goodbye To Love is one of my favourites, too, and you really do it justice Phil. I must confess that when I get to the solo, although I stick to some of Tony's original solo, I find it's impossible, with he raw emotion of this tune, not to get carried away and do your own thing.