br1vittorio wrote:Many thanks for replying, as an italian knowing how ...tuscan people are or can be....I would be curious to read all the book just to try and understand how mr. Pistolesi....did arrive to his(wrong) theory/assertions.
As a graduate engineer I am convinced that, apart from Hank Marvin mastery, all was due to electronic "management" of the guitar sound but to have, in the end, released a book together with 2 other authors, ...sounds at least...funny/intriguing to me!
Maybe he menaced them.....!
Or got their permission/approval by stress!
It would be like having a ...counter Bible!
Have a wonderful Sunday, here's raining.
Bruno
Ferrara
Italia
ps: is it possible to have at least an excerpt of the book...somewhere?
Having spent time recording at Roberto's studio, using his Gretsch / Meazzi / Fender Tremolux, I can understand how he got it so wrong. I played exactly what he told me to play using the instruments that he provided and he sent me a final mix on a CD of our experiment when I returned home. As much as I loved the guy, Roberto was hopelessly miles away with his sound and it was only after he died that I tried the Vox AC15 with the EF86 chanel and heard the sound that he was seeking. He did have an old AC15 in the studio and when I asked to try it with the Meazzi and a Strat, he flatly refused, insisting that the sound was that of a Gretsch 6122 through a Fender Tremolux. It was two months after he passed away that I cracked the sound using my '63 Strat through an ESE Echomatic into a JMI AC15. The sound was exactly as the original 'Apache' recording made by Hank in 1960. I would have loved Roberto to o have heard it, but we had fun seeking the sound his way and I'll never regret the journey. If only he'd let me try his Vox . . . .