My New Surles Custom

[ToneGurus]

Jim just brought down my guitar last night - yea! He drove for 2 1/2 hours each way, and was here for about 1.5 hours. I did some recording while he played, and then let him have a couple of go's over a backing track. I've edited the clips and posted them on my website, but the one with the backing track is here.

Very versatile guitar! Chambered mahogany body and set neck (big, almost a '59 profile), Brazilian board, carved spruce top, '59 and JB pups, Tonepro's bridge/tailpiece. We plugged in to my main rig-my trusty Custom Proto #8, and a 2x12 cab loaded with Tonespotters. This axe does the jazz thing very well, just what I wanted. GREAT JOB JIM!! Link to the clip below.

http://www.tonegurus.com/assets/images/jim.jpg http://www.tonegurus.com/assets/images/mikesrig.jpg

Backing Jam-a-long (2MB) (http://tonegurus.com/assets/multimedia/surleswbacking.mp3)


Mike

[myles loud]

hey tone!!!!!
very smooth sounding guitar!!! looks excellent too!!!
myles

[Schmoo]

Man, great playing - reminds me of Gambale, could listen to this kinda stuff all day, I like the little rakes in there...great tone as well.

[ToneGurus]

Yeah, that was a 2nd take after hearing the backing track. He was giving some thought to the 1/2 step thing in there. A little after this take, I was fiddling with my computer, and he went OFF on that track. I just turned around and started laughing, he was so good.

Mike

[ToneGurus]

I'm headed out of town for a week, so I thought I'd share another clip that displays the cleans too:

Surles Improvised Ballad - 1 Take (http://www.tonegurus.com/assets/multimedia/surlesballad.mp3)

See you in a week!

Mike

[scottl]

Great clips Mike!

Tell Jim I think he is a great player!

That axe is sure sweet!

Scott

[zenpicker]

Sharp!