Arts Festival Gig
www.ricktoops.com – Rick is a very talented singer and keyboard player – his new CD 2PS is available here: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RickToops - great stuff all ’round.
This past week I got the opportunity to perform a set with him – dig the bass/drums duo on the clip!
For this gig I was using my 1983 Fuji Gen Gakki ’62 RI Fender Strat > ’76 RI Dyna Comp (with various circuit modifications!) > the new GtrWrks bV Overdrive > Malekko E600B analog delay > 1966 Fender Bassman which is loaded into a custom JD Newell solid pine 2×12 combo cab (open back) loaded with Reverend All-Tones (love these speakers!).
The Strat features a Callaham bridge w/steel block; Seymour Duncan pickups (B: Hot Rails; M: Classic Stack Plus; N: Lil 59); DiMarzio custom pots; Raw Vintage trem springs; Late ’70s vintage NOS solid/hand turned brass knobs, switch and trem arm tips from Kahler. Of course, as you well know, there’s a significant amount of tone to be added via knob material… uh… or something like that.
This is a very short live clip of one of the tunes from Rick’s new record:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7375208/19286955?v=7375208
