Joe Pass & Epiphone Joe Pass

Joe Pass & Epiphone Joe Pass

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• Epiphone
• Joe
• Pass

[Lapocienta]

Jazz, Blues... Who cares? It's not going to sound any different no matter how we label it. Blues and Jazz are two wonderful music styles, deeply related, and we're all here, fighting, while disgusting sounds like reggaeton, hip hop, cumbia and the modern so colled "pop" are rotting the ears and brains of the general population. Why don't we just lay down and enjoy some good music, frightfully scarce nowadays?

[pppoichops]

A highly intelligent comment good sir, I second that.

[brooksvilleguy]

@ruiner54

I'm sure. Hell; he deserved it. But; the Joe Pass EPI doesn't even stack up to an EPI dot. If you want to hear Joe Pass at his best, in his later years, there are some excellent videos, with Roy Clark, on Youtube, Roy Clark and Joe Pass play Hank Williams. These two artists had a great repore, and their sound together was nothing less than excellent. Pass played a vintage Gibson L-5, and Clark played a high end Heritage model. Really magic.

[ruiner54]

@brooksvilleguy

Definitely i noticed the tone right away..its a beautiful guitar but ironically doesnt seem to give him that joe pass sound. i am in no way crapping on Joe but most sources suggest he wasnt that crazy about this jazz box and endorsed it for the cash

[ruiner54]

man...joe pass always leaves me speechless

[ArchangelofGrace]

wow, wow, and WOW!!! ;) Nuff said. jeje

[hcullen12]

i know it's been two years, but Lapocienta, you're a fucking idiot. Just listening to one or two styles of music is rotting your brain. Great artists like Joe Pass don't listen to one style of music and become famous. They take in as much as they can, and put their own spin on the style they play. If you took a chance and really listened to Hip Hop or pop music, you may see something in it and take something away from it, instead of boring yourself with the monotony of one genre.

[brooksvilleguy]

He plays great- but he can't get the tone out of this EPI guitar like he does on his Gibson L-5. Do you notice?

[mrjamesgrimes]

That last little flourish he did be for the vid cut out was siiiiiiick

[ArkRed1]

Is that an ebony nut on the guitar, or a black plastic one? Mine had white plastic which I changed to bone. Nice little jazz guitar. Great gospel guitar, so says the preacher I sold it to.

[lralbrecht]

@Lapocienta some benefit can be found from labeling as it sets the song in context. that way we can understand the historical influences, how it diverges from the norm, etc. its a way to understand it as a means to learn from it. but i agree, just as long as it doesn't get in the way of the fun of listening.

[martinaxman]

@TheTranslator100 : Good info. Thanks. The Epi thing was from memory from way back. I tried to find some YT footage, but the only place I can confidently say I've seen it is "The Blue side of Jazz" from Hotlicks. Like you said, it's a nice ax for those of us who can't afford to invest the cost of a used Buick in an ax. ;-) So I save my change and who knows, maybe I'll own one someday. Maybe even swap out the bridge and throw in some nice pickups.