Alvino Rey plays "St. Louis Blues" with Stringy the talking steel guitar!
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Uploaded by KoolKlipsFromDeke on Dec 12, 2009
Alvino Rey is as important to the development of the electric guitar as Les Paul was, but has been criminally uncredited for it--until now. More and more photos, recordings and film clips like these are coming out of the woodwork to show what a genius Alvino was.
This film clip is from 1944 and shows Alvino demonstrating not only his amazing work on the steel guitar, but also his "singing guitar" effect, similar to the Sonovox, manifested in the persona of "Stringy" the talking guitar puppet! Enjoy this and whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE ACID BEFORE VIEWING....we warned you....
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Win Butler's grandfather was one funky dude!
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That's Buddy Cole on the piano! Close-up of him at 1:08
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This is kinda creepy...
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this was Hollywood, 1944. Get over it
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And kids, THAT was what WE called entertainment!
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this video is perfect to masturbate
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2:40 See? I told you Christopher Walken doesn't age
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Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton used this effect later, but used a different technique. Joe and Peter used a horn driver with a plastic tube that ran to their mouth. Playing the guitar through the driver, they mouthed the words. Rey used a different technique; his wife (one of the King Sisters) was backstage with a carbon microphone. Its variable resistance modulated Rey's guitar sound quite effectively.
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coolest video ever made
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DO NOT WATCH THIS SOBER EITHER !! I close my eyes and all I can see is Stringy .... I can't sleep!! Stringy is everywhere......please make him leave me alone.... God save me from Stringy !!
sands4us 2 years ago 26
Stringy just might be Peter Frampton's grand daddy.
manhatin 1 year ago 13