Les Fradkin - The Ballad Of Belle Starr

Les Fradkin presents "The Ballad Of Belle Starr" from his "12" CD. A "Blast From my Past".

This song was written and recorded back in NYC in 1993. The video was recorded Summer 2008 in Fairplay Colorado.
Available on Les Fradkin-"12" released 2007.

A Summer of Love style treatment on this folk-rock style tale of the old West. Backwards Beatles / Byrds guitars meets Jefferson Airplane at Pooh Corners. Guest Musicians are Warren Odze on Drums, Dave Santos on bass and Paul Harris on Electric Piano.

Les Fradkin- Lead Vocals and Rickenbacker 12-string Guitar and Gibson ES335 Lead Guitar.

Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Elizabeth Rose

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Music

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• Rickenbacker
• 12
• string
• Guitar
• Byrds
• Eight
• Miles
• High
• George
• Harrison
• Jefferson
• Airplane
• Roger
• McGuinn
• Beatlemania
• Crosby
• Stills
• Nash
• Summer
• of
• love
• Woodstock
• Starship
• Grateful
• Dead

[turntapzap]

Is that the guitar you used in Beatlemania?

[lfradkin]

No. Although it looks like it. The one you see here is a Rickenbacker 360/12v64. It has 7.4ohm scatter wound pickups (Vintage Style) with dual Mono outputs. They're no longer made.

[gweaterman]

@lfradkin i have one of those!!!!

[turntapzap]

What a sound! Absolutely gorgeous too.

[craviola880]

That's what I'm talkin' about!

Christian