Hmmm, the ATCW FB group identified this guitar as a Fender Duo-Sonic. I know nothing about guitars, but wrote a couple blog posts compiling the group's discussions about Chris's guitars here: wp.me/p3GDKV-ej (electric) and wp.me/p3GDKV-YC (acoustic) In fact, we concur that Chris likely wrote Ultraglide on this guitar.
Could be a Duo-Sonic@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitley The Duo-Sonic was a precursor for the Mustang. They look almost identical and hard to discern in the video. I'll say it's my mistake because I am merely a guitar player not a video historian or archivist. I just love Chris Whitley's music. Thanks for the stuff you put out.
@@SteveG123 Obviously I'm very online right now .... I just posted your comment to the All Things Chris Whitley group, where none of us are experts either! Anyway, thanks for raising the possibility that we got it wrong. BTW, do you see what I see? It seems that Chris uses his slide beginning at about 2:45, or am I too ignorant to know what I'm seeing? I didn't know that players used slides on electric guitars .....?
@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitley I just got your post in my gmail so I hopped back here. Slide electric is very common. Chris has a slide on his fret hand throughout this tune. His slide playing is spectacular.
@@SteveG123 An ATCW member who knows a thing or two about guitars replied: "The older Mustangs and Duo Sonics appear to share body, pickguard, and control plate shapes...but most Mustangs seem to have a larger/longer chrome bridge plate, that has a tremolo...and it seems the Duo Sonics have a more compact bridge plate with no tremolo. So it would seem Chris is playing a Duo Sonic ?. Also, he is wearing a chrome ring style slide on his fretting hand pinky...but I don't see or hear that he actually employs it on Ultraglide." So it seems the two are much more similar than different.
Lot of musicians are intense fans, Hendrix got invited from crowd onto stage at a Buddy Guy show, a ton of bands have said the moment they thought to start a band was seeing Black Sabbath, Ramones or Velvet Underground play. Did Chris have a show like that? Who all did he get to jam with at clubs?
I'm not sure if this answers your question: In addition to being positively viewed by music critics, Chris was appreciated - in some cases, one could say revered - by fellow musicians. Wikipedia lists "notable fans" of Chris's music including ATO co-founder and collaborator on Rocket House Dave Matthews, blues guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr., Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Bruce Hornsby (collaborator on Rocket House), Tom Petty (invited Chris to open for him on the Great Wide Open tour), Myles Kennedy, Don Henley (The Eagles), Iggy Pop (The Stooges), Alanis Morissette, and Keith Richards, among others. You can add to that list Bob Dylan, who invited Chris to open for him on a few gigs in Europe during June 1991. Joy Sculnick, interviewing Chris about War Crime Blues for the New York Times in 2004, provides this gem: Apparently, Dylan is a fan of Whitley. The two met several years ago following Whitley’s show at a Stockholm club. “He (Dylan) came and sat through a set of mine. He shook my hand. I was scared. I really did grow up on him. My parents listened to him…And then years later I was in Stockholm again. A journalist came to me, ‘Remember that gig with Dylan?’ The guy says to me, ‘I did an interview with Dylan that night and I asked him what he thought of your set. And Dylan said, ‘Man, I had goosebumps.’” Other recording artists who appreciate Chris's music include Ann Wilson (Heart), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Jeff Lang (collaborator on Dislocation Blues), Dougie Bowne (The Lounge Lizards, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful - collaborator/co-producer Din of Ecstasy & Terra Incognita), Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead), Craig Street (producer of Dirt Floor & Perfect Day), Rob Wasserman (collaborator on Trios and A Note of Hope), and Chris Wood and Billy Martin (of Martin, Medeski and Wood, collaborators on Perfect Day). That's not to mention all the musicians who asked Chris to contribute to their music: Joe Henry (Fuse), Cassandra Wilson (Blue Light 'til Dawn & New Moon Daughter), Shawn Colvin (Fat City), Dave Pirner (of Soul Asylum - Faces & Names), Michael Shrieve (of Santana - Fascination), and Chocloate Genius (God Music). Read more here: wp.me/p3GDKV-10L
@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitleyHearing Dylan and Chris together in 91' must have been incredible. Pre-albums, i wonder if Dylan pointed him toward some poetry or some lyric suggestions. "Accordingly" is so well written, its tougb to imagine he wasnt playing it for years prior to recording. No cell phone footage back then though. Do you have live shows of Chris covering Stooges, Iggy, the Clash, Springsteen? Did he do any Woody Guthrie or Billy Bragg stuff?
@@idontagree9658 re covering Woody Guthrie, Chris composed the music to a poem Guthrie wrote: ruclips.net/video/eo7Bcwkpzis/видео.html You can read more about this in my long blog post here: wp.me/p3GDKV-dV Chris covered The Clash's The Call Up (ruclips.net/video/oYqAwvU0sMM/видео.html) on his War Crime Blues album and The Flaming Lips' Mountainside (ruclips.net/video/jU26pDOwznQ/видео.html) and The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog (ruclips.net/video/O3o4rgR4EJ4/видео.html) on Reiter In. These covers are also discussed in the blog post I linked to above. Chris and Iggy were friends, btw. Here's an article that mentions a bit more about the CW cult, including Iggy, Bruce, and many others: www.pastemagazine.com/music/chris-whitley/chris-whitley-1960-2005
One doesn't see Chris playing a Fender Mustang very often. In fact, it's very rare.
Hmmm, the ATCW FB group identified this guitar as a Fender Duo-Sonic. I know nothing about guitars, but wrote a couple blog posts compiling the group's discussions about Chris's guitars here: wp.me/p3GDKV-ej (electric) and wp.me/p3GDKV-YC (acoustic) In fact, we concur that Chris likely wrote Ultraglide on this guitar.
Could be a Duo-Sonic@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitley The Duo-Sonic was a precursor for the Mustang. They look almost identical and hard to discern in the video. I'll say it's my mistake because I am merely a guitar player not a video historian or archivist. I just love Chris Whitley's music. Thanks for the stuff you put out.
@@SteveG123 Obviously I'm very online right now .... I just posted your comment to the All Things Chris Whitley group, where none of us are experts either! Anyway, thanks for raising the possibility that we got it wrong. BTW, do you see what I see? It seems that Chris uses his slide beginning at about 2:45, or am I too ignorant to know what I'm seeing? I didn't know that players used slides on electric guitars .....?
@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitley I just got your post in my gmail so I hopped back here. Slide electric is very common. Chris has a slide on his fret hand throughout this tune. His slide playing is spectacular.
@@SteveG123 An ATCW member who knows a thing or two about guitars replied: "The older Mustangs and Duo Sonics appear to share body, pickguard, and control plate shapes...but most Mustangs seem to have a larger/longer chrome bridge plate, that has a tremolo...and it seems the Duo Sonics have a more compact bridge plate with no tremolo. So it would seem Chris is playing a Duo Sonic ?. Also, he is wearing a chrome ring style slide on his fretting hand pinky...but I don't see or hear that he actually employs it on Ultraglide." So it seems the two are much more similar than different.
Lot of musicians are intense fans, Hendrix got invited from crowd onto stage at a Buddy Guy show, a ton of bands have said the moment they thought to start a band was seeing Black Sabbath, Ramones or Velvet Underground play. Did Chris have a show like that? Who all did he get to jam with at clubs?
I'm not sure if this answers your question: In addition to being positively viewed by music critics, Chris was appreciated - in some cases, one could say revered - by fellow musicians. Wikipedia lists "notable fans" of Chris's music including ATO co-founder and collaborator on Rocket House Dave Matthews, blues guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr., Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Bruce Hornsby (collaborator on Rocket House), Tom Petty (invited Chris to open for him on the Great Wide Open tour), Myles Kennedy, Don Henley (The Eagles), Iggy Pop (The Stooges), Alanis Morissette, and Keith Richards, among others.
You can add to that list Bob Dylan, who invited Chris to open for him on a few gigs in Europe during June 1991. Joy Sculnick, interviewing Chris about War Crime Blues for the New York Times in 2004, provides this gem:
Apparently, Dylan is a fan of Whitley. The two met several years ago following Whitley’s show at a Stockholm club. “He (Dylan) came and sat through a set of mine. He shook my hand. I was scared. I really did grow up on him. My parents listened to him…And then years later I was in Stockholm again. A journalist came to me, ‘Remember that gig with Dylan?’ The guy says to me, ‘I did an interview with Dylan that night and I asked him what he thought of your set. And Dylan said, ‘Man, I had goosebumps.’”
Other recording artists who appreciate Chris's music include Ann Wilson (Heart), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Jeff Lang (collaborator on Dislocation Blues), Dougie Bowne (The Lounge Lizards, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful - collaborator/co-producer Din of Ecstasy & Terra Incognita), Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead), Craig Street (producer of Dirt Floor & Perfect Day), Rob Wasserman (collaborator on Trios and A Note of Hope), and Chris Wood and Billy Martin (of Martin, Medeski and Wood, collaborators on Perfect Day). That's not to mention all the musicians who asked Chris to contribute to their music: Joe Henry (Fuse), Cassandra Wilson (Blue Light 'til Dawn & New Moon Daughter), Shawn Colvin (Fat City), Dave Pirner (of Soul Asylum - Faces & Names), Michael Shrieve (of Santana - Fascination), and Chocloate Genius (God Music).
Read more here: wp.me/p3GDKV-10L
@@KatieDewitz4ChrisWhitleyHearing Dylan and Chris together in 91' must have been incredible. Pre-albums, i wonder if Dylan pointed him toward some poetry or some lyric suggestions. "Accordingly" is so well written, its tougb to imagine he wasnt playing it for years prior to recording. No cell phone footage back then though. Do you have live shows of Chris covering Stooges, Iggy, the Clash, Springsteen? Did he do any Woody Guthrie or Billy Bragg stuff?
@@idontagree9658 re covering Woody Guthrie, Chris composed the music to a poem Guthrie wrote: ruclips.net/video/eo7Bcwkpzis/видео.html You can read more about this in my long blog post here: wp.me/p3GDKV-dV Chris covered The Clash's The Call Up (ruclips.net/video/oYqAwvU0sMM/видео.html) on his War Crime Blues album and The Flaming Lips' Mountainside (ruclips.net/video/jU26pDOwznQ/видео.html) and The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog (ruclips.net/video/O3o4rgR4EJ4/видео.html) on Reiter In. These covers are also discussed in the blog post I linked to above. Chris and Iggy were friends, btw. Here's an article that mentions a bit more about the CW cult, including Iggy, Bruce, and many others: www.pastemagazine.com/music/chris-whitley/chris-whitley-1960-2005
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