California Blue - a guitar instrumental by Alan Young

This is the beautiful Roy Orbison song from his Traveling Wilburys days. Another fabulous voice taken far too soon.
Geeks, Nerds and Anoraks corner.
Played (obviously) on my Burns Anniversary Marvin, neck pickup. I looked for a really spacious echo on the Hall and Collins Signature Echo, and there are none so spacious as the Wonderful Land patch, no.16. I increased the echo feedback to max and even then I added as much hall reverb as it would take on my Tascam DP24. I also used the Vox ToneLab ST on the Vox AC15 amp model, gain at about 2, treble at 1, middle at maximum and bass at halfway. There eventually proved to be too much bass on mastering so I reduced the bass frequencies on the Tascam recorder. I then realised that I had come across this before when using the neck pickup on the Marvin, but I have yet to experience that on the Stratocaster.
My Marvin is currently fitted with 12 gauge Elixirs so the very infrequent semi-tone bends on the 2nd fret really took some doing!!!

[@theoneandonlytina1]

Beautifully played ,Love this song ♥

[@olavbrynildsen]

Beautiful cover of this wonderful song Alan.Perfectly played and super sound👏👌💯. Enjoyed listening.Cheers Olav

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Olav

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Un suono molto bello, per questa bellissima melodia! Grazie! 😊😍😘🎸🎶💘❤️💋💯🌅

[@Mindboggle100]

Effective use of tremelo, a sound a adore, so serene and unique great cover version! Thanks

[@AllanKeyboardMusic]

Very cool guitar music channel. Sounds so beautiful. LIKED & SUBSCRIBED.

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you Allan 🙂

[@vyperwan4309]

❤ This song so much..
Nice & Great play Alan 👍

[@guitarale7326]

Beautiful version! ❤🎵🎶👏👏👏

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you! 🙂

[@baitfisch]

very nice touch

[@judith-qu8yr]

So beautifully played and very romantic music for dancing with your sweetheart ❤️ 💕 ♥️

[@margitayrjola707]

Beautiful playing of this wonderful song! Thank you for sharing such music to us!!❤🤗🥰

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you.

[@peterludlow9847]

Lovely Alan, loving your tone.

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Peter 🙂

[@Shad1964]

A lovely renditon and smoothly done - it was a pleasure to hear you play it. Cheers Ron.

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Ron. 🙂

[@rajivmodha3693]

Great performance, and thank you for sharing the details of your gear and settings

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you, I think it may be useful to some.🙂

[@ecaterinapopescu-gi7qe]

Frumoasa interpretare a melodiei California blue.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ludwigguitar]

I always loved this beautiful tune, dear Alan. And you interpreted it fabuously with a pretty guitar tone. Enjoyed listening very much. All the best, Ludwig

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you very much Ludwig. 🙂

[@eva.nete.]

👌❣️🎶👏🎸👏🎶❣️👌

[@alanpeters]

Hi Alan, a beautiful version of California Blue, I really enjoyed listening to it, you played it beautifully and the sound was perfect… well done my friend….. I’ve given you a sub Best regards Alan🎸🎸

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Alan. 🙂

[@BryanBarcelo]

Nice!

[@Fredguitare]

Nice rendition and beautiful sound !
Fred

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Fred.🙂

[@davidsnell1044]

Hi Alan, Another excellent performance. Lovely sound. Thumbs up. Take Care. Best Wishes. David

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks David, best wishes to you too. 🙂

[@alanyoung2308]

I see you have done loads David, I will never get though them all but I have subscribed so should be notified when you post something new.

[@JohnPooley-te9ei]

Nice1..Alan & thank u

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks John.

[@steveworth544]

Beautiful and love the deep twang of the Burns- prefer it to a strat.

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Steve. All the Burns Marvin Anniversary pickups have a tad more treble when compared directly to the average Strat.

[@sylwester6651]

Very, very nice. Super sound. Sub and 794👍👏👏👏👏 Regards from Poland.

[@teresamotta945]

❤❤ olha só que música linda
Meus parabéns Alan e Deus o abençoe ❤❤❤

[@milanpusnik2160]

Very very good 👍👍👍👏👏👏🎸🎸🎸

[@gieneksybirak1107]

Alan congratulations you play very nice music very romantic song from my yong live thank you ,old meloman from canada

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you. 🙂

[@marianowen2139]

Brilluant love it❤

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you Marian. 🙂

[@mariefrancoisebelando8681]

MAGNIFIQUE

[@alanyoung2308]

Thank you. 🙂

[@mariazapanovici8358]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnvizzi2553]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎸🎶🎸🎵

[@christinekonczal4605]

Perfekt, czysto

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Christine. 🙂

[@Jamesharris-lo9nn]

What a great Surf guitar tone! It's simply outstanding! May I ask what kind of reverb/ delay pedals are being used? Also what kind of guitar? Keep up the excellent work! 🎸👌

[@alanyoung2308]

Hi James, Check out my Geeks, Nerds and Anoraks Corner, you will find all the answers there. Thanks for your compliments.

[@Jamesharris-lo9nn]

@@alanyoung2308 Hi Alan, I will check that out, thank you. 🎸👌

[@stringman509]

Hi Alan sounds great on the burns , I have the same as you never been played since I brought it in 2004 but it will be tomorrow best wishes Colin

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Colin. Get that Marvin out and give it some stick! 🙂

[@jerryulibarri1102]

Too Beautiful 😂

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Jerry. 🙂

[@raydavidsonm0ray.777]

Hi there Alan,
How Long have you been playing guitars please Alan. That was beautifully presented and played.
Also, how long have long have you been playing guitars on RUclips please. The town & country would be nice to, but don't over do it.
Stay well,
Take care Alan m
Kind regards,
Ray,
Sittingbourne, Kent,
Uk.

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks Ray. I started playing when I was about 12 but between the ages of 20 and 45 I just had an acoustic that was rarely touched. Then I lived in Libya working for a big Dutch company that had a band of expats who needed a guitarist so as soon as I came home on leave I bought a Strat copy and it all started off again. I posted my first guitar video on RUclips on Sep 21st this year. 🙂

[@CamiloLelis-th1ty]

Letra da música Califórnia blu

[@stringman509]

I play shadows so just subscribed 😊

[@alanyoung2308]

Thanks stringman! 🙂

[@stringman509]

@@alanyoung2308 what number is your white burns

[@stringman509]

I have one never been played

[@victorbarker9497]

is that neck wider than the normalfender strat

[@alanyoung2308]

No Victor, I don't know it's actual measurement but it's standard.

[@steeveambroise8038]

796th it's me