Well... that's alright.

huh. She looks a lot more like the monster Judd sister than I figured.

What the fuck is that, a 3/4 SG bass with a whammy bar ?

Yep.

oh my

this is photoshoperazzi-filth heaven if i ever saw it

Strings look pretty thin - maybe an electric uke setup?

That stage is completely backed by windows? Cool pics but that sound must have been pretty harsh bouncing off that glass.

Well this should pretty much dispel any notions of her being hot.

yeah, i don't know why everyone claims she's so hot.

That room is unbelievable. The sound was fine the one time I went, but that was a Josh Ritter solo acoustic show, so it wasn't the ideal test case for reverberation.

Also, the only hot thing about Neko is her voice.

I think you are right, especially considering the stand up bass player and the fact that she is playing an acoustic uke in the other pics; looks like a pretty neat little sucker though, huh?

Yeah. Also reminded of the sticks that Idaho plays (played? are they still together?). Regular guitar bodies with four-string necks. I'm not sure what they tuned those things to.

I miss the Kutie pix. Good times...

i still find her attractive tho... i might still angle for a bday present when she comes to boulder/denver

http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag122/gear122.html

"Neko Case's "main love is definitely the tenor guitar." She still plays her first tenor, a vintage Gibson TG-O, but she wanted something with a deeper tone, so she commissioned a custom tenor with an Engelmann spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, and mother-of-pearl deer fretboard inlay from Don Windham (Haymaker Guitars, [602] 243-1179, haymaker72@hotmail.com). Both guitars are outfitted with B-Band pickups. Case also plays a circa 1959 Gretsch Tenor Jet electric and a 1958 Gibson Les Paul Special. Her main amp is a Vox Pacemaker that Jon Rauhouse says sounds like "jellied bread," but she also brings Garnet Revolution I and Revolution II amps into the studio. Case's standard tenor tuning is D G B E, but she also uses an Eb tuning and one with "lots of B's." She strings all her guitars with ".011s of whatever" and favors the "papery sound" of .60 mm. Dunlop picks."

Wow - way to go with the research skills. Thanks.

Huh. Tenor guitar love, alt country voicing, and yet no Jerry Jones Neptune? It's such a perfect fit for her. I wonder if she knows of it?

These are some pretty awful photos.


Permission to post the good ones?

"good" like "get someone fired" good, or just plain 'ol "good?"

definitely pics that result in a good old-fashioned squirrgling

Yeah, this was an old article around the time Blacklisted came out. The guitar in the picture is a 1929 Martin tenor guitar.

http://www.fretsmag.com/story.asp?secti ... code=15720

Frets: What are your go-to guitars for writing, recording, and performing?

NEKO: "Mostly they’re [4-string] tenor guitars, but I also wrote a lot on 6-string for this record. I have a Martin acoustic tenor that’s very old—1929, I think—and very tiny, yet amazingly loud. Those little bodies make the most sound, I’ve found. It has a really rich, beautiful tone. I also have a vintage Gibson TG-O tenor. It’s a ladder-braced guitar, and the top has started to pull up a bit, which makes it hard to keep in tune, so I don’t take it on the road anymore. The Martin is much sturdier, even though it’s 30 years older. My 6-string acoustic is a ’60s Gibson Hummingbird that’s in really good shape and sounds great.

My electric tenor is a white 1960s custom SG with P-90s, which I really love. I also have a 1959 Gretsch Jet electric tenor. Unfortunately, American Airlines smashed the bridge on it at one point, so after getting it repaired, I decided not to take it on tour any more. Onstage I run my acoustic and electric guitars into a Carr Rambler 1 x 12 combo. It’s the best amp I’ve ever had. I fell in love with it because it has the most incredible sustain and the best tone, it isn’t too big, and it’s loud. My Martin has a very sensitive pickup—some kind of little microphone—that feeds back like crazy when I go direct into the house mixer. But plugging into the Carr solves that problem. All my guitars love that amp."

From the same article:
Case’s Secret Weapon

"In an effort to prevent ambient noise from polluting their vocal tracks, studio singers typically use mics set to fairly restricted pickup patterns. Case, however, takes another route, opting to set her preferred studio mic—the multi-pattern Audio-Technica AT4050 large-diaphragm condenser—in omni mode. In this configuration, a mic picks up sound from 360 degrees. Thus the tone of Case’s voice filling the room blends with her close-miked timbres, creating a lively, open sound.
The AT4050’s nickel-plated, machined-brass shell houses a dual-diaphragm capsule. In addition to switchable cardioid, figure-8, and omni polar patterns, the mic also sports a switchable 80Hz hi-pass filter and 10dB pad, and offers transformerless circuitry. —AE"

Uhnnnhhhh... Carr Rambler. Fuck yeah I want one of those. That or one of the little 7/5/1/.5 watt switchable ones like Phil has (that lucky fucker). Big sound, tiny volume, happy neighbors.

I was actually looking for that article online. I remember it was just in Frets not too long ago. It was a great spread about her style and how she plays these tenor guitars. Very rec'd if any of you out there are tech heads and dig her. Frets just looks like a great mag in general.

Man, you run a google images search on her, and she looks different in every shot. ...so much so that I don't think I'd recognize her if she walked through my living room right now.