Elantric's Bio

Started by Elantric, January 24, 2008, 01:53:00 PM

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whippinpost91850

Very cool, I have never seen one. Cool band photo too



Elantric

#78
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=82.0
Almost moved to Nashville in 2009 to be Director of Engineering for Gibson. . . . . buts thats another long story.
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=23


HecticArt

Wow, that looks like a smear campaign orchestrated by the interns at Fender.

I hope it's not that bad over there.

chrish

#80
When I read these types of employee abuses, I wonder as consumers of these products if there is something we can do to improve things. A boycot of Gibson products may send a messege, however, that may hurt employees in the short term as business drops off. However, this problem runs all the way to the child labor sweat shops of india, where the abuses are even more dramatic. (Sorry , i volunter my time and sanity as a public land use activist in favor of restoring our eco habitats for the benefit of all life, and this stuff gets me fired up).

Elantric

#81

HecticArt

That's pretty cool.

How was it that you were hanging out with him? Did he play the Reverend? (I don't know if he plays guitar too.)

Elantric

#83
Fito is a drummer - and my girlfriend's local cable access music show featured Canned Heat band on past episodes

She introduced me to Fito back in 2007, and Fito invited me to jam a couple weeks ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_de_la_Parra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_Heat

HecticArt

Way cool.
I wasn't sure if he played guitar too. Looks like it was fun.


Elantric



Quote1984 - Larry Carlton, Rick Morotta, John Patitucci, Terry Trotter, Brian Mann, Michael Fisher

1980-1986 Both myself and Steve Fryette worked at the Valley Arts Service department, after Paul Rivera left to pursue design work for Yamaha, Pignose , PMG BUF IV,

and Fender before starting Rivera Research - in the video above Larry is playing a Paul Rivera designed 1980 Yamaha G100-112 loaded with EVM-12L speaker -popular with Carlos Rios, Buzz Feiten, Robben Ford -


http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?72813-Anyone-familiar-with-this-Yamaha-amp

And Larry is also using a Paul Rivera designed 1983 Fender Twin Reverb II Head






At various points in time , I have had each of these amps on my repair bench for general service / maintenance, because working at Valley Arts back then was rather like being "pit crew" to the LA Wrecking Crew, and then some.

I remember in 1982-83, Paul delivering one of each ( Fender London Reverb Head & Fender Concert head and Fender Twin Reverb II Head) - as Larry was looking for something more than his prior amp - a 1976 Mesa Boogie Mark 1

By 1986, Larry had switched to a Dumble Super Overdrive 1x12 combo.

As always Larry's effective use of a ShoBud Volume pedal is his tone secret



Larry's Fender Twin Reverb II Head fed a closed cab enclosure with EVM12L speaker facing both a SM-57 mic and AKG 421 - each to feed the PA for controlled low decibel stage volume. - got close, but was not quite right until Howard Dumble with a bag of various value capacitors worked with Larry on my workbench at Valley Arts selecting the best turnover frequency for a custom passive DI box to be used from the Fender Twin Reverb II Head's speaker output.

At least thats how I recollect Larry's Rig back then

Larry is playing one the early Valley Arts Strats too

Elantric

#86
last day of 2016 - Fun New years Eve - Jamin the Blues with Fito de la Parra  (Canned Heat)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_Heat

Cake is due to Jan 1st being my birthday ;)

Great time

Elantric

#87
Interesting blog from Byron Fry , an LA session player that I was recently made aware of

http://byronfry.com/2016/02/22/burning-electric-wheels-on-auto-tuned-horseless-carriages/




My exposure to and indoctrination into all of this was thanks to my having recently made the acquaintance of the aforementioned Don Ramsay, a very gentlemanly, unassuming, soft-spoken mechanical genius, who in turn introduced me to Thomas Nordegg, the mad genius behind some very audacious guitar-techery.  Thomas, Don and Steve Conrad ( a.k.a. "Elantric"  , the most knowledgeable guy alive for guitar electronics, according to Don) kept feeding me hi-tech weaponry at the Bogner booth, ceaselessly flipping switches and changing sounds as I played, from various open tunings, to bass, to 12-string acoustic, to a piccolo mating with a canary.  I was so far outside my comfort zone I couldn't even see it from where I was.

In my world at least, these guys occupy the headwaters of the guitar invention river and the tip of the spearhead.  They have such a healthy and complete disregard for tradition, just to be around them I have to re-evaluate what is and isn't sacred between me and my instrument, and in a broader context, humankind's relationship with technology.  This last is of course a long-standing area of concern for me; I'm writing this piece as much to define my new personal boundaries as anything else.  That said, let's introduce the players and set the stage:



Thomas Nordegg with "Sonica"

 
Meeting with Mr Yoshihiro Ikegami ( Head of Roland / Boss Guitar products)
Steve Conrad (Elantric/Admin) in center.
(with Thomas Nordegg) 
https://www.vintageguitar.com/26857/thomas-nordegg/

bbob

When I lived near Bishop, CA I took a couple of guitar lessons with Byron.

He drove around town in an old police car.   :D

Bob

Elantric


Elantric

#90
Back in 1962- to mid 1963 -Surf Music was king -  I lived in Glendora California , and at age 7 I touched my 1st electric guitar.( Gretsch) It was owned by Mr. Bob Berryhill , ( The Surfaris) who allowed me to pluck one of the strings between songs as they rehearsed just around the corner from where I lived on North Hawk Lane in Glendora . The reverb tone was intoxicating.

this event had a major impact on my life.



https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bob-berryhill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(instrumental)

The same Grestch guitar can be seen here





JoBoss

Mamma Mia ..you are an institution/monument Steve.....full of information .....the backbone of Vguitarforums IMHO....one of a kind.....wow....!!  8)

Hurricane

8)
Great stories - great history of Valley Arts , must have been a wonderful time in
your life . I recall those days of the arsonist and how he got nailed .

EZ :

HR

Elantric


My old friend Grant Geissman

Playing his solo on Chuck Mangione's "Feels so Good"





Elantric



Caught up with my old college buddy Grant Cihlar at recent LA Amp show


Grant used to play in a band with me back in 1973, and has not changed a bit!



Elantric

#96
I will be at a Christmas day Jam this  Monday
Jamin at Mr. Fito de la Parra's place ( Canned Heat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_de_la_Parra



Elantric

1960's Chicago pop  music history
( I went to High School in Westmont / Darien / Hinsdale / Downers Grove area


Elantric

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/l-a-in-the-1970s.1910973/

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I've read and heard (mostly in rock bios and documentaries) that L.A. was a very weird place in the '70s. Did anyone here live through it and can you describe what it was like? Maybe share stories or anecdotes?

Majiken

I read recently that Richard Pryor's widow confirmed he had sex with Marlon Brando, saying something like "hey, it was the 70s, and drugs (especially Quaaludes) were much cleaner then. You might get so high you'd have sex with a radiator and send it flowers the next morning"  :o
Take what you need, put back a bit more, leave the place behind you better than it was before :-)

www.majiken.rocks