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 Got a comment or question about a band, venue or Curt's List ??
Send me your questions &/or comments - and as long as they are positive,
semi-positive, or not too mean & nasty,...I'll post them for a at least a
couple of weeks. Nothing makes peeps wanna check something out on
the web - better than their own stuff. I'll try to answer them or get
an answer - as well !!
Just use the Contact Me page or e-me at curtfillmore@yahoo.com
Thanx !!

Q) D. Henry Writes: I went by the Utopia Club last Sunday
and they were closed ??
A) I've since added their hours to my Home page for your
consideration,...very sorry about the wasted trip,...

Q) Lisa M. Writes: How come some of the concerts on your list have times beside them and some don't ?
A) I have a note at the top of the listings on the Home Page
that states: "ALL ACTS WITHIN LIST BEGIN AROUND
 9 - 9:30 / UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED"  - Thanks Lisa !!

C) Danny B. Writes: I love what you do Curt !! I'm so tired of the Urban Tulsa being wrong all the time !! Now we have someone finally doing it RIGHT !!                              Thank You - Man !!

C) From : Kapaka
 Curt The Liquid Static Band wanted to let you know
that we appreciate all the work you do on behalf of
local musicians and thier music.
You and others like you got behind us from the
first jam night we played and have really helped
to open doors for us, that, otherwise would have
remained closed. When all is said and done we will
and should remember you as a champion for our cause.
You Rawk and we Love you Man! The LSB

C) From Adam Lopez :
 Great time jamming with you Curt ! 

C) From The Zigs :
 Keep up the good work. Best wishes from all us Zigs.

C) From Gypsy :
 HEY MAN I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP WITH THE
LOCAL SCENE AND BEING DEAD ON WITH YOUR
SHOW POSTINGS, IT DOES HELP AND I REFER
EVERYONE TO CURTS LIST !!! KEEP UP THE GREAT
WORK MAN !!!
- GYPSY

 Here's a tid-bit: Have you always wondered why the
band "Five for Fighting" has that name when there's
only usually two of em ?? Five for Fighting refers to
a penalty in Hockey,...five minute penalty for fighting.

 Here's another,...When Jimi Hendrix wanted to record
Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" he wanted an
acoustic guitar on it. Dave Mason happened to be there
and suggested he run around the corner to his aprtment
and get his acoustic guitar. The acoustic jamming - all the
way through the original recording is Dave Mason playing
acoustic guitar.

 Stevie Ray Vaughan is widely considered one of the greatest
Blues guitarists of all time.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's Main musical equipment:

- Guitars

 Stevie's main guitar was a cherished, beat-up 1963 Fender
Stratocaster he dubbed Number One. He always referred
to Number One as a '59. "1962" was stamped on the neck,
and "1963" was written in the body cavity. On the back of
the pickups, "1959" was written. The fretboard was a
"veneer" board (curved on the underside), though all of
Stevie's other rosewood-board guitars were slab-boards
(flat on the underside).

 Number One was 100% stock, except for the five-way
toggle switch and the lefty vibrato arm. Around 1980,
Stevie needed to have his vibrato arm repaired, and a
lefty vibrato was the only one in stock. Number One was
the only guitar with a lefty vibrato arm. All of his other
guitars had righty vibrato arms.
In the last tone position, a push-push pot with a dummy
coil was installed in order to cut down on the hum from
the single-coil pickups. Different value capacitors were
also added so the tone would stay close to the original
sound.

 Number One had a very big neck and it may have been the
biggest neck of any Strat ever made. Fender rated the necks
in terms of size either A, B, C or D, D being the largest.
The body was made of alder. Stevie preferred his fretwire
to be as tall as it possibly could be.

 All of his other main guitars were vintage Strats or
Strat-style guitars.

"Yellow" – a single-pickup yellow Strat that had belonged to
Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge.
"Lenny" – a brown-stain finish on natural wood and a 1910
mandolin pickguard behind the bridge with a maple neck.
"Butter" – a 1961 Stratocaster with a slab-board
"Main" – a custom-made Hamiltone guitar, which had his name
inlayed on the fretboard
"Charley" – a white Strat with "lipstick" pickups made for
Stevie by Charley Wirz, for whom Stevie wrote "Life Without You"

-Strings and picks

 His string gauges, high to low, were usually
.013, .015, .019, .028, .038, .058. Sometimes he'd use a slightly
lighter high E string, like a .012 or .011. And he always tuned
down one half step.

Picks were always Fender Mediums, played on the side, round edge.

-Amplifiers

Stevie used a combination of amps, all running at the same time.

Two "blackface" Fender Super Reverbs
150-watt Dumble Steel String Singer with a 4x12
Dumble bottom
200-watt Marshall Major head with a 4x12
Dumble bottom
"Blackface" Fender Vibroverb, with one 15" speaker,
used to power a Leslie-type Fender Vibratone cabinet
with a rotating speaker inside.
His amps were all upgraded to Electro-Voice speakers.

-Pedals

 He always used an Ibanez Tube Screamer, starting with the original
first-issue 808, followed by the TS-9 and then the TS-10 Classic.

Vintage '60s Vox wah-wahs
Vintage Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face
'60's Tycobrahe Octavia