Country music?...... On an Orange?

[Thinline_slim]

That's pretty much what's going through my head right now but in a humorous way. I play in a cover band (for the most part) and we're changing up our strategy for this year. Effectively we're dedicating 7-10 song sets in different genres. So we will have a country music set, blues-ish set, classic rock set, old R&B set, etc and our clients can check out the sets on our website and pretty much pick what they want to hear.

So tonight we're working on our country set. It will sound a little interesting with the TT BUT, and I'm guessing not many on here are avid country listeners, some of the more modern country has some seriously heavy guitar tones. Case in point Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy. When I was practicing at home I had to turn my Orange gain UP!

It will be interesting.

[Les Paul Lover]

Eh, eh...!!!

But yeah, most Oranges above 15w would pull that off very well. You know have a need for a RV50...

[Thinline_slim]

I think my OR50 will be good to go although I usually set it up with a light/mid OD as a base. I'll have to play around with the foot switch master vol maybe and just ride the guitar volume.

The last thing I need to do is start thinking that I should get my hands on an RV50 though... It's all about willpower.

[jason41224]

i'm thinking OR+pedals would get the job done. Tiny Terror actually would sound good, if only it was louder/had more headroom. i think it's got a great voicing for that sorta thing.

[Woodsie]

I play in a cover band too. We also recognize that, as a cover band, it's more about what people want to hear and less about what we want to play. We've also been playing around with Save a Horse..... You're right, some nice heavy guitar in it. Sounds great on my RV50 MKII. It's a great female audience participation song too. I

[a.hun]

R.30 can certainly do country style sounds no problem. (Whether you'd want to is purely up to personal taste. Perhaps 'lack of' in my case - sorry, not a big country fan here. )

It is always good to do new things though, and I do like mixing genres, the more unlikely the more fun! Good luck with the set lists!


Andy.

[kmlabs]

I love to surprise people with covers bands - either with a rocked up cover of a song they're not expecting to hear or mixing things up. In the last covers band I was in, we did "Killing in the Gay Bar" - it was almost impossible for me to play without a huge grin on my face

[Les Paul Lover]

I love to surprise people with covers bands - either with a rocked up cover of a song they're not expecting to hear or mixing things up. In the last covers band I was in, we did "Killing in the Gay Bar" - it was almost impossible for me to play without a huge grin on my face

Eh ,eh, eh...


One of my friend would do a Enrique Iglesias cover, change the lyrics too, it became "shave my balls tonight" - and he'd tape up a massive print of Shave My Balls to the back of his axe, ad would hold it up at opportune times to make sure the crowd would get it.....

I believe that's the song he would sing in suspenders......... He doesn't take himself too seriously!!!!

[Nork]

A buddy of mine plays in a country band (called the "Working Class") with a tele and an R30 and loves it.

[a.hun]

A buddy of mine plays in a country band (called the "Working Class") with a tele and an R30 and loves it.

There you go!


Andy.

[Thinline_slim]

R.30 can certainly do country style sounds no problem.

A buddy of mine plays in a country band (called the "Working Class") with a tele and an R30 and loves it.

I could definitely hear that. Decent clean channel and a solid OD channel. Makes sense.

[Randy Bass]

A buddy of mine plays in a country band (called the "Working Class") with a tele and an R30 and loves it.

A Nork sighting ! How have you been?

I don't think I'd be able to play a regular single-coil Tele through anything brighter than an Orange, so I would either use a darker guitar or stick with an Orange if I played Country. It's about time for Thunderverbs to take over Country Music if you ask me !

[BillKat]

I play a bit of country. Don't tell anyone . My Tele does really cuts with the AD15, easy to tame though.
Here's a clip-ette mucking about with my Gretsch doing a clean twang thang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59dLhQ0rI_s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Spaceboy1]

Blackberry Smoke plays Orange... country/rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3qwtVL5NM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[a.hun]

Blackberry Smoke plays Orange... country/rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3qwtVL5NM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good sounds.

Some serious sideburns too!


Andy.