What did they use on "The Race is On"? Solo By Geo

[Jeff Metz Jr.]

What tuning was the guitar solo in the studio version of George Jones' T.R.I.O played on? Was it a standard tuning guitar with the E dropped an octave or what? c6 steel? Doubt it. Its pure goodness whatever it is.
Listen to the studio version if Your not familiar with it.
Baritone haha ?

[Clete Ritta]

Sounds like a baritone guitar tuned to low A.

[W. Van Horn]

A lot of those whacked out guitar solos on GJ's recordings(though that particular one is fairly tame) sound like baritone to me. Hitting the mic pre HARD, super compressed and soaked in verb. Another good one is "Feeling single seeing double". Almost sounds like the amp with tons of spring verb being fed into an echo chamber.

[Daniel Policarpo]

Yeah, I love that sound Jones got in that era. "I'm a People" is another good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hunmVE1K3g

[Bill Hatcher]

the instrument that would have been in many studios back then to play "tic tac" bass on would be a danelectro six string bass. thats my guess for the solo.

its tuned in the range of the four strings of a standard elec bass with the addition of the upper B and E strings.

the baritone dano is tuned differently and were not used any where near as much as the 6 string bass.

[Bill Hatcher]

the instrument that would have been in many studios back then to play "tic tac" bass on would be a danelectro six string bass. thats my guess for the solo.

its tuned in the range of the four strings of a standard elec bass with the addition of the upper B and E strings.

the baritone dano is tuned differently and were not used any where near as much as the 6 string bass.

[Greg Cutshaw]

Here's a link to George Jones' Tall Tall Trees. It seems that the lead guitar intro starts in one key and quickly shifts to another. I posted this before but it's from a 45 RPM record released to DJ's.

Tall Tall Trees


Greg

[Russ Wever]

Jeff,
Similar sound → here.

Greg,
Is that indeed a 'lead guitar'?
Listen to the end of the steel solo, it sounds as though the
intro is the same as the couple measures of the steel solo.
Probably Buddy Emmons. Compare the Tall, Tall Trees riff
to Emmons recording of Buddies Boogie, especially the ending,
which was recorded in the same time-frame on a 'pre-chromatic'
E(13th?) tuning that went to a low E (same as guitar 6th string).
Actually, in Tall, Tall Trees I don't hear any notes below that A
(guitar, 5th string) that would indicate that it's an 'octave low'
(tic-tac) guitar.
~Russ

[Joachim Kettner]

Jeff,
Similar sound → here.

Or maybe this one?


I've seen a clip with the Byrds lip- synching to "I'll feel a whole lot better" where C. Hillman used one.

[Russ Wever]

Here's ya another → click

[Steve Hinson]

I'd say that all those clips are six string bass except"Tall,Tall Trees"...which is a regular electric guitar...

[Jerry Fessenden]

I think that there are two guitars... the 1st notes may be on a lower tuned guitar by another player, then the great Gary Adams took off with the rest of it .

[Jerry Fessenden]

Just talked to Doug Jernigan and Gary Adams. Kelso Herston played the tic/tac while Gary played the lead. BTW, Bob Moore on upright .possibly Emmons on steel.

[Alan Tanner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hunmVE1K3g