Any bottle neck players out there?

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I play bottleneck or slide guitar and sometimes it seems like like I'm the only one left.

I'm a fan of open G tuning. What do ya'll like?
 
Open G's nice as are D and E. I also like to try minor open tunings.

I have a guitar set up for slide only; thinking about it I don't play any where near enough slide.
 
I dubbed around with guitar a while until Leo Kottke came out with his Greenhouse album about 25 - 30 years ago. That changed everything for me. For a while, I played a (lousy) version of everything there, and then wore out phono cartridges trying to reverse engineer "Busted Bicycle." I remember taking a big old SONY reel to reel deck to - get this - house painting jobs so I could still hear Kottke. I saw him in concert once where he got so engrossed in a new groove that he fell of the edge of the stool he was sitting on, right up on the stage. The audience loved it.

Open G is your friend...

I'm going back to it; also fooling around with DADGAD, DADGBD (at least I think it's that.. gotta go back to the guitar and check) and dropped - D; I still get lost with the first two.
 
My wife plays a mean bottleneck. If ya know what I mean. :D
 
I got a ceramic slide last year--just for kicks. I thought I could make it work, but it sounds like shit on my fingerstyle guitar. Maybe my technique is shit, but I'm thinking a guitar setup for slide would have considerably higher action.
 
Here is a streaming tune with me on spark-plug socket slide on a Charvel 625C jumbo and my brother Dave on rhythm with a no name dreadnaught prototype I got at an IMC employee sale.3 choruses and out.Used Harvey's ECM8000s with the over the shoulder technique.
Tom

http://tom.artistcollaboration.com/db.wma
 
Hey Tom that was cool!

I used to use a spark plug socket too. Just recently, I switched to ceramic. It seems to work better for electric guitar. But, I'm practicing with a Lone Star beer bottle. I was thinking it might be a cool stage gimmic.
 
Sometimes I add bottleneck slide parts in my songs for some extra flavor but I'm not too much into it but I know how to play.
 
I have one of the 1972 Telecaster reissues (semi-solid body with humbuckers) set up for slide. I use primarily open D tuning. I don't think this guitar has ever seen standard tuning, it has been in either open D or G since I got it. I have several glass and metal slides I haven't made the switch to ceramic.

Lately, I have started using a capo to switch tunings, but it puts the strings a little too close to the frets. I am thinking of switching strings to accommodate. Any thoughts?

BTW. Did you catch the article in Guitar Player magazine about open G?
 
The last article I caught about "open G" was in Hustler.
 
Lately, I have started using a capo to switch tunings, but it puts the strings a little too close to the frets. I am thinking of switching strings to accommodate. Any thoughts?
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Fat strings are always better for tone.

You guys ever tried open C tuning? (C,G,C,G,C,E) Jimmy Page used it for a few Led Zep songs (but he didn't play slide on them).
 
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