Dave retired the 714?

jacobie423 · Post by **jacobie423** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:46 am

I saw a video on youtube of "Sister" from 5/13 and Dave is using the 914 instead of the 714. It definately was in raised b tuning. I guess this will be his new raised b axe?

Anyone see the same video?

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:29 am

Do you have the link?

CWMCALL · Post by **CWMCALL** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:15 am

I have a video of him playing "Sister" at Manchester Academy and he is playing the 714....Who knows?

jacobie423 · Post by **jacobie423** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:14 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGY8pRqRs4

ut4ever8 · Post by **ut4ever8** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:44 am

could be cus sister is played in drop A, i had one of my giutars in raised b for a while and its a bitch to tune, so he probably has one in raised B and one in drop A, just a guess though

DJR · Post by **DJR** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:54 am

ut4ever8 wrote:could be cus sister is played in drop A, i had one of my giutars in raised b for a while and its a bitch to tune, so he probably has one in raised B and one in drop A, just a guess though

it would take literally 10 seconds to put a raised B guitar into "drop A" so i think thats pretty unlikely

emorokr12 · Post by **emorokr12** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:18 pm

DJR07 wrote:
ut4ever8 wrote:could be cus sister is played in drop A, i had one of my giutars in raised b for a while and its a bitch to tune, so he probably has one in raised B and one in drop A, just a guess though
it would take literally 10 seconds to put a raised B guitar into "drop A" so i think thats pretty unlikely

You are right about the time it would take, but dave even has a different guitar for drop D. So it makes prefect sense that he would have a separate guitar for drop A.

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:29 pm

emorokr12 wrote:
DJR07 wrote:
ut4ever8 wrote:could be cus sister is played in drop A, i had one of my giutars in raised b for a while and its a bitch to tune, so he probably has one in raised B and one in drop A, just a guess though
it would take literally 10 seconds to put a raised B guitar into "drop A" so i think thats pretty unlikely
You are right about the time it would take, but dave even has a different guitar for drop D. So it makes prefect sense that he would have a separate guitar for drop A.

Beat me to it. His techs have all his guitars tuned to the different tunings he'll need during the show and bring him a new guitar in liu of tuning each one. So he likely has one guitar in "Drop A."

jacobie423 · Post by **jacobie423** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:19 pm

Why would he devote a 914 in drop A for one song? It doesn't make any sense unless it will be used for all raised b songs, which it was on 5/13. He played stay or leave with it.

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:20 pm

jacobie423 wrote:Why would he devote a 914 in drop A for one song? It doesn't make any sense unless it will be used for all raised b songs, which it was on 5/13. He played stay or leave with it.

Because he's Dave Matthews and has the best guitars and as many as he wishes.

mattinbeloit · Post by **mattinbeloit** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:20 pm

Maybe he broke a string or something, who knows. He does have lots of guitars, and for good reason...

fede · Post by **fede** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:12 pm

mattinbeloit wrote:Maybe he broke a string or something, who knows. He does have lots of guitars, and for good reason...

a1075dd63aa12 · Post by **a1075dd63aa12** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:26 pm

c_tietze wrote:
jacobie423 wrote:Why would he devote a 914 in drop A for one song? It doesn't make any sense unless it will be used for all raised b songs, which it was on 5/13. He played stay or leave with it.
Because he's Dave Matthews and has the best guitars and as many as he wishes.

bingo

STLflmmkr · Post by **STLflmmkr** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:05 pm

He has said many times that he's no good at tuning guitars. And he's dave matthews if he wants a different guitar for each tuning he gets it.

jacobie423 · Post by **jacobie423** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:07 am

Is this a new 914 or did he probably just use one of the three he already had and put it into drop a/raised b?