Songs in different keys?????

jonbond1779

When PJ (Mike) play live and they play a song in standard tuning and go to another song with alternate tuning (EG Even Flow) whats the process?

Does Mike re-tune his guitar inbetween the songs?

Are there different guitars pre-tuned and then just go to a different guitar?


I hope this question makes sense but i really want to know!

Cheers,

exhausted

oodles of guitars in different tunings.

ianvomsaal

His tech hands him a guitar already tuned to whatever is required.
Mike owns a ton of guitars - You've seen the list from 2005 right:
http://www.giventowail.com/gearlist.php?who=mike&what=all

jonbond1779

Cheers guys!

I thought that maybe they re-tuned inbetween songs maybe but in reality i guess that could never happen

Pappas

these days at a PJ show alot of the time i can tell what song they might play just by looking at what guitars stone and mike have. eg if i see mike with his sunburst strat and stone with his heaps rare electric/acoustic with the switches at the top i know its black, both strats do the evolution, stone acoustic mike sunburst strat could be ledbedder, elderly woman etc. can tell when heaps of songs are going to come on. in 2006 i LOVED it when i first saw Mike walk on after first encore break holding his double neck Jimmy Page special cause i knew my fav avocado song (inside job) was coming

lucylespian

Stone's tuning is alternate in Even Flow, Mike plays in standard
But basically, oodles of guitars in different tunings, as teh man said, which drives me a little batty at times keeping up.
Then add all the other tunings that everyone else uses, and it gets a little silly. Jimmy Page is the worst. There are a bunch of different alternate tuning songs, all different, and some really odd tunings. MOst are great to play though, so I persist in doing them
I've been doing a lot of open G lately, playing Rolling Stone's stuff. That is an easy key to work in cos there is a block of stribngs that stay the same, so you can solo in standard while being tuned to open G. Daughter is similar, except for the 6th being G not D. This lets me play the solo in teh open tuning, with just a fingering adjustment on the 5th string needed.
Some people re-tune on stage though. I've seen Dan from the Black Keys do that. He's very adept at it, but also the only melodic instrument there, so if it's not perfect, it matters less.

xtremehardy388

I cheered so loud just for Jeff's 12 string.