Thursday, January 17, 2008

Win a Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 DVD!

Posted by Jon

Crossroads guitar festival 2007
Ok guitar fans to coincide with the start of the 2008 Winter NAMM show I have something a little bit special for you today. I have 1 copy of the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 DVD to give away and all you need to do to enter is to answer a very simple question and post it as a comment. Please use your real email address when you post your comment so that I can contact you for your postal address details if you are the lucky winner. The winner will be selected at random using my patented Guitar Noize random selectorizer™ and notified by email.

The competition closes on 17th February, 2008 and is open to all internet citizens, I’m not like those mean U.S. only competition people! (guitar manufacturers, I’m looking at you!). Thanks to Rhino for donating the prize. If you aren’t lucky enough to be the winner you can buy a copy from their site.

So here is the question:

B.B. King performed once again at the 2007 Crossroads Festival, what is B.B. King’s guitar named. Bonus points (which won’t help your chances at all) for any extra info about the instrument.

Good luck and remember, every comment goes into the draw so don’t worry if the answer has already been posted! Good luck!

UPDATE: Due to entries slowing down I have decided to move the closing date forward to Sunday 3rd February 2008 at midnight so you can get your hands on the goodies sooner!

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Tony Hogan on 01/17 at 10:29 AM

Lucille

there is lots on the web about this guitar but that’s cheating so I thought I’d add the following instead to make my entry unique.

The guitar is gibo butterfly.

BB king has an interesting way of stringing up his guitar, I took this on a few years ago on some of my guitars, it solved a tuning problem when stretching, bending strings.  He wraps the whole string around the tuner because it helps him stay in tune.  It’s contrary to most other players that cut it off short.

also BB King is a hopeless chord player he openly admits this.

When he performed in Sydney some years ago his concert was cut short because he got sick on stage, when he was playing little wing.  The same thing happened with Clapton but Clapton rescheduled.

Ian Thal on 01/17 at 12:04 PM

Lucille, so named after a fire burnt down a night club where B.B. was playing.

B.B. risked his own life, running back into the fire to rescue his guitar.  Afterwards he found out that the fire was the result of a brawl between two guys fighting over a women named “Lucille.” The name was a reminder to B.B. about the foolishness of risking his own life for a guitar since there are many guitars in the world, but only one B.B. King.  Consequently, “Lucille” is the name of B.B. main guitar at any given time, not of a specific instrument.

on 01/17 at 02:26 PM

His guitar’s name is Lucille. He calls all of his guitars Lucille.

on 01/17 at 04:00 PM

Facts about Lucille?

It hath no soundholes, both stereo and mono jacks and fine tuners on the tailpiece.

Facts about B.B.? I saw him play last year at Purdue with my eldest son. He’s still a great guitar player, even if he can’t stand up through a whole show. And he was in Into The Night and so was his song.

on 01/17 at 04:37 PM

From B.B King’s biography:

“The guitar’s name is Bubble Beet, which is an anagram of B.B’s first two names, “Belbet Bube”. B.B carved the guitar out of the wood from the hull of a merchant ship he worked on off the coast of Florida. He began carving whilst the wood was still part of the aforementioned hull, sinking the ship and drowning thirty seven of the two-dozen crewmen. B.B survived, staying afloat for two weeks by clutching the timber he’d so painstakingly extracted from the ship. It was while he was afloat, clutching the bare wood, he developed the finger strength that would enable his signature tone to be extracted from his guitar - in fact, the muscles in his fingers became so overdeveloped he was forced to string his guitar with motorcycle brake cables. After his rescue from the ocean, B.B spent four months recovering in hospital. There, he finished the construction of the famous Bubble Beet guitar using spare surgical tools and assorted body excretions.”

on 01/17 at 05:15 PM

Lucille most people think it’s a Gibson ES-335 but it’s not it’s a ES-345.

Electric guitars on 01/17 at 05:59 PM

Lucille is the name!
Jon, that’s a good thing that you open the competition for all intenet people. I hate those guitar give aways that are open only to US and Canada. I hate it!

Tony Hogan on 01/17 at 08:02 PM

what’s the selection criteria to choose the winner?

Jon on 01/17 at 08:53 PM

Hi Tony, as I said in my post I am selecting the winner at random, I will be using a random selection algorithm in php to make it as fair as possible.

Gary Grainger on 01/17 at 10:29 PM

we all know the answer is Lucille. I often wondered whether Little Richard was singing about the same woman in his song of the same name?

salinaspaul on 01/18 at 01:52 AM

Of, course, it’s Lucille… and I knew this before all the other comments, so it’s not like I was cheating.

All of the extra info I knew has already been stated… sorry…

salinaspaul on 01/18 at 01:54 AM

Hmm… even though it’s the 17th in my part of the word right now… I guess I put my answer in too late…

on 01/18 at 06:06 AM

The competition is open until Feb 17 Salinaspaul so you’re not too late at all! Also it doesn’t matter if the answer has already been mentioned, if you comment you’re in the running to win!

Tony Hogan on 01/18 at 02:01 PM

oh sorry...i got so excited about the possibility of winning o missed the randomizer bit…

what’s it written in?

Jon on 01/18 at 03:51 PM

I’ll be writing it in PHP.

James Bashkin on 01/18 at 03:58 PM

Lucille is the guitar.  Lucille was originally a stock ES355, which is a stereo 335 shape with a heavy mahogany block bisecting the body to help reduce feedback.  Now, BB play a custom Lucille which is available as a productio model from Gibson.  In the new version, there are no f-holes, doing an even better job of eliminating feedback.

You can buy his guitar, but that does not mean you’ll have his tone or vibrato.  Those come from hard work and talent, as most here will know well.

Cheers, Jim

james lee stanley on 01/19 at 10:34 AM

this is a great idea.  can’t wait to win. 
james lee stanley
http://www.jamesleestanley.com
http://www.allwoodandstones.com
http://www.datamusicata.com

mickey d on 01/20 at 09:28 AM

His magic music making machine was called Lucille. Some say it was made of straw and string others say it was made of fairy dust. But all these stories are false, as it was made of plywood and Sellotape!

on 01/21 at 06:53 AM

I spent this morning listening to B.B. and Lucille (among others); one of my daughter’s birthday presents was Blue Moo, the newest of the Boynton & Ford collections of kids music.  The credits say that Michael Ford plays essentially all of the instruments on the CD, but B.B. both sings and plays guitar on “One Shoe Blues.” Which makes sense: no point in bringing B.B. in if you’re not going to let him play.

on 01/22 at 03:21 AM

Lucille! :D

Everyone already gave great info about it, so I wont copy and paste wikipedia for this one wink

on 01/22 at 06:52 AM

Lucille, probably because he uses Ball end strings. I love Beeby.

on 01/22 at 08:18 AM

Lucille

on 01/22 at 08:19 AM

Lucille.

on 01/23 at 04:35 PM

You mean to tell me this contest is a year old? Closes 17th February, 2007? Ah wth?

Well, anyway… “Lucille”

on 01/23 at 04:54 PM

WHOOPS! Thanks Taylor for pointing out that small error wink I have updated the copy to 2008!

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