Members Tedster Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Well, my name won't be in it...but I was a part of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members echoshock Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Well, my name won't be in it...but I was a part of thisWatch the video I can't view youtube clips at work. But from your description. is it related to dominos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Congrats!! What an achievement... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted June 4, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 From the KYYS FM website... June 3rd, 2007. Radio Station KYYS.FM has found out that the Guinness World Record for 'Largest Guitar Ensemble' is still held by 1,323 Canadians that set it in 1994. Today, that will change. The goal was 1,324 but the hope was 2,000. The reality turned out to be 1,683 Click Here for a nicely formatted slideshow of all of the pictures my wife and I took. The ones that are tagged 'D070603...' are mine, the 'E070603...' are hers.It uses a script control so you may have to click to allow it to load. If you were there and playing, click on this thumbnail for the picture of you (and everybody else) breaking the record. ... 1683 Guitars playing "Smoke on the Water" simultaneously...HAHAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Was that at Arrowhead??? Man, what a let down... I thought that I was going to get to hear 1,683 guitars playing Smoke on the Water all at once when I first clicked on the slide show. Sorry I missed the show, that would have been a good one to see. Pretty cool that you got to be a part of it. I thought I might have saw a few faces in the crowd that I recognize; I'll have to ask those that looked familiar if they were there. It'll be a good topic for discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Hey Tedster, The news made CNN.... http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/offbeat/2007/06/04/dw.mo.world.record.kmbc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 How fun!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Deef Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 I looked at all the pictures and I guess, in more ways than one, you are somewhere between these two extremes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lakesidedave Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Ted, that's priceless! Watch out for those pesky Canadians though - they're sure to steal the record back. A few years ago in Bath, I saw the world record for sax players broken (can't remember how many - {censored} loads of 'em, led by PeeWee Herman). Within 24 hours, the Canadians upped the ante by a couple of hundred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 I tried inserting the picture, but it's too large for the forum tables and throws it out of whack. Ted is in this pic, if I am not mistaking, right between the first and the second Hillshire Farms logos located under the Arthur Bryants sign. He's the bearded guy behind the guy with the shaved head near the wall with the logos. Don't mistake him for the bearded dude that looks like he could have played with ZZTop. Click the photo to enlarge it. http://www.svandyke.com/kycameraguy/smoke/Big/D070603128.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted June 4, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 Yep, that was me. And yeah, it was fun. Just plain silly, dopey fun, which, at least the last time I checked my contract, I'm still allowed to have. Fun I can have. Just nothing sharp. I'm glad I did it. It was kinda like a total eclipse of the sun...I'll probably never again in my lifetime hear nearly 1700 guitars all playing the same riff in nearly perfect time. It almost kinda had that timbre like a marching band does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted June 4, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 And Dave, yeah, you're right about those Canadians. They just always get pissed off 'cuz us Yanks win the Stanley Cup. (That said, I'm rooting for Ottawa)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Charles Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Saw the clip on CNN and immediately said to myself, "Kansas City, I'll bet Tedster made the scene." Cool man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KB Gunn Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'm going to report you guys to the union!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scottop1972 Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 great job ted!!!! I should have been there i live in KC!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Good one Tedster - it was in our newspapers this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Yup, I can see Tedster - good for you! I see a lot of electrics - was everyone using portable / battery powered practice amps, or playing "unplugged"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Just a rough guesstimate, Phil...I'd say about 1/2 brought acoustics, 1/2 brought electrics. Of those electrics, probably about 1/2 had little battery belt-clip amps, Marshall mini-halfstacks, Dano Honeytones...stuff like that. The other 1/2 of the electrics were just totally unplugged. Wow...it made the Aussie papers, huh? Must be a slow newsday down under... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Wow...it made the Aussie papers, huh? Must be a slow newsday down under... Guinness World Records 2008 entry, since 2007 is already in print. The Canadians are going to try to beat the mark achieved by the Americans prior to the 2008 Guinness World Records going into print so that they can stay on top. Does it work like that??? I'm curious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gdoubleyou Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Tedster save your pennies, and come to the upper left hand coast for the Grandaddy of mass guitar events in august. http://louiefest.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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