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Post by quarry on Mar 22, 2008 18:32:56 GMT -5
My first attempt at playing slide gee-tar. I don't have a proper slide, so I used a polished stone... I actually thought I posted this here before, but I didn't see it, so I thought I'd try again... This ain't exactly your father's slide guitar... Quarry's Slide Thingie
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Post by newey on Mar 22, 2008 20:26:51 GMT -5
Quarry- Very cool, very trippy! I think I had a flashback while listening to that. Goes to show you can use just about anything for a slide. I used to run sound for a bar band back in the '70's, the lead guitarist was fond of grabbing an empty beer bottle off of a table in the front row for an impromptu slide solo. Occasionally, it wouldn't be completely empty so I'd be wiping backwash off of his axe during the break. Those were the days . . .
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 22, 2008 22:18:05 GMT -5
quarry -
Very nice cut. Hope you don't mind, but I checked out the other tunes you had posted. Very strong little collection you have there.
Sorry, but I have no pertinent slide stories... We did have a drummer that used a beer bottle for Honky Tonk Woman...but I guess you can all see where that went...
Happy Trails
Cynical1
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Post by D2o on Mar 24, 2008 13:02:05 GMT -5
Quarry, Very nice! Not only the playing - the sound quality is also excellent.
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Post by sumgai on Mar 24, 2008 14:01:54 GMT -5
quarry, If Alan Parsons had enlisted Jeff Beck, this would have been the result! ;D Who (or what) did the percussion? sumgai
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Post by quarry on Mar 24, 2008 18:29:27 GMT -5
The "backing tracks" as it were, on this tune were created using samples from a CD (I don't remember the name, sorry). Each one is about a bar long, and I strung them together...
This included drums, bass, and the other various musical instruments that may have been in there...
I used Magix Music Studio 12... (running on a Pentium 4 Dell computer, with an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card) its a fairly inexpensive app, but I like how it works!
I found I could play slide much easier by laying the guitar in my lap, so now I'm in the process of building a Lap Steel Guitar!
Hopefully, it will be done soon, and I will post pix!!! ;D
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Post by warmstrat on Jul 1, 2008 7:13:33 GMT -5
Oooh, I like it.
Tell us more about the guitar(s), amps, effects and so forth used... please?
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Post by quarry on Jul 1, 2008 18:08:13 GMT -5
Oooh, I like it. Tell us more about the guitar(s), amps, effects and so forth used... please? Well, thank you, Warmiester, for the compliment! I was playing an Ibanez Artist (1977-ish) laying flat on my lap, and using a stone for slide (playing it lap-steel style). I ran that into a Line 6 Guitarport, which in turn, was feeding "Gearbox" software on my computer. Gearbox is a Line 6 amp/cab sim plugin. I like it very much. Sorry, I don't remember what patch I was using.... The drippy-psycho "bird chirp" notes you hear at the beginning and end are me sliding my brass pick up and down the strings near the neck pickup... makes a nice effect! I still haven't finished that lap steel I've been working on - but I have a week off of work soon, so I hope to work on it then!
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Post by richardsenior on Oct 29, 2008 8:01:06 GMT -5
It's like a cross between Ozrics Tentacles, David Gilmour and Leftfield. I like it a lot.
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